Classic Motor Cars

While the Italian marque built limited runs of a handful of beautiful performance machines in the 1960s, Bizzarrini never got around to making an open-top version of its 5300 GT – until now. Feast your eyes on the Aperta Lusso.

Audi’s new multi-million-dollar 200-mph mid-engined supercar has a V16… and sports a 90-year old design. The one-off Auto Union Lucca makes its public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July.

It’s not often that an acclaimed masterpiece goes to auction without a reserve price, but this week’s Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este will host an extraordinary auction where a Talbot-Lago T150C Teardrop Coupé will face the hammer without a safety net.

Folks looking to join the electric vehicle revolution but prefer to drive classic cars can opt for conversion to 100% electric. The UK's Electrogenic specializes in creating such retro EVs and has just announced its first international partners.

Following positive rumblings about a one-off electrified classic Mini at the 2018 New York Auto Show, a team in Oxford started a side project to produce more. Now BMW has announced the fruits of those labors, the Mini Recharged project.

Bentley is 40,000 man-hours into its painstaking reverse-engineered, laser-scanned copy of the 1929 Bentley Blower, and has just announced the completion of "car zero" – the master prototype from which 12 "Continuation Series" cars will be built.

The Bentley Blower Continuation Series is a bizarre project, a laser-scanned recreation of a supercharged 1929 race car that changed the course of history for this British automaker. Parts are coming in, and Bentley is building the first prototype.

Classic Recreations is again tuning its vintage expertise to an icon of American motoring and this time with a decidedly high-performance twist, with a new line of Shelby GT500CR models featuring carbon fiber bodies for the first time.

In 1907, William K Vanderbilt brokered a deal for 11 Renault factory road racers to come to America. Four remain. One is for sale.

At the 2019 SEMA show, Chevrolet is turning heads with a venerable classic pickup, a 1962 C-10, that’s been turned into a hot rod. While that’s normally the stuff of county fairs and local club shows, this one’s different. It’s electric.

Lunaz seeks to make a bold entry into the high-end car market by restoring history's "most beautiful and celebrated cars" to make them all-electric.

Sir Tim Birkin's Bentley Blower never won a race, but it was a heck of a car and an even better story. Now, Bentley's building 12 new 1929 Blowers.