RM Sotheby’s did well by adding a third night to its 2019 Monterey auction roster, featuring Aston Martins exclusively. The star of the evening, a 1965 DB5 that was one of three existing screen cars from the popular 007 franchise movie, Goldfinger, sold for a huge $6,385,000 to plenty of applause from the auction room.
Applause came first when the ex-Bond DB5 rolled onto the block in the Portola Plaza Hotel event space after a short teaser video played, showing the car screeching around twisting roads with appropriately Bond-esque music and cinematography. Bidding started quick and steady, with six bidders vying for the car both in the room and on the telephone, though once bids crested $4.5 million, then $5 million, the remaining bids were given more thoughtfully. In all, it took nearly five minutes before the car was hammered sold to a bidder in the room.
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The Toyota Corolla is known for its conventional looks, but a new special edition model hopes to change the script. For 2020, the sedan and hatch receive a Nightshade Edition with blacked-out exterior accents. Other updates have also been announced for the Corolla Hatchback.
Based off the SE trim with the CVT transmission, the 2020 Toyota Corolla Nightshade Edition features many black exterior accents, from the front fascia to the door handles, mirror caps, rocker panels, and rear spoiler. The Corolla Hatchback Nightshade Edition adds black elements to the headlamps. Finishing off the look are black 18-inch wheels on both models.
Buyers can choose three colors [...]
Bentley has resurrected a piece of their lost automotive history with this stunning recreation of their 1939 Corniche. The idea originated when Greek race car driver Andre Embiricos ordered a performance car based on Bentley’s 4¼ Litre chassis. Engineers and higher-ups had been kicking around the idea of a performance version of the MkV for a while. A lightweight chassis and a tuned-up version of the MkV engine coupled to an overdrive gearbox was combined with a more aerodynamic look designed for better performance.
The result was the Corniche, Bentley’s first streamlined vehicle that would be the standard for the marque’s future post-war cars. Only one model was ever produced with it, unfortunately, suffering heavy damage during track testing in France in 1939. The chassis was sent to the Bentley plant located in Derby for repairs and the body was sent to a shop in France. The finished [...]
Three seconds flat, 11.3 seconds at 120.1 mph. That’s the current record for the quickest SUV MotorTrend has ever tested, set by the 641-hp Lamborghini Urus just over two months ago. Already, it’s in danger. By a hybrid. Meet the 2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid.
With 670 hp and 663 lb-ft combined from its gasoline-electric powertrain, the Turbo S E-Hybrid out-muscles the all-gas Lambo by 29 hp and 36 lb-ft, making it the most powerful production SUV we’ve driven. It gets there with the Cayenne Turbo’s twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 making 541 hp and 567 lb-ft and the Cayenne E-Hybrid’s electric motor making 134 hp and 295 lb-ft, blended together with lots of software and delivered to all four wheels all the time. Porsche says it’ll hit 60 mph in 3.6 seconds, but forget I even mentioned that number. The standard Cayenne Turbo does it in 3.2 seconds.
You’re right, the electric motor, 14.1-kW-hr battery, [...]
Think about your ideal car collection—how many vehicles could you reasonably live with? It’s probably fewer than this automotive armada of some 200 collector cars in rural Minnesota. Blessed with plentiful acreage and productive crops, a farmer by the name of James Graham amassed a huge number of cars and trucks over his lifetime. Graham has passed on to the great highway in the sky, and now VanDerBrink Auctions is taking on the task of liquidating his estate. Could your dream car be one of the classics in this epic barn find?
The Graham collection is comprised primarily of American makes, ranging in vintage from the 1920s to mid-1970s. The bulk seems to be from the middle period, with numerous examples by defunct brands. While many sat outside to endure rotations of Minnesota’s seasons, others are in various states of preservation or restoration, with fabulous specimens of the best of bygone eras.
