Author: Shelly Johnson

[ad_1] What happens when a barn find hunter and classic Jaguar enthusiast happen upon two different XK-series roadsters less than a quarter mile apart? Tom Cotter, the host of Hagerty's "Barn Find Hunter," says he always dreams of opening a barn door and finding an old Jaguar XK120 or XK140. He's about to strike gold twice, and they're virtually on opposite sides of the same street. The first find is an XK120 roadster. Purportedly once owned by Daniel Gerber (like the baby food), it was acquired by Cotter's host, Denny Hoxie, from somebody who had let it go to seed a bit. Hoxie's XK120 is very much a survivor that was merely repaired, rather than restored. Hoxie says that when he first started working on his XK, the cars weren't old…

[ad_1] Toyota is committed to launching at least 10 battery-electric cars by 2025, with the first expected to arrive in 2020. Some of these will come from Lexus which will present an EV concept at this month's Tokyo Motor Show, previewed here in a teaser video released on Thursday. The concept is thought to preview a production model due in 2020. The teaser video shows off the concept's headlight design and that's about it. All Lexus will say about it is that it will be a battery-electric vehicle, though rumors point to it being a small, hatch-like vehicle with a tall, boxy design. You can also bet on it coming with a large spindle grille, even though EVs don't really need grilles. It's possible the concept will be an evolution…

[ad_1] When you think of actor Vin Diesel and car movies, the natural intersection of those concepts is the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but there's another action series that weaves the two together: "xXx." Dubbed the Flame Car, the 1967 Pontiac GTO Hardtop that recently visited Jay Leno's Garage has been owned by Thom Sherwood since 2005. A Pontiac fanatic who wrote reviews of movies that featured the brand, Sherwood knew from the moment he saw the GTO in the "xXx" trailer back in 2002 that he had to have one.  Five running '67 GTOs were built for the film along with a sixth, non-running rig car which was used for various close-up shots. Of the five runners, two were sold on eBay by the production studio and wound up…

[ad_1] A custom LEGO builder spent two years putting together this 1:8 scale 2017 McLaren 720S, which features everything from a functional suspension and sequential gearbox to impressively detailed body panels.  To say this MOC ("My Own Creation") is cobbled together from various LEGO Technic components simply doesn't do the build justice. While it's common for factory-produced LEGO kits to include intricate mechanical details, to have put this project together from scratch makes the end result all the more spectacular.  All of this 720S model's moving parts, well, move. From the doors to the hood and even the active rear wing, everything has been replicated as faithfully as the medium allows. Even the interior display folds, just like the real thing. The builder's video flaunts all of the above features…

[ad_1] After a roughly 40-year hiatus, the Bugatti EB110 put the French brand back among the automotive elite when it was introduced in 1990. That car is now almost 30 years old, and Bugatti on Friday celebrated its contribution to the brand with a new special-edition version of the Chiron called the Centodieci. The word Centodieci means 110 in Italian, so the name is an obvious tie-in to the EB110, which in itself was a tie-in to the history of the brand. The EB110 was presented to the public on company founder Ettore Bugatti’s (EB) 110th birthday (110). This car was revealed at The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering during Monterey Car Week. Bugatti CentodieciBugatti CentodieciBugatti Centodieci Rather than build a car that simply aped the EB110, Bugatti started with the Chiron…