One iconic sports car that had two different names, and offered by four different brands. The interesting lore of the ...

Picking the MotorTrend Car of the Year hasn't always been the grandest mission for automotive journalists. Take, for instance, 1976, when the four finalists for COTY consisted of the Cadillac Seville, ...

While many automotive historians wax eloquently about the muscle car era and the early contributions that Ford (with the Mustang) and GM (Pontiac's GTO) made toward affordable performance in the 1960s ...

What is the history and significance of Hemi engines in Dodge's legendary muscle cars? We have all the answers.

The 1941 model year was a sales bonanza for American car manufacturers, but then certain geopolitical events intervened and civilian car production ground to a halt around the end of January 1942.

Talking about great cars (and discussing what makes them great) is always fun, but we at Gear Patrol also enjoy looking back at the vehicles that were downright weird. Not the worst cars –though that ...

When Chrysler invented antifreeze in 1937, it established the Mopar brand (a mashup of the words "motor" and "parts") to help sell its new product along with a larger line of car parts and accessories ...

Introduced in 1970 with brand-new underpinnings and optional high-compression engines, the third-generation Plymouth Barracuda sold nearly 49,000 in its first year in showrooms. In 1971, however, ...

There's still an ongoing debate about whether the 1964 Pontiac GTO was the first muscle car or not, but everyone seems to agree that the golden muscle car era lasted from the mid-1960s to the early ...