Long before books were sold online, before you could shop for anything and have it delivered to your door, or...
It’s that time of year. When we celebrate that hallmark of Americana, Father’s Day. Get out the smoker, grill some...
Together with some select partners, Volvo cars is currently integrating and testing a new technology, a new wireless charging capability in a live city environment to check its potential for future electric cars. The test will run for a period of three years. There will be a small fleet of...
What else can you do but build your own car, if you cannot afford to do anything else? And what...
After thousands of hours spent on engineering and design, Cyan racing was able to produce a car that embodies their philosophy of giving...
Officials of the Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races today confirmed that the 2021 event will take place from Tuesday September 21 to Friday September 24, 2021 with racing at the Put-in-Bay Airport on Wednesday the 22nd and Thursday the 23rd. (These same dates were announced as “tentative” when this year’s event...
There is a handful of cars that are famous for their appearances on the TV screen. The Volvo P1800 with...
Volvo Cars is revisiting the Art Deco era at this year’s Techno Classica Essen in Germany, the world’s largest historic...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category. Peking to Paris European Cup winners Bill Cleyndert and Jacqui Norman added another trophy to their cabinet — which also includes victory in the 2015 Road to Mandalay — after...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...
The 75th renewal of Goodwood’s annual Members’ Meeting took place last weekend at the historic Chichester circuit, awarding classic cups...
The Volvo Amazon was introduced to the world for the first time 60 years ago. Named after the female warriors in Greek mythology, it is still one of the most iconic models in Volvo’s history. Volvo’s new four-door model was revealed in the first weekend of September in 1956. It...
The Ariens Art on Wheels Weekend, featuring the VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival® XXXI presented by Volvo Cars USA, took...
The 15th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will pay tribute to the Silver Screen in this...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One with Williams using its V10 unit in 2000, every single engine raced by BMW had been derived from a production unit. As the company celebrates its centenary, it seems appropriate...
Volvo had great motorsport success in 1985, as their Volvo 240 Turbo “Flying Brick” won the European Touring Car Championship...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will take place over two weekends beginning Thursday October...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
The winner of the Classics division of the inaugural Road to Mandalay Rally was decided on the final day...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of a unique Volvo that, while unsuccessful, directly led to the creation of “sportier”...
On 2 June 1954 the two-seater roadster, the Volvo Sport, and the company’s first sports car, made its debut. But a low weight and reliable Volvo technology were not enough – production was shut down after just 67 had been built. Or was it 68? The name of the new...
Volvo Cars of North America (VCNA) launched the new Volvo Heritage Club on November 1st, 2012 as a way to...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the Volvo P1800, Sunbeam Tiger and Austin-Healey in addition to the first Interceptor built from 1950 to 1957 with various engines under an attractive glass fiber body. The second iteration of...
Ercole Spada started his design career with Carozzeria Zagato in 1960.Photo: David Gooley Artists and artisans have called Italy home...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone...
On 14th April 1927, the first mass-produced Volvo rolled off the production line at the Lundby factory in Gothenburg, Sweden. Now, 85 years later, the Volvo Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles and Volvo Car Corporation sells almost 500,000 cars each year. At 10am on...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely 50 years since I exposed the negative at Lime Rock, made a print in my dad’s darkroom, and air-mailed it overseas to England’s Autosport magazine. When we duly received our...
