All three of the major endurance races will celebrate notable anniversaries in 2012. The most famous race of them all,...
British enthusiast Martyn Corfield aims to revive the pre-war British car marque Atalanta Motors by producing a new traditionally coach-built...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the Outbound Enforcement Team (OET) at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport seized a 1976 Porsche 930 Turbo that was reported stolen in Las Vegas, Nevada nearly 23 years ago. CBP officers discovered the vehicle after targeting and examining a container scheduled...
The BMW Museum in Munich is devoting a special exhibition to the development of the big BMW Coupes and Convertibles,...
Phil Hill, who became America’s first F1 World Champion 50 years ago, is the subject of a special exhibit at...
Review by Wallace Wyss With John Bentley doing the ghostwriting, Carroll Shelby wrote his book The Cobra Story in 1965, at a point when the Cobra story wasn’t done yet — not by a long shot. So you could say he began building the legend of Shelby American even before...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) created a website devoted to the education of racing drivers, with top champion drivers...
For its thirteenth annual fall celebration of the Legends of Motorsport, The Petersen Automotive Museum, along with The Phil Hill...
Arnold Hubert Wagner, an original partner of Andial – one of America’s most successful and respected authorities on Porsche performance tuning – died at the age of 75. Wagner, who, along with partners Dieter Inzenhofer and Alwin Springer, worked at Vasek Polak Porsche in Redondo Beach before the three Porsche...
Catching the spirit of Can-Am is one of the goals of the new Unlimited Racing Championship (URC) that will feature...
Slot Car Racing Around the World Four Wheels and a Guide Flag During the 1960s when the slot car craze...
By Stephen Mitchell My pilgrimage to Pebble Beach this year was memorable for many reasons. My purpose in attending was to shoot footage of the Ferrari 250 GTOs that would be the feature attraction–for me, at least–of the event for inclusion in my on-going GTO documentary. The cars looked great...
Craig Breedlove – the first person to exceed 400, 500, and 600 miles per hour on land – will receive...
By Will Silk When conversing about American premium luxury automobile manufacturers, no conversation would be complete without the mention of Packard;...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E. Young, has recently received a gift from the foundation of founder Robert E. Petersen that has been valued at a stratospheric $100 million. Included are the 300,000 sq. ft. building...
The Puzzles Facing the Car Industry – Oil Prices and Consumer Biases By Martin Swig Car selling requires a long-term...
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event....
By Stephen Mitchell A friend once asked me what was the fastest I’d ever driven a car. My answer was 7500 rpm in fifth gear. Race cars don’t have speedometers and the car in question was my Ferrari 250 GTO. I was on the way to Las Vegas and my...
By Art Evans Sports Car Digest Editor Jamie Doyle has assigned me to write a column about the history of...
A virtual museum tour of the famed BMW Art Car Collection is now available, with an extensive overview of the...
The Lyon Air Museum in Southern California is currently exhibiting ten Duesenberg automobiles from the collection of General William Lyon. The Duesenberg display will be held July 9-24, 2011, at the facility, located on the west side of the runway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County. “The Duesenberg represents...
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...
Bentley Motors rolled out the red carpet to welcome over a hundred members of the Bentley Drivers Club (BDC) – and their fifty Bentleys – to its headquarters in Crewe on 21 June, 2011. The visit was part of the “Britain by Bentley” tour which celebrates the club’s 75th anniversary...
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...
Report and photos by Zoltan Papp Seldom happens that the experience of a spectacular and memorable event can be further enhanced. That was the case with this year’s BMW Classic Tour which served as an after-act, following the heightened atmosphere of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, pampering a dozen invited...
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...
By Will Silk Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix Season written and illustrated by renowned motorsport artist Paul Chenard of Halifax, Nova Scotia is a nicely crafted and creatively packaged piece that any automotive historian or Grand Prix enthusiast will find incredibly entertaining. Chenard’s short, but insightful; forty-four page book...
