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DAF TurboTwin: The Truck That HUMILIATED Peugeot Oct 8, 2026 00:20:07 In January 1988, a television helicopter over the Sahara caught something that should not have been possible.Ari Vatanen was flat out in a works Peugeot 405 Turbo 16.Then an eleven-tonne truck appeared beside him.It drew level at more than 200 kilometres an hour.And then it pulled away.The truck was the DAF TurboTwin X1.It had two 11.6-litre diesel engines.Six turbochargers.Around 1,200 horsepower

Fiat Multipla: The Ugliest Car Ever Made Was a Masterpiece Oct 4, 2026 00:22:04 In 1999, the Museum of Modern Art put a Fiat Multipla on display beside the General Motors EV1 and the Toyota Prius.Top Gear named it Car of the Year.They also called it one of the ugliest cars on the road.Because underneath the face that made the Multipla a punchline was one of the cleverest family cars ever designed.Fiat had been given an almost impossible brief:Six adults.Their luggage.And a ca

Toyota GT-ONE: The Boldest Con in Racing History Oct 1, 2026 00:23:42 In 1998, Toyota arrived at Le Mans with a car that barely pretended to be a road car.The rules said GT1 cars had to be homologated for the road.They also had to have luggage space.The Toyota GT-One had no boot.So Toyota pointed at the fuel tank.When the tank was empty, they argued, it technically counted as usable space.The officials accepted it.That loophole became one of the most outrageous exam

Audi TT: The Greatest Volkswagen Golf Ever Built Sep 27, 2026 00:26:51 In the mid-1990s, Audi took a sports car proposal to Porsche.Porsche passed.Audi built it anyway.Underneath, the new TT shared its basic architecture with the Volkswagen Golf Mk4. The firewall, pedal box, engine mounting points and much of the structure came from Volkswagen’s mass-market hatchback.But Audi wrapped it in one of the most distinctive designs of the 1990s, charged more than twice the

Volvo 850 BTCC: Why Volvo Raced an Estate in the BTCC Sep 24, 2026 00:23:47 In late 1993, a Swedish race shop arrived at Volvo’s factory in Gothenburg to collect a bare 850 bodyshell.They wanted a saloon.The production line was building estates.So they took one.A few months later, Volvo announced that it would enter the British Touring Car Championship with an 850 estate — a car shaped more like a family holiday wagon than a touring car.Rivals laughed. Mechanics called it

Lada: The Soviet Car That Outsold Honda Sep 20, 2026 00:32:35 In October 1974, a convoy of Soviet cars arrived at a former RAF nuclear missile base in East Yorkshire.Twelve years earlier, three American-controlled Thor missiles had stood on that same site, armed with thermonuclear warheads and pointed at the Soviet Union.Now it was being used to prepare Ladas for British customers.And fourteen years later, Lada would outsell Honda in Britain.The story began

McLaren F1: The Record Even Bugatti COULDN'T Beat Sep 17, 2026 00:31:56 In 1988, four men from McLaren were stuck in an airport after the Italian Grand Prix when a conversation began that would change road cars forever.McLaren dominated Formula One. Gordon Murray believed that knowledge could be used to build something completely different: not a racing car with number plates, but the greatest road car ever made.There was no top-speed target. No turbochargers. No trac

Jaguar X-Type: The Greatest Ford Mondeo Ever Built Sep 13, 2026 00:29:21 In 2001, Jaguar launched the car that was supposed to transform the company.Ford had spent billions rebuilding Jaguar, but the brand was still selling nowhere near enough cars. The answer was Project X400: a compact executive saloon designed to take Jaguar directly into the territory dominated by the BMW 3-Series, Mercedes C-Class and Audi A4.There was just one problem.Underneath, it was based on

BMW E30 M3: Mercedes Accidentally Created the BMW M3 Sep 10, 2026 00:31:00 In 1983, Mercedes built a car that BMW couldn’t answer.The 190E 2.3-16 had a Cosworth-developed cylinder head, sixteen valves, and a set of world endurance records before customers had even taken delivery.BMW’s chairman walked into Motorsport, turned to engineer Paul Rosche, and gave him one instruction: build a sporting engine for the 3-Series.Fourteen days later, the first prototype was running.

