In the world of automotive innovation, some ideas push the boundaries of practicality and dive straight into the bizarre.

By the late '70s, a lot of the US performance car heavy lifting was being done by the likes of the Corvette (which wasn't ...

GM's Ed Cole pioneered rear-engine turbocharging in the 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder, a full 13 years before Porsche's iconic 911 Turbo.