My Car Quest

May 6, 2025

Design Critique – Bentley Batur

by Wallace Wyss - While design of an economy car is critical to its success, I think at the other end of the scale, it's much more entertaining. When you're talking say $2,000,000 per car, that can give a designer a lot of latitude in which way … [Read more...]

Design: Is The 2023 Nissan Z Too Retro?

by Wallace Wyss - I am a big fan of retro. I like it when an all new design takes something from the models' history and incorporates it. Say the Bentley Continental S/C--it had a Sedanca de Ville roof that was like Bentleys of 50 years … [Read more...]

This New Electric Car Looks Just Like a ’67 Mustang

by Wallace Wyss - The '67 Mustang is a nice design nostalgically but is it worth tooling up for a 2023 car? Some Brits think so and at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show Charge Cars showed their prototype called the '67 (notably not mentioning the … [Read more...]

The Importance of Being Nostalgic

by Wallace Wyss - I happened to see in a recent issue of Motorsport, a fine British vintage car magazine, an ad for The Goodwood Revival 2022. The ad caught my eye because it was in black and white (or perhaps that brownish alternative that … [Read more...]

Editorial: The Multi-Car Collector

by Wallace Wyss - By now everybody in the car collecting field knows Jay Leno, with over 160 cars in his garage (airplane hanger) had an accident when his 1907 White had a flash fire showering his face and arms with gasoline. A spark was emitted … [Read more...]

A Few Bad Car Engines

by Wallace Wyss - We always hear about what a great design a designer did on a car, but it's funny I don't hear any reports on what a rotten design someone did on an engine. Until I caught a video on YouTube on that subject. So I'm naming a few … [Read more...]