Renault Clio V6: The Worst Renault Clio Ever Built Sep 6, 2026 00:28:08 In 2001, Renault built a hatchback that could barely outrun the hatchback it was based on.The doors were standard Clio. So was the roofline, tailgate and badge.But the back seats were gone.In their place sat a three-liter V6 from a family saloon, mounted sideways directly behind the driver and sending its power to the rear wheels.Renault had taken inspiration from the legendary 5 Turbo and created

Metro 6R4: The Failed Metro That Created a Supercar Sep 3, 2026 00:37:00 Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7In 1984, British journalists watched a rally car charge toward them on a cinema screen.Then a real MG Metro 6R4 burst straight through it.Behind the driver sat a Rover V8 with two cylinders literally cut off — because the real engine still didn’t exist.Austin Rover had decided to turn one of Britain’s most or

Lancia 037: How Lancia Beat Audi With a Slower Car Aug 20, 2026 00:28:02 Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7In January 1983, high in the mountains above Monte Carlo, men working for Lancia went out onto frozen rally stages in the middle of the night.They were spreading agricultural salt across the ice.Not because they were cheating.Because nobody had thought to write a rule saying they couldn't.Lancia was prepa

Noble M12: The £45,000 Car That Humiliated Porsche Aug 18, 2026 00:31:38 In the summer of 2000, evo magazine strapped timing equipment to a British sports car almost nobody had heard of.It hit 60 mph in 4.1 seconds and 100 mph in 10.2—beating the Porsche 911 GT3, evo’s reigning Car of the Year.The Porsche cost £76,500.The Noble M12 cost £45,000.And its rear lights came from a Ford Mondeo.The M12 was built by Lee Noble, a self-taught engineer with no degree, almost no a

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution: How 22-Years of Failure Built an Icon Aug 13, 2026 00:30:14 In 1974, a four-door Japanese family saloon entered the most destructive rally on Earth.The East African Safari Rally covered roughly six thousand kilometres of flooded public roads, volcanic dust, mud, rocks and mechanical punishment. Porsche led—until its suspension collapsed. The car that came through to win was a Mitsubishi Lancer driven by Kenyan mechanic’s son Joginder Singh.It was Mitsubish

Alfa Romeo 166: The Most Miserable Car Ever Built Aug 11, 2026 00:32:51 In 2009, Glass’s Guide examined more than six thousand three-year-old cars in Britain to find which had lost their owners the most money.Second, third and fourth place were all Rovers—a brand that no longer existed.But the worst depreciating car wasn’t a Rover.It was the Alfa Romeo 166.An Italian executive saloon with double-wishbone suspension, one of the greatest V6 engines ever put into a road

Smart Car: The Most Expensive Mercedes Ever Made Aug 4, 2026 00:24:52 In 1993, the man who saved the Swiss watch industry decided to reinvent the car. Nicolas Hayek imagined a cheap, colourful electric runabout that people could personalise like a Swatch—small enough for two passengers, city streets, and, in his words, “two cases of beer.”Volkswagen dismissed it as an elephant’s roller skate. Mercedes-Benz agreed to build it.The result was one of the cleverest, stra

Ford RS200: The Fastest Failure in Racing History Jul 30, 2026 00:24:20 Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7In the Ford RS200, the engine sits behind the driver—but the gearbox sits ahead of him, down by his knees. Power travels the entire length of the car to the front, then turns around and comes back again.Ford built it this way to create the most perfectly balanced rally car possible. It spent more than £10 mil

Reliant Robin: The Car Built to Dodge the Taxman Jul 28, 2026 00:30:39 In 1972, a Grand Prix engineer who tuned Formula One cars for Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart sat down to design a cheap runabout for people who couldn't afford a real car. The result? A lightweight, three-wheeled fibreglass hatchback with an all-aluminium engine that saved its parent company and gave working-class Britain affordable independence.Yet decades later, this clever piece of engineer

