Maserati 250F: The Most Beautiful Car to Ever Win a War Denis Jenkinson, the great Motor Sport correspondent who rode shotgun with Stirling Moss to win the 1955 Mille Miglia, did not hand out praise cheaply. He had watched everything the 1950s had to offer. And of one particular afternoon at the Nürburgring he wrote … Read more
Ford Mustang GTD: the Mustang that wasn’t supposed to exist Three hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For a Mustang. Read it again. No typo. A Ford Mustang costs, today, more than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. More than a base McLaren 750S. More than an Aston Martin Vantage did not long ago. And the guy … Read more
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus: Le Mans’ Last Privateer From Hollywood to Sleepy Hollow: Who Is Jim Glickenhaus Before he ever put a car on the Le Mans grid, Jim Glickenhaus had put Jackie Chan in front of a camera. Born in New York City on July 24, 1950, raised in New Rochelle, Glickenhaus directed, wrote, and … Read more
Opel Speedster: The German Sports Car Built in England That Saved Lotus and Embarrassed Cars Costing Ten Times More Some cars are born with an identity crisis. The Opel Speedster is one of them. A sports car wearing a German badge, built on a British chassis, powered by an economy car engine, and priced low … Read more
Maserati: Seven Brothers, One Trident, and the Greatest Race Ever Run The family born for speed To understand Maserati, you need to start with a fact almost nobody knows: there weren’t six brothers. There were seven. Rodolfo Maserati was a locomotive driver for the Italian railways, based in Voghera, Lombardy. He married Carolina Losi, and … Read more
Nürburgring Nordschleife: 20,832 Kilometres of Unfiltered Truth 73 corners. 300 metres of elevation change. Over 70 racing drivers killed in competition. Between 3 and 12 fatalities per year in public sessions. And yet, anyone with a driving licence and €30 can drive it. Welcome to the Green Hell. A Circuit Born from Unemployment The Nordschleife … Read more
DTM: How German Brands Created, Dominated, and Killed Their Own Championship DTM is the story of a suicide in slow motion. A brilliant championship, with the best touring cars in the world, cutting-edge technology, and elite drivers, that was destroyed by the very brands that created it. It wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t bad luck. … Read more
BMW M3: How to Kill an Icon with Cylinder Counts and Turbos Introduction: The Birth of a Legend The M3 was born naturally aspirated. Everything else is an excuse. There is a truth that few want to hear: the BMW M3 died years ago. What remains today is a heavy sedan with All-Wheel Drive, an … Read more
