Ford's Nucleon looks and sounds like a vehicle ripped straight outta "The Jetsons." Despite having only 24 episodes, the cartoon set in 2062 became an endearingly iconic piece of Americana. It ...

The nuclear craze after the end of World War II was more than a trope to be dissected by modern films and video games. At one point, starting nearly eight decades ago to the day, post-war America ...

Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

Science fiction or just futuristic? In 1958, an American automaker introduced the world to a ⅜-scale concept that proposed harnessing the power of the atom as a means of propelling vehicles. The Ford ...

The late '50s and early '60s gave us some fascinating flights of design fancy in an era of unprecedented American optimism. Ford recent opened its Heritage Vault, full of nearly a century of archived ...

Concept cars communicate in physical form, the potential, the beliefs, and the dreams that car companies have about the future of not just their own vehicles, but the whole automotive industry in ...

The end of World War II marked humanity’s entry into the nuclear age. Having witnessed the huge destructive power of atomic weapons in two occasions before cessation of hostilities, humankind swore ...

It was called the Nucleon, but it never went beyond a 3/8 scale model mockup. Ah, the 1950s. Automotive design in America was heavily influenced by the jet age. Folks were crazy about the new-fangled ...

In the mid-1950s, as the world was in a race to excel at the prospect of atomic energy, American carmaker, Ford Motor Company had a bold vision for the future of automobiles and created a concept car, ...

Did you know that decades ago there was a nuclear-powered car that remained a concept and never reached the public roads? When the Ford Nucleon was first unveiled in 1957, its nuclear engine was ...