The latest kit from Lego is a brick Bullitt for your desk. It's a 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback racer. The Lego 1968 Mustang kit comes with everything you need to build the car, but it also has a Ford-branded trackside timing board and stickers to customize the car. The Minifig driver has a big wrench and is wearing a vintage-look racing suit. U

This tiny mid-engine classic might not be for everyone, but the handling prowess of the 1968 Lotus Europa just might be. A car that certainly can't be mistaken for anything else on the road, it's bright yellow paint makes it stand out even more. If you were car-spotting in the 1960s and 1970s, and a Lotus Europa drove past you, it's just about i

They say you’re never supposed to meet your idols. There’s too much of a chance that your idealized thoughts are overblown, that you will be disappointed when you see what he or she – or in this case, it – is really like. I wouldn’t say that I subscribe to that, necessarily, but as I was preparing for this story, it did cross my mind. Especially wh

It's one of the most iconic movie cars of all time, and probably the most iconic of the last 20 years. It's the Pepper Grey ghost that even Nicolas Cage couldn't quite get his hands on. It's a 1968 Ford Mustang GT500E. that's right. Eleanor. And it's our autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week. In 2000, one of the greatest car chase movies of all time go

“If I could please have a moment.” The voice came first from the back of the room, and was then echoed from the front, where an interpreter held a small microphone before our group of journalists. We collectively turn to the row of seats at the rear of the presentation hall at Mine Proving Grounds, one hour north of Hiroshima, and see a man stan

Canadians first fell in love with dynamic designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan – aka “Colin & Justin” – when their TV show, Colin & Justin’s Home Heist , debuted on HGTV Canada in 2008. Initially created for North America, the hit TV series has been broadcast around the world in more than 35 countries. Nowadays, the Scottish married

Let’s face it; try as they might, the rest of the American Big Three have never quite been able to build a car that brings instant credibility to a movie car chase like the Mustang. Sure, sure – vehicles like the Dodge Challenger and Chevrolet Corvette have come close, but you can count the notable chases those have been involved in on one hand. Th

It's that time of year again: the North American International Auto Show in Detroit kicks off the new year and this year it's all about coupes. Here are the hottest new vehicles and concepts that we've seen – so far.

With interest rates at banks low, investors are looking for stable alternatives to build their money. Now a new report says that bankers in Germany are suggesting an alternative we can really get behind: classic German cars. Jens Berner, a vintage car expert for Suedwestbank AG, told Bloomberg  that "for customers with more than one million eur

All 36 Corvettes will be restored to running condition and resold In 1989, VH1 decided to do something unimaginable: accumulate 36 Corvettes, one for each year America's sports car had been manufactured, and give them away to one lucky viewer via a 900 phone number contest. And the best part of this story is it only gets more outrageous. Den

Remember that kid at the back of your high school math class – the one whose mother dressed him every day, who always seemed to have the right answer on every pop quiz, and who you never would have noticed had he not later gone on to become CEO at a Fortune 500 company, rubbing it in your face at your 25th year reunion? There are cars and trucks

Ford is launching a new Mustang that can outrun the Dodge Demon in the quarter mile. Which is the only place it will outrun it, because the new 50th Anniversary Cobra Jet is a Mustang headed only for the track. The original Cobra Jet debuted in NHRA competition in 1968. It was a stripped-down Mustang that boasted a massive 7.0L V8. The car was a

This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic car chases of all time. And Ford has just revealed their latest special edition Mustang to celebrate it. The 2019 Mustang Bullitt gets more power, special trim, and that iconic Dark Highland Green paint. The raison d'être of the Bullitt Mustang is to appeal to buyers who know and lov

Will Volkswagen's reputation overcome the lasting stain of the diesel scandal? Surely, this must be one of the worst skeletons in the closet for any car company to have. Actually... wait a minute. Today, the Volkswagen Beetle is a fun little front-driver that you can order as a pink convertible. Its origins, however, are basically pure evil. Ori

When Ferruccio Lamborghini first saw the engine that was to power his cars, he was furious. Engineering genius Giotto Bizzarrini, the man who shaped the Ferrari 250 GTO , had been given the task of creating a twelve-cylinder engine to rival Ferrari, but one built for the road. Clearly, this 3.5L 60-degree V-12 was a racing engine – its 11,000-rpm