A young Art Center College of Design student, named Peter Elbert Brock, became the youngest designer ever hired by Bill...
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.
Though not well-known in North America for performance cars, Renault has always been a leader in clever engineering, leveraging platforms...
Porsche 917/30 McLaren, seeing the futility of going up against the might of the Porsche Can-Am effort without a turb-charged engine of their own decided to drop out of the Can-Am series. The Porsche 917/30 was a derivative of the 917/10 and it was the first real turbocharged racing car...
When it comes to American power, there have been quite a few cars to transcend the good old V8-powered, straight-line...
It is easy to forget that when Aston Martin announced the DB4 in September 1958, it was the world’s most...
For the 1974 season, Porsche produced yet another evolution of the 911. Developed around the 3-litre RS homologation special, the 3-litre RSR became the most successful Group 4 car of its era. In its early years, the RSR swept all before it in IMSA, Trans Am and the FIA World...
Zagato Atelier introduced the Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa at the XII Villa D’Este Concours d’Elegance, held April 24-25, 2010 at...
Most people associate Abarth with Fiat, but a very successful liaison was also formed with Simca. The French company was...
Ferrari 375 Car: Ferrari 375 / Engine: 600 V12 / Maker: Ferrari / Bore X Stroke: 80 mm X 74.5 mm / Year: 1950 / Capacity: 4493.7 cc / Class: Formula 1 / Power: 350 bhp (Monza 1951: 380 bhp) @ 7500 rpm / Wheelbase: 2410 mm / Track: Front: 1278...
NISMO has actually been around since the 1980s, but only recently has the name worked its way into mainstream car...
Bonhams Bond Street Sale will be holding an auction of motor cars and automobilia on 16 December 2020. The sale...
Audi will be releasing a new family of concept vehicles and recently, they’ve just unveiled the first and newest member, a breathtaking roadster. Dubbed the Audi skysphere concept, it is an electric-powered two-door convertible roadster that is related to the Audi design of tomorrow. The car is a representation of...
At its final huge public appearance on the “919 Tribute Tour”, the record-breaking Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo met a historic...
The Porsche 356 is regarded by many car enthusiasts to be one of the finest sports cars ever to be...
The Cars of Briggs Cunningham were a featured class at the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held August 16th at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. This spectacular assemblage of Cunningham cars included competition cars and the Vignale-built sports cars. An American entrepreneur, sportsman, race car constructor, driver and...
1986 sees the robust Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar finish first and second during the Paris-Dakar rally. The Paris To Dakar Rally...
It’s not every day you get to sit in a sports car prototype of next year’s model, so when the...
If you had to choose the worst decade of automobile design, it would be hard to surpass the period spanning 1972 – 1982. Rapidly changing regulations, government interventions resulting in enormous bumper protrusions, proportional oddities resulting from shrinking formerly large cars to oddly proportioned small cars in a mad rush...
After watching McLaren dominate the Can-Am series for four years, in 1971, Lola and its American team leader Carl Haas...
Although racing drivers Johnny von Neumann and Luigi Chinetti were instrumental in the development of the California Spider, only a...
Maserati is celebrating 50 years of the Bora, their first mid-mounted rear engine road car with four-wheel independent suspension, which was built between 1971 to 1978. On March 11, 1971, the Maserati Bora made its debut at the Geneva International Motor Show. From then until 1978, Maserati constructed 564 units in...
Ferrari 312B Car: Ferrari 312B / Engine: 1800 12-Cylinder Boxer / Maker: Ferrari / Bore X Stroke: 80 mm X 49.6 mm...
This 1931 Miller V16 Racing Car – the only V16-engined Miller racing car ever built – will be offered for...
Words by Sean Smith / Photos by Sean Smith & Michael DiPleco When you hear the word Duesenberg you have images of massive luxury machines created for the captains of industries or robber barons. Your imagination might also conjure up large two-door roadsters piloted by stars of the silver screen....
A 1969 Gulf Porsche 917, chassis 017/004, will be shown at several events during the 2014 Monterey Classic Car Week....
When the first Supra came on the scene in 1979—designation A40—it was not a stand-alone machine; it was a riff...
The Untold History of MGB GT Classic Cars In 1962 during the Earls Court Motor Show, it was the first time that the MGB car model was launched. During that time, and a decade later, this was the best selling sports car. In 18 years, before the end of production,...
A 1952 Ferrari 225E, chassis 0178, was recently restored after two years of work by the Ferrari Classiche department in...
Toyota Motor Corporation is known mostly for building rock-solid SUVs and family sedans for customers around the world. Early in...
In the 1920s, Bugatti created the most luxurious car in the world. In 1926, the Bugatti Type 41 Royale presented the strongest, largest, and the most extravagant vehicle in the world, delineated by incomprehensible power and opulent equipment. For Ettore Bugatti, the Royale was the peak of his creation. A...
