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At 70 years old, Jeff Zwart has little left to prove. The American Porsche icon has built a career spanning award-winning film direction, record-setting runs at Pikes Peak and the creation of the globally celebrated Luftgekühlt gatherings. Yet even for Zwart, one legendary challenge remained unfinished business. More than half a century after first reading about it as a high school student, Zwart has finally completed the East African Safari Classic Rally, widely regarded as one of the most brutal […]

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The Bugatti Veyron is regarded as a defining supercar, remembered for becoming the world’s fastest production model. Named after 1939 Le Mans winner Pierre Veyron, it featured a quad-turbocharged 16-cylinder engine producing 987 horsepower. Released in 2005 and inspired by the Bentley Hunaudières concept, it was built in Molsheim, France. Hartmut Warkuss led the design, Jozef Kaban shaped the body, and Wolfgang Schreiber oversaw engineering. Volkswagen recorded a 253.81 mph top speed at its test track. The Veyron uses 10 […]

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Hagerty’s Ultimate Lap Battle pits three of the quickest track-focused cars on sale—the Corvette ZR1, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, and Mustang GTD—against each other. The 2026 Corvette ZR1 arrives with 1,064 hp and a clear mission: redeem the Z06’s 2023 loss. Key upgrades include massive carbon-ceramic brakes with new 10-piston Alcon calipers, directly addressing the Corvette’s previous braking shortcomings. The Mustang GTD is essentially a road-legal version of Multimatic’s GT3 race car, developed to challenge Porsche’s long-standing dominance. It comes […]

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Unveiled in October 2015, the Ferrari F12tdf is a limited-production model named in homage to the 250 GT Tour de France, which dominated the Tour de France Automobile in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Like that car, the F12tdf was conceived as a lighter, track-focused evolution, built for collectors and gentleman racers seeking maximum performance. Power was increased over the standard F12 to 769 horsepower at 8,500 rpm and 520 lb-ft of torque, with 80 percent available from 2,500 […]

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Over the past 12 months, Zenvo Automotive’s development programme has accelerated to its most intensive phase to date. The Aurora programme continues its relentless progression, applying pioneering technologies and processes while achieving key results at every development gateway. In parallel, the Zenvo brand has strengthened significantly, attracting world-class global talent and leading dealer partners as production draws ever closer. The first quarter of 2025 marked a major milestone with the successful first fire-up of ‘Mjølner’, the world’s most powerful production […]

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Unveiled in Dubai in 2019, the McLaren Elva is the brand’s first modern open-top, road-legal sports car. Its name references Frank Nichols’ Elva race cars, which built customer versions of Bruce McLaren’s M1 prototypes in the 1960s. The Elva became the fifth model in McLaren’s Ultimate Series, following the F1, P1, Senna, and Speedtail. Unlike the original steel-framed Elva racers, the modern Elva is largely carbon fiber, sharing its architecture with the Senna. The chassis, doors, and seats are all […]

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The Bugatti Bolide is one of the rarest and most extreme cars on the planet and Only 40 of these track-only machines exist, completely redesigned from the Chiron, featuring a brand-new monocoque and the iconic quad-turbo W16 engine. Weighing just under 1,600 kg—lighter than a standard Chiron—and equipped with slick tires, it delivers an astonishing 1,600 horsepower. Its top speed is “limited” to 380 km/h, as the gearing is optimized for real-world racetrack performance, allowing a blistering 0–100 km/h sprint […]

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