The Car Nerd with Jason Hassett

Metro 6R4: The Failed Metro That Created a Supercar

Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7 In 1984, British journalists watched a rally car charge toward them on a cinem

Lancia 037: How Lancia Beat Audi With a Slower Car

Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7In January 1983, high in the mountains above Monte Carlo, men working for Lancia

Noble M12: The £45,000 Car That Humiliated Porsche

In the summer of 2000, evo magazine strapped timing equipment to a British sports car almost nobody had heard of.It hit 60 mph in 4.1 seconds and 100 mph in 10.2—beating

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution: How 22-Years of Failure Built an Icon

In 1974, a four-door Japanese family saloon entered the most destructive rally on Earth.The East African Safari Rally covered roughly six thousand kilometres of flooded p

Alfa Romeo 166: The Most Miserable Car Ever Built

In 2009, Glass’s Guide examined more than six thousand three-year-old cars in Britain to find which had lost their owners the most money.Second, third and fourth place we

Smart Car: The Most Expensive Mercedes Ever Made

In 1993, the man who saved the Swiss watch industry decided to reinvent the car. Nicolas Hayek imagined a cheap, colourful electric runabout that people could personalise

Ford RS200: The Fastest Failure in Racing History

Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7In the Ford RS200, the engine sits behind the driver—but the gearbox sits ahead

Reliant Robin: The Car Built to Dodge the Taxman

In 1972, a Grand Prix engineer who tuned Formula One cars for Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart sat down to design a cheap runabout for people who couldn't afford a real car

1992 Suburu Impreza: The Car that Saved Suburu

In 1993, Subaru was on the brink of collapse, burdened by crashing sales and oddball engineering. But out of this desperation emerged a compact, turbocharged blue-and-yel

Austin Montego: The Masterpiece that Killed the British Car Industry

The Austin Montego didn't just challenge the survival of British Leyland; it stood as a fascinating, flawed monument to the desperate final years of Britain’s state-owned

Lancia Delta S4: The Car that Ended Group B

Group B Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7The Lancia Delta S4 didn't just challenge the visual and physical limits of rall

Ferrari F40: The Last Car Enzo Ferrari Ever Approved

In the late 1980s, Ferrari faced a crisis of identity. Porsche had just unleashed the 959—a computer-controlled, four-wheel-drive technological marvel that snatched the t

Ferrari 288GTO: The Greatest Ferrari that Never Raced

In 1984, the fastest road car on the planet emerged from Maranello wearing a badge Ferrari hadn’t touched in twenty years: GTO. This wasn't a cynical marketing exercise;

Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500: The Ugliest Car in Racing History

In the mid-1980s, Ford had a massive problem: their radical, aerodynamically obsessed family sedan—the Sierra—was a sales disaster. Desperate to change its public image,

Porsche 959: The Greatest Rally Car That Never Raced

In the mid-1980s, Porsche set out to build a Group B rally car, but accidentally ended up creating a technological spaceship that redefined the modern supercar. By taking

Peugeot 205 T16: The Greatest "Diesel" in Racing History

In the mid-1980s, the fastest rally car on earth hid its monstrous capability inside the shell of an everyday French supermini. By taking the heavy cast-iron block of a w

Ford Probe: The Failed Front-Wheel Drive Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang is an American automotive icon, but in the mid-1980s, Ford was quietly preparing to kill it off. Facing lingering anxieties from the oil crises and a mas

Group B Rally: The Most Dangerous Era in Racing History

Group B Rally Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRHygh59386nA5Cost2pUW4p3OkNMlK7Group B didn’t just push the limits of rally racing; it completely obliter

Volvo C30: The Greatest Ford Focus Ever Built

The Volvo C30 didn't just challenge the premium hatchback establishment; it did it with a quirky, glass-backed Scandinavian swagger that completely flipped the script. In

Audi Sport Quattro S1: The Car Built Completely Backwards

The Audi Quattro S1 didn't just rewrite the rallying rulebook; it tore it to shreds and set the pieces on fire. In the mid-1980s, the World Rally Championship was hijacke