High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
The 2020 Geneva Motor Show has been cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. Swiss officials have decreed that there can be no gatherings larger than 1,000 people, until at least March 15, which effectively blocks the event from legally taking place. According to Geneva Motor Show organizers: The...
Photo: Mike Jiggle Allon White Sports Cars was founded nearly a century ago in the village of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, just...
Ralph DePalma Danny Sullivan 2 Indy racer Duke Nalon is born (1922). 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer...
1985 Audi Quattro E2 Simply put, when the Audi Quattro appeared, it immediately had its detractors. The immense power output with much of the weight at the front looked impossible to take seriously. Then it ran, and the detractors quickly went quiet. It was indeed a beast of a car...
The 1st Swiss Concours d’Elégance drew a large audience to both the spectacular arrival of 14 racing Bugattis and the...
To anyone interested in automotive history, the late 1940s and early ‘50s was a fascinating period of time, especially in the UK. With Britain still suffering the effects of an extremely costly war, it wasn’t until July 1954 when all rationing came to an end. Mostly the rationing affected foodstuffs...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began...
The story of the production model 300 SL really picks up where our story about the W194 Le Mans racecar...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and a German driver, Nico Rosberg. Germany has had many successes and failures during the history of motor racing and the life of the modern Formula One World Championship. While pre-war...