Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
Together with some select partners, Volvo cars is currently integrating and testing a new technology, a new wireless charging capability...
Officials of the Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races today confirmed that the 2021 event will take place from Tuesday September 21 to Friday September 24, 2021 with racing at the Put-in-Bay Airport on Wednesday the 22nd and Thursday the 23rd. (These same dates were announced as “tentative” when this year’s event...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will take place over two weekends beginning Thursday October...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
Ercole Spada started his design career with Carozzeria Zagato in 1960.Photo: David Gooley Artists and artisans have called Italy home for millennia, with pursuit of the arts a natural activity for countless Italians inspired by the natural beauty all around them. One with such a destiny arrived on July 26,...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of a unique Volvo that, while unsuccessful, directly led to the creation of “sportier”...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s still at the “sharp end” today. Motor sport fans in the UK will know him for his commentary on the ITV network coverage of the BTCC, but not too many...
What else can you do but build your own car, if you cannot afford to do anything else? And what...
The 75th renewal of Goodwood’s annual Members’ Meeting took place last weekend at the historic Chichester circuit, awarding classic cups...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category. Peking to Paris European Cup winners Bill Cleyndert and Jacqui Norman added another trophy to their cabinet — which also includes victory in the 2015 Road to Mandalay — after...
The Ariens Art on Wheels Weekend, featuring the VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival® XXXI presented by Volvo Cars USA, took...
After thousands of hours spent on engineering and design, Cyan racing was able to produce a car that embodies their philosophy of giving...
Hot Rods are not the typical car profile you can expect from Sports Car Digest, but this is far from a typical hot rod. Volvo commissioned Leif Tufvesson, winner of awards such “Hot Rod of the Year” and “Most Innovative Car”, to build a car to commemorate the 80th anniversary...
Long before books were sold online, before you could shop for anything and have it delivered to your door, or...
Volvo Cars of North America (VCNA) launched the new Volvo Heritage Club on November 1st, 2012 as a way to...
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...
On 14th April 1927, the first mass-produced Volvo rolled off the production line at the Lundby factory in Gothenburg, Sweden....
The 15th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will pay tribute to the Silver Screen in this...
Wisconsin’s rolling kettle moraine hills will resound to the roar of vintage racing Volvos when Elkhart Lake’s Road America hosts the 2006 Volvo Gran Prix September 15–17. More than 35 vintage Volvo racecars from across the U.S. and Canada are expected to attend with Volvo being the featured marque at...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone...
It’s that time of year. When we celebrate that hallmark of Americana, Father’s Day. Get out the smoker, grill some burgers, whip up a giant pot of Dad’s Secret Chili, and get ready for an onslaught of eye-roll worthy puns. Whatever your family traditions, if you have kids, siblings, or...
There is a handful of cars that are famous for their appearances on the TV screen. The Volvo P1800 with...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely...
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...
This is the sad tale of my first chance to own a sports car and how I blew it—the chance,...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
The winner of the Classics division of the inaugural Road to Mandalay Rally was decided on the final day with just one second difference, giving 1st place to the 1965 Porsche 911 of the UK’s Peter and Zoe Lovett. Peter and Zoe finished the 24-day rally, organized by the...