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The question of which was the first car ever made is deceptively simple — and the answer, depending on how you define a car, spans nearly a century of contested invention across France, Germany, Britain, and America. If a car requires a petrol engine, the answer is the 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen. If a car requires any self-propelled wheeled vehicle, the answer goes back to 1...

Latest — April 23, 2026: Lufthansa’s first retrofitted A380 (registration D-AIMC ‘Mike-Charly’) returned to service from Munich to Los Angeles, fitted with all-new Thompson Business Class seats — 68 flat-beds with direct aisle access, 18-inch screens, and Bluetooth audio. Seven more A380s follow to mid-2027.

In 2019, Airbus announced that it was ending Airbus A380...

Between 1964 and 1974, three of the largest corporations in the world committed their engineering resources, their marketing budgets, and their corporate reputations to a single competitive objective: building a faster, more powerful, more visually dominant automobile than the other two. The rules were simple — keep the price accessible enough for a young buyer to afford on a...

The scale model market for aircraft is considerably wider than most buyers realise before they start looking. The distance between an entry-level die-cast airliner at 1:400 and a commissioned hand-built large scale replica at 1:32 is not just a price gap — it is a gap in production method, display quality, subject specificity, and what the finished piece communicates about th...

The classic car collector market has a peculiar relationship with fame. The cars that dominate auction headlines — the Ferrari 250 GTO, the Shelby Cobra, the Porsche 911 RS — are extraordinary machines, historically significant, and priced accordingly. A clean 250 GTO no longer exists in a category most collectors can participate in at all. But the market is not only those ca...