Over his years in racing, Eppie Wietzes drove everything on four wheels, from a Morris Minor with an Austin A40...
Vintage Racecar Features
The Lawrence Auriana Car Collection was featured at the 2013 Lime Rock Historic Festival, held August 30th to September 2nd...
NISMO has actually been around since the 1980s, but only recently has the name worked its way into mainstream car culture. An abbreviation of Nissan Motorsport International Limited, this naturally racing-oriented branch of Nissan is now expanding its presence to more street cars, and with products like this Juke and...
The Petit Le Mans 2013 was held Saturday, October 19th at the 12-turn, 2.54-mile Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. Rebellion...
As keepers of the flame here at Sports Car Digest, we relish in the glory of cataloging and sharing classic...
Nissan’s Restoration Club will restore the Safari Rally Z that won the 1971 running of the famed East African Safari Rally. Formed in 2006, Nissan’s Restoration Club has made it a habit of bringing Nissan cars with a rich motorsports heritage back to life....
The Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed exhibit is presently on display at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh,...
It was at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1973 that a silver prototype, perched on the Porsche stand, wowed onlookers...
The Japanese had already turned the US car market on its head in the 1970s, and by the mid-’80s they were ready to take things a step further by offering not just eco-boxes and the occasional sports car, but also world-class luxury vehicles. Honda was the first, launching Acura in...
Photo: Sean Smith In touring trim, the OM has its fenders attached, tall windscreen mounted and twin spare tires bolted...
Horn (right) and the legendary mechanical genius Harry Arminius Miller (center) smile for the camera with the AAA official who’s...
Brian Redman When last we left Brian Redman back in the August issue, he’d just returned from his first attempt to escape motor sport, but had suffered serious burns from a crash on the Targa Florio. Once healed, circumstances turned his attentions toward American racing and he set about the...
Ram is Chrysler’s newest brand that focuses on trucks. The big, towing, working, manly kind of trucks. Ram isn’t exactly...
With the 917, Porsche for the first time entered the league of immensely powerful, large-capacity racing cars. The 580 hp...
The Pathfinder is a long familiar name in utility and sturdiness. Its very name implies forging trails ahead and going the road less travelled. Over recent years, though, the Pathfinder has gotten softer, less rugged, and more appealing to suburban housewives than anyone thinking about going off road. For 2013,...
If you’re reading the title and “1LE” sounds familiar, that’s because it was a special options package from way back...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
Photo: Hal Crocker In the world of motor sports, the wind genie escaped from his bottle during the mid-1960s, and once racers came to realize he was not going to be enticed back inside, they typically began exploring the myriad ways to make the new science of aerodynamics work to...
Tony DeLorenzoPhoto: Courtesy of Tony DeLorenzo Tony DeLorenzo’s father, Anthony G., was a newspaperman, a reporter for UPI who then...
The Infiniti QX is now in the third year of the current design, and it’s still as imposing as ever....
The new Z-Car has been with us since 2002, and though it’s never made as much of a splash as its ancestor the 240Z, it’s sold quite well and outlasted Japanese peers like the Honda S2000 and the Mazda RX-8, all the while maintaining relevance in the performance car market....
By Art Evans | Photos as noted The Pebble Beach (now expanded) Weekend has become, arguably, the premier vintage automotive...
Let’s not beat around the bush. This is a minivan. It looks like a minivan, it feels like a minivan,...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (left) and Niki Lauda.Photo: Giorgio Nada By the end of 1969, Mauro Forghieri had become the head of Ferrari’s Advanced Studies Office with the task of designing a new car...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
Right away, it’s obvious that Buick is trying to go in a different direction with this year’s Verano. The model...
The eighth generation Malibu is all-new for 2013, and is designed to be Chevrolet’s first global midsize sedan. Built with a diverse customer base in mind, it will eventually be sold in almost 100 countries and starts at around $22,000 if equipped with base trim and powertrain. In the US...
GM’s brands are and have been rethinking a few things. Buick is no exception, and this is no more obvious...
The Jeep Patriot was introduced in 2007 to slot in between the tiny Compass and the larger Liberty, which will...
Aston Martin recently opened the Heritage Showroom at its Newport Pagnell base, following a two-year refurbishment of the Olympia building. For the first time heritage cars will be sold directly from Aston Martin, allowing customers to draw on the knowledge of the Works team and its experience handling sales, ongoing...
