Silverstone Auctions closed its 2018 season out with a £4.2 million ($5.4 million) sale over the weekend that featured cars once owned by Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen.  Sinatra’s 1984 Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible, given to […]

Cars were streaming into the upper level of the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center when I visited the site of the Mecum Auction on Wednesday afternoon. The first of them crossed the […]

As World War I ended, T.G. John, former manager for British motorcar manufacturer Siddeley-Deasy, bought the rights to Hillman’s Electra engine line. He also bought a foundry and a factory, and soon had 200 employees […]

The first Ford Mustang hardtop built as a pre-production car is a Plain Jane base model in Caspian Blue powered by a 170 cid inline-6 with a three-speed manual transmission. However, it is the first […]

Waymo, the autonomous car company owned by Google parent firm Alphabet, will launch the first driver-free taxi service before the end of 2018.  The as-yet-unnamed service will allow customers to hail driverless cabs with apps […]

A French-built car with an Italian-built V6 under the hood, the Citroen SM SC was lauded by critics and was the Motor Trend Car of the Year in 1972.  We went to the Mullin Automotive […]

One of London’s most famous thoroughfares, Regent Street, is renowned for its shops and neo-classical architecture. But it was recently closed to normal traffic from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circuit for the Regent Street Motor […]

When people start talking about classic muscle cars, it doesn’t take long for the Dodge Charger to pull into the conversation.  Originally designed as a mid-sized alternative to the Ford Mustang, the Charger became a […]

If you look in a far corner of the Stanford University campus, you will find The Center for Automotive Research, a place where students, professors, manufacturers and even the federal government work together to build […]