1992 Suburu Impreza: The Car that Saved Suburu Jul 23, 2026 00:27:35 In 1993, Subaru was on the brink of collapse, burdened by crashing sales and oddball engineering. But out of this desperation emerged a compact, turbocharged blue-and-yellow icon that would permanently rewrite the rules of modern rallying. With a flat-four boxer engine and symmetrical all-wheel drive, the Impreza transformed Subaru from a struggling Japanese automaker into a World Rally Championsh

Austin Montego: The Masterpiece that Killed the British Car Industry Jul 21, 2026 00:34:12 The Austin Montego didn't just challenge the survival of British Leyland; it stood as a fascinating, flawed monument to the desperate final years of Britain’s state-owned automotive giant. In the mid-1980s, the World Rally Championship wasn't the only high-stakes automotive battlefield; the UK fleet market was a ruthless warzone dominated by Ford's Sierra and Vauxhall's Cavalier. W

Lancia Delta S4: The Car that Ended Group B Jul 16, 2026 00:29:17 Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7The Lancia Delta S4 didn't just challenge the visual and physical limits of rallying; it shattered them with a violent, twin-charged Italian swagger that completely rewrote the rules of motorsport. In the mid-1980s, the World Rally Championship was dominated by Audi's pioneering quattro system and Peu

Ferrari F40: The Last Car Enzo Ferrari Ever Approved Jul 14, 2026 00:28:16 In the late 1980s, Ferrari faced a crisis of identity. Porsche had just unleashed the 959—a computer-controlled, four-wheel-drive technological marvel that snatched the title of the fastest production car on Earth. Witnessing this digital revolution from Maranello, an aging Enzo Ferrari grew desperate to take the crown back before he died. Rejecting the wrong future of electronic driving aids, he

Ferrari 288GTO: The Greatest Ferrari that Never Raced Jul 9, 2026 00:25:13 In 1984, the fastest road car on the planet emerged from Maranello wearing a badge Ferrari hadn’t touched in twenty years: GTO. This wasn't a cynical marketing exercise; it was a no-compromise machine engineered to dominate a radical new racing class. It qualified, it was built, and then—it never turned a wheel in anger. The category it was made for was banned overnight, leaving an incredibly

Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500: The Ugliest Car in Racing History Jul 2, 2026 00:33:04 In the mid-1980s, Ford had a massive problem: their radical, aerodynamically obsessed family sedan—the Sierra—was a sales disaster. Desperate to change its public image, they decided the only way to sell the "Jellymould" commuter car was to turn it into an unbeatable racer. By teaming up with legendary engine builder Cosworth and aero-specialists Tickford, they took a mundane chassis and

Porsche 959: The Greatest Rally Car That Never Raced Jun 30, 2026 00:36:58 In the mid-1980s, Porsche set out to build a Group B rally car, but accidentally ended up creating a technological spaceship that redefined the modern supercar. By taking the iconic 911 silhouette and stuffing it with sequential twin-turbos, an aerospace-grade Kevlar composite body, and the most advanced computer-controlled all-wheel-drive system the world had ever seen, Porsche created an absolut

Peugeot 205 T16: The Greatest "Diesel" in Racing History Jun 25, 2026 00:29:17 In the mid-1980s, the fastest rally car on earth hid its monstrous capability inside the shell of an everyday French supermini. By taking the heavy cast-iron block of a workhorse diesel, fitting a 16-valve head and a turbocharger, and mounting it mid-ship in a custom four-wheel-drive chassis, Peugeot created an absolute weapon: the 205 Turbo 16. It was a ruthless, pragmatic engineering marvel that

Ford Probe: The Failed Front-Wheel Drive Ford Mustang Jun 23, 2026 00:30:35 The Ford Mustang is an American automotive icon, but in the mid-1980s, Ford was quietly preparing to kill it off. Facing lingering anxieties from the oil crises and a massive surge in popularity for efficient, front-wheel-drive Japanese imports, Ford executives made a controversial decision: the next-generation Mustang would be a front-wheel-drive, four-cylinder sports coupe built on a Mazda platf

Group B Rally: The Most Dangerous Era in Racing History Jun 18, 2026 00:32:37 Group B Rally Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7Group B didn’t just push the limits of rally racing; it completely obliterated them with a fire-spitting, gravel-shredding intensity that the motorsport world had never seen—and will never see again. In the early 1980s, the FIA replaced predictable regulations with a formula that essentially tore up the

