Engineers at 9ff have finally accomplished their goal of beating the Bugatti Veyron’s 407km/h (252mph) top speed, with their highly modified GT9 supercar posting a new top speed of 409km/h (254mph) during official testing in Papenburg last month. The world record for the fastest production car, however, is still held by America’s SSC […]
Update: The 7,000-plus mile Ferrari Magic India Discovery Drive tour has officially come to an end with the two specially prepped 612 Scagliettis returning to Mumbai yesterday after setting off from the city more than two months ago. More than 50 journalists took turns behind the wheels of the two cars along 13 […]
The new Nissan GT-R has been attracting attention from many tuning houses, especially the major Japanese ones such as Top Secret and Mines who have worked with the GT-R previously. Arios, a lesser known company in the competitive aftermarket tuner scene the world but renowned in its home country of Japan, has also […]
Just yesterday we reported the Nissan GT-R’s sold-out sales success around the globe. Today Audi revealed its R8 is also being bought more quickly than it can be made, to the tune of several months in backlogged sales.
Audi’s R8 owes some of its success to a mixture of ingredients that almost […]
Prototypes for Lexus’ upcoming LF-A supercar have been spotted testing at the Nurburgring for the good part of a year but until now we haven’t been able to get a good look at the car’s new interior. As these latest spy images reveal, the new LF-A sports an almost identical cabin to the […]
The chief engineer for the Corvette ZR1, Tadge Juechter, has spilled all manner of details about the upcoming supercar in the past month, with everything from Nurburgring lap times to possible fuel economy figures getting a mention. Juechter has boasted in the past that the ZR1 “will be able to take the production-car […]
Ferrari’s upcoming 2+2 GT has been spotted once again by spy photographers and this time without the heave camouflage masking the car’s rear canopy. We finally can see the shape and proportion of the car and what appears to be a cut line on the roof, leading to suggestions the new model, codenamed […]
Just one month after the European order books were opened for its all-new GT-R, Nissan has already received over 1,500 orders for the supercar – accounting for the entire first year’s run. The bulk of these are from the UK alone, which racked up more than 950 orders in total. Those lucky customers […]
Lotus has confirmed it will unveil an all-new model at this year’s London Motor Show in July as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, and although no official details have been given as to the identity of the new car these recent spy shots of a Lotus prototype at the Nurburgring lead us […]
Less than a month after the reveal of the limited edition Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermès at the Geneva Motor Show comes another highly exclusive version of one of the fastest and most desirable supercars on the planet, the Bugatti Veyron Sang Noir. The new edition is dedicated to the original Bugatti Atlantique […]
Prototypes for Lexus’ upcoming LF-A supercar have been spotted testing at the Nurburgring for the good part of a year but firm details about the car are still hard to come by. Most reports claim the LF-A will be powered by an F1-derived, high-revving V10 engine displacing 5.0L and developing in excess of […]
Updated with official images.
In celebration of Carroll Shelby’s 85th birthday, Shelby Distribution USA under license from Shelby Licensing and in partnership with Shelby Automobiles Inc. will build a limited run of replicas of the original 1966 Shelby American GT40 race cars. The original cars are credited with wins in the 1966 24 […]
Nissan’s all-new GT-R supercar has posted a blistering lap time for the Nurburgring of just 7m 29s but engineers still think they need to improve on the car and will be adding several tweaks before U.S. and European deliveries start. U.S. bound GT-Rs are set to receive three harder engine mounts, firmer spring […]
If you thought the GT-R’s previous recorded lap time of 7m 38s at the Nurburgring was shockingly fast get ready to be stunned again as Nissan has confirmed today that its latest supercar has achieved a blistering lap time of just 7m 29 seconds - making it one of the fastest ever production […]
Mercedes-Benz and its performance divisions AMG and HWA are planning to release several new models in the coming years including a high-performance coupe slotted between the outgoing SLR and the upcoming SL Black Series from AMG. Little is known about the new coupe - likely to be called the SLC - as prototypes […]