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“Elegant Lady,” a thousand-horsepower, Café au lait-colored custom 1956 Chevrolet convertible owned by Rex and Rhonda Satterfield of Russellville, Tennessee, advanced from the Great 8 to win the Detroit Autorama’s 2026 Ridler Award. We spoke with Rex just after he checked on award sponsor Barry Meguiar, who had tripped over the Chevy’s display barriers and […]

Dernier jour au salon Historic Auto 2026 à Nantes. Il restait encore des motos, des véhicules de compétition et des françaises à voir.

According to Wikipedia, “The bluebird of happiness is a universal symbol of joy, hope, and contentment, representing the idea that true happiness often resides within oneself and in appreciating the present moment.” Bluebirds are associated with joy, optimism, and good luck across many cultures. In ancient China, a bluebird served as the messenger of a […]

Timothy writes: Sajeev, you’ve helped me out several times before with answers to arcane FoMoCo trivia. This time, I’m writing to you for help with a Honda. I own a 2004 Honda Element that has a great deal of sentimental value to me. I’ve owned it, off and on, since 2007. My ex-wife and I bought […]

Every year since 1964, hot-rod builders from all over North America have travelled to Michigan to pursue “the Nobel Prize of hot-rodding,” the Don Ridler Memorial Award, at the Detroit Autorama. Any participant in the three-day event is eligible, as long as the vehicle is operable and has never appeared at any other show. The […]

Nous sommes toujours à Nantes pour le salon Historic Auto. Aujourd'hui, c'est le Grand Palais qu'on va vous faire visiter en vidéo.

They say love is what makes a Subaru a Subaru, but for people who like to drive fast, it’s something different. For them, the key ingredients of a proper “Subie” are all-wheel drive, a throaty boxer engine, a turbocharger, and at least a vague connection to the World Rally Championship (WRC). The WRX has been […]

You never know what I will write up next. Oh sure, it’s likely to be some large, magnificent American vessel from the 1960s to the 1990s, but not always; sometimes I throw in a VW or Volvo to confuse everyone! But I really love everything—just depends on what catches my eye at a show. And […]

If you’re not familiar with ‘90s Japanese tuner cars, you may have overlooked the Galant VR-4, one of Mitsubishi’s World Rally Championship pioneers. Its history goes back 40 years, when the WRC banned Group B cars, rendering Group A entries the top class. Mitsubishi had been campaigning an AWD version of its Starion sports car […]

On commence déjà à vous faire découvrir le salon Historic Auto 2026. Pour débuter, direction le Hall XXL avec ses BMW, mais pas seulement.

One of the quirks of branding and trademarks is that, while you want your brand to succeed to the point that the brand becomes synonymous with the product’s function, like Xerox and Kleenex, you don’t want it to become a victim of “genericide.” That’s when a once-protected trademark becomes so widely associated with a category […]

Once upon a time, in the 1980s and ’90s, there was a British company that made nothing but sports cars. It was led by a very tall man whose name was Peter Wheeler, and when he was in charge of the company, which was called TVR, it made lots of unusual, cool cars. In 1988, […]

You might not know it, but cars with computers under their skins are way smarter than you think. We see with our sensors, remember with our modules, and even draw conclusions from our years of earned knowledge. You can’t disconnect our batteries and make us forget. I am a Lincoln Mark VIII LSC that rolled […]

There are thousands of ways to customize a new Bugatti, but the W16 Mistral La Perle Rare dives deeper into the world of personalization than the average multi-million-dollar hypercar. Designed by the brand’s Sur Mesure department, it’s a customer-commissioned model that took about three years to create. The project started at the 2023 Pebble Beach […]

In ancient times the early 1950s, I Love Lucy was America’s favorite TV show. A major part of that sitcom’s success can be attributed to Vivian Vance, who played the landlady Ethel Mertz alongside Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball (Ricky and Lucy Ricardo). We’re pretty sure that none of the cast guessed that their fictional […]

