It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
It’s that time of year. When we celebrate that hallmark of Americana, Father’s Day. Get out the smoker, grill some...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One with Williams using its V10 unit in 2000, every single engine raced by BMW had been derived from a production unit. As the company celebrates its centenary, it seems appropriate...
Hot Rods are not the typical car profile you can expect from Sports Car Digest, but this is far from...
The Ariens Art on Wheels Weekend, featuring the VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival® XXXI presented by Volvo Cars USA, took...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a century, has passed away at the age of 93. Garage owner and master mechanic Riley was granted one of America’s early Volvo franchises in 1957. “As soon as I drove...
On 2 June 1954 the two-seater roadster, the Volvo Sport, and the company’s first sports car, made its debut. But...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category....
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone Collection. Bertone has also confirmed that they will debut several prominent concept cars from its collection for the first time in North America including the continental debut of the Nuccio...
What else can you do but build your own car, if you cannot afford to do anything else? And what...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will take place over two weekends beginning Thursday October...
Volvo had great motorsport success in 1985, as their Volvo 240 Turbo “Flying Brick” won the European Touring Car Championship (ETC) and the German Deutsche Touringwagen Meisterschaft (DTM). When Volvo launched its 240 family car in 1981 with a turbo engine, it opened up a whole new market for the...
After thousands of hours spent on engineering and design, Cyan racing was able to produce a car that embodies their philosophy of giving...
Wisconsin’s rolling kettle moraine hills will resound to the roar of vintage racing Volvos when Elkhart Lake’s Road America hosts...
The Volvo Amazon was introduced to the world for the first time 60 years ago. Named after the female warriors in Greek mythology, it is still one of the most iconic models in Volvo’s history. Volvo’s new four-door model was revealed in the first weekend of September in 1956. It...
Officials of the Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races today confirmed that the 2021 event will take place from Tuesday September 21...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the...
The 15th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will pay tribute to the Silver Screen in this year’s exclusive “Life on the Silver Screen” exhibit sponsored by the South Carolina Film Commission. Now in its eighth year, the Festival’s “Life” exhibits honor American automotive culture and era-specific...
There is a handful of cars that are famous for their appearances on the TV screen. The Volvo P1800 with...
Long before books were sold online, before you could shop for anything and have it delivered to your door, or...
Together with some select partners, Volvo cars is currently integrating and testing a new technology, a new wireless charging capability in a live city environment to check its potential for future electric cars. The test will run for a period of three years. There will be a small fleet of...
The winner of the Classics division of the inaugural Road to Mandalay Rally was decided on the final day...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
Volvo Cars is revisiting the Art Deco era at this year’s Techno Classica Essen in Germany, the world’s largest historic car show, with a 1935 Volvo PV36 once owned by one of the company’s founders. Gustaf Larson, one of Volvo Cars’ two founding fathers back in 1927, drove the American-styled...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely...
This is the sad tale of my first chance to own a sports car and how I blew it—the chance,...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of a unique Volvo that, while unsuccessful, directly led to the creation of “sportier” Volvos and their subsequent introduction in the United States. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
Volvo Cars of North America (VCNA) launched the new Volvo Heritage Club on November 1st, 2012 as a way to...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...