It was at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1973 that a silver prototype, perched on the Porsche stand, wowed onlookers...
Car Profiles
Profiles of sports, racing and vintage cars. Some of these cars are historically significant, some are about pushing the automotive technology of their time, while others are just the pinnacle of the driving experience – engaging, fast and fun. On this page we take a look at some of the most memorable sports cars of all time, all of them iconic and recognizable to any car-obsessed fan reading this site. These are the cars that get our blood flowing here at Sports Car Digest, from vintage racers to classics to the latest supercar offerings, we realize that there are myriad discussions debates over which ones are the most memorable, the most celebrated and the most remarkable. Ignore the debates and refrain from picking an overall winner. Just sit back and celebrate.
Honda RA273 Car: Honda RA273 / Engine: 90º V12 / Maker: Honda / Bore X Stroke: – / Year: 1966 /...
Fans from all ages would gladly shell out money to drive the Batmobile, but have you ever really wondered how much does it cost to sit behind the wheel of a Batmobile? Luckily for us, Leasing.com has revealed the price tag. It costs a staggering £6,258 a month to be...
The Bugatti Type 35 is one of the most successful racing cars of all time. And deservedly so: the French...
The 1950s saw the Hudson Hornet dominate NASCAR racing. Of the 34 races in the 1952 season, the Hudson Hornet...
Hurley Haywood was reunited with his bright yellow 1973 Porsche 911 RSR, car number 59, on the 40th Anniversary of his 12 Hours of Sebring win in 1973. Haywood, with multiple victories at Daytona and Le Mans as well as Sebring, is considered by many to be the world’s most...
Little by little, Hyundai has started to make cars that people might actually want to buy. No longer is the...
The Volvo Amazon was introduced to the world for the first time 60 years ago. Named after the female warriors...
Creating his own car company was “an old idea of my father’s,” Ferry Porsche recalled. The idea dated back at least to 1923. “When he left Austro Daimler in 1923 to go to Mercedes,” Ferry continued, “he had the idea to do something a little like what Bugatti had done....
Without a shadow of a doubt, Carroll Shelby is the greatest American racing car constructor of the 20th century and...
Photos by Djordje Sugaris It might not have been the prettiest, but the BMW M5 E60 is by far the...
Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano comes from the brand’s noblest breed, the V12-powered grand tourers. Not all GTs are created equal though. Starting from 1960 and the 250 GT/E, Ferrari’s grand tourers went two distinct ways, the mellow but potent 2+2 coupés and Berlinettas, distilled, focused and competitive 2-seaters. The Ferrari...
Let’s face it, the Alfa Romeo SZ will most likely trigger a fight or flight reaction. A car with such...
The FX is now in its tenth and final year, as Infiniti’s mid-size crossover for 2014 has been dubbed the...
The Japanese had already turned the US car market on its head in the 1970s, and by the mid-’80s they were ready to take things a step further by offering not just eco-boxes and the occasional sports car, but also world-class luxury vehicles. Honda was the first, launching Acura in...
The Infiniti QX is now in the third year of the current design, and it’s still as imposing as ever....
The T.33 SPIDER The T.33 Spider from Gordon Murray Automotive combines the beautiful, timeless design of the T.33 with an...
The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been described as a work of art, recently fetching a price of $US48 million in 2018 at a RM Sotherby’s auction held in Monterey, California. This makes the Ferrari 250 GTO one of those most expensive cars of all time. Back in its day...
The name ‘Grifo’ is Italian for Griffin, the mythological beast that’s half lion and half eagle. The lion half represents...
The Iso Rivolta Daytona was similar in concept to the Giotto Bizzarrini-designed Iso Grifo and was conceived as a dual...
Few sports-racing cars have achieved such legendary status as the Jaguar C-Type, which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice for Coventry during the company’s domination of the event in the 1950s. The C-Type began life as the famed XK120 roadster, which had taken the world by storm in...
The Jaguar C-Type (also called the Jaguar XK120-C) is a racing sports car built by Jaguar and sold from 1951...
Story by Will Silk Seventy five years ago Sir William Lyons entered the realm of automobile manufacturing from humble beginnings...
The story of XKD-528 begins on November 9, 1955, when this sports racer was dispatched from the Coventry factory and shipped to the famed California distributor, Hornburg Jaguar. Originally finished in cream with a blue interior, the Jaguar was immediately sold to Continental Motors of Whittier, California. As with any...
A Review of the Jaguar E-Type. Each major automotive industry has its own fair share of icons, but there’s always...
Jaguar announced in May that it would recreate six new Lightweights, each built by Jaguar Heritage, part of Jaguar Land...
In June 1957, the Scottish team Ecurie Ecosse claimed its second consecutive victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Jaguar D-type, giving the sports racer a third straight victory in the endurance contest for which it was essentially devised. Yet despite the D-Type’s unmitigated success, Jaguar was...
Jaguar will build six reproductions of the original, race-bred Lightweight E-type that was created in 1963. The new cars are...
Sixty years after Jaguar’s legendary test driver Norman Dewis achieved a world record average flying mile speed of 172.4mph in...
The Jaguar XJ13, a one-off sports prototype, was produced to take on the dominating Ferrari and Ford at Le Mans in the 1960s and launch Jaguar back to its rightful place on the winner’s podium. Unfortunately, to no fault of them, this astonishing vehicle never got the opportunity to test...