Since 2024, Toyota has invested nearly $1B in a flying-taxi startup called Joby Aviation. The California-based company aims to produce flying electric taxis that take off vertically like helicopters and could ferry commuters right over traffic jams. The so-called eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing) are a hot transportation segment as over a dozen companies […]

If you’re determined to row your own gears then the cheapest three-pedal car you can buy today is the Mazda Miata. Cost, however, was clearly not an issue for a Gunther Werks customer whose 911 Turbo has been specified with a 24-karat gold shifter. The auric gear selector is plated in rose gold, as are […]

For many collector car buyers, the flashier and the more powerful, the better. Those kinds of cars do tend to come with their own kinds of compromises, however. There’s a lot to be said for cars that deliver reliable performance without resorting to high engine speeds and monster cams that don’t like to idle through […]

It’s hard to believe it has been this long, but the water-cooled 911 will celebrate its 30th anniversary next year. Porsche introduced the 996 generation 911 at the Frankfurt International Motor Show in September of 1997, then began selling it in North America for the 1999 model year. And although it was an ambitious redesign of the […]

It’s almost 40 years since I first rode a DB1, but memories of that day in spring 1986 remain vivid. I recall the thrill of riding away from the U.K. Bimota importer’s Cheshire base for one of the first test rides of the exotic new 750cc V-twin. I remember the exhilaration of flicking the light, […]

A dozen-or-so years ago, when we first saw a Toyota 2000GT eclipse a million bucks at auction, almost overnight, talk among those in the know began to shift to the emergence of Japanese classics in the market. So began plenty of speculation as to what might possibly join the rare, gorgeous Toyota at the top […]

Cal Clark, Jr. was first introduced to the Chevrolet Corvair by his early-adopter parents, who showed up one day with a new 1961 four-door sedan in base 700 trim. But it wasn’t until he found another Corvair poking out of a snow bank several years later that he really caught the bug. He paid all […]

I was anxious to try the new A290, a four-door, electric hot hatchback launched last year by Renault’s performance arm, Alpine. In part, because some optimistic scenarios were floating around that this Alpine might even make its way to America. I’m not so sure that will come to pass. But if it remained out of […]

Mini is celebrating the rally victory that its racing heritage is largely built on with a limited-edition model. The new Mini 1965 Victory Edition is a visual tribute to the Cooper S that won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1965, and it stands out from the regular-production hatchback with vintage racing-inspired styling cues. Based on […]

We’ve begun IMSA’s sports car season with the Rolex 24 at Daytona, and the NASCAR Cup season with the Daytona 500 and the AutoTrader 400 in Atlanta, and now it’s IndyCar’s turn. With its 2026 season taking the green flag Sunday at the Firestone Grand Prix at St. Petersburg, IndyCar hits the ground running, with […]

The mighty Mercedes-Benz 190E that dominated DTM (German Touring Cars) in the Nineties is back, and will soon be taking on all-comers in the gruelling Nürburgring 24 Hours. It’s all thanks to restomod maker HWA, who initially developed a road-going version of the 190E with an AMG turbo V-6 replacing its original Cosworth-tuned four-cylinder motor. […]

On connaissait les grandes lignes du parcours, maintenant on jette un œil à la liste des engagés du Tour Auto 2026... avec de belles surprises !

Gibeau’s Orange Julep rises like a second sun over one of Montreal’s busiest boulevards, glowing 24 hours a day, seven days a week, either under the rays of the sun or in the reflected beams of the hundreds of headlights that have gathered around it. For more than 60 years, this popular snack spot has […]

When we’re young, we’re often forced to make do with what we’re given. We wear our sister’s old clothes, ew. We have to use grandma’s old suitcase, ugh. We share a room with our brother, gross. For many of us, that also means we end up driving the family minivan, grrr, even when it seems […]

The Hagerty Market Rating measures the current status of the collector car market in terms of activity or “heat,” directional momentum, and the underlying strength of the market. It is expressed as a closed 0-100 number with a corresponding open-ended index (like the DJIA or NASDAQ Composite). To learn more about how we calculate the Hagerty Market Rating, read […]