Maybe they wouldn't have won at Le Mans, but nearly all of them achieved great success with other companies and teams. Or to put it another way, Ford or Ferrari needed them more than they did.

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+1 on the whole latest love thing:

+1 on the whole latest love thing:

1966 Corvair Corsa was the first car I drove and worked on with my dad. Tuning the 4 single carburetors on it was an education in itself.

A great book, to be sure, but I grew tired of the focus on Henry Ford and Ferrari, who come off as a couple of aging overweight peacocks strutting around for dominance over everything and everybody. The real heroes were the builders, team managers, and the drivers, especially Ken Miles, who had to be one of the…

Safe for now, as long as they can keep suing owners who sell them for breach of contract.

Unless you are a professional racing driver, in a car with that much power on one of the most demanding road courses in existence, the answer to your question should be everyone 

In other words, he didn't do anything correctly upon exit.

I suppose somebody could cross-shop it with any number of performance cars, but Toyota was indexing it performance wise with the Cayman, just as BMW was aiming at the Boxster with the new Z4.

Never said they didn’t, but the Duesenbergs had first hand knowledge of the early Bugatti engines since they manufactured them under license for the French government in 1919. This experience was instrumental in their decision to sell their existing business and start a new company devoted to manufacturing racing…

I’m curious to know how many times the Maserati brothers will be rolling in their graves seeing their name attached to this hot mess.

Your first reaction is one we all initially had. Your response was more indicative of maturity, empathy and grace. You certainly don’t have to apologize to anyone here for it. 

Perhaps the fact that he was somebody else's son as well? Have a little empathy, his parents will be grieving for him and the other victims as well.

I am not making any excuses for such a senseless tragedy, but being only eighteen, with maybe too much money at that age, is a recipe for some bad decisions. I feel incredibly sad for his two victims, but also sad that he couldn’t live long enough to possibly develop in maturity.   

As a father of two sons I know how tumultuous those years from teenager to early twenties can be. I hope he gets back safe and soon.

Cadillac doesn’t have to look any farther for inspiration than its own seminal 100 year plus history that included the worlds first self starting engine, the first production V-8 in America in 1915, and later V-12 and V-16 powered production cars.

Which is an interesting bit of symmetry since the Bugatti engine inspired the Duesenbergs to create their own eight cylinder masterpiece 

Nice article. An interesting part of their rise to success is that they started manufacturing Bugatti straight eight engines under license shortly after WW1, which heavily influenced the design of their own engines shortly thereafter.

This was the “family car” of my dads stable when I was an infant, the others being a Triumph TR3 and a 1960 GMC pickup.