Volvo C30: The Greatest Ford Focus Ever Built Jun 16, 2026 00:22:38 The Volvo C30 didn't just challenge the premium hatchback establishment; it did it with a quirky, glass-backed Scandinavian swagger that completely flipped the script. In the mid-2006s, the compact market was dominated by predictable German giants. While everyone else played it safe, Volvo took the underpinnings of the world-class Ford Focus, wrapped it in a radical shooting-brake silhouette i

Audi Sport Quattro S1: The Car Built Completely Backwards Jun 11, 2026 00:19:49 The Audi Quattro S1 didn't just rewrite the rallying rulebook; it tore it to shreds and set the pieces on fire. In the mid-1980s, the World Rally Championship was hijacked by Group B—a lawless, uncompromised era of lethal speed. While rivals built mid-engined monsters from scratch, Audi’s engineers chopped up their flagship coupe, bolted a massive wing to the back, and unleashed a 500-horsepow

Jaguar XJ220: Why Jaguar Sued Its Best Customers Jun 9, 2026 00:26:56 The Jaguar XJ220 didn't just break production car speed records; it shattered the hearts of the billionaires who ordered it. In the late 1980s, the supercar world was defined by uncompromised poster cars—until a group of off-hours Jaguar engineers created a 12-cylinder, all-wheel-drive monster that promised to rule them all.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" —

Lancia Stratos: The Most Audacious Lie in Racing History Jun 4, 2026 00:27:21 The Lancia Stratos didn't just change rallying; it completely broke the concept of homologation. In the early 1970s, the dirt roads of the World Rally Championship were dominated by modified family sedans—until a wedge-shaped spaceship from Bertone landed in Turin.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" — out now. The true story of global power has be

Porsche 928: The Car Porsche Built to Destroy the 911 May 28, 2026 00:29:34 The Porsche 911 didn't just survive execution; it defined the limits of engineering stubbornness. In the late 1970s, the automotive world was dominated by tightening regulations and corporate spreadsheets , until a clean-sheet replacement arrived from Stuttgart.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" — out now. The true story of global power has been whitewashed by

Nissan Skyline GT-R R32: The Car So Good They CHANGED The Rules May 21, 2026 00:29:38 The Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 didn't just win races; it ended an entire era of motorsport. In the early 1990s, the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) was dominated by the Sierra RS Cosworths and Holden Commodores, until "Godzilla" arrived from Japan.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" — out now. The true story of global power has been whitewashed by the v

The Dacia Sandero is SURPRISINGLY Interesting May 14, 2026 00:22:37 2024, while automotive giants like Volkswagen and Stellantis struggled with shrinking margins and European market share, a budget Romanian hatchback starting under ten thousand euros quietly posted a 7.6% operating margin. By obsessing over a "Design-to-Cost" philosophy, Dacia built the Sandero into the most profitable budget car in automotive history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY

Lotus Carlton: The Car the Police Couldn't Catch May 7, 2026 00:23:09 In 1990, a Norfolk factory took a brand-new Vauxhall family sedan off the production line, drove a plasma cutter through its wheel arches, threw the engine in a skip, and bolted in a twin-turbo straight-six built by the same engineers designing the Corvette ZR-1's V8.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" — out now. The true story of global power has been whitewas

Toyota Celica GT4: The Most Elegant Cheat in Racing History Apr 30, 2026 00:23:51 THE FIVE MILLIMETER LIE: TOYOTA’S BRILLIANT WRC FRAUDMy New Book: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH⁠ (History Written by Losers)Video Description: By 1995, the World Rally Championship had reached a stalemate of physics. The FIA had mandated 34mm restrictor plates on all turbochargers, effectively capping power at 300 horsepower to level the playing field. For Toyota Team Europe (TTE), this wa

