From time to time, an automobile will come along that you know straight away will be a classic. Other times, it can be difficult to predict and a car will take the entire industry by...
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The story of Ford’s conquest of Ferrari and the rest of Europe’s best at sports car racing’s highest level in the late 1960s is widely known. However, not quite as many people seem to be...
The original Porsche 911 Targa, introduced in 1967, wasn’t the car Porsche necessarily wanted to build, but the one it thought it would have to build. You see, around that time the U.S. government was...
Today, motorcycles with single-sided rear swingarms aren’t terribly unusual. However, in the early 1980s, they were still quite exotic, which is why the so-called “Monolever” versions of the BMW R80 RT and R100 RT grabbed...
![LEGO Ferrari F40 is Plastic Fantastico [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lego_ferrari_f40_03-335x256.jpg)
The Ferrari F40 was, is, and shall always be an important branch on the supercar family tree. Yes, a new 488 GTB will pulverize it in pretty much every quantifiable area of performance, and do...
Every new car launch is fraught with anticipation inside the walls of its maker. Odds are it will find a modicum of success, but there’s always the looming specter of it failing to rub the...
Classic cars that have reached collector status are easy to spot because, well, they’re the ones that show up the most often and bring the most money at auctions, specialty dealerships and other sellers. But...
![Sub5Zero Fantasy Collection: Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/porsche_911_gt3_rs_4.0_2-335x256.jpg)
History is littered with moments in which things that were considered pure, sacred and perfect just the way they were were either desecrated or improved upon (depending on how resistant to change you are) in...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmLbcsPjh4&t=71[/youtube] One of the most astonishing cars of 2014 (other than the obvious hyper-expensive hybrid hypercars) was, without equivocation, Ken Block’s Hoonicorn, the all-custom, all-wheel-drive 1965 Ford Mustang Coupe he drove in Gymkhana SEVEN. And...
![Porsche Classic GPS/Radio Upgrade is the Head Unit of Its Class [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/porsche_classic_radio_upgrade_3-335x256.jpg)
Modernizing the audio system of a classic car is big business. Multiple companies specialize in manufacturing head units that resemble the stock originals, yet are chock full of 21st century internals like a digital AM/FM...