On November 21st, RM Auctions together with Sotheby's will host the very exclusive Art of the Automobile sale. Only three dozen cars will cross the block and each of them is special. The catalog itself, with photography by Michael Furman, is already a work of art. Many of the consigned cars are absolutely unique like the Lincoln, Maserati and Duesenberg featured today.
The former was created by Boano for the 1955 Turin Motor Show and was dubbed the Indianapolis. The bright orange machine combines classic lines with futuristic cues like the faux exhausts on the flanks. Following its show duties, it was sold to the United States where in more recent years it was completely restored. This year, the Indianapolis won the Lincoln Trophy at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance where the manufacturer was the featured marque. The striking show car is estimated to change hands for $2 - $2.5 million.
Zagato was one of the most prominent coach-builders of the Maserati A6G range but only created one open example; this A6G/54 2000 Spyder. It was originally earmarked for Juan Peron but political unrest prevented the Argentinean president from taking delivery. The car was eventually sold to an American diplomat stationed in Paris. Now beautifully restored, the unique Zagato Spyder has been successfully shown at events on both sides of the Atlantic. It has an estimate of $3.5 - $4.5 million.
Walter Murphy built just eight 'Beverly' sedan bodies for Duesenberg chassis and this example is the only one fitted on a factory-equipped SJ. The 'Duesey' was restored by RM Restorations in 2008 and is now estimated to sell for $2 - $2.5 million.

We decided to start this week on a high with a very detailed feature on the Ferrari 512 S. Built ahead of the 1970 season to take on the Porsche 917, the Group 5 sports car features a beautiful five-litre V12 engine with four valves per cylinder, which produces in excess of 550 bhp. Despite Porsche's one-year head start, the 512 S managed to grab a victory in the Sebring 12 Hours early in the year. During the next races, the 917 did prove quicker, which prompted Ferrari to develop the lighter and more powerful 512 M. Most 512 Ss were upgraded, making them a very rare sight today. Our in-depth feature is illustrated by a 84-shot gallery of four different examples. Among them is chassis 1004, which only very recently emerged from long term hiding and was first shown at Pebble this year and then raced during the Dix Mille Tours.

Expanding their model line-up, BMW have revealed the first details and pictures of the M235i Coupe. Replacing the M135i, the new two-door coupe boasts a 322 bhp version of the twin-scroll turbocharged straight six engine. It comes standard with an automatic six-speed gearbox, while a manual gearbox is available as a no-cost option.
Caterham have introduced a new entry-level model in the form of the Seven 160. It is powered by a Suzuki sourced engine, which displaces just 660 cc and produces around 80 bhp. The rudimentary machine will be available as a kit for just GBP 14,995.
At the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show, Honda will debut the S660 Concept. The compact, open machine is a modern-day interpretation of the classic S600. Hopefully further details will be revealed closer to the Tokyo launch.
After previewing the MX-5 GT Concept at the Goodwood Festival in 2012, Mazda entrusted the development of the road-going version to Jota Sport. The result is the Jota Mazda MX-5 GT, which will be available directly from Jota Sport or Mazda dealer Lodge Garage. The naturally aspirated four cylinder engine was tweaked to produce over 200 bhp, while the suspension has also been tweaked for better road-holding.

When the big banger sports cars were banned from international events at the end of the 1971 season, small displacement prototypes came to the fore. Among the lead manufacturers of these was Lola, who offered cars for the both the two- and three-litre classes. The most successful of these was undoubtedly the T292 built for the 1973 season. Beating close rivals Chevron and Abarth-Osella, examples were used to win the European Championship. Our new T292 gallery features pictures of the first and penultimate cars built. The latter is seen in action earlier this month where it was joined by a very rare three-litre T292. This was one of very few or perhaps even the only one built by Lola with mounts for the Cosworth DFV V8 engine. Following a long spell in the Rosso Bianco Museum, it has been restored to full running order in more recent years.
Culminating with the Group C machines, the sports prototypes would go on to dominate international racing for two decades. Their demise lead to a resurgence of GT racing, which offered Porsche the ideal opportunity to create a new production based competition car. Dubbed the 911 GT2, it was raced with considerable success from its launch in 1995 through to the early 2000s. It was based on the 993-generation Turbo model but for competition purposes lacked its all-wheel drive system. To homologate the racer, Porsche also produced a road legal GT2 of which just 55 were built. Quite in contrast, the engineers in Weissach constructed well over 200 of the track-ready 911 GT2 R, although not all were raced in period.