Ford Escort RS Cosworth: Why Ford Faked Their Most Iconic Car Apr 16, 2026 00:20:37 THE GREATEST FAKE FORD: THE ESCORT RS COSWORTH STORYMy New Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH (History Written by Losers)Video Description:By the early 1990s, the golden age of unrestricted Group B rallying was dead, replaced by tamer Group A regulations that forced manufacturers to race mass-produced road cars. Ford’s only viable weapon was the Sierra RS Cosworth, a car that dominated smo

Mercedes 500E: How Porsche Built the Last Great Mercedes Apr 14, 2026 00:16:09 THE MERCEDES THAT PORSCHE SECRETLY BUILT: THE 500E STORYWhen BMW dropped the E34 M5, it rewrote the rules for performance sedans, leaving Mercedes-Benz with nothing to answer it with. While Mercedes knew their W124 chassis could handle serious power, their engineering bandwidth was entirely consumed by the over-budget and behind-schedule W140 S-Class. They needed a weapon to fight back, but they s

The Economy Car That Literally Burned Fuel Apr 13, 2026 00:22:05 HE SPORTS CAR THAT GM BUILT TO FAIL: THE PONTIAC FIERO STORYMy New Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH (History Written by Losers)Video Description:By 1978, Pontiac—GM’s famed "excitement division"—was in free fall, building uninspiring compliance cars while Japanese imports ate their lunch. They desperately wanted to build a mid-engine sports car, but an ironclad, unwritten GM la

Why EVs are REALLY Failing for Big Automakers Mar 24, 2026 00:30:10 THE 2026 EV BLOODBATH: HOW DETROIT LOST TO CODEWhen legacy automakers promised a seamless transition to a 100% electric future, corporate boards and regulators cheered. They threw billions at dedicated EV platforms, assuming their century of manufacturing dominance would easily translate to the battery age. But they fundamentally misunderstood the technological and economic realities of the electr

The 22-Year-Old Lord Who Destroyed Ferrari’s Ego Mar 14, 2026 00:28:21 THE PLAYBOYS WHO BEAT FERRARIWhen Lord Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh arrived in the Formula 1 paddock, the establishment laughed. He brought a luxury yacht, a personal helicopter, copious amounts of champagne, and a charismatic driver who frequently threw up before races—a young James Hunt. They were universally dismissed by purists and legendary team bosses as spoiled aristocrats treating the p

How Aston-Honda Got it So Wrong (& What Happens Next) Mar 13, 2026 00:21:33 The 5 Hertz Earthquake: Is Honda Destroying Aston Martin?History Written by Losers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBHVideo Description:The most anticipated partnership of the 2026 Formula 1 season has arrived at the Australian Grand Prix, but it’s already on the verge of a total collapse. Aston Martin and Honda promised a dynasty, but instead, they’ve built a car that is physically destroying i

Ferrari Just Offended Everyone (And It Might Save Them) Mar 12, 2026 00:20:36 THE ARCHITECTURE OF SACRILEGEFerrari just revealed the interior of the Luce—their first fully electric car—and the internet is having a complete meltdown. Designed by Jony Ive, the man behind your iPhone, the Luce is being called "cold," "clinical," and "not a Ferrari" by purists and legendary designers alike.But here is the secret: Ferrari has been "offending&qu

The Billion Dollar Plot to Kill the Seatbelt Feb 18, 2026 00:22:21 The Billion Dollar Plot to Kill the SeatbeltIn this episode of The Car Nerd, Jason investigates the dark, forty-year conspiracy by the American auto industry to suppress the single most effective lifesaving device in history: the seatbelt.It wasn't just negligence—it was a calculated decision. We take you inside the 1950s boardrooms where executives explicitly weighed the cost of chrome bumper

How BMW Stole Rolls Royce from Volkswagen. Feb 14, 2026 00:25:46 The Weekly Classic Newsletter: http://weeklyclassic.hassettstudios.com/🎥 Video Description:The Heist of the Century — How BMW Stole Rolls-Royce from VolkswagenIn this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason dissects the most bizarre, ego-driven, and legally complex acquisition in the history of the car industry: the battle for Rolls-Royce and Bentley.The year was 1998, and the "Crown Jewels&qu

