A Short History of Automotive Design Author Elise | 14th December 2020 By Charlotte Iggulden How Culture Has Shaped Car Design Like most things in life, automobiles do not exist in a vacuum. Their design and engineering respond to the zeitgeist: the spirit of the times. Throughout history, car designers and visual futurists have been profoundly influenced by technological and scientific advancements, politics, artistic movements, cultural trends and philosophy, whether optimistic or pessimistic. Where industrial design is broad, automotive design ... View
Chevrolet Super Sport – Classic Muscle Car Review Author Elise | 9th December 2020 By Charlotte Iggulden Super: Latin (preposition and v. prefix) meaning above, beyond, or in addition to an especially high degree; akin to Greek hyper. Before Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (1878-1941) co-founded the eponymous car manufacturing company, he was a mechanic, car designer and race car driver. You would not be wrong in saying performance runs in a Chevy muscle car’s veins. This is our classic Chevrolet SS review on the ... View
Chevrolet Corvette Review – Classic Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 30th November 2020 By Niamh Smith America’s Sports Car: Chevrolet Corvette Review The Chevrolet Corvette is a piece of Americana. It is so easily recognisable, even people who aren’t particularly into cars can recognise an early Corvette when it rumbles down the street past them. As GM’s cropowning jewel, the ‘Vette has had more than 60 years of production and 8 generations and has been, in the most part, incredibly ... View
Oldsmobile 442 – Classic Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 25th November 2020 By Jamie Wills As there was Beyoncé Knowles, so there was Solange. As there was Michael Jackson, so there was Jermaine. And as there was Gary Lineker, so there was Wayne. The sibling fame bandwagon may have mixed results, but it has always been an irresistible lure. So it was in 1964 when Oldsmobile saw General Motors stablemate Pontiac GTO being released and hit pay dirt ... View
Ford Mercury Cougar – Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 20th November 2020 By Chris Williams Selecting the name ‘Cougar’ for the badge of your car was always going to be a double-edged sword. Frankly, it would not have mattered so much if the Mercury Cougar had been a harmless hatchback; the name ‘Cougar’ would have given it some feisty spice. Instead, the Mercury Cougar was designed as a grown-up muscle car and therefore completely analogous of its target market: ... View
AMC Javelin – Classic Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 12th November 2020 By Niamh Smith ‘And They’re Off!’ The AMC Javelin was one of the last pony cars to leave the stable. They had already been pipped to the post by the big three (GM, Ford and Chrysler) and had already “been there, done that, got the t-shirt!”. But for AMC, being late to the party wasn’t the disaster you would think. In fact, it saved them by the skin ... View
The Best Automotive Art in 2020 – Classic Car Art Author Elise | 11th November 2020 By Charlotte Iggulden Since the arrival of the first automobiles, automotive design has become an art form and an indelible part of culture and history. Through the decades, visual artists and art collectors across the world have been inspired by their pleasing lines and curvature, as both machines and works of art. Nowadays, automotive art is everywhere. Think of those nameless engineers in the mid-twentieth century who ... View
Plymouth Fury – Classic Muscle Car 2020 Review Author Elise | 10th November 2020 By Niamh Smith The Plymouth Fury: A 34-Year Legacy Throughout the Plymouth Fury’s long and tumultuous lifetime it has seen many incarnations. From the practical sedan taking the family to a picnic by the lake, to the young motorhead excited to be driving his first muscle car. From the NYPD’s ranks, to the record breaking taxi cab that clocked up over 1.6million miles, the Fury has seen ... View
Lawman Mustangs and the 1970 Military Performance Tour Author Elise | 9th November 2020 By Charlie Fuller When I was invited to write for Muscle Car UK, I wanted to start with a bang. When I think about classic Mustangs and American muscle cars, this extraordinary story of American wartime solidarity always jumps to my mind. Picture the scene: it’s the late sixties and the Vietnam War is raging on with no end in sight. At this time, there was a ... View
Dodge Charger VS Chevy Camaro VS Ford Mustang – Which Is Better? Author Elise | 3rd November 2020 By Owen Pham Ever since the establishment of American muscle cars as a particular car category in the 1960s, many different muscle cars have been released to the market to draw petrol heads’ attention. Although the Ford Mustang has always been known as the most popular muscle car ever, there have been fierce rivals around this savage horse. But the closest competitors for Mustangs in terms ... View