Since World War II, there has only been one new American car that was a huge leap forward from what had been built before its debut in 1959, and that car was the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair. No other car ...

But at the height of the Corvair's popularity, V.P. of Design Bill Mitchell saw potential in the Corvair's unique platform and set two of his sharpest designers—Larry Shinoda and Tony Lapine—to work ...

This is an excerpt from Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, opens new tab,published this month by Simon & Schuster. The historic events, however, were set in motion 40 ...