Jim Koscs

Tesla's aerodynamic wheels can extend EV range, yet many buyers choose wheels that might reduce it. 5 min read Hyundai QuickTakes: Aero wheels are designed to smooth airflow and reduce dragTesla's aero wheels improve range but have some…

A few years ago, Hagerty columnist Jay Leno reconstructed a 1931 Duesenberg Model J LaGrande Coupe, one of six built in the style. The original body had been removed and scrapped in the 1940s by a Ford-Lincoln dealer in Indianapolis, which replaced…

Car enthusiasts are accustomed to aspirational names on vehicles: “Le Mans” on workaday Pontiacs; “Cougar” on mild-not-wild Mercury station wagons, and “Falcon” on a Ford economy car that could not fly—these are but a few examples. Cashing in on a…

What do the 1959 Jaguar Mk. II, 1963 Corvette Sting Ray, and 1965 Buick Riviera have in common with the 1994 Aston Martin DB7, 2001 Aston Martin Vanquish, 2014 Jaguar F-Type, and the ProDrive BRX Hunter that took second at the 2022 Dakar Rally? The…

Think, for a moment, what you would do if Mazda sent you a new but lightly damaged Miata, along with a simple instruction: “Do something interesting with it.” This happened to Jim Simpson back in 1992, when just such a car arrived at his auto…

One word might best sum up the arrival of the 2020 Corvette, the first mid-engine model in the Chevy sports car’s nearly 70-year history: finally! Mid-engine Corvettes had been teased as engineering cars, prototypes and concepts for more than 50 of…

[Editor's Note: This story on the much-modified third-gen Pontiac Firebird that we recently highlighted as a Hemmings Find of the Day comes to us from contributor Jim Koscs.] As a kid, did you try to draw cars that combined features of several…

Not since Speed Racer confronted the mysterious Mammoth Car in 1967 has a utility vehicle generated as much controversy as the Tesla Cybertruck. Unveiled in late November, this electric pickup truck looks like nothing else roving the earth. Its…

Tom Peters was 17 when the 1970 Camaro began appearing on the streets early that year, and what he saw shocked him. With its taut contours and fastback coupe profile, it looked nothing like the first-generation Camaro, which as a teenager he enjoyed…

Rushing up in the rearview mirror, a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat looks like it’s fixing to inhale your license plate through its wide-mouth hood scoop. Inspired by jet aircraft and race cars, Detroit has been slapping hood scoops…

Out in New Jersey, some might still remember the night they saw a flash of towering tailfins and “gunsight” taillights blow past them at more than 100 mph on Route 78. It happened about 20 years ago, but the sight of a huge, red 1957 Imperial coupe…

For decades, some of the fastest, most powerful cars from Italy wore two badges: Ferrari for the builder and Pininfarina for the designer. (Sometimes Pininfarina was the builder, too.) A new 1900-horsepower Italian hypercar arriving in 2021 will wear…

Design Inspired by Toyota Sports Car IconsThe Coincidental Concept Car“Condensed Extreme” Meets “Romance”Pushing the Bounds of Body Manufacturing CapabilityDriver-Focused Cabin, with Fun for the Passenger, Too It had to be a “Wow!” car. If Toyota was…

A lithe young woman with big, teased hair leans against the driver’s door of a white Porsche, flashing her beguiling smile at a seemingly older and clearly enthusiastic man at the wheel. It’s not an ad for male “assistance.” It’s the cover of Motor…

Imagine having had the opportunity to buy a few Baldwin-Motion or Yenko Camaros back in the 1970s, when those big-block monsters were mere used muscle cars that appealed to a small group of enthusiasts who understood their provenance. Anthony Kalil,…

Look! Out on the road! It’s a car! It’s a plane! It’s the 2JetZ! Wait a minute, what the heck is a 2JetZ? In case you hadn’t heard, 2JetZ is the one-of-a-kind custom built by Luis Rodriguez in Hope, New Jersey, that won the Hot Wheels Legends Tour in…

Jim MacDougald went looking for a “rare and interesting” car to drive in the 2014 Mountain Mille, a 1000-mile tour through North Carolina and Tennessee that included the famous Tail of the Dragon. To borrow a phrase that British Prime Minister…

With consumer access to the internet in its infancy, and before carmakers began staging their own spy photos, it was still possible in 1993 to truly “unveil” a concept car. It’s worth looking in the rearview mirror at a top-secret concept that 25…

It’s been 36 years since the sci-fi cult classic film Blade Runner foretold a future of homicidal synthetic humans called “replicants” and flying cars known as “spinners.” That future was supposed to be 2019, and today’s cars, though much faster than…

Leisure suits. Platform shoes. Farrah Fawcett’s hair. Disco. The transition to the 1970s left America immersed in a weirdly commercialized dilution of the prior decade’s trends and styles. In the automotive world, the extinction of the first wave of…