Cars you know, stories you'll learn
There are moments in any successful business that have, or will, come to define it; and its success or failure. There's IBM's Personal Computer, the Walkman from Sony; Apple's iPhone moment. For BMW, it's Projekt Neue Klasse; and the birth of the BMW 1500. History Lesson Facing a Grille-ing - BMW's iconic kidney grille debuted …
The Marc-Philipp Gemballa Marsien is a wonderful thing; that rare combination of modern Engineering, retro design and a laser-guided attitude to detail. It's a two-finger salute to a car industry that some would say is becoming increasingly homogeneous. It's also, based on recent legal proceedings, not a Gemballa at all. But it is. Sort of. …
One of the most famous, minimalisic and utiltarian cars of all time is having its 60th Birthday! And yet it's also an oft-forgotten car, even on the continent that spurned it. It's rare in Britain and practically non-existent in the U.S. It's the Renault 4. And this is its story. Older Brother - The Renault …
