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About 477 miles northeast is Summit Point Motorsports Park, a two-mile, natural-terrain road course in West Virginia that opened in 1969. Summit Point’s director of motorsports operations, Edwin ...

In the ’80s, he worked with a group of investors on a potential Formula One car for the 1989 season, but that went nowhere. In the early ’90s, with backing from a wealthy Californian, he built up a ...

If you happen to be in London on the first Sunday in November, the RAC sponsors the annual London to Brighton Run, the world’s oldest motoring event, which commemorates the 1896 Locomotives on ...

Other notable crackdowns include one in late 2018, when the Georgia Department of Revenue compiled a list of cars that had a Peach Pass (Georgia’s toll road tag) but also had Montana registrations, ...

In 1969, while visiting the Turin auto show, VW’s Director and the company’s main Italian importer totted up a list of their six favorite cars from the show and sat down to compare notes. As it turned ...

The original Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a real number generator. It ended up being offered in nine different model forms, sold 473,035 units in its eight-year lifetime, and took six years to develop.

In the early 1950s, Karmann already had a contract to build the the Beetle cabriolet at its Osnabrück factory, but convincing Volkswagen to make a sportier model was an uphill battle. VW rebuffed ...

Assigning value to a vehicle isn’t always easy. More than just looking up a year/make/model, it factors in options, drivetrains, even colors. The first and possibly most important factor that ...

Yet as much as the flathead spawned hot-rodding, hot-rodding undoubtedly helped shape the flathead and, more broadly, the all-American obsession with horsepower that still rules today. Contrary to the ...

The first full-throttle acceleration—once the oil is warm in the engine and the gearbox has lost its initial stiffness—that’s when you really feel how light the McLaren F1 is. Up to that point, you ...

Toyota has finally dropped the curtain on the sixth-gen 4Runner, signaling the next chapter for a cult classic that doesn’t get to use the term “new” all that much—”all-new,” even less often. The last ...