The modern Camaro shares its “Alpha” platform with Cadillac’s best sports sedans, including G.M.’s groundbreaking magnetic suspensions, a technology now adopted by Ferrari, Audi and others. For top Camaros and […]
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Back to news homeCustom 1951 Mercury Sells at Auction for $1.95 Million
A customized 1951 Mercury coupe astonished aficionados over the weekend, selling for $1.95 million at the Mecum collector car auction in Kissimmee, Fla., outpacing the vehicle’s presale estimate of up […]
A Custom Mercury, With a Batmobile in Its Family Tree, Heads to Auction
Nearly 70 years ago, a 21-year-old Navy veteran commissioned a custom Mercury, with a chopped-down roof, smoothed-out body panels, a lowered stance, novel chrome trim, two-tone paint and a meticulously […]
An Auto Show for the Raddest Cars of the ’80s and ’90s
Everything was awesome. The music was fresh, the movies were dope and the hair was big. The cars? Rad, then and now. Maybe especially now.In the 1980s and ’90s, cars […]
High Octane and a Stick Shift: Standout Cars as an Era Starts to End
For speed demons — or demons wedded to hellacious fossil-fuel power — the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing checks off quite a list. A supercharged, 668-horsepower V-8. A top speed above 200 […]
Why Electric Cars Could Make American Roads Resemble Cuba
All those stories about Cubans keeping ancient American cars on the road are absolutely true. It is out of necessity: Trade embargoes prevent both U.S. cars and parts from making […]
More Women Muscle In on the World of Vintage Cars
Armed with a welding torch and bolstered by a college grant, a GoFundMe account and help from some enthusiastic classmates, she entered the 2017 Grassroots Motorsports Challenge in Florida, scoring […]
A 1960 Corvette That Vanished for 40 Years After Le Mans Is Auctioned Off
The strange, serendipitous, 60-year saga of a historically significant but long-missing 1960 Chevrolet Corvette finally reached a measure of closure on Saturday with its sale for a somewhat disappointing $685,000 […]
How Car Collecting Powered Through the Pandemic
An eight-day Mecum auction in July in Indianapolis — previously postponed by the pandemic — notched record sales of $74 million. That figure included a highest-ever price of $3.85 million […]