If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
The author enjoyed slipping snugly into 2617 and giving it a proper run during an HGPCA test day at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin In 1966, the rain in Spain didn’t stay mainly on the plain. It blew eastward to the Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, and hurled itself down onto the Belgian Grand...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have...
With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
Like most German industrial companies, World War II left much of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart factory in ruins. However, with time Mercedes rebuilt and returned to what it knew best, manufacturing passenger vehicles. But Mercedes-Benz also had a passion for competition on the world stage and so by 1951 factions within the...
Formula Ford, as unlikely as it may seem now, brought me closer to being on the inside of professional motor...
The upcoming 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed will feature the renowned Mazda 787B, the victorious car from the 1991 Le...
This Hustler is not an unsavory men’s magazine, nor is it Jackie Gleason playing a pool shark, nor a con artist, or even a hot Lotus Elan for that matter. The Hustler does look sexy like a Lotus Elan on steroids, and it moves right along as a sports car...
Nineteen thirty-five was an excellent Grand Prix season, the best against strong and varied opposition that Mercedes-Benz enjoyed in Year...
At Watkins Glen they said, “It looks like the box it came in.” Even that harsh judgement of the appearance...
If you are in any way, shape, or form a fan of Formula One, you were probably as surprised as everyone else after the Hungarian Grand Prix at the end of July. This was when four-time World Driver’s Champion Sebastian Vettel posted a short one minute video to the internet,...
On New Year’s Eve in 1950, the first endurance race run at Sebring was won by a very unlikely car,...
I don’t usually spend too much time on preamble prior to getting into the nitty-gritty of the subject car. However,...
All photos by Sean Smith & Ai Design. Matt Figliola’s dad was much more creative than your average bear. He impressed upon his son the importance of attention to detail. Dad started Matt and his brother on a long list of hobbies: model plane building, RC planes, RC cars, and...
Ferrari put the pedal to the metal in 1957 with new racing cars of magnificent four-cam V-12 power. In spite...
Motorsports, for better or for worse, 80% of the time need to be run at dedicated facilities built precisely to...
Out there since the mid-1950s, the Mercedes-Benz SL has been a staple post-WW2 sports car for Stuttgart’s automaker. Deeply rooted in motorsport, the roadgoing SL was born by taming a Le Mans-winning 300SL race car and from there, it branched into two categories. First, there was the über SL, a...
Sometimes a slogan doesn’t mean very much. Take for example Exxon’s “Happy Motoring” or Pontiac’s “We Are Driving Excitement” –...
When Jensen Interceptor got a Ferguson Formula all-wheel drive, it made the first step towards revolutionizing sports cars. The next...
Bearer of a degree in Industrial Engineering at the Turin Polytechnic, Savonuzzi honed his skill on Fiat aero engines during World War 2 and later at Cisitalia. In Italy, a country that’s home to numerous small, specialized companies making exotic sports and racing cars, few can compete with SVA in...
It’s a well-known fact that BMWs are exceptional cars. They’re stylish, fast, and luxurious, and most importantly, they have the...
The sport of vintage racing is enjoyed by thousands of spectators and participants around the world. It attracts people of...
Porsche Aftermarket Tuning: The State of Play There are few tuning companies in the world who are universally entrusted with the enviable (and sometimes unenviable) task of making a Porsche car better than it was when it came from the factory. E-Motion Engineering LLC, a California-based Porsche Tuning Specialist, is...
I have been road racing since the early 1980s and vintage/historic racing since the late ’80s; always in 105 series...
In the 1950s, home-made, one-off sports cars were being created everywhere across the country, the majority of them emerging from...
Over the past few months, we here at Sports Car Digest have been expanding beyond just covering classic sports cars into how they are bought, sold, auctioned, and/or traded around the world. As part of this, we have covered a couple of auction sites, and a classic car event that...
Before we begin, I’d like to take an opportunity to say that this season’s Formula 1 Grand Prix has been...
The first time I ever saw Daijiro (Dai) Yoshihara was on a circa 2008 episode of Best Motoring, where he...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others but in general, when Lotus built a racing car it was a good one. The Type 23 design was, in hindsight, one of the really good ones. Introduced at the...