Car Lovers: Start Your Engines for Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale ‘09
The gavel is down: Everyone is SOLD! on Barrett-Jackson. The 38th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction returns to the big white tent at WestWorld in north Scottsdale, Jan. 11–18, with […]
KEEP READING >Ninth Scottsdale Russo and Steele Gets Set in the Blocks
January 14–18, 2009: Set your stopwatches to Russo and Steele time. For bidders, consignors and lovers of legendary cars: The Ninth Annual Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auction returns to […]
KEEP READING >Griggs Racing: The Market is Cornered on Custom ‘Stangs
A $150,000-plus Porsche pulls up to your right at a quiet stoplight. You’re in your Griggs Racing GR40 ST and could extend a kowtow nod: After, all, you’ve been challenged […]
KEEP READING >Ride The New Bull —
The “gallant one” from Lamborghini just got gallanter. Revealed at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show, the 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 charges even more fearlessly than its predecessor with a new […]
KEEP READING >High Fives for the Pagani Zonda Cinque
Only five fortunate drivers will own one. Only five 2009 Zonda Cinque cars will be built at Pagani Automobili in Modena, Italy — hence the “Cinque” (Italian, “cheen-kway”). You will […]
KEEP READING >DBS: Multiple Personalities from the Land of AM
“The car has multiple personalities,” says a smiling Stan Briggs of the Aston Martin DBS. Stan is the brand manager at Scottsdale Aston Martin, a Penske Automotive Group dealership, which […]
KEEP READING >Ferrari 430 Scuderia:
Michael Schumacher didn’t just drive the new Ferrari 430 Scuderia. The seven-time world champion honed it to Formula 1 excellence, adjusting gear-change timing, traction, suspension, stability. So, the 510-horsepower limited-edition […]
KEEP READING >Evolution MotorSports
For sure, a 2008 Porsche 997 Twin Turbo is not a mild-mannered Clark Kent kind of ride. But after Evolution MotorSports smokes the tires of this great sports car into, […]
KEEP READING >Lady and the Beast
The Lady: Scottsdale’s Lynn Smith. The Beast: A Shelby Daytona Coupe from John Panfil’s Anthem Motors. Smith and husband Barry accepted delivery last October of the super-car from Panfils’s north […]
KEEP READING >Exige S 240: Rocket Ship to Planet Lotus
A purpose-built go-cart for the street. That’s the 2008 Exige S 240 — Lotus’ quickest, most powerful street-legal production car to date — as described by one man who knows. […]
KEEP READING >2009 Jaguar XF Spins Tires and Turns Heads
Tony Blair has driven the new Jaguar XF. Sometime in March, you can, too, at Scottsdale Jaguar Land Rover, 6725 E. McDowell Road. The former British Labour prime minister couldn’t […]
KEEP READING >Reserve Jan. 16–20 for Russo and Steele
A Yenko, a Jag, a Cobra, and a Spyder. Scottsdale Photo Radar Alert: Drew and Josephine Alcazar have these sizzling-hot cars and 500 other collectibles revving up and rolling into […]
KEEP READING >Annual Event Returns to WestWorld
A one-off Italianized ’63 Vette, a ’35 very English Rolls originally delivered to très French Montreal, and a fire-breathing California-built Robosaurus: Where else but Barrett-Jackson? These two collectibles as well […]
KEEP READING >Four Classics: One Shop
One day John Panfil may arrive as one of America’s car legends. To get there, he sells them. American Legends, 21242 N. Black Canyon Highway, specializes in home-grown race car […]
KEEP READING >Drop-Head Gorgeous
Three tons, 12 cylinders, two coach doors, four seats and a base of just over $400,000: one superlative automobile. The long-awaited Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé, which began as the 100 […]
KEEP READING >A New Italian Beauty from Modena
The Trident has made its points, again. Meet the Maserati GranTurismo. Grand touring cars combine power with roadability, strength with elegance, assurance with grace. They meet the road with the […]
KEEP READING >Scottsdale Car Lover Pounces on One-off Cobra
Ed Brace just helped many kids by helping out the kid in him. The owner of Scottsdale-based Diamond Back Automotive Group recently purchased the “Black Hornet,” a one-off 1968 Shelby […]
KEEP READING >Forgiato Forges Ahead
To move their high-profile wheels, Norman and AC Celik sometimes get high. So high, the cofounding brothers of Forgiato once booked an employee on Delta Airlines with a set of […]
KEEP READING >Maserati Quattroporte Automatica:
The Trident has made its point — and points — again. The Maserati Quattroporte Automatic, the latest from the Maserati factory in Modena, Italy, slickly unites luxury with speed, functionality […]
KEEP READING >Stryking Spyker
“For the tenacious, no road is impassable.” For the lover of handcrafted performance cars, no Spyker is undesirable. The Dutch-designed and handbuilt sports car, bearing the Latin motto, “Nulla tenaci […]
KEEP READING >Ferrari 599 GTB: Road Killer
Here’s a high-performance challenge: Start with the legendary 575 Maranello, unveiled by Ferrari in 2002, and create a front-engined V12 berlinetta that would exceed its extraordinary performance on the track […]
KEEP READING >LP640 Roadster Bares, Dares All
Top this: Top down, you accelerate from that irksome freeway red-light to 60 miles an hour in 3.4 seconds, and this graceful V12 will see green until around 205 miles […]
KEEP READING >Classic Carriages Inaugural Collector Car Auction and Show Debuts March 14–18
Feel left out in the collector-car parking lot? Want to sell your two-door classic but can’t get in the proverbial front door of other auctions? Like car auctions but wish […]
KEEP READING >Miura to Murciélago
Dream of sandcastles and kick sand in the face of Ferrari, whose muscle-bound cars were already legends on the raceways, on the roads, in the motoring mags. This is how […]
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