TECHART’s GTstreet R/RS from CEC
How do you get the owners of head-turning cars to turn their heads? How do you make a Porsche 997 Turbo or GT2 better — not just different but faster, […]
KEEP READING >California Dreaming
This Prancing Horse will gallop and lope for you all day and far into a Pacific-coast sunset. Unveiled at the Paris International Car Show in October 2008, the new Ferrari […]
KEEP READING >SHELBY GT500:
Want to ride happily into the sunset with one of America’s — one of the world’s — great sports cars? Ride over, then, to Sunset Ford, 9130 W. Bell Road […]
KEEP READING >UNIQ Spells One of a Kind
Be different, be UNIQ! This difference you see, touch, hear, even smell, at UNIQ Motorsports, a member of the UNIQ group of companies, 3045 E. Main St. in Mesa, between […]
KEEP READING >Wow! Audi
Audi is just now getting to 100. It’s new R8 5.2 FSI Quattro — blink! — just got there a whole lot faster. Ten cylinders, 525 horses at 8,000 rpm, […]
KEEP READING >Atom-ic Energy
Can the new Ariel Atom 3 top the AA 2? Ask Franz Forman. He knows. Franz and wife Emily own Forman Motorsport, 22515 N. 19th Ave. in Phoenix, the only […]
KEEP READING >Good Karma
Zero to 60 in less than 6 seconds — and zero emissions. Irvine, Calif.-based Fisker Automotive is producing the Karma, a performance four-door sports sedan that performs for the environment […]
KEEP READING >R-R Phantom Coupé
The Fourth Phantom has arrived. The long-awaited Coupé completes the sixth–generation Phantom family, which includes the Phantom, Phantom Extended Wheelbase and the Phantom Drophead Coupé. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars began production […]
KEEP READING >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 […]
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