Some say you should never meet your heroes, especially when it comes to classic cars. The thinking goes that you'll often end up underwhelmed. This logic doesn't compute for Bob Rath, who, after ...

To the enthusiast, fuel-economy and emissions mandates that push automakers to develop small cars are bad news. After all, there's no replacement for displacement, right? Well, fifty years ago, the ...

The original BMC Mini is widely considered to be one of the most technically influential cars of all time. Its transverse front-wheel drive layout is the basic design of nearly all mass-market small ...

In various forms, the MINI has been with us for more than half a century--but its image has always been shaped by the two-door model. The original BMC Mini had two doors and a small trunk; the BMW ...

Could a toy car from the British Motor Corp., with a 1071-cc four-cylinder engine, win the Rallye Monte Carlo outright, racing against other cars with much bigger and more powerful engines-up to ...