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1 week ago | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard |Richard Dredge
In the history of long-forgotten automotive projects that never quite got off the ground, there are plenty that simply didn’t deserve to succeed, either because they were badly engineered, poorly made, optimistically priced, or some combination of them all. But none of these things applied to the Spectre R42, because it was well engineered, fabulous to drive, and sensibly priced, even though it was up against some very stiff competition.
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1 month ago | 
hagerty.com | Sajeev Mehta |Eddy Eckart |Joe DeMatio |Stefan Lombard
It is true. We automotive journalists are rightfully guilty of living in a dream world that most motorists could never even imagine. But sometimes one of us enjoys popping this academic Bubble of Automobilia (as it were), and this time it was our own Kyle Smith who asked something utterly reasonable to his co-workers:What’s the best utility vehicle for 95% of our needs? I was excited to see how we answered this one and immediately tried to justify something like a Ford Raptor.
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1 month ago | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard |Richard Dredge
At almost a century, the lifespan of Hans Glas’s manufacturing empire was quite long, but in that period it made cars for little more than a decade, so it’s perhaps no wonder that his is a marque now forgotten by all but the most ardent motoring anoraks. Based in Dingolfing, Bavaria, Hans Glas GmbH was founded in 1883 to make agricultural machinery.
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2 months ago | 
hagerty.com | Sajeev Mehta |Stefan Lombard
I mentioned my Mother’s chai recipe in a recent , and several people requested a copy of said instructions. One request came with a question about heated steering wheels, so now I have ample reason to publish Mom’s Chai recipe. Thank you all for your interest! – SMKent: Sajeev…where is Mom’s recipe? Why didn’t you post it? Olddog66: I would be interested in the chai recipe as well. Sounds like a good drink regardless of location.
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2 months ago | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard |Roland Brown
The young guy on the modern 125cc sport bike didn’t back off the throttle as he went screaming past me and the stationary CB72 where we sat in a lay-by on a busy dual carriageway. He barely gave the Honda a second glance, and if he had he probably wouldn’t have been impressed. To him this would just have been some old bike whose rider was jumping up and down on its kickstarter in an attempt to get it running.
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2 months ago | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard |Sean Smith
Horsepower was always a part of Lexy Barlow’s life. Her first taste of it was a thousand pounds, had four legs, and was fueled by hay. From a young age, Lexy was a competitive show jumper at a very high level. She picked it up from her dad. “He was a championship show jumper,” says her Uncle Joey. “He put her on a horse, and she trained to jump. She also worked at a stable in Westport, Connecticut. The man she worked for was a taskmaster and very strict.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard |Richard Dredge
British microcar builder Berkeley may have been in business for just five years, but it produced a surprisingly large number of different models in that time, and it also offered something genuinely different from most of the other microcar brands, in that the focus was on fun rather than utility. As Autocar put it: “This car really does have sporting characteristics, while also being a satisfactory means of economy transport for two people.”There were two key players in the Berkeley story.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard |David Lillywhite
Lest we conveniently forget … this is how Bentleys used to be, and not that long ago, actually. If it seems as remarkable to you as it does to me that it’s been 22 years since the Continental GT emerged from VW Group’s then-recently acquired Crewe factory, then consider this: The Continental R you see here was built in the same year—2003. It feels like a different era altogether. Is that a good thing? Hmmm. Well, it’s utterly charming, in a way that the Conti GT isn’t, at least so far.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard
Ruf. Long before the word restomod was coined, and years before a Porsche 911 had been altered by Singer or RWB or Theon or Gunther Werks, there was Ruf. It is a name known the world over, thanks initially to a certain video with a Yellowbird on the Nürburgring and then thanks to that same canary-colored CTR’s inclusion in the Gran Turismo video game for Sony’s PlayStation. But what is the company up to now?
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
hagerty.com | Stefan Lombard |Ben Barry
There are brand ambassadors, and then there’s Jari-Matti Latvala, current principal of the Toyota WRC team and former Toyota WRC driver. The 39-year-old Finn isn’t just on the Toyota payroll, he lives and breathes the brand, and he still owns the AE86 Corolla GT he drove as a teenager, as well as the later Corolla WRC.
