Articles by Iain Kelly

Mazda's legacy at the Le Mans 24-Hour race is a thing of legend for Japanese car fans, thanks to their 1991 win being the first for a non-piston-powered car and the first for a Japanese manufacturer.

Drifting is a wild sport full of screaming engines, burning tyres, insane close-quarters sliding, and huge personalities.

Back in 2017 the boys from hit YouTube show Mighty Car Mods set out to build a car to run 10-second quarter-mile times in just a few days.

More often than not movies about cars and racing get panned both by mainstream audiences who find the subject boring, and by car enthusiasts who decry errors and a lack of realism to their beloved sport.

We love our cars Down Under, but Americans hold their pick-up truck of choice is right up there with religious beliefs, their right to bear arms, and deep-fried breakfast foods.

The only surviving pre-production Porsche is going up for auction later this year and early expectations are for the 1940 Type 64 to hit US$20,000,000!

Clem Smith's Charger gets another lease on life.

One of the most-anticipated cars of the last five years is Tesla’s long-awaited Model 3 sedan.

It is a sad fact for Aussies that most of the world’s fastest cars have only ever been built in left-hand drive to suit their European or American homelands.

A technological tour de force, Volkswagen arguably kicked off the modern hypercar era when it launched the epic 400km/h Bugatti Veyron 16.4 in 2005.The original coupe Veyron was built between 2005 and 2011, while the Grand Sport (2009-2015), Super Sport (2010-2011), and Grand Sport Vitesse (2012-2015) all followed. All up some 450 Veyrons and special editions were sold, rounded out by a special Grand Sport Vitesse called La Finale.Bugatti showed off a targa-roofed edition of the Veyron at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, with 150 of the open-top Grand Sport models being offered to the public in 2009. While the regular Veyrons were already pretty mental pieces of equipment Bugatti started building special editions in 2010, with the 883kW, 431km/h Super Sport kicking things off.As Bugatti only built 30 Veyron Super Sports the French manufacturer soon offered the targa-roofed Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, for those aristocrats who like to spend 10 minutes just saying the name of their latest hypercar. There were 92 Grand Sport Vitesse models sold, while they also built several special edition Grand Sport Vitesse models including the Vitesse SE, Vitesse World Record Car (of which eight were built), as well as a run of special editions based around famous French racing drivers.The base Veyron cost over US$1,750,000 when new, but easily sell for more than this today as collectors recognise the provenance of the first production car to break the 400km/h barrier. Average prices for standard Veyron 16.4 coupes sit around US$3,000,000 per car, though insurance valuations for special editions like the limited-edition Super Sport sit well over US$5,000,000 per-car!