<p><span class="deck"> Carl Fisher thought Americans should be able to drive across their country, but it took a decade and a world war to finish his road</span> </p>
<p>A scrappy and reckless farm boy from Ohio became America's most legendary race car driver, and his widely publicized victories in Henry Ford's racing cars helped the aspiring entrepreneur launch Ford Motor Company</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The first transcontinental auto trip began with a casual wager and ended sixty-five bone-jarring days later</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At a time of crisis for American labor, an organizer looks back on the turbulent 50-year career that brought him from the shop floor to the presidency of the United Automobile Workers.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A leading authority picks the top ten. Some of the names still have the power to stir the blood. And some will surprise you.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">He invented modern mass-production. He gave the world the first people’s car, and Americans loved him for it. But, at the moment of his greatest triumph, he turned on the empire he had built, and on the son who would inherit it.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> The Florida Speed Carnivals at Daytona lasted less than a decade, but they saw American motoring grow from rich man’s sport to national obsession</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Wherever you go in search of history, there’s a good chance that the first thing you reach for will be a road map. And such maps have a history, too.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The Tin Lizzie carried us into the 20th century, but she gave us a hell of a shaking along the way. Now, a veteran driver tells what everybody knew and nobody bothered to write down.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">50 years ago, the builders of the Pennsylvania Turnpike completed America’s first superhighway and helped determine the shape of travel to come.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A tribute to the brash confections our car makers offered the world during a decade when not one American in a thousand had even heard the name Toyota</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Every spring, 30,000,000 Americans watch the Indianapolis 500. It’s the nation’s premier racing event and the pinnacle of a glamorous, murderous epic that stretches back nearly a century.</span></p>
<p>We owe the greatest infrastructure project in the history of the world to the fact that, in 1919, a young U.S. Army captain named Eisenhower was bored.</p>
<p><span class="deck">When Henry Adams sought the medieval world in an automobile, this stuffiest of prophets became the first American to sing of the liberating force later celebrated by Jack Kerouac and the Beach Boys.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The single best-selling American car isn’t a car at all. It’s a pickup truck. Here’s how it rose from farm hand to fashion accessory.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At a time when driving from Manhattan to Yonkers was a supreme challenge, a half-dozen cars pointed their radiators west and set out from Times Square for Paris.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">What it was like to be young and on the front lines when Europe mounted an assault on Detroit with small, snarling, irresistible machines that changed the way we drove and thought</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The Model T Ford made the world we live in. On the 100th anniversary of the company Henry Ford founded, his biographer Douglas Brinkley tells how.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The Ford Mustang changed the industry because its creator realized that “people want economy so badly, they don’t care what they pay for it.”</span></p>
<p>Dubbed the “AAA guide for black people,” the underground travel manual encapsulated how automobile travel expanded — and limited — African American lives under Jim Crow.</p>
