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The Alfa Romeo 1900 M, or “Matta,” is sort of like an Italian Jeep (albeit one powered by a twin-cam motor with aluminum heads), and unlike the rest of the Alfa Romeo 1900 models it shares componentry with. Built for military use in the early 1950s and…

Photography by Dennis Noten…

Even when we heap on the praise, we still have a tendency to overlook just how much work, effort, and accumulated experience are needed to create a masterpiece. In the art world, in the automotive world, anywhere.  We know it’s not easy, but it is easy to…

Photography by Kevin Van Campenhout…

The new, 922-generation Porsche 911 GT3 is quantifiably faster than its predecessor, offers a six-speed manual transmission (a seven-speed PDK is standard), and can lap the Nordschleife in less than seven minutes (Porsche development driver Lars Kern clocked a…

If we’re limiting ourselves to choosing a single decade as the proverbial “golden era” of motorsport, the 1980s present a strong argument. It’s not to say that the pioneers who came before or the torchbearers that followed aren’t also characterized…

Period photos provided by the Faralli family…

Just a couple of days before this shoot, there was snow on the streets of Barcelona. No, that doesn't happen too often. Actually, it nearly never happens. On the day of, it was cloudy and the light was flat; nothing like the gorgeous golden glow that this…

The legendary status that surrounds the E30 M3 and its touring car compatriots from the DTM has grown rapidly in the last decade if sale prices for these homologation specials are anything to go by. The appreciation cycle of these machines has seen them become…

Precision timekeeping is innately linked to motorsport, and although the partnerships that have arisen between watchmakers and racing teams have been all but inevitable, few are as appropriate or exciting as the official alliance of TAG Heuer and Porsche…

The purpose behind the Classic Racing School is easy enough to glean from its name, but it provides more than just a way to learn the basics of driving on an old car around any old race track. The young French entrepreneur behind the project, Julien Chaffard,…

When we talk about Alfa Romeo, we are not only referring to the stereotypical sexiness of the design and past motorsport triumphs, but also to the technical innovations that the Milan-based manufacturer has introduced over the years, from the halos down to the…

The collective of apps and message boards that constitute social media have been far more active on the media element than the social one since their creation, but even more so since we started bunkering down and keeping our distance from each other. But there…

Spider models have always been of great importance to Ferrari on both the road and racing sides of the brand, and although it isn’t the winningest or the rarest, the 308 GTS Quattrovalvole (QV) is an emblematic piece of Ferrari’s open-top timeline. An…