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Owners of classic cars in California are inching closer to less stringent emissions requirements. Senate Bill 1392, which would provide a full exemption from smog check requirements for pre-1981 vehicles, has passed from the California Senate to the Assembly, where it has cleared the Appropriations Committee, the same place that a similar version of the […]

We’ve been talking a lot about expensive cars over the last few weeks, and about how these expensive cars are getting even more expensive. But one of the best things about this hobby is that you can have a fun, interesting car on almost any budget, including the nearly non-existent kind. Case in point: the […]

L’année dernière, le Rétro-Mobile Gaillacois avait changé d’endroit offrant à cet événement un écrin bien plus spacieux que l’ancien. […]

Makeshift repairs are intended to be temporary, and the worst examples often suggest that our efforts were in vain. The definition of the “Worst Makeshift Repair” could also be the opposite: something performed with the intention of being temporary can last far longer than expected. Perhaps something was overtorqued in haste, or the wrong adhesive […]

Audi’s sonorous five-cylinder engine is turning 50 this year, and up until recently it looked like the end was near for it. That might not be the case after all: Audi Sport is searching for ways to keep the five alive for another generation, according to a recent report. Unveiled earlier in 2026 and limited […]

The tale of the first-generation Ford Escort for North America is an interesting one, and I’ve managed to find one example apiece of the cheapest and the most expensive versions for the 1988 model year. Each is painted Oxford White, each was built at Wayne Stamping and Assembly in Michigan, and each was sold new […]

RM Sotheby's se présentait avec un catalogue fou pour sa vente de Monterey et les collectionneurs fortunés étaient au rendez-vous.

This 1973 Buick Riviera GS is the beautiful queen of my driveway. My dad owned it before me, but before that, all I know of its history comes from a faded pink bill of sale I found in the glovebox. It is from Ken Logan Buick of Iowa and dated 9/11/73, and it appears to […]

The numbers are in, and the 2026 Monterey auctions made history. Total sales reached a record of $755.6M, surpassing even the pandemic-fueled frenzy of 2022. Beneath the headline sat a more complicated story: The market is diverging between the cars collectors desperately wanted and everything else. Here are the big takeaways: Even though the $755.6M […]

We enthusiasts view cars as more than just transportation or machines to be used and abused. Rather, they are present throughout our lives, witnesses to triumph and tragedy. This is a car story about a 1976 Pontiac Firebird Formula. But it is also a life story: there is achievement, satisfaction, heartbreaking loss, healing, and survival. […]

Say the name “Route 66” and it conjures up dreams of following legendary authors, songwriters, and filmmakers down a road famously called “America’s Main Street.” I did just that, in a Volkswagen van filled with camping gear and film cameras, multiple times in the 1990s. Revisiting those photographs had me wanting to do it all […]

One of the scariest things for a vintage car owner who loves driving their car is the thought of parts no longer being available to keep it properly maintained and running. Most of us have some use for a paperweight, but a multi-ton, nearly 100-square-foot paperweight isn’t what any of us had in mind when […]

Lotus Omega : deux marques pour une même voiture. Résultat, une folie typique des années 90 avec un physique quasi-discret et des perfs folles.

How heavy are big pickup trucks and high-performance electric SUVs these days? Heavy enough that domestic manufacturers asked Brembo for bigger, more powerful brakes. The Italian outfit’s solution: the Boldika. It’s a new, bigger six-piston caliper with a unique design that allows for nearly 6300 lb-ft of braking torque.  That’s the most powerful caliper Brembo […]

The Defender, which morphed into a standalone brand under the Land Rover umbrella, won its class in the 2026 Dakar Rally with an off-roader dubbed D7X-R. The brand is now injecting some of its desert-proven technology into a limited-edition super-SUV. Due out in 2027, the Defender Dakar will feature a 626-horsepower V-8, a rally-ready suspension […]

