History was made this weekend at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance when a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports won Best of Show, marking the first time a preservation-class car has ever won the most prestigious award in the classic car realm. Pebble’s had classes for such unrestored cars since 2001, with the preservation classes now split … Read more
After 10 years in production the Lamborghini Huracan has gone to the great bullpen in the sky, and its replacement is a whole different sort of beast. Enter the new Lamborghini Temerario, a plug-in-hybrid supercar that has the first (and currently only) production engine that revs to 10,000 rpm. Lamborghini says the Temerario “redefines the … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, August 9, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Tesla Orders Canceled Over Musk’s Support For Trump For months, … Read more
The original 993-based Porsche 911 GT1Photo: Porsche Nostalgia is all the rage right now in the car world, and especially nostalgia for the 1990s era of driver-focused simplicity. No auto company leverages its history to better effect than Porsche, and that sentiment extends to the legion of Porsche modification and restoration companies out there. One … Read more
Screenshot: VinWiki on YouTube Popular YouTube, car broker, and onetime Cannonball record holder Ed Bolian has bought the car he’s been dreaming about since high school, the 12-year-old French/German extension of Ferdinand Piech’s ego, Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. After years of dreaming about owning this moonshot hypercar from the Volkswagen Group, Bolian finally managed to … Read more
Not all that long ago, Volkswagen attempted to eschew the whole “people’s car” schtick and move its product line up-market. The result was cars like today’s Nice Price or No Dice W8 Passat: the fanciest Passat ever. Let’s see if its price now makes it one for the people. The 2024 Volkswagen Passat Shows Why … Read more
Photo: Porsche If you can believe it, more than 20 years have passed since Porsche introduced the first generation of its Cayenne SUV. What was once a super controversial model that was talked about like it would lead to the death of Porsche has become one of the brand’s biggest sellers and the benchmark of … Read more
No buttons here, officer, I promise. Photo: Volkswagen It feels as though automakers have been on a war against physical buttons, swapping them out in favor of touch screens and capacitive sensors wherever possible. Now, it sounds like the safety implications of that switch are coming back to haunt Volkswagen with some owners blaming the … Read more
Screenshot: Noriyaro Japanese car culture goes impossibly hard. On the first Saturday of every month car geeks in the area will cruise through the famously busy Shibuya Scramble Crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo. If you want to avoid that Times Square-level of congestion, you can move a block or two away and still catch all of … Read more
Over the decades there have been many one-off or limited-production vehicles that have been lost to the sands of time, and many cars that were planned for production but never made it there, for various reasons. Some automakers have begun to build recreations or “continuation cars” to fill in the gaps of history, and Audi … Read more
