https://automobilist.org/tags/supercars/ Recent content in Supercars on Automobilist.org Hugo en-us Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://automobilist.org/against-the-bougainvillea-a-ferrari-308-gts-in-taormina/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://automobilist.org/against-the-bougainvillea-a-ferrari-308-gts-in-taormina/ <p>The Ferrari 308 GTS does not require a good photograph to look like what it is. It requires only sufficient light and a clear line of sight, and the rest follows inevitably from the Pininfarina body and the Maranello badge. The photograph taken somewhere below Taormina — the white hotel building visible on the hill above, the bougainvillea erupting in deep magenta from the volcanic rock, the cypresses marking the sky — provides considerably more than sufficient conditions, and the result is the strongest image produced by this Sicilian rally and possibly the best argument for the event&rsquo;s existence.</p> https://automobilist.org/the-1967-lamborghini-miura-invented-the-mid-engine-supercar-and-did-it-perfectly-the-first-time/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://automobilist.org/the-1967-lamborghini-miura-invented-the-mid-engine-supercar-and-did-it-perfectly-the-first-time/ <p>Three engineers at Lamborghini — Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani, and Bob Wallace — built the Miura&rsquo;s chassis on their own time, without official company authorization, because they believed that a mid-engine sports car was the right direction and that the best way to convince Ferruccio Lamborghini was to show him one rather than explain it to him. They were correct. Lamborghini approved the project. Bertone&rsquo;s Marcello Gandini, 26 years old, styled the body. The result was unveiled at the 1966 Geneva Show as a rolling chassis and sold as a complete car the following year.</p>