If you’re around cars long enough, and you’re a keen learner, you’ll discover all sorts of stories that seem fake but are totally true.
Like, the first car added to the U.S. National Historic Vehicle Register, the 1964 Shelby Daytona Coupe, had aerodynamics directly inspired by German research liberated by the Allies after the Second World War. (Likewise, BRM’s Grand Prix cars of a certain era.) Toyota productivity gurus helped Porsche shore up its production lines and might have been the catalyst for the brand’s meteoric rise since the 1990s. Henry Ford built a city in the middle of the Brazilian rain forest in order to corner the world’s rubber market (and failed).
Truth is strange, and often messy, and that’s why I love it.
Sources linked below, as always.
It’s one thing to be an enthusiast who knows a lot of stuff about cars, but what do you do with it all? Surely, you’re connecting the dots across automotive history to highlight missed opportunities…
…instead of telling your friends where a Lamborghini Diablo’s headlights came from. Bo-ring.
Here is a fact about me: I was there in person, in 2005, and saw the Ford SYNus during the public days at Cobo Hall.
Those passing Instagram accounts? Here’s a first-person one.
2005 Ford SYNus concept car from the rear 3/4 • FordWhat more do you need to know? ;) • Ford
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