The private collection of 90+ automobiles at the Newport Car Museum focuses on eight decades of modern industrial automotive design and celebrates cars as works of art. From the 1950s to the present, separate galleries of Ford/Shelby Cars, Corvettes, World Cars, Fin Cars, Muscle Cars and Mopars have been carefully curated to appeal to men as well as women and to all generations, from grandparents to parents to children.
Highlighted here are stellar examples of Jaguar, Mercedes Benz, BMW, McLaren, Lamborghini and Porsche.
Classic iconic 1960s cars include the Camaro, GTO, Mustang, Challenger and the Hemi Cuda.
The 1950s bloomed into color and jet-like styling with the Buick Skylark, Cadillac Series Sixty-Two, T-Bird and the DeSoto Adventurer Convertible.
The Pop-Up Porsche Exhibit is, in effect, a seventh gallery, set up in the Museum’s 5,000 sq. ft. event space adjacent to the Fin Car Gallery.
Achieving 1001 horsepower in a racing engine is one thing, but to do so in a reliable, refined, durable, and emissions-legal street configuration is much harder. The engine in the Veyron is a quad-turbocharged W16 (essentially, two mated V8s), displacing 488ci. That’s about as much engine output as two Corvette Z06 V8s. This much engine produces a lot of heat; to address this, the Veyron uses an array of nine separate radiators. To help heat escape from the engine compartment, the big W16 sits in the open, with no enclosure cover of any kind.