The name ‘Grifo’ is Italian for Griffin, the mythological beast that’s half lion and half eagle. The lion half represents...
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.
Some cars are designed to get us from A to B, and nothing more. And then there are icons –...
What comes to your mind when you think about James Bond? For me, it’s the vodka martini – shaken not stirred of course. The next vision that pops in is the Aston Martin – a car fit for Britain’s most elite (yet fictional) agent. While the infamous DB5 came with...
Concours of Elegance 2020 will gather more than 1000 cars around the beautiful settings of the Hampton Court Palace. The...
Ferrari Daytona, officially called the Ferrari 365 GTB4 Berlinetta, is known as the quintessential front-engine classic grand touring car. It...
If it wasn’t for our huge competitive nature tethered into our DNA, we might not have had many of today’s technological advances. More importantly, we wouldn’t get to gaze in awe at many of the automotive world’s jewels, and the Lamborghini Diablo is certainly one of those! At the era...
When Enzo “II Commendatore” Ferrari said that the Jaguar E-Type was the most beautiful car he ever witnessed, it was...
The AC Shelby Cobra is one of the most iconic sports cars of the post-war era. When it comes down...
Mecum Auctions 33rd annual Indianapolis event, held over July 10th-18th, was the most successful in company history with just over $74 million in overall sales. The annual flagship event hosted over 1800 vehicles and more than 6000 Road art lots over the course of nine auction days. The sell-through rate...
The Sunbeam Tiger is an English iconic two-seater roadster, built during the 1960s by the Rootes Group of Britain to...
You probably won’t see the likes of Bentley or Bugatti aiming to cover a broader client spectrum in order to...
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...
In the 1920s, Bugatti created the most luxurious car in the world. In 1926, the Bugatti Type 41 Royale presented...
The Maserati 5000 GT made its debut to great fanfare at the Turin Motor Show in 1959. With its fuel-injected,...
It was 95 years ago that the Aston Martin which came to be known as ‘Cloverleaf’, XR 1981, lined up at the bottom of Aston Hill. One of eight customer cars built in late 1923, this early Aston Martin was competing against two Bugattis and two other Aston Martins —...
Mario Umberto “Baconìn” Borzacchini, at the wheel of a Maserati Tipo V4, set the world land speed record for the...
One of the most iconic cars from Bentley’s history — Sir Tim Birkin’s 1929 supercharged 4 1/2-litre ‘Blower’ — will...
“I love this car. It’s more successful than the artwork,” was the opinion of Andy Warhol after his sweeping brush strokes had transformed the BMW M1. It took him less than half an hour to create the fourth exhibit in the BMW Art Car Collection. 40 years later, enthusiasm for...
As the 50th Anniversary of the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) comes to a close at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta,...
Bentley has recreated a long-lost car from its past that was lost in a wartime bombing raid in France. The...
Best of Formula Cars at Festival of Speed 2019 This compilation is about some of the best Formula cars (F1, IndyCar, CART, etc) I recorded during the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed. In particular the first 5 minutes are from the rainy and wet Sunday while the second part is...
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, the brand’s first-ever production mid-engine Corvette, is the culmination of 60 years of mid-engine experimentation....
On 12 July 1959, the Maserati Tipo 60 ‘Birdcage’, with the 30-year-old Stirling Moss at the wheel, made its race...
The Bugatti Type 35 is one of the most successful racing cars of all time. And deservedly so: the French manufacturer’s open-top sports car secured over 2,000 victories between 1924 and 1930. Today, the Type 35 is a legend in international motor sport. And a whole lot more besides....
Maserati recently celebrated the 80th anniversary of Luigi “Gigi” Villoresi’s impressive win at the 1939 Targa Florio at the wheel...
One of the strongest number sequences ever produced by Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year: the Porsche 917....
As Bentley marks its centenary year in 2019, the British company’s ground-breaking supercharged model of the pre-war years won the marque a legion of motor sport fans around the world. The legendary ‘Blower’ Bentley, with a supercharged engine, was sensationally quick in 1929. Especially with Bentley Boy, Sir Henry ‘Tim’...
The 1957 Ferrari 355 Sport (chassis 0674) owned by Cavallino Investments of Cortland, Ohio was awarded the Spirit of the...
The Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic Coupe is not just one of the legends from the French automaker but perhaps...
McLaren Special Operations (MSO) has completed a unique new McLaren P1 GTR project to mark the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s maiden Formula 1 World Championship. The McLaren P1 GTR is liveried in the iconic colours of then-sponsor Marlboro — synonymous with McLaren for more than 20 years — as...
