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1900
124 years ago
The first gasoline-powered Pierce motor vehicle featuring a modified one-cylinder deDion 3 hp engine, was taken on a test drive through the streets of Buffalo, New York Read more…
1903
121 years ago
The first U Read more…
1910
114 years ago
Founder of the Humber bicycle company in 1868 in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, Thomas Humber (68), died Read more…
1921
103 years ago
Gottfried Schlöemer (79), mechanic and inventor, who lived on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, died Read more…
1922
102 years ago
J A Joyce, driving a modified A Read more…
1951
73 years ago
Austin and Morris agreed to merge, making the combined business, named BMC (British Motor Corporation), the biggest in the British motor trade and the fourth-largest internationally after the US ‘Big Three’ of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford Read more…
1951
73 years ago
Ernest E Read more…
1956
68 years ago
Driving tests in the UK were suspended due to the Suez crisis Read more…
1965
59 years ago
The UK government introduced an experimental speed limit of 70mph on motorways in England Read more…
1968
56 years ago
The London-Sydney Marathon Car Rally started at the Crystal Palace racing circuit in London at 2pm Read more…
1970
54 years ago
Bobby Isaac set a new World Closed Course Speed Record of 201 Read more…
1970
54 years ago
Suzuki licensed the Wankel engine Read more…
1976
48 years ago
March held a press to launch their 6-wheeled F1 car called the 2-4-0 Read more…
1977
47 years ago
Bjorn Waldegaard and Hans Thorszelius won the RAC Rally with a Ford Escort RS 1800 Read more…
1988
36 years ago
Marku Alen and Ikka KivimakiI won the RAC Rally with a Lancia Delta HF 4 WD Read more…
1989
35 years ago
Pentti Airikkala and Ronan McNamee won the RAC RALLY with a Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 Read more…
1990
34 years ago
Juan-Manuel Bordeu (56) died in Buenos Aires from leukemia Read more…
1993
31 years ago
Juha Kankkunen and Nicky Grist won the RAC Rally with a Toyota Celica GT-Four Read more…
1998
26 years ago
Richard Burns and Robert Reid won Great Britain Rally with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 5 Read more…
1999
25 years ago
The Lincoln LS was named Motor Trend Car of the Year Read more…
2005
19 years ago
The new Citroen C6 executive saloon become the very first car in the world to be awarded a maximum 4 star Euro NCAP pedestrian safety rating, as well as a maximum 5 stars for occupant protection, making it arguably the safest car on the road Read more…
2005
19 years ago
The curtain came down on the Minardi team with the last outing of a car bearing the name following its takeover and rebranding as Toro Rosso Read more…
2005
19 years ago
Jaguar announced the armoured XJ Long Wheelbase – its first-ever armoured passenger vehicle Read more…
2006
18 years ago
Twenty-one year old Lewis Hamilton was confirmed as Fernando Alonso’s team-mate at McLaren for the following season, despite still not having driven an F1 car Read more…
2009
15 years ago
Flavio Briatore’s ultimately successful appeal against his lifetime ban from motorsport as well as £1 million in damages resulting from the Crashgate scandal began in a Paris court Read more…
