It’s pretty staggering that the fastest airplane in the world (that the public knows about, at least, because there’s no telling what’s buzzing around Groom Lake…) is still the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a vehicle designed...

After making the transition from racing a rebodied Ferrari at the Nürburgring 24 Hours to building its own supercar for the same event alongside a street legal version, one can’t help wondering what’s next for...

The Land Rover Defender, the last in the long line of boxy, back-to-basics Landies that dated back to the brand’s formation in 1948, went out of production two years ago. However, much the way the...

Although Mercedes-Benz and Porsche were the first manufacturers to successfully take full advantage of the letter (if not the spirit) of the FIA’s GT1 regulations in the late 1990s, it was arguably Toyota that made...

More than six years ago, an Italian tuning shop by the name of Aznom (which is, of course, “Monza” backwards) commissioned the Spada firm to rebody a Corvette C6 Convertible into a roadster version of...

In olden times, it was widely believed that the more smooth and streamlined a car was, the faster it was. This was particularly true of racecars and high performance road cars. But since the mid-1960s,...

Although the overwhelming majority of Lamborghini’s back catalog is comprised of sports cars and supercars, one of the Italian marque’s most famous (and infamous) past products is actually an SUV. Of course, because it was...

When the current Aston Martin Vantage arrived in 2005, it was an instant hit, creating a smaller, more financially accessible entry point to the Aston Martin lineup. And whether it was powered by a V8...

While the last quarter century saw three of Britain’s most prolific racecar building companies – March, Reynard and Lola – go bust, the last 25 years have been very good to Italy’s foremost builder of...