Track Day

Since the new Mustang hit the streets this summer, the Z/28-haters have been wondering—when’s the real muscle car going to show up? Ford has an answer for that at the 2014 Los Angeles auto show—it’s the track-ready version of the legendary pony car. This is the outrageous...

Earlier in the year a Ferrari exec confirmed that development had started on an ‘XX’ experimental version of the LaFerrari supercar, and soon after prototypes of the track-only special were spotted at some of Europe’s top race tracks, including Germany’s Nürburgring...

Ford’s new Mustang Shelby GT350 has finally landed, and it’s every bit as good as we'd hoped. While previous GT350s were built by Shelby American, this new one is a creation of Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] own SVT division but still adheres to Carroll Shelby’s original...

If you thought you might have to wait some time before the storied Shelby name gets spliced back into the Mustang narrative, think again. An all-new Mustang Shelby GT350, based on the all-new sixth-generation Mustang, is already here—ahead of its official public debut later this week at the...

Ferrari is currently working on a more extreme version of its LaFerrari flagship that will follow in the footsteps of previous ‘XX’ experimental cars like the 599XX and Enzo-based FXX. Prototypes have been spotted for the past year and now we’re hearing that the reveal is set to...

It was at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show last November that we first saw the covers come off Nissan’s awesome GT-R NISMO. Since then we’ve seen the car set a 7:08.679 Nürburgring lap time, and we’ve also enjoyed some time behind the wheel. MUST SEE: Watch Dodge Build The 2015...

We know a hardcore, track-focused version of the Porsche Cayman is coming, and now we know that it is likely to be labeled a Cayman GT4 when it arrives sometime next year. That’s because a Cayman GT4 was listed as one of the eligible vehicles on the Porsche Driving Experience website. MUST...

We know Mercedes-AMG will eventually launch a high-performance Black Series version of its new GT sports car, but this won’t necessarily be the most track-focused model in the lineup. Mercedes-AMG is working on a successor for its SLS AMG GT3 race car that will be based on the new GT, and a...

Niche sports car brand Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS), which recently located from its home in Italy to a new base in the Canary Islands, has announced its latest production, a road-legal track car called the Sport 490 Stradale. ALSO SEE: Dodge Viper ACR Concept Headlines Mopar's 2014 SEMA Fleet...

McLaren is preparing an even more potent version of its P1 supercar that is designed strictly for the track. It’s called the P1 GTR, and only those that have already purchased a build slot for the road-going P1 will be able to buy this track version. It will cost them a staggering £1.98...

Yesterday we learned that Porsche is looking to launch a new entry-level race car based on its Cayman sports car, and today we have new spy shots of a prototype that’s likely to be for the Cayman race car’s road-going cousin. The prototype was spotted on some surrounding roads of...

The distributor of the Ariel Atom in the U.S., TMI AutoTech, has a new, more powerful version of the stripped-out track car ready for order. It’s called the Atom 3S, and it's featured in prototype form in the video above. DON'T MISS: Meet Pagani's Chief Tester Davide Testi: Video Power in the...

Everyone who has even a little bit of blood still pumping through their veins is excited about the all-new 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. It's a car with the greatest name, one of the most powerful factory-built engines on the planet, and it's wearing a sticker price that is a relative steal...

Regarded by many as the purest of the Porsche 911s, the GT3 is something of a sacred cow to many. Here, we get a glimpse at the reason why. DON'T MISS: Lamborghini Veneno Roadster For Sale: Just $7.4 Million When it comes to race cars you can drive on the street, few come close to matching the...

The sixth-generation Ford Mustang recently entered production, but engineers are still testing a high-performance variant of the new muscle car that we’re expecting to be launched on the market sometime next year. Not much is known about the new Mustang variant but it’s believed the car...

After launching its first product, the E10 track car, at the start of this year, British sports car startup Zenos has now followed up with more potent E10 S and E10 S Track variants. Zenos is the creation of former Caterham managers, and the company’s E10 has already been confirmed for U.S...

The Dodge Viper SRT supercar muscles into the 2015 model year with a few changes, including some additional horsepower. New variants have also been added to the lineup, with a new Viper GT squeezing in between the base Viper and upmarket Viper GTS, and a new-and-improved Viper Time Attack arriving...

The Porsche 911 GT3 is one of our favorite cars here at Motor Authority. Whether it’s the previous-generation 997 or the latest 991, it’s hard to find a better package that’s drivable on the street and still fully capable at the track. ALSO SEE: First Look At 2015 Dodge Challenger...

If there’s a more unlikely pairing of serious road-going performance cars on YouTube this week, we don’t know what it is. Here, you see a single-seat, stripped-down, relatively affordable BAC Mono on an open track day as it chases and tries to hang with a McLaren P1 hypercar at...

One of the stars of this past weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the McLaren P1 GTR, a hardcore, track-only version of the British supercar that will be built in an extremely limited run and offered only to original owners of the P1 road car. McLaren is offering the P1 as a...