When Mercedes-Benz unveiled its CLK GTR Roadster in 1988, it was priced at an astonishing $1.5 million, making it the most expensive 'production' car ever made – a figure only recently exceeded by the Ferrari FXX.
Only one of the six Roadsters produced was finished in black and it is this example which appears in Bonhams Goodwood sale in June ...
For many, the Ferrari F40 is the most important car produced by the Italian marque, if only because it is the final design brought to fruition during Enzo Ferrari's lifetime. The last of an epic era, the F40 was designed as the culmination of Ferrari's 40 years as a builder of road and race cars.
It also reflects ...
Unadorned by spoilers or unsightly accessories, the 1973 Porsche 911S Coupé is often admired as the purest of all Porsche's 911 iterations. One well-known devotee was the pop artist Richard Hamilton, who was reported to have declined to paint his much-loved Porsche on the basis that it was "such a perfect design, that it couldn't be improved in ...
In the spring of 1961, Sir Stirling Moss and future world champion, Graham Hill were thundering down 440 miles of rough Sicilian roads, on the brink of what should have been a remarkable victory in their Porsche RS60.
Porsche had form in the legendary Targa Floria – the team had already won the Italian race three times; in 1956, 1959 and ...
One way of telling the wonderful story of the black Aston Martin, bearing the registration plate CML 721, would be to scratch its 80-year-old body panels. Well, perhaps not. This is, after all, a 20th century masterpiece. Instead, let's subject its paintwork to the kind of X-ray analysis employed by art conservators examining the way artists from Leonardo Da ...
The Lamborghini Miura should never have existed. The man who founded the company had rather different plans when he took a fortune made selling sturdy tractors and ploughed it into the bumpy fields of sports car production.
"It is very simple," Ferruccio Lamborghini said in 1963. "In the past I have bought some of the best-known Gran Turismo cars, and ...