The Lyon Air Museum in Southern California is currently exhibiting ten Duesenberg automobiles from the collection of General William Lyon....
Mickey Thompson: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend By Al Axelrod OK…finally a book on a...
Porsche will return to Le Mans with a works-run LMP1 sports prototype, with the first outing of the completely new developed race car planned for 2014. With 16 overall victories, Porsche is the most successful manufacturer in Le Mans. The most recent win was in 1998 with the Porsche 911...
Bentley Motors rolled out the red carpet to welcome over a hundred members of the Bentley Drivers Club (BDC) –...
The Gull Wing Group celebrated its 50th anniversary with Mercedes-Benz USA by recreating one of the group’s most famous photos...
By Will Silk James Fontana’s new book The 1000 Mile Dream is a fictional piece that parallels the actual running of a Mille Miglia event during those glorious days of the early 1950s. While purists and historians will have to take a moment to perhaps adjust from time to time...
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...
Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity By Martin Swig In the last two years, Toyota has been the target of more negative publicity than any auto company in recent years. Some of the fault lies with Toyota, but most of the blame must be on an inept,...
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...
Damon Hill O.B.E. announced to the Board of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) that he plans to step down as BRDC President at the Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 25 August, 2011. Damon was appointed BRDC President in 2006. During his tenure the BRDC has secured the long...
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...
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business By Martin Swig In the 1950s and 1960s, General Motors ruled the automotive world. Their market share in the United States was over 50%. Each of their brands (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac) was the benchmark...
This relatively recently born site calls itself “An informative and entertaining antique automobile photo magazine,” and the release announcing its...
After closure for four years and speculation as to when, or even if, it was to reopen, the Museo Nazionale...
By Will Silk This edition of Classic Cars for Sale comes from the pages of a 1965 dealer catalog that features a beautiful 1953 Frazer Nash Roadster up for offer. The story of Frazer Nash is often a misunderstood tale at best. Many in the collector car hobby believe that...
By Will Silk Bugatti is one of the most famous marques in the history of automobile manufacture, and Classic Cars...
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 Auto Archives, introduced their documentary on the Carrera Panamericana road races which ran in Mexico from 1950-54 during the Cannes Film Festival, held May 11-22, 2011. The documentary titled Carrera...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is not only been a leading manufacturer of sports cars for more than...
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 benefit from larger pictures, better image captioning, a more interactive comment platform (see below) and easier navigation throughout the site. The biggest changes are under the hood as we moved...
Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, announced that the Museum Foundation received a...
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 26th Street in Santa Monica. It belonged to Otto Zipper and featured Ferraris that held me spellbound for hours at a time. On the occasion of my first visit, there...
Discovery Communications announced plans to rename its HD Theater cable network to Velocity, effective fourth quarter 2011. The all-HD network...
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 performance cars on the market. By 1950, they were so good that a very lightly modified stock Cadillac finished in 10th place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, humbling...
