Sports Cars

  • McLaren 540C

    McLaren’s 540C unveiled at the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show a month ago won’t be coming to the U.S., the British performance marque has confirmed. The car was originally due here in early 2016 and was set to be McLaren’s most attainable model ever thanks to a price tag of just $165,000, but an apparent lack of interest from potential buyers means McLaren will focus on the pricier and more potent 570S. “Following feedback from a series of previews where interest from American customers has exclusively been in the 570S, the decision has been taken to concentrate on this model...

  • Volkswagen Golf GTE Sport concept, 2015 Wörthersee Tour
    Next Volkswagen GTI To Pack 300 Horsepower?

    Volkswagen is making moves to shorten its vehicle life cycles from seven to five years (with a mid-cycle update after the first three years) in an attempt to keep up with its American and Asian rivals. The first of its models to adopt this shorter life cycle will be the Golf, which is expected to...

  • Zagato Mostro powered by Maserati, 2015 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este
    Zagato Honors Maserati With Stunning Mostro Sports Car At Villa d’Este--Photo Update

    Coachbuilder and design house Zagato has a history of unveiling stunning concepts at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, held annually on the shores of Italy’s beautiful Lake Como. Some recent concepts include collaborations with the likes of Aston Martin, BMW and Lamborghini...

  • 2016 Cadillac ATS-V
    No V-8-Powered ATS-V Plus In The Pipeline, Says Cadillac

    While it’s always fun to think a newer, hotter, more ferocious super-performance version of an already incredible car like the Cadillac ATS-V is on the way, that’s just not the case, this time. There is no ATS-V Plus in the works. That’s the official word from Cadillac’s...

  • 2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS at Silverstone
    Porsche Points Out Benefits Of Its 2015 911 Carrera GTS: Video

    We’ve already pointed out what separates the latest 2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS from the standard Carrera, but here’s a great visual representation direct from the German sports car marque. It shows the new Carrera GTS being put through its paces at the Porsche Experience Center at...

  • 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata: "A Driver's Life"
    Bye Bye Zoom-Zoom: Mazda Goes Deep With New MX-5 Miata Spot: Video

    When Mazda first released the Miata more than two decades ago, no manufacturer was selling anything like it. The four-cylinder roadster was affordable, reliable, and handled like a go-kart. It was a little British sports car, without the legions of electrical gremlins and oil leaks which came...

  • Chris Harris tests the 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS

    Chris Harris has joined the likes of racing driver Brendon Hartley and actor George Clooney to be among the first to have driven the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Fortunately for us, Harris was kind enough to put together a video of his day behind the wheel of Stuttgart’s latest track special for his YouTube channel. He drives the car on some German back roads and then on an unrestricted section of the autobahn. Finally, he heads to Porsche’s own test track in Weissach for some proper high-speed fun. He’s clearly enamored by the car’s huge rear wing and wide stance but it...

  • 2016 BMW M4 GTS spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2016 BMW M4 GTS Shows Up In U.S. Dealership Ordering System

    BMW has been testing a hardcore version of its M4 coupe for several months that we suspected might end up reviving the GTS designation last used on an M3 coupe back in 2010. We now have some semi-official confirmation that the car will in fact be an M4 GTS and that it will be available in the U.S...

  • Jaguar F-Type R AWD Bloodhound SSC Rapid Response Vehicle
    Jaguar Unveils F-Type R AWD Bloodhound SSC Rapid Response Vehicle

    Late last year, Jaguar announced a partnership with current land speed record holder Andy Green and his team at Bloodhound, which is working on a jet and rocket-powered supersonic car (SSC) that will be used in a new land speed record attempt in the next six to 12 months. Green’s previous...

  • 1993 Toyota Supra from 2001’s ‘The Fast and the Furious’ - Image via Mecum Auctions
    Original Fast And Furious Toyota Supra Sells For $185,000 At Auction

    The 1993 Toyota Supra stunt car used during filming for the original Fast and the Furious movie that came out in 2001—and driven by the late Paul Walker—has sold at auction for $185,000. It crossed the block last week at the Mecum Auctions event held in Indianapolis and landed right...

  • 2015 Porsche 911 Carrera Black Edition
    Porsche 911 Carrera And Boxster Get Special ‘Black Edition’ Trim

    There’s a new version of the Porsche 911 Carrera just around the corner but in the meantime dealers still need to move the current model. To help entice buyers to sign up now, Porsche is throwing in a few extras at barely any additional cost with new Black Edition trim. As the name suggest...

