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Introduced in April 1964 as an early 1965 model, the Mustang combined sporty styling, a long hood and short rear deck with mechanical components derived largely from Ford’s compact Falcon. Its enormous range of engines, body styles and options allowed buyers to configure anything from an economical commuter to a serious performance car, a formula…

Built primarily from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s, the various 250 GT models combined road-car refinement with engineering developed through Ferrari’s formidable competition program. Most shared a version of Gioacchino Colombo’s 3.0-liter V12, with the “250” designation referring approximately to the displacement of each cylinder. Beneath that common identity, however, Ferrari produced a remarkably…

Introduced for 1953, the Corvette evolved from a relatively modest fiberglass-bodied roadster into a world-class sports car, while retaining its front-engine, rear-wheel-drive configuration for more than six decades. Eight generations—commonly identified as C1 through C8—trace major changes in styling, engineering and performance. The C1 Corvette (1953–62) debuted with a fiberglass body, a 235-ci “Blue Flame”…

The Porsche 911 is one of the longest-running and most continuously developed sports cars in automotive history. Introduced in 1963 as the successor to the Porsche 356, it retained Porsche’s rear-engine philosophy but added a more powerful six-cylinder engine, a roomier 2+2 body and a chassis capable of evolving for decades. Originally introduced as the…

The Porsche 930 Turbo was the car that transformed the 911 from a fast sports car into one of the defining supercars of the 1970s and 1980s. Introduced for 1975, the 930 combined the familiar rear-engine 911 layout with turbocharging, dramatically wider bodywork and much greater performance. In Europe, Porsche initially marketed the car simply…