Almost fifty years ago to the day, the very first Lamborghini car broke cover at the Turin Motor Show. Dubbed the 350 GTV, it featured a Scaglione penned body, a sophisticated chassis with all-round independent suspension and a Bizzarrini designed quad-cam V12. The latter was displayed next to the car as it did not quite fit. Although the show car was well received, Lamborghini opted to turn to Touring for the body of the production car, which was launched a few months later in Geneva. Fortunately the unique Turin show car has survived and during the 1980s, it was restored and modified to accept the 3.5 litre V12. At one of its very rare outings, we captured the 350 GTV in full detail at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este in May, which featured a special Lamborghini class.
Lamborghini also continued the 50th anniversary celebrations this weekend with the launch of the Veneno Roadster. As the name suggests, this is the open version of the limited production Veneno launched in Geneva earlier this year. It shares the same 750 hp V12 with the fixed-head sports car, which enables the Roadster to accelerate to 100 km/h in under three seconds and gives it a 355 km/h top speed. Production is strictly limited to 9 examples and the pre taxes price of the Veneno Roadster is a staggering EUR 3.3 million.

Even before the end of WWII, Italian industrialist and gentleman racer Piero Dusio commissioned the design and development of the first Cisitalia racing car. This foresight resulted in the D46 single seater first raced in 1946 and the featured 202 SMM Nuvolari Spyder, which made its debut at the 1947 Mille Miglia. The low and slippery machine was built around humble Fiat mechanicals but nevertheless Tazio Nuvolari managed to come very close to winning against a much larger engined Alfa Romeo 8C 2900. The epic drive from the 'Flying Mantuan' earned the competition Spyder its nickname. We recently captured a very nice example of this early post-War racer, which prompted us to completely redo our Cisitalia 202 SMM article.
Built just a year later was the Talbot Lago T26C Grand Prix, which also competed in the first two seasons of the Formula 1 World Championship. It was powered by a 4.5 litre version of the straight six engine already introduced before the War. This versatile machine won two Grands Prix in 1949 and with cycle fenders attached also managed to grab an outright victory at Le Mans. Our 55-gallery features three different specimens of the Grand Prix raced on some of the world's finest tracks.
Nowhere near as successful as the two aforementioned racers was the ATS Tipo 100, which was built by a group of 'defectors', who walked out of Ferrari over the 1961/62 winter. Driven by 1961 World Champion Phil Hill, this V8 engined machine was never a force in Formula 1. Only two were built and the pictured example is the only one that has survived in its original guise.
At this weekend's World Endurance Championship at Fuji, Nissan debuted the ZEOD RC. The all-electric machine will race from the 'Garage 56' for experimental cars at Le Mans next year. We have updated our article with new images and two videos.

Bentley returned to Le Mans in 2001 with many perceived to be a re-bodied Audi R8. In fact the closed-top car used only shared the engine block with the open LMP racer fielded by the sister company. Two years of development lead to the Speed 8 fielded in 2003. This Peter Elleray designed machine added a Le Mans victory to the British manufacturer's tally at Bentley's third attempt. The other example entered finished second to make the British party complete. At this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed, the one-two victory was celebrated by running a pair Speed 8s up the hill together. These were two different chassis than we had previously seen, and allowed us to further expand our article, which now features all three cars that raced during the 2003 season and is illustrated by a 58-shot gallery.
Another regular at the Festival of Speed is the ever spectacular Jaguar XJ-S TWR Group A. Built for Jaguar by Tom Walkinshaw Racing, this V12-engined machine won the 1984 European Touring Car Championship. Our 26-shot gallery features images from two of the seven cars constructed between 1982 and 1984.
Chevrolet have released further images and a video of the upcoming Camaro Z/28, which has been extensively tested ahead of its market launch. The video shows the 500 bhp Camaro at the Nurburgring where it set a fastest lap time of 7::34.40 in rainy conditions.

Over the weekend, BMW have released the first images and details of the upcoming 4-Series Convertible, which replaces the outgoing 3-Series Convertible. Like the similar 4-Series Coupe, the new BMW drop-top will come with a choice of diesel and petrol engines. Topping the 'standard' range is the 435i Convertible, which boasts a 300hp twin-turbo straight-six engine.
Among the many great cars on display at Pebble Beach in August where two French masterpieces that had not been seen in the original form many decades. The first of these was the Bugatti Type 46 Gaston Grummer Cabriolet. Launched late in 1929, the straight-eight engined Type 46 was affectionately known as the 'Petite Royale'. The unique exampled that starred at Pebble was bodied by Gaston Grummer and successfully shown at the Nice Concours d'Elegance. Owned by the current owner's family since the late 1960s, its origins were not known until recent years, finally along for a complete restoration, the result of which can be seen in our 8-shot gallery.
An even more substantial restoration was need to bring Talbot Lago T150C SS Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet 90115 back to its original glory. One of two built by the master coach-buildes, it had been converted into a racing car in 1947 and had sported a cycle fender body until this year. The product of a true labour of love can be seen in this 25-shot gallery, which also features the sister car, which was shown at Pebble in 2012 and will be offered by RM Auctions in their upcoming the Art of the Automobile sale in November.

