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Mercedes

Photo of the Week #21 – 1960 Mercedes-Benz 190SL

May 22, 2023 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Mercedes-Benz 190 SL (W121) is a two-door luxury roadster produced by Mercedes-Benz between May 1955 and February 1963. Internally referred to as W121 (BII or B2), it was first shown in prototype at the […]

Chevrolet

Photo of the Week #20 – 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 2LT

May 15, 2023 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chevy changed everything about the Corvette for 2020, and 2021 sees incremental updates. The Corvette’s phenomenal Magnetic Selective Ride Control is now available as a standalone option (previously Z51 package equipment). It also gets wireless […]

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week #19 – 1970 Lancia Fulvia 1.6 HF

May 8, 2023 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Lancia Fulvia was an automobile produced by the Italian car maker Lancia between 1963 and 1976. It was named after the Via Fulvia, a Roman road connecting Tortona and Turin. The Lancia Fulvia was […]

Auction Watch

Modified 1991 Toyota SW20 MR2 Turbo

August 22, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: 2 minutes This 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo is finished in silver over black leather upholstery and is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four paired with a five-speed manual transaxle. Equipment includes pop-up headlights, integrated fog lamps, removable […]

Nissan

Photo of the Week #33 – Nissan Z GT500

August 15, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: < 1 minute Nissan based the vehicle on the seventh-generation Z road car, however, the GT500 class is a silhouette class, where the actual chassis of the racecar is a tube frame, carbon fiber monocoque mashup, and the […]

Auction Watch

Modified 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe 6-Speed

August 15, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: 3 minutes This 2011 Cadillac CTS-V coupe is powered by a supercharged 6.2-liter LSA V8 mated to a six-speed manual transmission and a limited-slip differential and was special-ordered new by the seller from Cadillac of Novi, Michigan. Modifications […]

Porsche

The Volkswagen Failure That Saved Porsche

August 15, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: 12 minutes The 924 was originally a joint project of Volkswagen and Porsche created by the Vertriebsgesellschaft (VG), the joint sales and marketing company founded by Porsche and VW to market and sell sports cars (Ludvigsen: Porsche, […]

BMW

Photo of the Week #32 – 1999 BMW Z3M Coupe “The Shoe”

August 8, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: < 1 minute Today, you can order more than 30 different BMW models with an M badge on them. Back in 1998, it was a completely different story, with the 850CSi long in the tooth along with the […]

Lotus

Photo of the Week #31 – Modified 2006 Lotus Exige

July 31, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: < 1 minute This 2006 Lotus Exige is finished in yellow over black leather and is powered by a Toyota-sourced 1.8-liter 2ZZ inline-four paired with a six-speed manual transaxle. Notable modifications consist of a MonkeyWrench Racing cylinder head, […]

BMW

BMW’s Iconic Lamborghini Inspired M1 Production Racer

July 29, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the late 1970s, Italian automobile manufacturer Lamborghini entered into an agreement with BMW to build a production racing car in sufficient quantity for homologation, but conflicts arose that prompted BMW to produce the car […]

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week #30 – 2019 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport

July 23, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: < 1 minute This 2019 Porsche 911 GT2 RS is #99 of 200 track-only Clubsport models built for the model year and was purchased new by the current owner in October 2019. The lightweight body panels are finished […]

Chevrolet

Chevrolet’s V-12 Powered C4 Corvette Built To Defang A Viper

July 20, 2022 robert.maddrey

Reading Time: 2 minutes Powered by a massive 8.0-liter V-10, the Dodge Viper brought new meaning to domestic dominance and seriously outperformed its contemporaries, in particular the long-in-the-tooth Chevrolet Corvette C4. Unsure of the path forward, General Motors decided […]

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