Ferrari’s new king… for now Legend has it that when asked to name what he thought was the best Ferrari model, Enzo Ferrari replied, “The next one.” Enzo is long gone, but we could imagine the thrill Ferrari engineers still feel today following that creed as they develop each new vehicle. We could also imagine […]
Design masterpieces for under $1 million 1970 Maserati Ghibli: A Giugiaro Masterpiece The current Maserati Ghibli sport sedan is objectively a better performer than the car from which it inherited its name, the original 1967-1973 Ghibli. One look at the original, though, and you know why it could never be eclipsed by mere performance numbers. […]
Trio from Gooding & Company shows three sports car philosophies At the Gooding & Company Amelia Island auction, three sports cars viewed together stand out for showcasing a dramatically wide diversity in engineering and performance evolution spanning a mere 15 years. 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo: Start of a Legend The Porsche 930 (a.k.a. 911 Turbo, […]
Premier’s blog writer has been writing about cars for four decades. In summer 2015, I received an email from Premier Financial Services asking if I was available to write car profiles for the company’s blog. There was not much detail in the note, but a look at the PFS website intrigued me. And here I […]
A fitting tribute to the legendary F1 champ One could imagine the inspiration felt within McLaren at naming a model after Aryton Senna. The legendary Formula One champion driver died tragically in a crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy in his first season for the Williams team. Naming an ultimate track […]
As original as it gets There cannot be too many car enthusiasts who have not seen a 1962-1967 Cobra on the road or at car shows. That is a remarkable occurrence considering just under 1,000 were ever built by Shelby American in cooperation with AC Cars in England and Ford, which supplied the V8 engines. […]
A familiar crowd welcomes a wildcard For the first in Premier Financial Services history, a Chevy Corvette has become one of our top-10 leased cars. Technically, it tied for that honor with the #9 Ferrari SF90 and #8 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG. It’s not a surprise, as we are talking about the eighth-generation Corvette (“C8”), the […]
For stick-shift 911 fans, it’s the automatic choice. Perusing the 2025 Porsche 911 model line is a bit like trying to choose toothpaste from the bewildering selection in the supermarket aisle. There are so many kinds, each promising one advantage or another. You can wrack your brain trying to decide which is just right for […]
Maserati unleashes another true track car. Age-wise, the number of people who remember Maserati’s road-racing glory days of the late 1950s would be quite small today, but the marque is leveraging some recent racing with a new road model, the MC20 GT2 Stradale. The MC20 GT2 racer that currently competes in the Fanatec GT2 European […]
