By Will Silk James Fontana’s new book The 1000 Mile Dream is a fictional piece that parallels the actual running...
Report and photos by Zoltan Papp Seldom happens that the experience of a spectacular and memorable event can be further...
Subaru driver Mark Higgins set an all-time fastest lap of averaging 115.356 MPH today on the iconic Isle of Man TT Mountain Course driving a US specification 2011 Subaru WRX STI. The previous record of 100 MPH stood for 21 years. The lap took 19 minutes 37 seconds and the...
Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity By Martin Swig In the last two years, Toyota has been...
By Will Silk Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix Season written and illustrated by renowned motorsport artist Paul Chenard of...
FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) announced that The Drivers, the TV series based on the world surrounding the 24 Hours of Le Mans during the ’50s and ’60s, will be written by film and television screenwriter Michael Hirst. The Drivers is based on the book, “Shelby: The Man, The Cars, the Legend”...
Damon Hill O.B.E. announced to the Board of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) that he plans to step down...
A convoy of 50 Jaguar E-types traveled together through London on 6, June to the 2011 Motorexpo in Canary Wharf,...
Tony DeLorenzo and his 1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88 race car are being inducted into the Bloomington Gold Great Hall in St. Charles, Illinois, on June 24, 2011. The Bloomington Gold Corvette USA’s show is honoring the 50 people and 50 cars that played the most significant roles in the Corvette...
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business By Martin Swig In the 1950s and...
By Will Silk This edition of Classic Cars for Sale comes from the pages of a 1965 dealer catalog that...
By Will Silk Bugatti is one of the most famous marques in the history of automobile manufacture, and Classic Cars for Sale takes a look at a Bugatti Type 50 that was offered in the the August 1957 issue of Motor Trend magazine. The classified advertisement displays a Bugatti Type...
By Martin Swig While streaking across Montana at 120 mph in my son’s Subaru Impreza, we discussed the advantages of...
Filmmaker and Sports Car Digest contributor Stephen Mitchell, along with Jeanetta Dumouchel of InterFUND and Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is not only been a leading manufacturer of sports cars for more than six decades, as the historic roots of the Porsche brand go back much further than that. When Ferry Porsche built the legendary Type 356 in 1948, he and his engineers...
LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM) announced that the Tacoma, Washington project will have its grand opening on May 19,...
For the first time since August 2009, we have updated the look and feel of Sports Car Digest. Readers will...
Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, announced that the Museum Foundation received a gift of approximately $100,000,000 from Margie Petersen and the Margie & Robert E. Petersen Foundation. This donation is comprised of a substantial unrestricted financial gift, a matching challenge, the 300,000...
In front of a capacity crowd of 400 guests at the RRDC Evening with Roger Penske presented by Firestone in...
Story by Stephen Mitchell I spent a lot of time in a showroom at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and...
Discovery Communications announced plans to rename its HD Theater cable network to Velocity, effective fourth quarter 2011. The all-HD network will be available in approximately 40 million homes at the time of its introduction, and will be found at the channel location currently occupied by HD Theater. Velocity, described as...
By Will Silk The Schuco Rennsport-Legenden Auto Union Type C Stromlinienwagen (Stream-line car) is a leap back to the way...
By Martin Swig In the years just before and after World War II, a Cadillac was one of the best...
There is a healthy rivalry brewing between three racing adversaries — a Canadian/American team, an Australian team, and the current record holder UK team. All are bent on having the first vehicle to travel faster than 800 mph for the World Land Speed Record. The Canadian/American team, North American Eagle,...
Daytona is a name that has long been part of the speed racing history as early American-based land speed record...
The Revs Institute, a leading automotive research facility in Naples, Florida, announced the acquisition of a major archive by the...
By Will Silk The latest Classic Cars for Sale is a 1959 BMW 507 found in the September 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News. While the BMW 507 may be viewed as a contemporary German masterpiece by some, it was actually much more American in spirit than many will give...
By Will Silk With Alfa Romeo celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010, Auto Art released a line of Alfa replicas...
By Will Silk It’s not everyday that one comes across a vintage race car in the back of a garage...
By Martin Swig Each Spring, the auto journalists in Northern California gather at Mazda’s Laguna Seca Raceway to evaluate an array of new cars on the racetrack and on nearby roads. While the quality differences in new cars have narrowed, there’s still plenty to experience in terms of car characteristics....
