Photo: Le Mans Retired French racing driver Hervé Poulain is the father of the “Art Car,” having commissioned Alexander Calder to paint a BMW 3.0 CSL for the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans. Since then BMW has created nearly two dozen different Art Cars, some of which were fielded at Le Mans by Poulain, … Read more
The ubiquitous 0-to-60 test has become a standardized measure of a vehicle’s performance chops among industry pros and car meet aficionados, but that singular measurement doesn’t paint the full picture of a car’s character. On the road and even on the race track it’s more likely that a car’s 5-to-60 mile per hour results, or … Read more
Driving a car with more than 1,000 horsepower can be a bit nerve-wracking, a feeling that would seemingly be compounded if your first experience with it is on a race track you’ve never driven on before. But as I’m lapping Circuito Monteblanco near Seville, Spain in the 2025 Taycan Turbo GT, Porsche’s first attempt at … Read more
