How did the two iconic fighters of the Second World War—the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109—compare? Was either plane demonstrably better? We examine the two based on ...

The historic Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun delivered an impressive flying display at the 2024 Haguenau Airshow. Its graceful ...

Even to this day, three quarters of a century after the end of the Second World War, the name Messerschmitt sends shivers down the spines of many. Aircraft wearing this name flew across the world’s ...

Everyone seems to be talking about switching to electric and complicated new cars, but they get excited when they meet a well-maintained classic on the streets. The Messerschmitt KR175 is one of them.

Along with 1950s/60s contemporaries like the Isetta, the three-wheeled Messerschmitt KR200 was one of the original microcars. The car continues to have a following half a century later, so much so ...

One of the best reasons to attend a race, even if you don't like motorsports, is the near limitless opportunity to go carspotting. Maybe you've seen more than your fair share of predictable exotics ...

Click to open image viewer. One of the most remarkable of the Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) produced by the Nazi Germany during World War II, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet holds the distinction of ...

Over the course of World War II, the Nazis invented a lot of different weapons to get an upper hand. Some fundamentally changed combat forever, like the V2 rocket, the first operational ballistic ...

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is generally considered to be the world’s first truly modern fighter: it had all-metal stressed-skin construction, a mono-wing design, enclosed cockpit, and retractable ...

In the nomenclature of World War II, few names are more widely known now than Messerschmitt. It stands for lethal speed in the air by Nazi pursuit ships. Willy Messerschmitt,* 41, is a sharp-nosed, ...