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Porsche 917K race car

Steve McQueen’s Le Mans Porsche could fetch £13m

A classic Porsche racing car, driven on film by Steve McQueen, is expected to sell for as much as £13 million at auction in August.
Published 16 July 2021
Top 5 cars owned by Hollywood icons

Top five cars owned by Hollywood legends

Jeremy Clarkson recently beat Steve McQueen to be named screen's greatest automotive icon. Once we'd got over the shock, it got us thinking...
Published 08 May 2020
Video: Guy Martin attempts to jump barbed wire fence that foiled Steve McQueen in The Great Escape

Video: Guy Martin's Great Escape stunt

It's one of the best-known stunts in cinema: now Guy martin is attempting to recreate Steve McQueen's motorcycle leap from The Great Escape.
Published 01 December 2019
Me and My Motor: Chad McQueen, son of Steve McQueen, on catching the racing bug from his film star dad

Me and My Motor: Chad McQueen

Steve McQueen had a reputation as a hellraiser but according to his son, Chad, he was a great father. “Every other kid wanted him as their dad...
Published 19 June 2017
The chase is on: hunt begins for missing Ford Mustangs from Steve McQueen's Bullitt

Hunt begins for missing Mustangs from Bullitt

For Steve McQueen fans and car enthusiasts alike, it is a mystery as gripping as the car chase that made the 1968 crime drama Bullitt famous. Now
Published 16 March 2017
Products: Steve McQueen in Le Mans graphic novel review

Products: Steve McQueen in Le Mans graphic novel

It's a common idea that a true genius must be a little unhinged mentally, and by that criterion Sandro Garbo, the artist behind new graphic novel
Published 10 February 2017
Chad McQueen and Ford Mustang GT: faster than a speeding Bullitt (video)

Chad McQueen and Ford Mustang GT: faster than a speeding...

Remember the scene in Bullitt when Steve McQueen in a Ford Mustang pursues a pair of baddies in a Dodge Charger through the precipitous streets and...
Published 08 May 2016
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Behind the scenes of Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

The year was 1970. Steve McQueen was the king of cool, the biggest film star in the world
Published 12 October 2015
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Steve McQueen's Porsche 911 Turbo sells for £1.25m...

More than $400m (£255m) changed hands during this year’s Pebble Beach auction week, the most yet spent in the event’s 65-year history
Published 20 August 2015
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Steve McQueen's Porsche 911 Turbo for sale in $1m auction

The last sports car owned by Steve McQueen will go under the hammer later this summer, and experts predict it will smash the $1m mark
Published 11 June 2015
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Driving steps into Steve McQueen's racing boots at...

A damp, grey day at Silverstone may not have quite the drama of Steve McQueen’s Le Mans, the blockbuster that saw Porsche and Ferrari racing machines...
Published 03 November 2014
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News: Steve McQueen’s son on track for a return to...

Chad McQueen revisits Le Mans, location of his father's famous racing film, for new documentary
Published 07 July 2014