The Tucker on display at the National Museum of American History. Cade Martin. Francis Ford Coppola’s car connection began at birth, or even before.

Some people have likened historic automotive industry figure Preston Tucker to Elon Musk. Tucker has been described with words like “a gifted entrepreneur and technological visionary who ...

Data from Kelley Blue Book and CarGurus shows how car prices change over time, from Tesla Cybertruck and Toyota Tacoma to Honda CR-V and Ford F-150.

A Detroit motorcycle policeman during prohibition, a lifelong salesman and a motorhead since the first car he saw scared his grandfather’s horses in 1906, Preston Tucker lived life at full speed ...

There were negative rumors about the car, the most frequent was that it didn’t have a reverse gear. In that issue he wrote, “Tucker is building an automobile!

However, they were air-cooled and that would never work for a proper road car. Tucker engineers managed to re-engineer the Franklins with water cooling, giving birth to the Tucker flat-6, a 5.4 ...

In the ever-evolving world of automotive innovation, not every revolutionary idea results in lasting success. History is paved with the stories of carmakers who dared to break the mold—only to break ...

The story of the Tucker 48, also known as the Tucker Torpedo, has both. This oddball car, which never became a ...

According to a preliminary report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), Tucker was driving south on Highway 41A on the ...

Obsessed with cars since childhood, inventor Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) has his first successful auto design partnership in the 1930s and designs a successful gun turret for World War II use ...