In the early 1960s, American cars fell into two camps: you had your muscle cars, built for straight-line speed and Friday night drag races, and you had your station wagons, designed for hauling ...

This is where it all started – the first company to build a car. Karl Benz built his first car in 1885 and he patented it in January 1886, but the Mercedes name wouldn't be adopted until 1901 ...

The Cars That Built the World Begins Sunday, 9 p.m., History History’s four-part account of the birth and growth of the personal automobile doesn’t subject us to a tutorial on the internal ...

The first of Ferrari's line of halo cars, the 288 GTO nearly didn't make it to customers. It was the byproduct of Enzo Ferrari's desire to enter Group B racing, and when the class was banned after ...

After "The Cars That Built the World," History will shift gears on May 31 to roll out "The Titans That Built America," a three-night event from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions.

The first is the way that humans have shaped themselves to the car’s contours. The national identity of Iran, for example, has become meshed with the distinctive Paykan, first produced in 1967.