Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to wild lap times at the Nurburgring, but has it always been so? In a sense, yes. YouTube sim racer and IRL race car driver Jimmy Broadbent recently decided to take the automaker’s first car and,…
Think of a cold war-era East German car that isn’t the Trabant. Not that easy, is it? But there were others, such as the Wartburg 353, and even sports cars like this 1976 Melkus RS 1000. Built over a 10-year…
Has Detroit ever produced a more evil looking production car than the 1987 Buick GNX? Maybe, but it certainly didn’t make a faster one that year. Yep, the quickest off-the-shelf American production car in ’87 wasn’t a Corvette, a Camaro…
It seems the market for clean, relatively affordable MkIV Toyota Supras has all but disappeared, and this car is one of the many nails in the coffin. Selling for $201,000 on Bring A Trailer, it was the same 1995 Supra…
While Mazda and rotary engines are almost synonymous, their RX-line is often remembered by one, maybe two, models: the RX-7 and the slightly underappreciated RX-8. Why is it that we forget the pretty awesome RX-3, though? It’s a question that…
A 1972 Datsun 240Z has sold at a UK auction for £43,000 ($57,340) – not bad when you consider the modifications that have been done to it. When the 240Z originally left the factory it came with a 2.4-liter straight-six…
It is the worst nightmare of any car enthusiast to have their pride and joy destroyed. It is even worse to have two of your beloved cars totaled by an out-of-control driver when parked on your driveway and have the…
Lotus arrived at Lord March’s domain for the Goodwood Speedweek, taking place this weekend, with three pre-production examples of the Evija. Two of them are finished in the famous JPS (John Player Special) Lotus F1 livery – though, the British…
Ford Thunderbirds were hit or miss, but there’s no denying the original is an undisputed classic. Originally conceived as a response to the Chevrolet Corvette, the Thunderbird was launched in 1954 and became an instant hit as over 16,000 were…
The Ferrari Testarossa is perhaps the most iconic poster car from the 1980s, dominating a whole era of performance cars but in reality, it was never engineered to be a razor-sharp, canyon-munching supercar. Jason Cammisa of Issimi explains in his…