The Ford Falcon was America's first purpose-built compact car, debuting in 1960. It then became a successful rally racer.

Since the beginning of automotive racing and performance, the goal has been to make more horsepower and reduce weight. Ford fans rejoiced when the Falcon debuted, as it was a compact car with just ...

Photo: Ford Performance/Mark Sword Jr. The Ford Falcon for North America was nothing special. The brainchild of former Secretary of Defense and numbers-crunching Robert McNamara, it was developed to ...

For years, car magazines, including this one, have waxed on about the importance of updating older manual-drum-brake cars to the stopping power of modern disc brakes. We often publish dramatic ...

Some cars are born ordinary, sold in the millions, and quietly fade into used-car lots. Others never make it past the drawing board, existing only in sketches and engineers’ daydreams. And then there ...