“A technical product is not perfect until it is aesthetically impeccable as well,” Ettore Bugatti once said. And the company...
Sports Car Digest is taking a break for the holidays, but we will be back in the New Year with...
The Bugatti name is widely known in the automotive world for the selection of exquisite roadcars and racecars produced by Automobiles Ettore Bugatti. What may not be as well recognized is that the automobile was not the only art form pursued by the Bugatti family, as four generations have made...
By Will Silk It’s not everyday that one comes across a vintage race car in the back of a garage...
General Description In 1968, Ferrari saw it fit to replace the four-year-old 275 GTB/4. The 365 GTB/4 was introduced, and...
Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor In the fast-changing world of collector car values it’s good to reflect from time-to-time on where the market has been, where it is and where it is going. The annual Classic Car Auction Yearbook rings that bell with a yearly recap of the top...
Photos from opening night at the Petersen Museum’s new “The Porsche Effect” exhibition, which will run throughout 2018....
Famous racing and film cars from Jaguar’s Heritage collection will drive through Bradford on Thursday, April 24th to mark the...
Philadelphia’s Simeone Automotive Museum has expanded its collection with the addition of a new, rare, treasure, a 1907 Renault Racing Roadster (above, Bob Goldstein photo courtesy of the Simeone Automotive Museum) that was one of 10 originally imported by William K. Vanderbilt to assist his early-century plan to jump-start auto...
Between covering auctions, events, rallies and vintage races, in addition to profiling classic cars, collections, races from the golden era...
Motor Racing History – Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix Dawn of Automobile Racing The...
When there is an opportunity to spend a long weekend surrounded by interesting automobiles and be able to sleep in your own bed, you have to take it. Such an opportunity presented itself on the weekend of October 15-17, 2021, with the second Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. The first festival was...
With 5 minutes and 19.55 seconds on the stopwatch Timo Bernhard crossed the finish line of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife at the...
Today, vintage racing is more popular than ever before and with packed fields of historic cars from virtually all eras...
Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations recently introduced the Jaguar Heritage Driving Experience, which will give participants the opportunity to take the wheel of cars including Le Mans-racing legend Jaguar D-type, E-type up to the latest F-Type R Coupe. Starting November 2014, the Jaguar Heritage Driving Experience will open at an...
January 2009 The Automotive Art of Alan Fearnley Foreword by Murray Walker While there are—and have been—many fine automotive artists,...
Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity By Martin Swig In the last two years, Toyota has been...
Happy Halloween from Sports Car Digest. Hennessey Performance Engineering is well-known in modern tuner circles for their ability to wring out amazing performance figures from Corvettes to Vipers and nearly everything in between. One of their latest creations is a supercharged version of the Cadillac CTS-V that turns the already...
With the last active owner Dieter Inzenhofer retiring later this month, the legendary ANDIAL name will stay in the Porsche...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has just debuted its newest exhibit, “Eyes on the Road: Art of the Automotive Landscape.” The...
A move to a new location for BMW Group Classic marks a return to the company’s historic roots. BMW AG has acquired a plot of land covering more than 13,000 square metres in the Milbertshofen district of Munich. Previously part of a Knorr-Bremse AG facility, it won’t be long before...
“Genius on Wheels” is the name of an exhibition at the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen that honours rally racing legend...
Many successful Bugatti racing drivers of the “golden era” were former pilots and perhaps not surprisingly many famous pilots were...
Harold LeMay’s Humble Beginnings We’re all familiar with the expression “One person’s trash is another one’s treasure.” In the case of the late Harold LeMay, along with his wife Nancy, the trash led to the treasure. Washingtonians Mr. and Mrs. LeMay made their considerable fortune in the commercial waste management...
Robert Blackmon of Los Angeles is a heavy truck owner/operator and about as nice a man as you’ll ever meet....
Emerson Fittipaldi was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club on April 6, 2017, prior to the running of the...
The 1929 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1929 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 13-14, 1929 / Winner: Campari – Ramponi / Winning Speed: 56.05 mph / Starters: 83 / Finishers: 40 It was 1929 and two races were already on the books. The number of entries suffered due the Monaco...
One of the seminal scenes in the movie Ferris Bueller was when Ferris’ friend Cameron kicked his Dad’s Ferrari 250...
Review by Wallace Wyss With John Bentley doing the ghostwriting, Carroll Shelby wrote his book The Cobra Story in 1965,...
By Will Silk Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix Season written and illustrated by renowned motorsport artist Paul Chenard of Halifax, Nova Scotia is a nicely crafted and creatively packaged piece that any automotive historian or Grand Prix enthusiast will find incredibly entertaining. Chenard’s short, but insightful; forty-four page book...
