There’s a special place in Heaven for those who own and drive hero cars. You see, there are show cars, and then there are cars that put on a show—hero cars: the real show cars … the cars that are heroic at the track, and look good while beating everyone else. This 1964 Jaguar E-Type [...]

Last Tuesday, Art Center College of Design graduated another class of transportation designers. But as much as the senior show is a rite of passage for the future car designers, they have to pass through eight grueling semesters, or terms in Art Center parlance, to prove their worth. This feature focuses on another milestone: the [...]

If you want to ride along on one of the most blatant exhibitions of speed ever caught on camera, the video below is your ticket, which is something the driver of the speeding Ferrari 458 Italia could have received, plus some time in a Contra Costa County or Marin County jail. In the first part [...]

Get America’s first racing Porsche 911 together with the last Werks 935, and you have a dynamic pairing of two historical racing icons. Representing the Beginning of an Era Christian Zugel’s 1964 911 race car began life as a U.S. consumer demo car, but its raison d’être changed after it was sold in 1965 to an [...]

Audi released photos and technical details of their 2014 WEC entry on Thursday. A flat black primary adorned with red trim and white sponsorship trademarks make for one the most sinister looking cars in the history of endurance racing. Beneath the skin you’ll find a turbo-diesel V-6 and two hybrid systems. As in the past, [...]

Porsche Cayenne Turbo by eVoMotion

Electric cars are the future. I’m not saying electricity will be the only means of automotive propulsion 25 years from now, but electric vehicles will continue to gain popularity in the automotive marketplace. The announcement that the Audi R8 e-tron is once again being planned for production is a great example of why it may [...]