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Here at ViaRETRO, we have often touched on the subject of the complete collapse of the British car industry. We have done so both on our Danish site as well as here on our English site – multiple times even. I […]

Only last week, Dave Leadbetter entertained us with his tales of their Brexit roadtrip to the Russian frontier. Disappointingly though, they didn’t encounter much in the way of old East Bloc cars during their tr […]

If there’s one thing which always manages to excite the boy in me, it’s American prototypes and concept cars from their golden era. In stark contrast to the European car manufacturers of the same period who wer […]

One of the more memorable parts of the classic Franco-Belgian comic Spirou & Fantasio is of course Spirou’s car – the sleek and elegant Turbot, which was penned by writer and artist André Franquin. I can’t be sur […]

When the growing Japanese car industry set out to conquer new car owners on their domestic market up through the sixties, the newest and most effective weapon within advertising was utilised with great […]

In the late 1950s, an alliance was established between Renault and Alfa Romeo, which enabled the construction and marketing of the Dauphine model across the Alps. Italy was also one of the leading countries in the […]

One can never have too much of highly useful trivial knowledge. Post-war Germany introduced us to several interesting engineering breakthroughs, and one in particular was named in a manner where it was quite clear […]

While most of us here at ViaRETRO seem to have fully excepted the arrival of the youngtimers, I personally remain a bit more sceptical. I am trying though – I really am! And as part of that process, I have de […]

If you visit the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, you’ll come across a massive and thoroughly outlandish creation of a car on six wheels. Its shape doesn’t do anything to hide that it was created with the sol […]

Ford is no doubt one of history’s most influential automotive manufacturers. Spanning all of 116 years thus far, they have produced several highly significant models, but surely their most iconic must be the M […]

It makes grown men react like excited little children unpacking their long anticipated Christmas presents. It’s surrounded by equal amounts of widespread joy, fascination and not least myths. It’s a technical tou […]

The somewhat peculiar looking car in the main picture above is equipped with a 2-litre mid-mounted Citroën engine producing 56 hp. Amazingly, the body has a drag coefficient of only 0.23. The topspeed is 150 […]

It may well be that there are forces at work to get the SAAB car brand back on their legs again, but it looks somewhat hopeless. Since 2009, when SAAB first went into receivership, the world has lost count of just […]

Offering very respectable performance, handsome looks, and heaps of elegance, it’s not surprising that the marque Muntz is today regarded as a true collector’s dream classic. Very low production numbers fur […]

There are certain automotive brands which were so exotic – and so expensive – that they will forever be associated with another era. A time when the great Gatsby held his extravagant feasts and flamboyant Spanish […]

Studies have shown that boys and grown men’s fascination with the automobile isn’t limited to mankind. Experiments from universities in Texas have proven that also male apes prefer toy cars over other toys suc […]