After World War I, life in Germany was grim. Defeat loomed over the nation. Acute shortages in nearly all resources brought the country to the brink of revolution. This certainly affected the German auto industry.  They were down, but not completely out of the fight. Do you know what it took to win motor-races after [...]

The SLS AMG is something special. The SLS AMG Black Series is the right kind of overkill. More power, more carbon fibre, more tire shredding. It’s expensive as hell, coming in at 250K. So for most people the colloquialism: “because you can afford it, doesn’t mean you can drive it” does apply. Not in this [...]

Let’s wind the clock back to 2007. McLaren-Mercedes was ready to kick off their F1 season with a driver lineup that appeared second to none. Fernando Alonso had just signed with McLaren. The Spaniard was coming off a World Championship season with the Renault Factory team, his second drivers’ championship for his now former team. [...]

Can you name the fastest race run before World War II? That would be the AVUS Grand Prix of 1937. Sitting in the south-western district of Berlin, the AVUS circuit consisted of two long straights and two hairpin turns. The racing there was always considered fast, the average speed of the race winner in 1935, [...]