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C’est à la fin août que la maison lyonnaise se déplacera en Dordogne. Ce sera la deuxième édition de […]

If you’re after a lot of horsepower from a classic Chevy, Ford, or Chrysler race engine, you might think the only place to go is the United States. After all, these engines have been extensively developed over the years for all sorts of racing in the U.S., from sports and formula cars to dragsters and […]

BMW’s high-performance M branch had a banner year in 2025, posting record sales totaling 213,457 vehicles. For all the ways BMW loyalists, including your author, lament the ways that the M brand’s expansion has diluted and muddied its core character, the business is thriving. The motorsport-driven BMW M of the early 1990s in no way […]

RM Sotheby’s held a three-day auction in Monterey this year, with the first day of sales mostly consisting of prewar greats from large collections. Otherwise, much of the buzz around this sale was consistent with the rest of Monterey Car Week (read our full analysis here), and that buzz was about modern exotics. Many of […]

If you haven’t seen the most recent episode of Driveway Finds yet, it’s worth pulling up in short order. Hosts Dustin Hallinan and John Brito attempted something rather unconventional by taking a Chevy small-block V-8, ripping out the water pump and radiator, and attempting to use air to keep temperatures under control and cool the […]

Group 8 at the 2026 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion was filled with high-strung SCCA B & C Sedans from the 1966–79 era. The high-revving four-cylinders typically found in the B-Sedan class earned the class the nickname “Angry Bs.” They make one heck of a racket as they zip around Laguna Seca’s complex corners. Comedian and […]

La vente officielle du concours de Pebble Beach, celle de Gooding Christie's a fait un carton, notamment grâce aux anciennes voitures de course.

Terry Hawke isn’t a man stuck in the past, but at times he seems like a man stuck with the past. The collection of vintage scooters in his 1950s suburban Michigan garage is more than family history. It is also the history of an idea. Many people have ideas; few are prepared to actually run […]

The city-friendly Mini has changed a lot since the original model made its debut in 1959: It has gradually gotten bigger, quicker, and headed more upmarket. It has never strayed from its pioneering front-wheel-drive roots, however, but that could change in the next couple of years. The next Mini Cooper might share a rear-wheel-drive platform […]

Car designers used to be household names. New vehicle launches often provided a chance for motoring writers to meet the design team and learn about their work, but you’ll be forgiven for struggling to name anyone associated with recent metal. Some even suggest that design is dead, but these accusations are nothing new. Interestingly, Ferrari […]

Pour ce troisième dimanche d’août, direction la mensuelle de Lambesc, à une vingtaine de kilomètres d’Aix-en-Provence. Je vous avais […]

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 […]

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 […]