Bugatti unveiled the one-off Golden Era last year, a unique Chiron Super Sport built to celebrate the marque’s two golden eras: 1909 to 1956, and 1987 to 2023. Bugatti has an extensive history of bespoke creations, both with pre-war coachbuilt cars and with the Veyron and subsequent modern models, but the Golden Era is something … Read more
Most car enthusiasts have specific car magazine stories that have been seared into their minds since the first read, whether they are a profile of an important figure, a review of a favorite car, or an oddball feature or culture story. Car and Driver’s Instagram account recently posted a throwback to what might be my … Read more
Screenshot: Hagerty Car purchases are rarely rational, and nobody understood that more than Austrian business magnate and Porsche heir Ferdinand Piëch. In his 50-plus years in the automotive industry, his main motivating factor was building cool shit and taking it racing, often completely at odds with company profit or shareholder value. He knew how to … Read more
Photo: Bradley Brownell If General Motors had wanted to make the Corvette an internationally-respected nameplate in the early 1990s, it could have just pushed the mid-engine, 650-horsepower, all-wheel drive, four-wheel steering, active suspension CERV III concept into production. This was a proper exotic that could completely demolish Porsche’s 959 from just a few years earlier. … Read more
