As with almost everything, the roller coaster wars, where theme parks across the country try to top each other with wilder attractions every Summer, were put on hold for 2020. But that hasn’t stopped coaster designers from continuing to toy with the laws of physics. If you love to spend…
I think of all the cars that were designed and prototyped but not actually put into production, one of my favourites is Volkswagen’s 1969 EA 266 prototype, an incredible mid-engined marvel of small-car packaging. I wrote about it back in 2014, but now, thanks to our pals over at Car…
Prior to Ralph Nader’s book panning the Corvair, Unsafe at Any Speed, Chevrolet already had a plan to help make Corvairs unsafe, by placing them in contexts where they’d be shot at: war. Yes, in 1963, GM came up with a remarkable loosely Corvair-based amphibious military vehicle called the TUFI,…