I’m not entirely sure this has happened before, but a car designed for a video game is going to be produced for sale in reality. The game is Sony’s Gran Turismo Sport, the car is the IsoRivolta Vision, and the reality is the one you’re using now, the same one where you do laundry and eat corn dogs in.
I saw this car race at Goodwood last year at the Revival, getting hit but carrying on nevertheless. Nothing stirs up the night on a race track quite like the roar and reflections of the Iso Bizzarrini A3C Corsa.
Although nicely restored examples of BMW's contribution to the microcar era can command serious prices the cost of filling at least part of your yard with this assortment of Isetta shells and parts currently listed on Ebay is surprisingly affordable—at least initially.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to romp through the countryside in an Iso Grifo 7 Litri, the car Giotto Bizzarrini designed after he was finished with the Ferrari 250 GTO?
A Chevy V8 sticks out from the engine bay of a glorious Bizzarrini-made Iso Grifo A3C. Great were the days before engine covers. [Arthomobiles.fr]
Thirty-one years after Reza Pahlavi was ousted in the Iranian Revolution, most of his epic car collection still gathers dust in a warehouse-like museum 30 miles from Tehran. Here’s a very recent sneak peek at the madness.
Denied the right to make cars by the Soviet Union, enthusiasts and engineers in Hungary made several ingenious attempts to produce their own microcar. Auto historian Pál Négyesi tells us the story of these little wonders.
Solving the problem of compact-engine-bay-meets-huge-ass-American-engine, Giotto Bizzarrini’s solution is beautiful, brutish and eternal.
Lately, a few brands have been defining their own modern interpretations of the super sedan, with efforts like the Aston Martin Rapide, Lamborghini Estoque, Porsche Panamera, and even the Fisker Karma. The problem is they all feel a bit vulgar, lacking the cool factor of super sedans in the past. But before we can…
Vintage Racer continues to send in his excellent photos of old race cars (the last one being the '54 Mercedes-Benz 300SL), and today we're going to check out this one-of-a-kind '65 Iso Rivolta Daytona. Powered by a Weber-ized Corvette V8, the Daytona was a one-off prototype similar to the '64 Iso Rivolta Le Mans cars;…
You are engineer superstar Giotto Bizzarrini. You built the glorious, Shelby-teasing Ferrari 250 GTO. But you feud with Enzo (shocking) and are then wooed by Feruccio Lamborghini to develop an Enzo beater giving Lambo (and the world) the 350 GTV concept along with its glorious 3.5-Liter V12. You then go to work for…
If there are two things the world should never be without, it's Isettas and El Caminos. Two lost marques. Two ridiculously rad vehicles. And well, when they're combined the sheer absolute radness of the whole thing basically forces us to don our Persols and then don a welding helmet. Screw the brightness of the…
