Sports car racing organizations Grand-Am and American Le Mans Series will merge operations, with officials calling the change the “most...
• Correction—In last month’s Villa d’Este Photo Gallery, the 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I “Round Door” was attributed to Rene Herzog,...
More than 1000 Ferraris have been registered in the attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Parade of Ferrari Cars, scheduled for Saturday 15th September 2012 during Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone Circuit. Ferrari previously set the record with 385 cars on the Silverstone Circuit at the...
Terry Karges has been named Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Karges will succeed Buddy Pepp,...
VR: It was recently announced that you have been chosen to be the chief judge for the Pebble Beach Concours...
VR: Like so many of us, I’m sure that you were influenced by the automobile very early on in your life. How did you get started in cars? What sent you on this path? LK: Gosh, I was the only student in kindergarten who knew what a Bugatti was! My...
Red Line Oil Most classic car enthusiasts would sooner pour water into their crankcase before using synthetic oil in vintage...
A new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum will appeal to both the automotive enthusiast as well as those who...
The year 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT and to celebrate that milestone, the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy has organised a series of exhibitions of the most famous cars to bear the 250 moniker. These are the road-going and racing models which, between 1952 and...
The LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM) held its grand opening on Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 in Tacoma, Washington. The...
Racing car engineering firm Lola Cars was founded in 1958 by Eric Broadley on the success of front-engined sports cars...
The Mullin Automotive Museum will celebrate the life and work of designer Gabriel Voisin (1880 – 1973) with an exhibit of 16 Voisin automobiles and motorcycles. The display is scheduled to open November 8th, 2012 at the museum in Oxnard, California. After nearly a decade-long effort, the Mullin Automotive Museum...
The Ferrari Myth exhibition opened May 18th, 2012 at the Italian Center in the Shanghai Expo Park, offering visitors the...
Over 20 Ferrari cars lit up the slipways of Titanic Belfast May 11-12, 2012 as Ferrari Owners’ Clubs from Ireland...
Three times Formula One World Champion, motorsport safety campaigner and former F1 team boss Sir Jackie Stewart will join leading motorsport figures for the first History of Motorsport Technology Conference and Dinner at Cranfield University on 3 July 2012. The History of Motorsport Technology Conference will be an integral part...
On 14th April 1927, the first mass-produced Volvo rolled off the production line at the Lundby factory in Gothenburg, Sweden....
Championship racer and innovator Jim Hall was honored on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC)...
The 2012 International Motor Racing Research Center speaker series will focus upon “America’s Great Tracks,” highlighting the great tracks at Daytona, Riverside, Indianapolis and Road America. This year’s Series kicks off Saturday, May 19th with J.J. O’Malley’s talk on the Daytona International Speedway, followed by Sports Car Digest contributor William...
Review by Wallace Wyss It was a long time coming; a near complete authorized biography of a giant in American...
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve, better known as Gilles Villeneuve, passed away May 8th, 1982 in a crash during qualifying for...
By Martin Swig Every few weeks we read of a new world record price paid for a collector car. Are these the good investments they’re claimed to be? I think not. Here’s why. When I was in high school and college in the late ‘40s, early ‘50s, a car was...
Rental car company Hertz announced that the McLaren MP4-12C sports car is now available for hire, offered exclusively by Hertz...
Racing drivers Hans Herrmann, Geoff Brabham, Denise McCluggage, Johnny O’Connell and Jim Downing were inducted into the Sebring Hall of...
On Monday 5 March 2012 the clock was turned back exactly 75 years at the Royal Automobile Club when a new British made Atalanta sports car was launched. The Atalanta Sports Tourer revives a design that was first shown to the public on 5 March 1937 and is the result,...
City-to-City Race Car Drivers The great city-to-city races were the origin of motor-racing. Attempts had been made to organize an...
An exhibition examining Andy Warhol’s fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society is on display until May...
The car whose name means “she goes” will be the focus of activities on April 21-22, 2011 at the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen. The Elva is described as “deceptively simple—and surprisingly competitive” by the publisher of an award-winning book about the marque, Elva: The Cars, The...
Giannino Marzotto Biography He was born at Valdagno on 13 April 1928, the son of the king of the Italian...
For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari at the museum last November with a tribute to America’s first F1 titlist during which various contemporaries shared memories of and stories about him. The evening was highlighted by a...
