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If there is something I really need these days, it is the prospect of a cold generous drafted beer, served somewhere without face masks and spray dispensers. And then a summer trip somewhere in Europe in my old […]

During the early sixties, the airports of the western world went through some significant changes. As we entered the Jet Age, the aircraft grew bigger and more space was needed at airports where the aircraft would […]

Designers have always tried to make the front of a new car speak to the consumers – one could call it the face of the car, and it needs to have some sort of appeal which the individual looking at the car can h […]

Right from the word go, SMART utilised a philosophy of: “Reduce to the Max”. They stuck to this concept as they developed a new model – a super-compact, practical, efficient yet genuine sportscar.

The SMART […]

As a peculiar little white car emerged from the deep forests of Norway’s Telemark in the late 1950’s, it was with grand ambitions of turning the Scandinavian country into a car manufacturing nation. The Troll Spo […]

One of Italy’s many small car manufacturers, who have long since locked their doors, in 1967 made what I would call a quite heart-melting stroke of genius: they unleashed an incredibly delicious little creature […]

First it became a necessity, then we fell in love with its cuteness and the cheap transport it offered. In the end we passed it on to the wealthy hipsters. The VW Type 2 has travelled a long way in its 70 year […]

Man’s best friend doesn’t have two wheels; this is clear every time we publish an article about motorcycles on ViaRETRO. I personally have enjoyed them a lot and, deep down, I still think it’s a smart way to get […]

When I recently visited a Citroën workshop – where old cars are still being lovingly cared for – my companion described an early ID standing on the lift in very unflattering terms: “I don’t like the old he […]

The first glimpse the world got of the now legendary American Chevrolet Corvette was in January 1953, at the General Motors Motorama exhibition at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York.

The silent movie below […]

A wise old man told me the other day that small cars had no use for a tachometer and that most drivers had no idea whatsoever about how to use the legendary dial in the dashboard.

That last thing he may be […]

The fact that the shape of the packaging for a well-known soft drink should name a type of design on cars sounds like an American invention of the more self-glorifying kind. And even though this is popular […]

Car ownership is a personal thing and a matter of individual taste. Sometimes peoples choices makes you wonder and sometime ago I had to solve a mystery of the more ingenious kind.

I came across the word […]

Like any other classic car magazine – be that printed on paper or on the vast world wide web – we here at ViaRETRO will from time to time dig deep into our archives and reuse something from earlier. Dust it off, […]

“It’s not exactly a beautiful car, is it?” said the woman to the left of me in the train. She’s my better half and was looking over my shoulder as I was selecting the pictures for the article. “Well, no I suppose […]

Of all the cars that have won the World Cup in Formula One, at least one of each has been preserved for posterity – with the exception of the one that won in 1961. The Ferrari 156 F1 “Sharknose” is that exception. […]

“Recommended with poultry and salads”. Such was the text on the back of a bottle of rosé wine which I had the pleasure of recently. My friend who I was with at the time remarked that he had read somewhere that […]

The question obviously only applies to classic cars. Whether you’ve been burdened by a bit of a lemon of a VW Phaeton doesn’t count. The question was presented at a small car meet just recently, and most there fou […]