John Surtees, the only man to win world championships on two wheels and four, has passed away aged 83, his family has confirmed.

Truly one of a kind.

Vale John Surtees.

(Wikipedia)

dailysportscar.com preview next years crop of new and revised GT3 sportscars.

Looks like 2016 is going to be another banner year for the ever expanding category.

evo magazine's Henry Catchpole takes us on a guided tour through the vast halls of the 2015 International Automobile Exhibition aka Frankfurt Motor Show.

• Intro
• Bugatti Vision Grand Turismo
• Honda Project 2&4
• Rolls-Royce Dawn
• Audi S4
• Porsche Mission E Concept
• Lamborghini Huracán Spyder and Aventador Roadster
• Jaguar F-Pace
• Ferrari 488 Spyder
• Alfa Romeo Guilia
• Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport
• Mercedes hall
• Porsche 911 Carrera S (991.2)
• Bentley Bentayga
• Audi E-Tron Quattro Concept
• Best of the rest

Another take on the Ferrari 488 GTB, this time with Autocar's Matt Prior.

Similar drill: give it a good belting around Fiorano, then punch it sideways out of every decent hairpin bend in the hills above Modena.

evo's Jethro Bovingdon reacquaints himself with Ferrari's benchmark 458 Speciale and F40 before heading to Italy to take a first taste of the new twin-turbo 488 GTB.

Spend 18 minutes with Chris Harris as he wrings the neck of Ferrari's new twin-turbo 670 hp 488 GTB on track at Fiorano and then on the road up in the hills around Modena.

dailysportscar visit Stephane Ratel's 'SRO Race Centre by MMC' at the iconic Paul Ricard circuit in the South of France, home to an eclectic collection of old GT and sportscars.

Four years to hand-build from scratch what looks and sounds to be a very accurate replica to the classic 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO.

In a shed in Oamaru, New Zealand by three Kiwi blokes, no less.

It's not often that an automotive manufacturer lets one of their prototype hacks out onto the open market. Which makes this Ferrari mule, used to develop both the Enzo and 599, a very rare beast indeed.

Located in Langenfeld, Germany. Offered by Modena Motorsport GmbH.

via PistonHeads

Fernando Alosno interviewed while hustling a 'Rosso Fiorano' F12berlinetta around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

Pistonheads visit Ten Tenths Racing, custodians of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's collection of historic racing Ferraris.

A car with quite a history:

"A 1962 Ferrari 250GTO Berlinetta has been slated to set a new world record for the most expensive car ever to be sold at auction when it goes under the hammer at Quail Lodge, California on 15 August."

"The car was initially delivered to French ski champion Henri Oreiller on 11 September 1962 and was driven with Formula 1 ace Jo Schlesser in that year's Tour de France, in which the pair placed second. Shortly thereafter, the GTO was involved in a crash at Montlhery in which Oreiller struck a building and was killed. The car was repaired by Ferrari and sold to gentleman driver Paolo Colombo."

UPDATE: Sold for US$38,115,000 (source)

evo magazine pits the iconic McLaren F1 against its contemporary and more modern 'analogue' supercar rivals.

The eclectic cars of the former Fiat chairman, full of one of crazy one-off specials.

The population of Monaco falling over themselves to take photos/videos of a LaFerrari. LOL

'07 Formula 1 champ Kimi Räikkönen takes his new company hack for a quiet spin around Fiorano.

Richard Meaden tests the LaFerrari in the hills above Maranello before getting serious around the Fiorano test track.

(Read evo's review here.)

Steve Sutcliffe takes Ferrari's new hypercar for a blat around Fiorano.

Over on Petrolicious, Markus Haub recounts his childhood visit to the Ferrari factory:

In the fall, shortly after Enzo’s passing, of 1988 I was on a vacation with my parents in Austria, and one rainy day I convinced them to drive to Italy. Not just any part of Italy... Maranello! It was my wish to see where all the cars from my dreams were created.

Chris Harris thrashes two of Ferrari's best analog supercars around the beautiful Anglesey Circuit in Wales.

Why? Because:

Who wants to watch a small brown man driving a supercar slowly?

Autocar's Steve Sutcliffe speaks to Ferrari design boss, Flavio Manzone at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello to uncover the design secrets of the new LaFerrari hypercar.

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Although not entirely rare, it is rare to see one up for private sale in Oz.

Yours for a cool AU$1,100,000.