This year Ferrari returns to the Goodwood Festival of Speed with five models making their UK debut at the event. Despite some of...
The Lotus Elan was launched in October 1962 at the British Motorshow, making next month the car’s 50th anniversary. The early ’60s marked a renaissance for sports cars—Jaguar launched the E-Type, AC had the Cobra and Ferrari the GTO. Big, expensive, powerful muscles cars. The Elan was very different, and...
Attendees at next weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to reflect upon 60 years of racing history at...
The famed Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 60th anniversary this August by recognizing the 75th anniversary of Jaguar....
More than $325 million worth of collector cars were hammered sold over the Monterey Car Week Auction Season, with 70 of them bringing in $1 million or more as the market played mostly flat in comparison to last year. Top lot of the weekend, more or less as expected, was...
The Petersen Automotive Museum will debut its latest exhibition in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery, “Seeing Red: 70 Years of...
The “Ferrari at 24 Heures du Mans” exhibition opened at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, to celebrate 70 years of...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling Moss, an intrepid explorer like Ernest Shackleton, or a political icon like Winston Churchill, true British, full-frontal, hero-dom is a level of reverence bordering on the fanatical—or perhaps the divine....
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s the annual 24-hour auto race near a small town southwest of Paris generated international racing drama like none seen before Ford’s concerted effort to defeat Ferrari at Le Mans actually...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
The Mercedes CLK GTR was once the world’s most expensive production car and it rarely gets the recognition that it deserves. Owning a single CLK GTR is an impressive achievement in itself, but the opportunity to acquire both versions simultaneously is truly exceptional. RM Sotheby’s is set to offer this...
The Enzo holds a significant place in Ferrari’s rich history, rightfully earning its status as one of the most iconic...
The history of Automobili Lamborghini is one that almost parallels the success of post-World War II Italy itself, and is...
I don’t think there has ever been a car that has captured the public’s imagination more than the Jaguar E-Type. When it first appeared, over 50 years ago, it combined everything that any motorist could possibly dream of in a car. Fabulous looks, magnificent performance and a price tag that...
Sports car racing in the U.S. during the ’50s was unique. It was very different from the American circle-track or...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes...
He was elusive. Confined to a wheelchair, but more difficult to pin down than most people with the full use of their legs. But I had heard so many good things about this Swiss gentleman that I was determined to find him and invite him to the Monterey vintage car...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as well as its railway works. Now, it is best known as the birthplace of the little man who beat the world four times. For Alain Marie Pascal Prost, who was...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
An impressive parade of cars and motorcycles provided a dazzling classic weekend on the banks of Lake Como on May 23–24. After the exhibition and the parade in Villa d’Este on Saturday and the parade in Villa Erba the next day the winners of this year’s prestigious Concorso d’Eleganza Villa...