In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall...
Vintage Racecar Features
Photo: Pete Austin Lawrence Bond was a stubborn man who often as not was unwilling to compromise on his ideas. He...
Von Neumann winning the main event at Torrey Pines in 1952 with his topless Porsche Le Mans Coupe. John Von Neumann was one of those towering figures in the sports car world of the ’50s. He was one of the founders of the California Sports Car Club that eventually became...
Don Nichols Don Nichols is one of only three Americans ever to field a winning car in a World Championship...
The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2014 was held January 25-26 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida....
It is now 50 years since one of the most spectacular victories in the history of international motor sport. On 21 January 1964, the Mini Cooper S won the Monte Carlo Rally for the first time. It was the pairing of Northern Ireland’s Patrick “Paddy” Hopkirk and his co-driver Henry...
By most accounts, Bruce Meyer has it pretty good. His world-class car collection includes the first production Shelby Cobra, the...
For 2013, GM added quite a bit of flair to the Camaro lineup. Overall, changes were limited mostly to the...
He was, without doubt, one of the most dominant and iconic personalities in the history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. An innovator, tireless promoter and public relations genius, the flamboyant, larger-than-life Andy Granatelli succumbed to congestive heart failure Sunday, December 29th, 2013 in a Santa Barbara, California, hospital. He was...
Photo: Mike Jiggle The legendary Argentine enjoyed a fantastic career in racing, and in Formula One he scored 24 Grand...
Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves...
Phil Garratt and Kieron BrownPhoto: Mike Jiggle Phil Garratt and Kieron Brown recently won their category in the gruelling 7,610-mile, 2013 Peking to Paris Rally. VR’s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, wanted to know just how this was achieved, from the spark of the idea to participate, to the selection of...
Our review of the Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn made us realize just how easy it is to like a nice,...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall...
We previously tested Cadillac’s new full-size luxury sedan, the XTS. As a Cadillac, it surprised us because there was front or all-wheel drive instead of rear-drive, a somewhat ordinary V-6 instead of a big V-8, and almost none of the sporty bravado that has characterized several of the company’s other recent...
Shortly before Christmas Eve 1913, British racing driver L. G. Hornsted set two new world speed records for the half-mile...
Alfa TZ 2-Much – A Summer Friday Drive on the Monterey Peninsula By Rick Carey I got a chance to...
The FX is now in its tenth and final year, as Infiniti’s mid-size crossover for 2014 has been dubbed the QX. During its decade-long production run, the FX has shown us that something that something classified as a crossover doesn’t have to be agonizingly boring, and even in this last...
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari, the Modena, Italy-based museum that opened in 2012 on the site of the house in which...
Now in its seventh generation and called the B17, the Nissan Sentra is of course a long-standing staple in the...
Prior to the Second World War, simply driving a motor car in Europe was almost a noteworthy event, and thus motorsport involved a small percentage of that already small number of people. This exclusivity further meant that the number of women in motorsport was small. However, with the exponential improvement...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall...
The RM Auctions and Sotheby’s Art of the Automobile sale and exhibition was staged November 18-21, 2013 in New York City. The first major collector car auction to be held in Manhattan in over a decade saw 31 automobiles and two motorcycles vehicles cross the auction block. With the auction...
1973 Daytona Race Profile – Daytona Returns to 24 Hours By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited In the eyes...
The Nissan Versa is what it is. Now in its all new 2014 design, it represents the modern automobile at...
Kjell Qvale passed away this weekend in San Francisco at the age of 94. “Mr. Q” was a pioneer for more than 67 years in the introduction of European sports cars for the Western United States. Qvale’s passion for foreign vehicles inspired him to import MG, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, Maserati,...
By Rick Carey, Auction Editor “Paper”, in the collector sense, is a term that describes the original, physical, written, history...
It’s no big news that Subaru really knows how to make a car. As far as good all-rounders that can...
1955 was the last year of racing on public roads for Watkins Glen—September 17. It was the 4.6-mile course up on the hill in Dix Township—the one with the mile and a third steep downhill straight ending in a hairpin turn. If you ran out of brakes or just weren’t...
