At the end of the 1950s, American cars were getting longer and longer. In fact, some models like the Buick Electra and the Lincoln Continental were so long, they didn't fit in some residential garages ...

Chevrolet Motor Company opened its doors back in November 1911, named for co-founder Louis Chevrolet. Alongside William C. Durant, he kicked off more than a century to date in the ever-competitive ...

Since World War II, there has only been one new American car that was a huge leap forward from what had been built before its debut in 1959, and that car was the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair. No other car ...

The Chevrolet Corvair, one of the strangest Chevrolets ever built, was an American take on the Volkswagen Beetle. Like the Beetle, it had an air-cooled engine in the rear. Unlike the Beetle, it ...

This is an excerpt from Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, opens new tab,published this month by Simon & Schuster. The historic events, however, were set in motion 40 ...