Prompted by an upcoming change in regulations, Peugeot switched from rallying to Group C endurance racing in the early 1990s with the all-new 905. Developed from scratch, it featured a sophisticated carbon-fibre composite monocoque chassis and a 3.5 litre V10. First raced late in 1990, the new Peugeot prototype was not quite fast or reliable enough to be an immediate force. That changed after Le Mans in 1991, when a thoroughly revised body was introduced. The car was re-dubbed the 905 Evo 1 Bis and was beaten only twice more in the remaining races it competed in. This was awarded with the Sports Car World Championship in 1992 and back-to-back Le Mans wins in 1992 and 1993.
At this weekend's Dix Mille Tours, one of these fantastic Peugeots returned to the track and was one of the absolute stars of the event. This prompted us to go through our archive, only to discover that we had shot at least five of the seven examples built. They are described in detail in our in-depth article, which is illustrated by a 64-shot image gallery.

Established only four years ago, the Dix Mille Tours (Ten Thousand Laps) has quickly grown out to be one of the annual highlights on the historic motor racing calendar. The 2013 edition proved even better than the previous editions with big and high quality grids throughout. One the highlights was the 20th anniversary celebration of the BPR Championship, which saw three McLaren F1 GTRs, a Porsche 911 GT1 and several Venturis out on track. Among the many other spectacular machines seen in action were a Peugeot 905, a Ferrari 512 S and the most expensive Maserati ever sold auction to name just a few.
Our photographers were at the High Speed Test Track Paul Ricard throughout the event and have captured the 2013 Dix Mille Tours in its entirety in a detailed race-by-race report and this exclusive 300-shot gallery, which includes glowing discs, flames and many other spectacular sights.

Launched at the 1966 Turin Motor Show, the unique Lamborghini 4000 GT Flying Star II was the very last car created by Touring of Milan. The legendary carrozzeria had fallen victim to the changing times, which saw most low volume manufacturers switching to series production. Lamborghini was one of Touring's final customers, so the company pulled out all the stops and even dusted off an old moniker for the possible replacement of the existing Touring bodied 400 GT. The Flying Star II featured an unusual 'shooting brake' design and featured a shortened Lamborghini 400 GT chassis. Sadly, it proved too little too late for Touring as the company closed its doors shortly after. Ironically, the subsequent Islero was bodied Mario Marazzi, who was a former Touring employee.
The unique Lamborghini was eventually sold to a French enthusiast and after a sojourn in the United Kingdom, it has returned to France in recent years. In 2009, it was completely restored by the resurrected Touring Superleggera. We captured the result earlier this year at the Concorso d'Elegance Villa d'Este as can be seen in our 19-shot gallery.

After several difficult Formula 1 seasons during the late 1960s, Ferrari bounced back with the 312 B launched at the start of 1970. This was the first Ferrari powered by Mauro Forghieri's three-litre flat 12 engine, which would go on to successfully challenge the dominant Ford Cosworth DFV engine throughout the decade. Following a difficult start of the season, the fabulous Ferrari really came into its own in the second half 1970, scoring four wins in the last five races. This proved enough to move Ferrari and Jackie Ickx to second in the constructors and drivers championships respectively. Although Mario Andretti added another Grand Prix victory to the 312 B tally, its immediate successor were not quite as competitive and it would take until 1974 before Ferrari was back on top but still using the flat 12 introduced in the 312 B.
Of the four examples built, we captured three in recent years including chassis 004 driven in anger at the recent Monterey Motorsports Reunion. They can all be found in our 23-shot gallery, which serves to illustrate this detailed article.

First introduced in 1982, the Group C class has long since become stuff of legends; not so much because of the quality of the racing but more because of the fantastic sports racers that were built between 1982 and 1994. Today, we take a look at three of these legendary machines, which we captured in action this year. First up is the Aston Martin AMR1, which raced during the 1989 season only. Powered by a specifically developed quad-cam V8, it was continuously developed that year only to be axed by owners Ford in favour of the Group C program of sister company Jaguar. At the recent Monterey Motorsports Reunion we captured chassis 04 in action, which was re-united with its original driver Brian Redman. We added the shots to our ever growing gallery and we hope to add more after the weekend as we expect to see chassis 05 in action at the Dix Mille Tours. A full report and gallery of this event, which will also include a demonstration race for 1990s BPR / GT1 cars, will follow early next week.
Also in action at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this August was the third Mazda 787B built. This was the spare chassis, which was pressed into service after the Le Mans winner was retired to the Mazda Museum. As can be seen in this 24-shot gallery, it was driven in anger by Le Mans legend Yojiro Terada.
The second and final generation of Group C racers featured Formula 1 inspired, naturally aspirated 3.5 litre engines. One of the finest of these was the Toyota TS010, which boasted a howling V10. Raced at Le Mans in 1992 and 1993, it finished runner up at its first outing, which to date is the best result for the Japanese manufacturer. Our detailed article about this beautiful machine is illustrated by a 24-shot gallery, which features two different chassis in great detail.