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Historic motorsport events attract the crowd favorites —the 911s, the Minis, etc.—and while they might be the winners of the popularity contest, the greatest hits have a tendency to get a bit stale by the umpteenth go around. …

“Which number DB is this one?”…

Where do you take your 1950s Italian grand tourer if you want to chop its top, triple its horsepower, and re-body it in aluminum? Some high-performance hole-in-the-wall garage tucked away in the Motor Valley? How about the Cotswolds in the English countryside?…

This is the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS, a 493-horsepower mid-engine track toy powered by the 911 GT3’s naturally aspirated 4.0L flat-six. It’s also an intriguing answer to the question that’s been asked since the very first Cayman came onto the scene in…

Remember the 1980s? The music? The fashion? The Hoff bringing down the Berlin Wall at the very end of it? The thing is, when you revisit all that “rad” stuff it’s rarely as good in reality as it is in memory (and that’s not to say that all of the…

Even though the company has produced its fair share of plasticky junk like every other major manufacturer, the words “Alfa Romeo” still conjure an inherently romantic feeling. Just the sound of the name is enough to evoke strong emotion, let alone the…

Are you nostalgic for the original Hyundai Grandeur? Do you think low-quality rebadged “luxury” sedans from the mid 1980s are worth remembering at all? Is “Grandeur” a hilarious name for a car that belongs in the back of the bingo night parking lot and…

If you’re a car enthusiast, the there’s most likely a picture or a model of a Porsche Turbo somewhere in your home; a framed print or a magazine article somewhere in the stack; a scale-model under an acrylic case or a loose Hot Wheels kicking around in…

The BMW M3 has been setting sports driving benchmarks for six generations and counting, with each iteration adding to the M3’s status as the most successful touring car model of all time. Its superb racing history on circuits began almost immediately after…

During the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix, Antony Villain, Head of Design at Alpine, made one of his childhood dreams come true by attending the Grand Prix de Monaco inside the Alpine team garage, watching a livery he designed racing around some of the most hallowed…

No, my eyes weren't deceiving me, it really was a Porsche 910 ambling down the village high street. But if it looks like a 910, sounds like a 910, and goes like a 910… it doesn't necessarily mean it is a 910.…

The term “restomod” has been a contentious one for a while, and while the overall quality of the cars that fall under that wide umbrella has increased, so has their prevalence. Such that these days, slotting the topic into a conversation about cars will…

In the infancy of the automobile, there was no greater feat for a car than its completion of a multi-country raid. The longer and more extravagant the route, the better. Think Peking to Paris, not a road trip on the interstate. What started as a test of a…

The typical rental car is a mildly depressing but pragmatic piece of transportation made enjoyable only by the opportunity to drive it like, well, a rental car. There’s hardly a better version of a slow car driven fast than renting a compact, but Hertz…

The grounds and the Goodwood Circuit itself possess a distinct charm, and the events held here offer a familiar and reliable guarantee of a weekend well spent among live-action nostalgia. This small and simple but hallowed track laid atop the Chichester…

People have been modifying 911s for nearly as long as Porsche has produced them, but I feel like it wasn’t too long ago where making any sort of major changes that weren’t in pursuit of lap times would be considered sacrilege. However, the increased…

One of the car enthusiast’s perpetual problems is a lack of space to store stuff—whether these collections consist of half a dozen real cars, hundreds of amassed die-casts, stacks of mags and other automobilia, or just more hard drive space for the…

A hand is held out, its extended digits silhouetted against the cool light of the early morning. The driver’s focus is wholly on this hand, no other distractions seep inside his tunnel vision, all other information is unimportant. As the fingers retract into…