Jaguar Heritage Racing will enter three C-type and three XK120 vintage cars in this year's Mille Miglia along with five new Jaguar F-Types. That sounds like heaven.

Britain has given the world more Formula-1 World Champions than any other nation. The list includes Jackie Stewart (3), Jim Clark (2), Graham Hill (2), Mike Hawthorn (1), John Surtees (1), James Hunt (1), Nigel Mansell (1), Damon Hill (1), Lewis Hamilton (1) and Jenson Button (1).

Last fall, two months before he died, I sat on a bench, awake for two days, and cried, thinking of Sergio Scaglietti. He was a relatively obscure racing car designer who imagined the most beautiful Ferraris of the 1950s and hammered them into aluminum.

There we were, cruising down the Autobahn between Baden Baden and Stuttgart, when all of a sudden we came across something out of place even in the car lover's paradise that is southern Germany. Even better, the graphics showed the car was coming back from the historic Mille Milgia and the driver had the matching…

The BMW 328 Kamm Coupé will be reintroduced to the world after 40 years in bits and pieces at this months Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este to celebrate BMW's 1940 Mille Miglia win. There's also supposedly a new retro-themed concept too.

Saab CEO Jan Ake Jonsson and Spyker CEO Victor Muller plan to race the 2010 Mille Miglia in a 55 HP, two-stroke Saab 93. If that's not a good way to begin a partnership, we don't know what is.

In 2007, Royal Mail issued a set of stamps commemorating Britain’s Formula One greats. With six slots for eight world champions and Sir Stirling Moss, the stage was set for a philatelic battle royale.

Brawn GP's inaugural 1–2 victory in Melbourne was no stranger to their engine supplier Mercedes-Benz: it was exactly the same fashion as how they debuted in Formula One in 1954 with their epic W196.