We celebrate Ferrari in this issue [Click here to see Ferrari Special Issue], but how much is Ferrari’s success due...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
Andrea Pininfarina, 51, has died as the result of a road traffic accident in Turin on August 7th. He was the first of three children for Sergio and Giorgia Pininfarina, and died after a car collided with the Vespa scooter he was riding to the company’s design and R&D center...
Despite a still-recessionary economic climate, the annual International Racing Car Show in Birmingham, UK, celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary in a...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
Delahaye, for those who recognize the name, conjures up a mixed vision of large and long French Grand Prix, sports and touring cars of the late 1930s and a variety of extraordinary coach-built luxury machines constructed in the post-war decade of the late 1940s through the middle of the 1950s....
• On August 17, Concorso Italiano at the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch, will feature an exclusive collection of Bertone-designed concept...
Italy and the world lost one of the most accomplished stylists of all time in early July, when Sergio Pininfarina...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career, firmly establishing himself as one of the world’s greatest rally drivers. Markku was World Champion in 1978, the last year of the FIA Cup, and ruled the rally world again...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
1952 Lancia Aurelia B50Photo: Peter Collins On a rare sunny day in late spring, on empty roads in Wiltshire, this...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
MG’s fabled Competitions Department enjoyed near constant success on the international racing stage. With victories in road racing, rallying, trials...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
Lifting an inside wheel around a right-hand sweeper, the Rover gets its racing legs stretched despite the test day’s chilly ambient temperatures.Photo: Jeff Bloxham The British motor industry has had a rather checkered history since it began in the late 19th century. At its zenith there were between 150 and...
Enzo Ferrari, in his autobiography in Automobile Quarterly Volume III No. 1, said “I have, in fact, no interests in...
Designed by the legendary Leonardo Fioravanti, the same man responsible for some of the greatest Pininfarina/Ferrari designs, the original 206...
Italian Coachbuilders—The Masters of Style By Elvio Deganello The history of the Italian automobile—and to a greater or lesser extent that of the automobile in general—can be traced in the rich history of the Italian coachbuilder or Carrozzeria. For more than a half-century, these craftsmen were not only constructing some...
Both Ferrari and Pininfarina had quite a surprise in store when they debuted the 308 at the 1975 Paris Auto...
lfredo Ferrari (Dino) was Enzo Ferrari’s first son, born January 19, 1932. At the time, Enzo was still racing for Alfa Romeo, but he had pledged to give up his high-risk endeavors if he had a son. He made good on that promise, and refocused his efforts on his newly...
Automobili Pininfarina is the world’s newest car brand, with a plan to sustainably develop and produce fully-electric, ultra-luxury cars at the...
Celebrating 70 Years of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance The competition for a spot on the show field of the...
In 2022, the Pininfarina Battista set a series of performance world records at its test base in Nardò, Italy. Battista’s unique launch control technology contributes to Formula 1 car-beating acceleration, with 0-60 mph achieved in 1.79s, 0-100km/h completed in 1.86s, 0-120 mph executed in 4.49s and 0-200 km/h obliterated in...
The 275 GTB occupies a very rarified space in the pantheon of Ferrari road car history. It sits at an...
Automobili Pininfarina has delivered its most unique commission to date – the Battista Reversario, inspired by the Battista Anniversario and...