The Best Cars Ever Made
The greatest cars of all time. We tell you their stories.
The World's Greatest Cars. In Detail
From Bugattis to Ferraris and Porsches to Dusenbergs, the team at Sports Car Digest have decided to create profiles of some of the best cars ever produced. We didn't rank the top 100 cars ever because we don't want hate mail but we dive into the details and history of these historic, rare and desirable machines. Some of these cars are historically significant, some are about pushing the automotive technology of their time, while others are just the pinnacle of the driving experience - engaging, fast and fun. On this page we take a look at some of the most memorable sports cars of all time, all of them iconic and recognizable to any car-obsessed fan reading this site. These are the cars that get our blood flowing here at Sports Car Digest, from vintage racers to classics to the latest supercar offerings, we realize that there are myriad discussions debates over which ones are the most memorable, the most celebrated and the most remarkable. Ignore the debates and refrain from picking an overall winner. Just sit back and celebrate.
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Since its launch in Japan in 1992, the WRX (World Rally Experimental) has taken the world by storm. The WRX...
The Barn Find of a Lifetime There is just something about a weathered, unrestored original car that is intriguing. When...
A young Art Center College of Design student, named Peter Elbert Brock, became the youngest designer ever hired by Bill Mitchell, the Vice President of Design at General Motors. He rewarded Mitchell in November 1957 by making a sketch of what Mitchell chose to be the basis for the next...
Every vintage race car has a story to tell…but this story has more chapters than most. Become a Member &...
Ken Miles drove this car. So did Phil Hill, Bruce McLaren, and Chris Amon. It began life as one of...
It’s tough being British. The lackluster cuisine and stoic monarchy don’t help. Though they did give us the Beatles, Fish and Chips, and the James Bond franchise. For the most part, it’s rare to get a British moment of passionate engagement, especially for the average person. But there is one...
An impressively curated collection of historic Porsche automobiles wasexhibited at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this August. There were historic...
If you had to pick a singular, quintessential Ferrari to represent the pinnacle of their ascendance to the best in...
In October of 1969, Datsun started production on the 240Z, a car that would change the face of sports cars forever. The 240Z was a response to Toyota’s 2000GT. A car that was proposed to Datsun by Yamaha but was passed on and ended up becoming a halo car for...
These days, German companies direct what’s happening at several classic British car manufacturers – Rolls Royce, Bentley, Mini. There was...
When you don’t want to get your 289 Cobra muddy, and your GT 350 just doesn’t have enough ground clearance,...
The Shelby Daytona Coupe is the best American car ever built. Maybe even the best in the world. I can say this with a fair measure of confidence as this is my 100th car design article for this publication! That’s just over eight years of articles evaluating the automotive design...
When Jim Gehkre returned from his tour in Vietnam, in January of 1970, the first thing he needed was a...
History lauds volumes of praise to those who are first. Thinking back to 1964, many will recall a short wheelbase,...
The highly refined Supra You don’t waste much time canceling that dentist appointment when Road & Track offers you a day at the track behind the wheel of their 2023 Toyota GR Supra A91-CF edition. After a few gloating texts to some car buddies, “No lunch tomorrow, R&T track day,”...
The lightest and most powerful series-production McLaren, the new V8-engined, rear-wheel drive 750S – which is available in coupe and...
The T.33 SPIDER The T.33 Spider from Gordon Murray Automotive combines the beautiful, timeless design of the T.33 with an...
The MGA’s looks harken back to MG designer Sid Enever’s one-off, envelope body that he created for an MG TD to run in the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans by privateer George Phillips. Gone were the separate fenders that had been part of MG style in all the previous...
In September 2022, I travelled to Townsend, Tennessee, in the Great Smokey Mountains for Okteenerfest. The annual gathering of Porsche...
Creating his own car company was “an old idea of my father’s,” Ferry Porsche recalled. The idea dated back at...
When someone says “Sunbeam,” most car people immediately think of the “Tiger.” Sunbeam was much more than just that one model, and the subject of this profile is much rarer than the V8-stuffed Tiger. Origins of Sunbeam John Marston created what would become the manufacturer of some very nice British...
Great British Motor Shows has announced a new, premium motoring event for 2023: Masters of Motoring. Making its debut in...
The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is just a year shy of two decades old. However, such is the ageless design of...
The Tyrrell P34 is the only 6-wheeled F1 car that has ever been raced. In this video, enjoy the engine sound of the Tyrrell P34 as it races around the Zandvoort GP track....
