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For the 2015 Le Mans 24Hr race, two Porsche teams took overall wins. Earl Bamber (NZ), Nico Hülkenberg (GER) and Nick Tandy (GBR) took the 17th overall victory.  Followed by the sister car of Timo Bernhard (GER), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AUS). This made it the fourth one-two result for the brand after achieving this in 1971, 1983, 1987 and 1998.

In 2013, to celebrate its centenary, Aston Martin designed and built the CC100 Speedster Concept. This is a short glimpse from their film on the design process that gave birth to this stunning master piece.

In Privateer Stories. Buttonwillow, we see glimpses of the Buttonwillow Raceway in Buttonwillow, California. Vintage car racer Chuck Kolstad talks about this racetrack and his love for it.

Surfer, designer, Brian Bent takes a Ford Model A frame and gathers together pieces from old cars, church pews seats and old airplane fittings to create his version of a California original.

Scenes in Morocco while practicing for the 2015 Dakar Rally

The Porsche factory teams with the super fast 911 RSR GT Class car and the 919 Hybrid LMP 1 class car start off the 2015 season with some runs at the Silverstone Circuit.

At the 2013 LA Auto Show, Porsche debuted the new 918 Porsche Spyder Hybrid. This Porsche was enclosed within a glass booth, with highly impressed fans milling around trying to get a glimpse of this new super car. In this third and final part of the series, we see the team from Bentley Motorsport continue their efforts at achieving a finish at the grueling 2014 Spa 24 Hours with a pair of Bentley Continental GT3 cars. Chris Reinke, the head of Audi LMP program, talks about this year’s car benefiting from the efficient combination of the V6 TDI engine, e-tron quattro hybrid drive, and the new aerodynamics, as they come to SPA and then head to LE MANS.

A look at the new Porsche Concept Mission E. The stunning new all electric sedan from Porsche is one of a kind and is creating endless desire from petrol heads everywhere. FIRST LOOK. FERRARI 488 SPIDER REVEALED AT THE 2015 FRANKFURT MOTOR SHOW. Ferrari continues it’s love affair with the open top with the new 488 Spyder. This new Spyder is a continuation of a story that started with the targa top 308 GTB. BROAD MUSEUM OPENS IN LOS ANGELES. We take a trip on the BMW i3 to have a first look at the just opening Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles.

Renowned South African Art Dealer Gavin Rooke gathered together a group of great craftsmen to design and exquisitely remanufacture a series of vintage Porsche 911/912 cars as race worthy and collectable works of art. Once built, Gavin and his Dutchmann team takes these DUTCHMANN Edition Weekend Racer Porsches to various African desert and hill climb races. Here in the opening episode, Gavin Rooke and his Dutchmann Porsche team, makes its way from Cape Town to Knysna.

Scenes from the first 8 hours of the 2015 race. Tire inflation problems, car on fire and more. None of these hiccups keep the Audi racing machines from getting to the front of the race. CAR SCENES. WHITE FERRARI 458. SUPER CAR WEEKENDS. RODEO DRIVE. On any given weekend in Beverly Hills, the main drag becomes a runway for every kind of supercars. Very common scenes include, supercars flown in from Arabia to strut the streets around Rodeo. KARIM HABIB ON THE BMW 3.0 CSL HOMMAGE CONCEPT. Karim Habib, the head of BMW Design, tells us about the new BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage Concept car that gets inspiration from, and pays homage, to the great BMW 3.0 CSL super sports cars from the seventies.

The BMW Z4 GT3 leads the way for the 2015 24HR Nurburgring with a massive team of drivers and car models from BMW that take up the challenge to make it through 24hrs on one of the toughest circuits in the world.  AFRICAN RACER. EPISODE 2. PORSCHE MOTOR NEEDS REBUILDING JUST PRIOR TO RACE. Gavin Rooke takes the Porsche Racer for trial runs. The engine does not make it through the trail runs. Just as the Knysna Hill Race gets closer, the Porsche needs a motor rebuild. MALIBU CARS AND COFFEE. AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF CAR PORN ALONG THE PCH.

Having heard a ton of praise for the new Mustang, we find a 2015 Ford Mustang Convertible, and take a lunch break at Zuma Beach, while letting this stunning piece of American machinery soak up the rays at Point Dume. Lets just say, we did not want to let go of this understated rebirth of pure Americana. Yamaha Sport Heritage Product Manager Shun Miyazawa lets the bike building team from It Rocks Bikes recreate a Yamaha Yard Built XJR1300 into a custom modular creation, the CS06 Dissident. Scenes from the classic car auction held by RM Auctions, during the grand event of the 2015 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este near Lake Como, Italy.