2020 Chevrolet Corvette StingrayImage: Chevrolet The luster of the Chevrolet Corvette C8 is finally wearing off. Over four years after production started, Chevy’s mid-engine sports car seems to be depreciating faster than the generation it replaced. I Need American Muscle On A Budget | What Car Should You Buy? Data from Hagerty shows that the … Read more
Photo: Mazda Maybe the future of collector cars and enthusiast drivers isn’t the doom and gloom affair that we’d been led to believe. According to a survey by Hagerty Insurance, young adult generations (Gen Z and Millennials) are significantly more likely to be interested in owning a classic car than Baby Boomers are. Tastes in … Read more
I suppose it’s the time my friend and I decided to do a top speed run in my ‘72 240Z while heading south towards Mexico through San Diego. This happened back in the later part of the 80’s, when I was still technically a teenager, but old enough to drink in Mexico. I was counting … Read more
Image: Slaven Vlasic (Getty Images) There are a number of reasons the Roadster values might be faltering among collectors. For one thing, maintaining an aging EV is hardly an easy thing. There are a few companies out there rebuilding and refurbishing battery packs and drive units, but Tesla stopped supporting these cars a long time … Read more
Screenshot: Hagerty The Lucid Air Sapphire is the quickest car you can buy for a quarter-million dollars, and it’ll outrun cars in the quarter mile that cost orders of magnitude more. It’s even quicker than the dragstrip-oriented Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. In a recent test by Hagerty’s Jason Cammisa, the Lucid turned an impressive … 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
The Renault 5 E-Tech Electric is bringing style and fun back to the European auto market with a retro design that looks just as good in 2024 as it did in 1972, when the original Renault 5 came out. The 5, also known as the R5 and Le Car, was a huge success for Renault, spawning … Read more
Photo: Matt Cardy (Getty Images) Carmaker names are not nearly as celebrated as carmaker logos but they’re just as rich in heritage, both good and bad. Automobiles have been around since the late 1700s, but they didn’t take off until after the Industrial Revolution. World Wars I and II would catapult auto manufacturing into what … Read more
Los Angeles is a pretty amazing place to live as a car person. I regularly see ultra-rare cars driving around or parked on the street, from homologation specials and cool high-end models to shitty old cars that were just plain flops. It helps that LA isn’t plagued with the bad weather that causes other older … Read more
