18 February 2022 Josef Ganz was born in Hungary to a Jewish family which then moved to Vienna. He then moved to Germany, where he took up German citizenship fought in the German Navy during WWI. Engineer Josef Ganz shocked the people of Frankfurt by racing his revolutionary May Bug prototype on the city streets […]
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18 February 2022 The original Mille Miglia, translated as the ‘Thousand Miles’, ran between 1927 and 1957 and was Italy’s most legendary endurance car race. It started in Brescia and blazed to Rome. The racers then turned around and retraced their tracks back to Bresica, and took some 16 hours to complete. The rally was
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18 February 2022 Jay Leno said, ‘the only real supercar that’s for the guy who can’t afford the Ferrari or the Lamborghini.’ He referred to the 1970s Pantera, a little-known car from the little-known maker De Tomaso — little known, at least, compared with Ferrari or Lamborghini. Alejandro De Tomaso was an Argentine racing driver
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18 February 2022 After 20 years in development, director Michael Mann finally plans to start filming ‘Ferrari’ in Rome beginning in May. Brock Yates’ 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races inspired the film. Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was born in 1898, with the exact date a mystery thanks to multiple
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18 February 2022 Formula 1 will hold three sprint races this year following a compromise was found over money concerns. Success last year in increasing action and excitement with a grid-setting short Saturday race, F1 had intended to double the number of sprints to six in 2022. Some top teams wanted the cost cap to
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11 February 2022 Mercedes-Benz didn’t have an apparent and intelligent marketing strategy when they launched the 190 in December 1982. By the 1970s, Mercedes-Benz decided it needed a new entry-level model to take on the BMW 3 Series and Audi 80. But rather than rush its launch and produce a cut-price car, Mercedes is said
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11 February 2022 Gordon Murray Design. A lot has been written about Gordon Murray recently, especially regarding the T50 and the latest iteration, the T33. But the man is as interesting as his cars; he was born 18 June 1946 to Scottish immigrant parents and grew up in Durban, South Africa. His father was a
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11 February 2022 So what does the W mean? In different mythologies, founder Ralph R. Debbas, christian name Ralph’s means Wise Wolf; Mr Debbas is the ‘White Wolf’. W Motors is an Emirati sports car company founded in Lebanon in 2012, Lebanese and Italian engineers being the first developer of high-performance luxury sports cars in
11 February 2022 In February 1957, the Citroën DS in various shapes and colours was displayed at a contemporary art fair in Paris. The theme is ‘la DS est un oeuvre d’art’. The DS is a work of art. In 1957 an essay by French author Roland Barthes described the cars as ‘almost the exact
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11 February 2022 ‘Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway, and I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.’ – Juan Manuel Fangio. Juan Manuel Fangio is regarded by many as the most fantastic Grand Prix driver of all time.
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