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People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach ...
Tom Peters with the C6 Corvette shortly after its introduction in 2005. His vision greatly drove Corvette styling through the last three generations of America’s sports car. Courtesy Tom Peters Tom ...
Never say never—unless you’re talking about diesel as a mainstream fuel option in the U.S. We’re more likely to see wood-burning steam engines under the hood of future cars than we are ...
“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” Now that customers will soon receive their cars, we decided to ...
Originally from La Mirada, California, and now living in Santa Ana, Bowden had a lot of good memories of this car even before it was handed down to him when he became a freshly-minted driver at 16. He ...
The Hagerty Price Guide Indexes—first published in 2009—are a series of stock market-style indexes that average the Hagerty Price Guide condition #2 (“excellent”) values of representative vehicles, or ...
The annual Villa d’Este Concours d’Elegance has gradually morphed into one of the biggest and most prestigious classic-car events in Europe. Adjacent to the show, which takes place on the shores of ...
We have many dedicated valuation specialists at Hagerty who pay close attention to the collector car market day in and day out. They track sales volume and prices to keep the Hagerty Valuation Tool up ...
The economics facing the postwar car industry in the U.K. were complex and challenging. The country was nearly bankrupt, and it had to sell its manufactured products abroad in an “export or die” model ...
There’s little question that attorneys for Porsche have been in close contact with attorneys for Singer Vehicle Design, the California-based company that, since it opened in 2009, has produced and ...
Last week, this series featured a classic compact Detroit station wagon. I’ve decided to make it two wagons a row with an example of one of the best-selling small Detroit longroofs of the 1960s. This ...
Zora Arkus-Duntov—the Corvette’s first chief engineer—is the primary legend of Chevrolet lore, but behind that superstar there were unsung individuals working to get the cars designed, built, and ...