Now you can still argue about how environmentally friendly a modern car is or is not. Anyway, it takes a car to mountains full of energy to produce and sell. It barely weighs against decades of environmentally unfriendly chug around in your old instance Duckling. Because this is already the world put. But you can also convert Duck in an environmentally friendly alternative, as people did when they massively redesigned and a classic American bets big gas tank.

During the Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Laguna Seca in California Van Lennep drove a Porsche 917 from 1969. Porsche was this year's "Featured Marque" the focus of historic racing event and reported enthusiastically: "It was great to get back to that car to drive." Ven Lennep was fastest in the qualifying pole position and led the race even one time in the lead, other famous riders of yesteryear like Derek Bell and Brian Redman.

Thirty? That's not so old? No, not at all. Unless you're a car, because then you're a real classic. The Mercedes G-Class has turned thirty and the Mercedes-Benz celebrated big party offices. That may still be in these tough times? iCar Automotive News has a whole lot for you images together gleaned from this monument. And we do a little history lesson on. Enjoy! Even though you have not yet thirty ...

5600 square meters, the exhibition space of the new Porsche Museum opens its doors on January 31. The building where the museum in recent months, meter by meter has built up a distinctive architecture and highlights more than sixty years Porsche passion in spectacular fashion. But that's not important at all, because behind that facade of glass, concrete and steel is a changing collection of sports cars that represents a cross section of the history of Porsche. And for the car lover comes to Stuttgart.

Audi is celebrating one hundred years, exactly on July 16 was one hundred years ago that August Horch in the German city of Zwickau, the company now called Audi founded. Now Audi's history is always a warm heart towards and even has a history department Audi Tradition. That section has for the centenary a number of activities scheduled. The first is the exhibition "Treffen der Generationen - Walking Effizienz im der Zeit", from January 26 to February 28 at the Audi museum mobile at the Audi Forum Ingolstadt is shown. There are twelve special vehicles displaying eight decades, mostly prototypes and unique models which seeks to meet the challenges of the time to meet.