Images courtesy of Glen Smale, Peugeot Motorsport, and Archives Terre Blanche/Photononstop On 26-27 May 1923, the first Le Mans 24...
Twisted Automotive, a known specialist on Land Rover Defenders, just unveiled 16 factory-fresh class Land Rover Defender 110s that came...
When the first Supra came on the scene in 1979—designation A40—it was not a stand-alone machine; it was a riff on the Toyota Celica hatchback. The Supra was 8.1 inches longer with a 5.1 longer wheelbase. Part of the increase in size was to allow Toyota to stick in a...
Potent, elegant and spaceship-like, the innovative Maserati MC20 is among the most exciting exotic sports cars on the market and...
The 2022 Monterey Car Week has been chosen by premium British supercar manufacturer Gordon Murray Automotive as the venue for...
Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance presented by Aviva is bringing together two Italian thoroughbreds who both have their roots from competition. The two cars definitely embody the spirit of wealthy, amateur racing drivers and owners from the pre- and post-war eras. Both cars are connected to the renowned Mille Miglia road...
Best of the Best Cars
We couldn't help ourselves. We decided to rate and rank some of the best cars ever made. Check out our curated list of the greatest cars by category.
Ultimate Garage Profiles
Some people have all the luck. We take a look at some of the most amazing car collections from across the globe. Museums, private collections and exhibits that are the envy of the automotive world.
It’s part Dr. Frankenstein, part Andy Granatelli. A place where old Fiat 500s are reborn, given new life, and prepped...
All photos by Matt Stone Most people might believe that Japan’s automotive history dates to sometime in the 1960s, because...
Car collector Corrado Lopresto has assembled the finest field of Italian automobiles in all of Italy (and possibly in the world). Sports Car Digest was given a rare look at the classics, and some of the quirks, that make up the Lopresto Collection. Just beyond these doors lie one-of-a-kind Lancias,...
Porsche Aftermarket Tuning: The State of Play There are few tuning companies in the world who are universally entrusted with...
If you follow professional sports car and endurance racing, you know the name Brumos, and its now iconic red, white,...
Bob Clarke is a committed car guy to say the least. And his tastes are wonderfully varied, from hot rods to Porsches and a lot in between.He’s also built himself one damn fine Man Cave in the Ventura County, California area, dedicated to his various collection pursuits. He’s nicknamed it...
Everybody starts somewhere. For Maserati, that beginning was epicentered at Via Pepoli 1 in Bologna, Italy, in December of 1914. ...
Bruce Meyers passed away last week at the age of 94. He lived a fulfilling life most of us can...
Around 60 years ago, Fritz Schlumpf purchased a collection of thirty Bugatti models after tough negotiations. He simply adored Bugatti: Schlumpf had to own as many of the vehicles as possible because he wanted to use them as a basis for establishing the biggest Bugatti collection in existence. In fact,...
The Ferrari Museum in Maranello opened its new exhibition — “Ferrari at 24 Heures du Mans” — to celebrate seventy...
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 that features ten race cars from the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 featuring ten race cars from the collection of Petersen Founding Chairman Bruce Meyer. Titled “Winning Numbers: The First, The Fastest, The Famous,” the exhibit contains cars from Meyer’s personal garage that broke land speed...
In 2012, Sports Car Digest and Senior Photographer Dennis Gray profiled famed car collector, Jon Shirley. Ever gracious with his...
The debut Grand Basel was staged 6-9 September 2018 in Basel, Switzerland. Celebrating ‘Excellence in Motion’, the inaugural Basel edition...
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany opened the “70 Years of the Porsche Sports Car” exhibition on Friday, June 8th, 2018. On this very day in 1948, the Porsche 356 ‘No. 1’ Roadster received its general operating permit. With this special exhibition, Porsche presents numerous stories and milestones through which...
Since it opened on June 1, 2017, the Newport Car Museum has attracted more than 14,000 visitors and become a...
The 2017 RM Sotheby’s New York City auction and exhibition was staged November 30 – December 6 at Sotheby’s York...
The Design Museum in London opened Ferrari: Under the Skin, an exhibition exploring the history and design of Ferrari. The show celebrates 70 years of development since the launch of the first car in 1947. Displaying rarely seen material from private collections, the display provides insight into the world of...
The first Classic Mazda Museum in Europe — and indeed the only one outside Japan — opened on 13th May...
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its latest exhibition in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery, “Seeing Red: 70 Years of Ferrari.”...
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