Highly original and innovative in many ways, the Kaiser Darrin could have enjoyed a successful career in the roadster market in the early 1950s. Unfortunately, fate decided otherwise. Read More

Creating a car from scratch in the early '50s when you're a female was a risky gamble that Dorothy Deen, an ambitious young American woman, succeeded in. Read More

Like many British motor racing enthusiasts, James Byrnes dreamed of creating his own sports car. He did just that with Peerless, a brand that only produced cars for three short years. Read More

Improving mobility in cities is not a new concern, as demonstrated by the small British manufacturer Peel, which has produced two unique microcars. Read More

Designed by the brilliant industrial designer Raymond Loewy, the Studebaker Loewy had several lives during its long career. Read More

It's not just Tesla that has used its customers as guinea pigs to test new products. Citroën did it more than 50 years ago with the strange M35, a prototype designed to test the Wankel engine. Read More

In response to a request from the German Federal Post Office to acquire a fleet of practical, compact vans, the Type 147 'Fridolin' demonstrated the universality of the Volkswagen platform. Read More

Succeeding a car as legendary as the Alpine A110 was no easy task. Lacking sufficient financial resources, the A310 struggled to establish itself despite its obvious qualities. Read More

When a mainstream brand teams up with one of the biggest names in sports cars to produce an affordable sports model, the risks are considerable. Unfortunately, the recipe was not a success in Europe. Read More

Based in Dingolfing, Glas only produced cars for 18 years and evolved very quickly, before being absorbed by a famous Bavarian firm. Read More

The Trabant was the people's car designed by the communist government of the GDR after the Second World War. Technically simplistic and highly polluting, it did not survive German reunification in 1989. Read More

The, rather unkown, Borgward Isabella was one of the prettiest cars of the late 1950s, especially in its coupé version. Read More

What may have become the greatest American car of all time ended up being a massive financial flop. This is the story of the Tucker 48, a car that was only produced in very small numbers. Read More

For 48 years, Delage produced technically sophisticated, top-of-the-range cars. Despite an excellent reputation and good racing results, the company's career has not been a smooth one. Read More

When Bruce Meyer of Beverly Hills told me in a detached tone that he had bought a vintage Cobra, he didn't say quite how old it was...... Read More