Things To Know About The Most Beautiful Car In America Before It's Too Late

Good morning! Today, I’m pulling out one of my oldest tricks and showing you a couple of clean examples of cars that folks in northern climates probably haven’t seen in years. Even better, they’re reasonably-priced, unlike so many ’80s and ’90s “survivors” these days. Yesterday we looked at work vans, one big, and one small. A lot of you liked the idea of the big Chevy Express, but the comparatively gutless V6 engine and lack of air conditioning put you off. The little Ford Transit Connect made a lot more sense to the majority of you, no matter what business you were thinking of starting.

The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice MG TD assures us it's "not a kit car. " Being the real deal is all well and good, but could this classic roadster's price make it a real steal? In general, major change takes major time. Whether it's the evolution of a species, glacial ablation, or the hold times to reach customer service, waiting for significant change can take eons.

Even though I was born in the Apollo Era, barely, the spacecraft that I think had the most influence on my childhood had to be the Space Shuttles. I remember poring over diagrams and drawings of the shuttles in National Geographic foldouts, where they even took my attention from the Forbidden Nipples seen on some of the other pages. I remember watching that first launch of the shuttle Colombia in 1981, I remember the tragedy of the Challenger in 1986, and I remember covering the process of moving the orbiter Endeavour through the streets of Los Angeles to its eventual home at the California Science Center. And more recently, I’ve taken my kid to see the orbiter Discovery at the Udvar-Hazy Center just outside of Washington, DC. It’s that orbiter that I want to talk about specifically, because I saw a social media post about the orbiter Discovery that grabbed my attention and held it with the sort of fierce grip I imagine Miss Piggy employs on Kermit’s impossibly thin limbs when they’re alone.

When you’re in the middle of a dream, everything makes sense. It’s only later, in the recounting, that the dream seems absurd. Giorgio Amoretti had a dream once, and it seemed absurd. His dream was to sail a car across the Atlantic Ocean. Only it started out as a lark, an offhand half-joke by his girlfriend Lucia. This story originally appeared in Volume 37 of Road & Track. Giorgio wanted to journey to the United States, where, he said, “dreams and projects are realized!” But at the time, he didn’t have the money to book passage by air or ship to a land so far. Let’s go there by car, Lucia said. To Giorgio, it was a provocation. A dare. A great idea! This was in the late Seventies, when they lived near Venice, Italy. They were a pair, Giorgio and Lucia. In 1968, they had driven across the Sahara in a Ferves. Giorgio didn’t believe in institutional education; he thought that—like other conventions of modern society, things such as employment and marriage—it suffocated the human spirit and stifled the creative mind. He learned about the world by devising novel ways to experience it.

Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U. S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background and almost 20 years of automotive journalism experience to deliver cutting-edge news and analysis. Subaru of Japan has kicked off a teaser campaign for what it describes as a new WRX with a manual transmission. The automaker has released a single photo and described the car as carrying the WRX legacy into the next era. What all of this means remains unclear, but Subaru has scheduled the reveal for November, so we won't have long to wait for answers.

Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U. S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background and almost 20 years of automotive journalism experience to deliver cutting-edge news and analysis. Mercedes-Benz helped start the trend of calling almost anything with a curved roof a coupe when it launched the original CLS in 2004. Today, it offers one of the industry's widest ranges of coupe-like models, most of which are SUVs. According to Mercedes, the popularity of these models, particularly coupe-like SUVs like the GLC Coupe and GLE Coupe, means the body style is here to stay. The bad news is that their success appears to be coming at the expense of traditional two-door coupes.