In 1988, Jaguar won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with an entry of five XJR-9 cars. The winning car,...
At the Paris Auto Show in October 1968, Ferrari introduced the 365 GTB/4 as their V12 flagship. The press informally...
The Porsche 918 Spyder was a mid-engined, plug-in hybrid hypercar that finally proved that gearheads had nothing to worry about when it came to hybrid technology becoming a bigger part of our automobiles. The heart of the Porsche 918 Spyder was a naturally-aspirated 4.6-liter V8 engine that was capable of...
Nissan started making Group C cars in 1983. At first a Nissan engine would be mounted in a foreign-made chassis...
The McLaren P1 was introduced at the Paris Motor Show in September 2012, and production was launched the following year....
This is the Group 44 Jaguar XJS that won the Trans-Am Category 1 Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ Championship in 1978, racing against cars like the Corvette, Porsche, Datsun, and Camaro. Jaguar had initially released the XJS to lukewarm reception, but decided to use the “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” strategy...
The Bugatti Veyron, produced by Volkswagen Group in 2005, exceeded all expectations in terms of power, speed, and comfort. The...
By late 1955, Alfa’s motorsports engineers had developed the Alfa Romeo 750 Competizione, which was specifically designed for racing. The...
DP215, the Aston Martin Design Project, was the last racing car to be built by the factory and represented the ultimate evolution of the Aston Martin GT racers. Ordered by John Wyer, designed by Ted Cutting, powered by Tadek Marek’s engine, and driven by Phil Hill, DP215 is a wholly...
The Beta Montecarlo was Lancia’s range-topping production model, powered by a 2.0-liter, twin-cam, four-cylinder unit designed by Aurelio Lampredi. The...
The Lamborghini Reventon, revealed at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show, was the priciest Lamborghini road car ever created and only...
The Lancia Rally 037 was a Group B rally car produced by Lancia in cooperation with Abarth and Pininfarina. It used rear-wheel drive, which was a handicap compared to other four-wheel-drive cars, but still won the 1983 World Rally Championship. The car was based on the Beta Montecarlo’s frame cell...
Hispano-Suiza, a distinguished name in Edwardian motoring, established itself as a leader in automotive engineering alongside Rolls-Royce. The Swiss engineer...
The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ is an ultra-special edition of the Chiron designed to celebrate Bugatti’s 110th anniversary, based...
The Miura vehicle was created by Lamborghini engineers Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzini, and Bob Wallace. It was first unveiled as a chassis without a body at the 1965 Turin Motor Show. Marcello Gandini from Bertone was then responsible for designing the bodywork. The result was the P400 GT prototype,...
The M1C was effectively the second model made by Bruce McLaren’s team for the Canadian-American series. Most were powered by...
It’s more Mad Max than Mille Miglia…a Porsche 356 with front skis and rear tractor treads replacing rubber tires and...
To celebrate 40 years of Ferrari, Enzo had his design team create a supercar that translated racing car technology to the road. Furthermore, it was built with only the most essential systems and in many regards is a supercar with functional simplicity. It was also the last car developed and...
Ferrari’s history is based on its successful motorsport heritage, with Scuderia Ferrari being the oldest and most successful team in...
Designed by aeronautical engineer William Stout, the Scarab would ultimately become one of the most influential vehicles of the 20th...
In 1956, Chevrolet took desperate measures and saved the model’s future by presenting an armada of motorsports variants in 1956. None of these was more successful than the SR prototype which placed 9th overall at the 12 Hours of Sebring and has since been credited with saving the model’s outright...
No racing car exemplified and exploited the admirable freedom of the Can-Am series rules more than the 1966 Chaparral 2E....
Launched in 1992, the McLaren F1 would go on to revolutionize the supercar industry with many of its core characteristics...
At the 1966 Paris Auto Salon, Ferrari launched the GTB/4 with the new Tipo 226 engine. It benefited from a variety of upgrades introduced into the series that were tried and tested in the 275 competition models. Upgrades included a long nose bodywork, a torque tube driveline and an engine...
Competing as a production-based sports car, the new C5-R Corvette was developed to compete as a GTS-class race car that...
Called one of the “Winged Warriors”, a list that included Plymouth Superbird, Ford Torino Talladega, and Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II,...
The DB5 was introduced in July of 1963 and was an evolution of the DB4 series rather than a whole new machine. The major change was the motor, which was increased to 4 liters, up from 3.7. The light alloy engine was equipped with triple SU carburetors and mated to...
The 458 Italia debuted at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, and it was instantly clear that it was a big...
In terms of sheer ambition, the Lotus Elise GT1 was perhaps the ultimate Elise ever created. Conceived to replace the Esprit GT1...
Of all the 917 variants, the ‘Interserie Spyder’ was one of the most successful. It won the Interserie championship outright for two years in a row before the model was replaced by the 917/10 of 1972. Three lightweight 917 Spyders were prepared by Porsche specifically for the Interserie, a new...