There’s a lot of hype about induction heaters, the stuck-nut removers that look like a hair dryer and get nuts and bolts glowing cherry-red so you can presumably spin them off with a wrench held delicately by two fingers like you’re eating sugar cookies at an English country estate. Last winter I went down the […]

The sun has set on the 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The Sunday event is the grand finale of Monterey Car Week, and the Best of Show award is the grand finale to that grand finale. Fittingly, the 2026 award went to the 1935 Duesenberg SSJ Special Speedster of collector Harry Yeaggy, of Cincinnati, Ohio. […]

We kicked off the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance with the annual Dawn Patrol ritual of coffee, donuts, and anticipation of the first show cars rumbling onto the show field. The rush for the coveted Dawn Patrol hat went a bit differently this year, as numerous sleeper agents dispersed through the crowd with small parcels of […]

On a lovely little patch of the 17th Fairway at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, there are five famous Jaguars from the past and one Jaguar from the future. The group of historic cars celebrates the British brand’s “evolutionary milestones in aerodynamics, lightweight design, and high‑performance engineering.” At the same time, Jaguar’s upcoming four-door […]

With no Toyota emblems anywhere to be found, the GR GT is the first car by the automaker to be marketed solely under the Gazoo Racing brand. That’s not the only groundbreaking step for the car; perhaps most notable is its extensive use of aluminum in the chassis. Toyota gave spectators at the Rolex Monterey […]

Brian writes: Hi Sajeev, I enjoy your column so here’s one that is frustrating me. I recently purchased a ’72 Corvette that has a base 350 / TH400 drivetrain. The engine has been modified with an Edelbrock intake, Holley carb, and headers, and it runs fine. The previous owner also replaced the distributor with an […]

Est-ce la livrée la plus mythique du sport automobile ? Les couleurs Gulf s'affichent depuis 60 ans et ont habillé de nombreux bolides mythiques.

Monterey Car Week is drawing to a close, and the auction results are staggering. While the auction companies are still tallying post-block sales, as of this writing, the overall total has hit a new all-time high of $748M. With a number like that, there were plenty of eye-watering sales to choose from, but the clear […]

Until now, McLaren has been an exclusively forward-looking company that brings the latest Formula One hypertech to the road with cars known for sporting lots of computers and wind-shaping airfoils behind their atomic-insect faces. But McLaren has real heritage, and the new McL 6GT concept is its first drivable attempt to directly mine its past […]

Gaudy expressions of wealth are nothing new at Monterey’s Car Week, starting with the teardrop-shaped Figoni-bodied French bolides that annually glide onto the concours lawn to vie for the top prize. No doubt some tongues were clicked disapprovingly back in the 1930s when those cars were built, and any owner would have had to be […]

The Quail by The Peninsula, A Motorsports Gathering, is one of the most exclusive shows of Monterey Car Week. The gathering celebrates the engineering and design of the finest automobiles, which often means those built in limited numbers and sold to a select few. Exotic cars often receive top billing. The Quail also embraces designs and features […]

As some of you fine folks may recall, last year I shared a spectacular 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K from the Geneva Concours d’Elegance, held each August in downtown Geneva, Illinois. It is a fine show which I highly recommend to anyone who loves cars. And at the time, I thought that 540K was not going to […]

A Bruxelles, Autoworld ne ment pas quand il appelle Icon of the 90s les 48 voitures et quelques deux roues de son exposition temporaire. Visite.

There are plenty of exotic-sounding engines running during the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The hills around WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca echo with wailing rotaries and tiny, turbocharged powerplants from more modern racers. Still, nothing sounds quite like a pushrod V-8 roaring with more than 800 horsepower. Even the “small” engines in this class start where […]

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles (GMSV), the more bespoke division of Gordon Murray Automotive, just revealed a stunning new supercar at The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering. It’s called the S1, and it’s a V-12-powered, manual transmission-equipped beauty. The S1 “shares its family DNA” with the S1 LM, another GMSV showpiece that the firm revealed at last […]