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Just in case the 500 horsepower of the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 isn’t enough to satisfy your power demands, Callaway has developed a supercharger kit that will boost output of the car to a supercar-like 652 horsepower. We recently brought you the first details on the kit, which costs...

We’ve heard a lot about Volvo’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) over the past year, a modular platform that will underpin all of the Swedish automaker’s next-gen models sized from the S60 up, but what few may know is that Volvo is working on a second platform. The second...

Yesterday we told you that Mazda would be celebrating the past 25 years of its MX-5 Miata sports car at the 2014 New York Auto Show next month, and that there would be 15 significant models on display spanning concepts, race cars and production cars. Now we’ve learned that we may just get a...

If you've always wanted a Ford GT40, then keep your eyes on Mecum Auctions next month as a rare 1964 prototype model is set to cross the block. ALSO SEE: Full Specs On Callaway's 652-Horsepower Supercharged Camaro Z/28 The stunning vehicle is listed as GT/104, the forth ever prototype of the car...

Lotus launched the first-generation Elise back in 1996 in some markets, and at the time its extruded and bonded aluminum chassis was on the cutting edge. It weighed very little, contributing to the car's 1,600-lb curb weight, but proved race-car strong and highly adaptable. Lightweight technology...

Sébastien Loeb is undeniably the living master of all things unpaved, and, as he proved at last year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, he can chuck a car around just fine on asphalt, too. Now, he's aiming for the top of the charts at the Goodwood Festival of Speed's famous hill climb...

Want to drive something fast, loud and rear-wheel drive on ice? Of course you do. Aston Martin knows this too, putting on an ice-driving program at Crested Butte in Colorado, which is just the ticket as we recently discovered. It gives Aston owners the opportunity to experience the latest Aston...

Mazda will display 15 significant MX-5 models at the 2014 New York Auto Show.

At the end of this year, Bentley will become the center of excellence for all W-12 engines in the Volkswagen Group, meaning not only production of current units but future development too. In 2012, Mercedes-Benz employed a similar strategy by making its in-house tuner AMG the center of excellence...

Two new BMW SUVs have been making headlines in the past 24 hours. One is a sporty X2 crossover coupe and the other is an X7 full-size luxury SUV. A design firm based in California has released a teaser image of a new supercar it plans to reveal this year. The teaser shows a very futuristic design...

Remember Factory Five Racing’s competition to come up with a design for a new kit car based on the underpinnings of a Subaru WRX? Well, the winning design was the 818 from Nouphone Bansasi, and it’s now available for sale. MUST SEE: Cyclist Hit By Truck Lands Safely On...A Mattress?...

Prior to the global financial crisis of 2008, BMW was working on a full-size SUV to sit above its X5 and X6 models and compete against the likes of the Cadillac Escalade, Mercedes-Benz GL-Class and Land Rover Range Rover. The crisis caused BMW to rethink the strategy, with the German automaker...

Audi’s A1 hatchback sold overseas has just spawned a 231-horsepower S1, whose market launch later this year will coincide with the arrival of a facelifted A1 range. However, further down the track the A1 range may be expanded to include a proper RS 1 built by Audi’s quattro performance...

Late last year we heard that Toyota and its TMG motorsport skunk works in Germany had started development of a new Yaris rally car designed to tackle the World Rally Championship, which has been gaining momentum in recent years thanks to newcomers like Volkswagen and Hyundai. We now have...

It's a familiar sight in motor racing: The engine in a car ahead lets go in spectacular fashion, dropping a slick of oil for as long as it takes to get off the circuit. Cars further back, unable to see the oil and not yet warned by corner marshals, start to spin off. Then more do, all following...

The Acura NSX may be the most over-teased and under-delivered car of this century. For years now, we've seen concept after nearly identical concept--no, wait, this one's a prototype!--with no actual production car in sight. The next step in the Neverending Story Xperiment will come at Goodwood...

Some of the world’s best roads are also among the sketchiest, narrow lanes clinging dangerously to the sides of steep, rocky mountains. The penalty for failure: plunging hundreds of feet into the sea. What better place to put hypercar icons like the Enzo and LaFerrari to the test? Best of...

There are many things that make oval-track racing more conducive to huge audiences than road racing, not least of which is that the track is always visible to people in the stands, and so, too, are the passes. Fortunately the Internet exists, to let us see acts of greatness like this first lap from...

Like the Veyron, this hovercraft is extravagant and (potentially) a record breaker.

Porsche’s Boxster and Cayman are coming seriously close to encroaching on the performance the automaker’s 911 Carrera models thanks to new GTS editions, which go on sale this summer. The mid-engine duo benefit from more power under the hood, unique styling treatments, and a number of...