It’s the year 1988 and one yellow 911 dethroned the magnificent Porsche 959, becoming the fastest production car in the...
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.
It really had been a sad few years for new sports car buyers, especially since 2008. There were good sports...
Story by Will Silk and photos by Richard Parramint Team Lotus discovered the use of ground effect with the Type 78, and really began to think that they were onto something big by the time Mario Andretti had taken the car to its first victory at the U.S. Grand Prix...
BMW brought a tradition back to life when it lined up at the 78th staging of the Le Mans 24...
Very few machines are more engaging than an Italian automobile built during the post war era. Literally every Italian manufacturer...
This 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Alloy Competizione did not sell at the high bid of $4,400,000 during the Gooding & Company “Scottsdale Auction” held January 17th in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the summer months of 1959, after completing the last 13 examples of the venerable 250 Tour de France models,...
By Will Silk Few mass produced performance cars that have appeared over the past 25 years have lived up to...
With classic-era Aston Martins rapidly appreciating in value beyond the seven-digit mark, it’s nice to examine modern-era cars that might...
The Die Silberpfeile Cars We waited again. Then they came. Far away in the distance we heard an angry, deep-throated roaring – as someone once remarked, like hungry lions impatient for the arena. A few moments later, Manfred von Brauchitsch, red helmeted, brought a great, silver projectile snaking down the hill,...
The Ferrari 250 Gran Turismo Omologato (GTO) needs little introduction as the most iconic, most habitable, street-useable, race-winning, World Championship-winning...
The MINI brand turned 50 years old on August 26, 2009. Fifty years ago to the day, the British Motor...
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