How the Dodge Viper Saved Lamborghini Feb 4, 2026 00:28:15 The Weekly Classic Newsletter: http://weeklyclassic.hassettstudios.com/Automotive Merch: https://shop.hassettstudios.com/collections/automotive (use FOREVER20 for 20% off)🎥 Video Description:Venom & Violence — The Unlikely Life of the Dodge ViperIn this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason dissects the anatomy of the most audacious, dangerous, and politically incorrect vehicle ever to leave

The $3 Million Land Ship That Vanished in the Ice Jan 28, 2026 00:19:32 The Weekly Classic Newsletter: http://weeklyclassic.hassettstudios.com/Automotive Merch: https://shop.hassettstudios.com/collections/automotive (use FOREVER20 for 20% off)🎥 Video Description:The Antarctic Snow Cruiser — The 37-Ton Behemoth That Drove Backwards Into HistoryIn this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason takes you deep into the story of the ultimate "Land Ship"—a machine so

The Most "Illegal" Car to Ever Win an F1 Title Jan 27, 2026 00:28:36 The Weekly Classic Newsletter: http://weeklyclassic.hassettstudios.com/Automotive Merch: https://shop.hassettstudios.com/collections/automotive (use FOREVER20 for 20% off)🎥 Video Description:The Ghost in the Machine — The Forensic Anatomy of F1’s Most Controversial CarIn this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason opens the "black box" of the 1994 Formula One season to investigate the si

The 'Nazi Killer' Car that the Germans Banned (and Copied) Jan 10, 2026 00:24:29 The Weekly Classic Newsletter: http://weeklyclassic.hassettstudios.com/Automotive Merch: https://shop.hassettstudios.com/collections/automotive (use FOREVER20 for 20% off)🎥 Video Description:The "Nazi Killer" — The Aerodynamic Genius & Fatal Flaw of the Tatra T87In this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason takes you deep into the story of the car that looked like it landed from the

The Forgotten Car That Invented the Crossover Dec 27, 2025 00:22:05 The Weekly Classic Newsletter: http://weeklyclassic.hassettstudios.com/Automotive Merch: https://shop.hassettstudios.com/collections/automotive (use FOREVER20 for 20% off)🎥 Video Description:The Car That Invented the Crossover — The Rise & Legacy of the AMC EagleIn this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason takes you deep into the story of the car that defied every category and accidentally p

Why Detroit Had to Kill the Tucker 48 Dec 18, 2025 00:33:21 The Weekly Classic Newsletter: http://weeklyclassic.hassettstudios.com/Automotive Merch: https://shop.hassettstudios.com/collections/automotive (use FOREVER20 for 20% off)🎥 Video Description:The Car That Detroit Tried to Kill — The Rise & Fall of the Tucker 48In this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason takes you deep into one of the most dramatic, controversial, and misunderstood stories in

Ford Transit: The Van Was Used in 95% of British Bank Robberies Dec 6, 2025 00:15:52 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCarNerd/videosNordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/hassettHosted by Jason Hassett | The Car Nerd🎥 Video Description:The Van That Built Britain — The Complete Ford Transit StoryIn this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason dives into the untold origin story of one of the most important vehicles ever built: the Ford Transit.From a post-war engineering problem inside For

Can Tesla’s “Flying Roadster” Beat History's Odds? | Storytime Ep. 10 Nov 11, 2025 00:32:35 NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/hassettHosted by Jason Hassett | The Car Nerd🎥 Video Description:“Where Are My Flying Cars?” — The Wild Ride from 1894 to the Tesla TeaseIn this episode of Automotive Storytime, Jason dives deep into one of motoring’s most tantalizing dreams: the flying car. From the earliest experiments at the dawn of modern aviation to the pop-culture icons and the regulatory nightma

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Chrysler Destroyed the Car that Could Run on Tequila | Storytime Ep. 9 Oct 30, 2025 00:24:21 NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/hassettHosted by Jason Hassett | The Car Nerd🎥 Video Description:The Story of the Chrysler Turbine CarWelcome to Automotive Storytime on The Car Nerd — the series where we dig into the wildest, most ambitious, and most forgotten chapters in automotive history.In this episode, Jason Hassett takes you inside one of the most futuristic experiments ever attempted by an Ame

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