Fun to drive and stylish, but Alfa still needs to fix the small flaws that keep it from being a true luxury make.
2024 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Competizione AWD
1965 Porsche 904 GTS
Spark's 1:43 scale Porsche 904 replicates a sports car icon ... Porsche was already challenging Ferrari in the mid-1960s, as was Ford with its GT40, for sports car supremacy in the major European races. Think Le Mans and the Targa Florio. And while all three had, and some continue to have, success in the sports... Continue Reading →
Mercedes-AMG
Minichamps Mercedes-AMG Petronas W11:Lewis Hamilton, 2020 Eifel GP Record 91 wins ... Another Formula 1 season starts this weekend and to mark the season’s launch it seems appropriate to review a Minichamps 1:43 scale model of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas driven by all-time F1 race winner Lewis Hamilton, when he set the record in 2020. Sir... Continue Reading →
2022 Cars & Guitars Show
Green Bay car show packs in everything from Vettes to Rovers ... This 1958 Chevy 310 Apache is as sharp, or sharper than the day it drove off the showroom floor. Summer is car show season and it’s a short season in Wisconsin, so buddy and videographer Paul Daniel and I hit the Cars &... Continue Reading →
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible
Auto World launches its first Barbie Bel Air in 1:18 scale ... Turquoise and pink certainly team up to shout 1950s car fashion, but in this case they also scream Barbie dream car. I’m no Barbie expert (no sisters), but I do know that the bosomy blonde doll has been partial to brightly colored cars... Continue Reading →
Car Spotting: A rare Ferrari
California Dreaming in Wisconsin ... What normal car person doesn't turn their head when they see a Ferrari? I had one drive right up to me this past summer while working at Ironwood Golf Course in Wisconsin. My duties at bag drop for a charity golf outing were put on hold as I grabbed my... Continue Reading →
Die-Cast: Autoart’s 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT HellCat widebody
In any scale a Hellcat Widebody bulges with muscles ... As retro racy as Dodge’s Challenger has been in its latest iteration, the Widebody version is the most muscular looking and the Hellcat flexes the greatest amount of muscle under the hood. Sinamon Stick or Destroyer Gray? I gotta go with the brighter Hellcat! Combine... Continue Reading →
Die-Cast Autoart Pagani Huayra Roadster
Rockin' Huayra Roadster is packed with detail ... Think of an Italian supercar and likely you’ll conjure up images of a Ferrari or Lamborghini in all its red or yellow sleekness that translates into sexy, exotic, and fast. But now there’s Pagani, another Italian make out of Modena (Ferrari’s birthplace), and its sleek mistresses of... Continue Reading →
Die-cast: Autoart’s 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic
Gorgeous classic Bugatti a tiny jewel in 1:43 scale ... Oh, be still my swoopy car design-loving heart. Autoart has created a 1:43 gem of a classic Bugatti that may be the most beautiful car ever. That may sound overhyped, but it is not. The 1938 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic is drop-dead gorgeous now, just as... Continue Reading →
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe
Chevy's mid-engine Vette thumbs its nose at the Supercars ... Chevy’s new Corvette is kryptonite to the ever-growing bevy of Supercars. For more than 65 years Chevrolet’s everyman’s dream car has put its throbbing V8 power in front of the driver, but with the eighth generation that all changes. Supercars beware! Now the Vette’s 6.2-liter... Continue Reading →
Savage On Wheels 