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The 2024 BMW M Hybrid V8 Looks Like It's About To Swallow the Entire Le Mans Grid
The 2024 BMW M Hybrid V8 Looks Like It's About To Swallow the Entire Le Mans Grid

29 Nov 2023, 20:30 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / BMW will tackle the 2024 FIA WEC season with two cars under the BMW M Team WRT banner. The M Hybrid V8 will also race at Le Mans.

 
Rusty 1969 AMC SC/Rambler Barn Find Is a Super Rare "B Scheme" Pony
Rusty 1969 AMC SC/Rambler Barn Find Is a Super Rare "B Scheme" Pony

29 Nov 2023, 12:49 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Of the 1,512 AMC SC/Rambler homologation cars built for the 1969 model year, only 297 got the more subdued "B scheme" livery.

 
2025 Toyota Camry XSE Gets NASCAR Cup Series Race Car Makeover With Pushrod V8 Twist
2025 Toyota Camry XSE Gets NASCAR Cup Series Race Car Makeover With Pushrod V8 Twist

27 Nov 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Shortly after Toyota unveiled the redesigned Camry for MY25, the Japanese automaker has revealed the XSE in NASCAR Cup Series attire for the 2024 season

 
The ABT XGT Is a Street-Legal Race Car Which Starts at Over $600,000
The ABT XGT Is a Street-Legal Race Car Which Starts at Over $600,000

24 Nov 2023, 10:03 UTC · By: Elena Luchian / ABT converted the Audi R8 LMS GT2 into a street-legal race car which – they say – incorporates their philosophy like no other car they have ever built

 
Here's a 1966 Mercury Comet Race Car That Really Doesn't Want to Abandon the Fight
Here's a 1966 Mercury Comet Race Car That Really Doesn't Want to Abandon the Fight

17 Nov 2023, 18:00 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / This Mercury Comet was a race car "most of its life," and despite looking like it's been sitting for a long time, it's now ready for a second chance

 
1950 Cadillac "Le Monstre" Comes out of Long-Term Storage To Showcase Wing-Like Body
1950 Cadillac "Le Monstre" Comes out of Long-Term Storage To Showcase Wing-Like Body

14 Nov 2023, 15:20 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Designed and raced at Le Mans by Briggs Cunningham, the "Le Monstre" is a radically-shaped 1950 Cadillac Series 61 De Ville.

 
This Low-Mileage 1969 Chevrolet COPO Camaro Is a Unique Gem With Drag-Racing Heritage
This Low-Mileage 1969 Chevrolet COPO Camaro Is a Unique Gem With Drag-Racing Heritage

8 Nov 2023, 15:25 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Forgotten for 40 years, this 1969 Chevrolet COPO Camaro 427 returned into the spotlight in 2018 as low-mileage restoration.

 
Remembering the Stinger: Don Yenko's Air-Cooled, Flat-Six-Powered Homologation Special
Remembering the Stinger: Don Yenko's Air-Cooled, Flat-Six-Powered Homologation Special

25 Oct 2023, 14:13 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Though it was based on the compact Corvair, the Singer was a legitimate sports car in road-legal guise and a successful race car when unleashed on the track

 
Mazda Furai: The Rotary-Powered Concept That Never Crashed but Unfortunately Burned
Mazda Furai: The Rotary-Powered Concept That Never Crashed but Unfortunately Burned

24 Oct 2023, 11:58 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Both a breathtaking concept and a functional race car powered by an ethanol-guzzling three-rotor engine, the Furai seemed destined for greatness

 
Holy Grail 1963 Dodge 330 Lightweight Flexes Numbers-Matching Max Wedge V8
Holy Grail 1963 Dodge 330 Lightweight Flexes Numbers-Matching Max Wedge V8

18 Oct 2023, 11:02 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Developed during the Detroit drag race wars of the early 1960s, the Max Wedge was based on the RB block and debuted in 1962.

 
2023 BMW M4 GT3 Flexes All-Carbon Fiber Body at Misano Circuit
2023 BMW M4 GT3 Flexes All-Carbon Fiber Body at Misano Circuit

10 Oct 2023, 15:31 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Both race cars belong to the Italian team Ceccato Racing and wear nothing but the carbon "skin" they got from the factory.

 
Richard Petty's 1974 Dodge Charger Comes out of Hiding, Roars Like Thunder
Richard Petty's 1974 Dodge Charger Comes out of Hiding, Roars Like Thunder

3 Oct 2023, 12:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / "The King" won two NASCAR Winston Cup Series championships in this Mopar. Sold for $490,000 in 2018, the Charger is an unmolested survivor.

 
Foreign Carmakers in NASCAR: Failed European Attempts and Japanese Successes
Foreign Carmakers in NASCAR: Failed European Attempts and Japanese Successes

30 Sep 2023, 12:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Before Toyota joined NASCAR, about a dozen foreign cars were raced against American iron on the organization's road tracks.

 
Porsche 917: The All-Conquering Icon Created by Exploiting a Loophole in the Regulations
Porsche 917: The All-Conquering Icon Created by Exploiting a Loophole in the Regulations

22 Sep 2023, 19:04 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Developed in only 10 months and technically streel legal, the 917 brought glory for Porsche in the World Sportscar Championship, Can-Am, and won at Le Mans twic

 
Hear the Sauber-Mercedes C9 Flex Its Le Mans-Winning Twin-Turbo V8
Hear the Sauber-Mercedes C9 Flex Its Le Mans-Winning Twin-Turbo V8

19 Sep 2023, 15:14 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Developed by Swiss outfit Sauber and powered by a twin-turbo, Mercedes-Benz V8 engine, the C9 won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989.

 
Million-Dollar 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Breaks Down at Car Show, Needs a Push To Get Going
Million-Dollar 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Breaks Down at Car Show, Needs a Push To Get Going

15 Sep 2023, 11:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Built in only 36 units, the 250 GTO is the most desirable and expensive vintage Ferrari of all time. The most expensive one sold for more than $70 million.

 
The Story of the F1-Powered 164 ProCar: Unquestionably the Wildest Alfa Romeo Ever Built
The Story of the F1-Powered 164 ProCar: Unquestionably the Wildest Alfa Romeo Ever Built

13 Sep 2023, 11:34 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / A Formula One car with a four-door sedan body, the 164 ProCar remains one of the most fascinating "what if's" in the history of motorsport

 
1967 Ferrari 412 P Berlinetta Sells for $30 Million
1967 Ferrari 412 P Berlinetta Sells for $30 Million

21 Aug 2023, 11:13 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / One of only four examples produced, this 1967 412 P Berlinetta race car is now the fourth most expensive Ferrari ever auctioned.

 
Ferrari 312PB: The Scuderia's Last Succesful Analog Endurance Prototype
Ferrari 312PB: The Scuderia's Last Succesful Analog Endurance Prototype

28 Jul 2023, 14:37 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Build during the wild 1970s, the brutal 312PB had a near-perfect season in 1972 but ultimately failed to bring Le Mans glory for Ferrari

 
Long-Lost 1938 Chevrolet Bonneville Record Car Found in a Yard After 50 Years
Long-Lost 1938 Chevrolet Bonneville Record Car Found in a Yard After 50 Years

13 Jul 2023, 14:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Built and raced at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1950s, this 1938 Chevrolet Master Deluxe has been missing since the 1970s.