Not just any Le Mans racer. This is the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette Scuderia Filipinetti Le Mans racer. The car was created during GM’s infamous ban on racing, and Zora Arkus-Dunov himself worked over the engine while keeping the project from The General’s heads of state. Here’s a little bit of Corvette lore for you: in [...]

After three attempts in three years Peugeot finally took the overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans at Circuit Le Sarthe this weekend with their diesel 908s finishing first and second. The #9 Peugeot 908 Hdi piloted by Marc Gene, David Brabham and Alexander Wurz was first followed by the #8 car driven [...]

With Audi campaigning an all-new generation R15 diesel at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, the company seems to be comfortable enough to let a round of auto journos behind the wheel. One of the lucky SOB’s was EVO’s James Mills, and the write up is absolutely worth the read. From Mills’ impressions, [...]

How’s this for a time warp? The ever-lovable Miata is two decades old this year, and to celebrate the occasion Mazda is inviting 200 hairdressers owners to the 24 hours of Le Mans. The company has set aside a spot for every single one of the tiny drop-tops, and the lucky drivers will get a [...]

How’s that for a name? I guess the cool cats at Exotic Auto Restoration weren’t satisfied by Superformance’s take on the legendary Brock Coupe. According to EAR, their version of the car remains faithful to the original Le Mans racer, sporting massive fender flares, huge 18 inch wheels (faithful to what now?) and serious Bilstein [...]

Denmark is now the proud papa of its very own supercar – the Zenvo ST1. Those sexy computer generated images we saw not surface on the interwebs not too long ago have finally come to fruition. Powered by a blown 7.0-liter V8, the car produces an unreal amount of thrust. How much is unreal? Go [...]

The GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans is about to get a little sexier. Rocketsports Racing unveiled a handful of renderings of its entry into both arenas – a GT2-prepped Jaguar XKR. The team’s keeping its lips sealed on horsepower numbers, but there’s a 5.0-liter naturally-aspirated [...]

The ever-lovable Porsche 914 has just turned 40. We’ve already expounded time and time again on all there is to admire about this little mid-engine rig, but for those of you who are new to Autofiends, allow me to recap. This car managed to combine all that was best in VW and Porsche to create [...]

Legendary chronograph-maker Tag Heuer has worked up a new promotion using clips of Steve McQueen’s Fiendish flick, Le Mans. The premise is a duel between the bad ass of all bad asses McQueen in his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 and F1 golden-boy Lewis Hamilton in his McLaren-Mercedes rig. There’s some cleverly-worked scenes with both drivers chatting [...]

Let me be clear. I loathe iTunes. In fact, I loathe Macs in general. It’s the contrarian in me – the same part that prefers suffering through trying to find parts for a big-block Ford instead of a dialing up the local parts store small block Chevrolet bits. I’d rather suffer through multiple Vista crashes [...]