  • 2012 Chevrolet Code 130R Concept
    GM Product Chief Downplays Chances Of Small Chevy Sports Car

    Following the reveal of the Chevrolet 130R concept at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, there was a lot of talk about the bowtie brand possibly launching a small, affordable sports car with rear-wheel drive to take on the Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ twins as well as the Mazda MX-5 Miata. Unfortunately, the...

  • 2015 Subaru WRX

    If you want a little more driving excitement in your life, but you have to keep it practical and sensibly sized for urban commuting, then the Subaru WRX and Volkswagen GTI should be two possibilities near the top of your shopping list. While these two models are both completely redesigned for 2015, and they both offer a lot of driving enjoyment, they’re nearly polar opposites in terms of design, performance, and packaging; and if you don’t already see the extent of those differences, you’re going to want to pay close attention to this comparison. ALSO SEE: 2015 Volkswagen...

  • 2017 Porsche 718 Boxster spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    Porsche Confirms Four-Cylinder Engine For 2017 Boxster And Cayman

    Porsche officials have hinted at the possibility of a four-cylinder engine for the Boxster and Cayman since at least 2008. And in 2011 a senior Porsche exec confirmed that a four-cylinder engine with a horizontally-opposed ‘boxer’ design was in fact in the works. Now, Porsche CEO...

  • Toyota 86xstyle Cb concept, 2013 Tokyo Auto Salon
    Fresh Details On Toyota’s Sub-FR-S Sports Car

    The FR-S might not be selling well (Scion sold just 1,000 examples last month, a 29 percent decrease from levels one year ago) but parent company Toyota is planning to launch two new sports cars, one above the FR-S and one below it. The model above the FR-S will be a spiritual successor to the...

  • 2017 Lotus Evora 400, 2015 Geneva Motor Show
    2017 Lotus Evora 400 priced from $89,900

    The 2017 Lotus Evora 400 will go on sale later this year priced from $89,900. That’s a significant jump on pricing for the previous Evora, but the new model is a much more substantial car. In fact, it’s the fastest road car in Lotus history. It also doesn’t hurt that the Evora 400...

  • 2015 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante by Valentino
    Aston Martin And Valentino Create One-Off Vanquish Volante

    Aston Martin rolled out a very special version of its Vanquish Volante this week which it developed with its Q personalization department in partnership with Italian fashion label Valentino. But this particular Vanquish isn’t a new special edition along the lines of Lamborghini’s...

  • 2012 Renault Alpine A110-50 Concept
    Is Renault Ready To Show The World Its New Alpine?

    Renault has been teasing sports car fans for a number of years now. How you ask? By showing off an Alpine concept that has us all drooling. It was shown to the world a few years back, and soon after production plans for a new sports car, possibly dubbed the AS1, were confirmed. Now though, it seems...

  • 2016 Scion FR-S

    Scion’s FR-S (and the car’s Subaru BRZ and Toyota GT 86 cousins) was launched on the market with great fanfare back in 2012 but since then sales have fizzled, with Scion managing to move just a thousand of the cars in April, down 29 percent on levels a year ago. The lack of sales has led to Toyota ruling out additional variants of the car, but it appears a planned mid-cycle update will still go ahead. According to Motoring, the FR-S will have a shelf life of about eight years, which means we can expect the car’s mid-cycle update to coincide with the 2017 model year. The...

  • 2015 Donkervoort D8 GTO Bare Naked Carbon Edition
    Donkervoort Goes Commando With Its Latest D8 GTO: Video

    Donkervoort builds insane machines that are clearly designed to find the great roads of this planet, conquer them, and then take on the rest of the galaxy. Once their mission here is complete, we look forward to hearing of their tales of universal conquest. Until that time comes, they still have...

  • 2016 Audi TT
    2016 Audi TT Priced From $43,825

    Audi’s new TT, the nameplate’s third generation, made its debut more than a year ago. We’ve even had a chance to drive the car and now it’s finally ready for its arrival in U.S. showrooms. Today, Audi confirmed that the new TT, which arrives as a 2016 model, will be priced...

  • 1985 GTI vs. 2015 GTI - Image via VWPartsVortex.com
    Tale Of The Tape: 1985 GTI Vs. 2015 GTI

    Among enthusiasts, there will always be a portion of the population primed to lionize classic models and lament the introduction of electronic nannies like traction control. ALSO SEE: Power Surge: Watch An All-Electric '68 Mustang Attempt A Record Run Now, while those conversations...

  • 2016 Cadillac ATS-V
    Cadillac May Offer More Aggressive V-Series Tune To Target Mercedes’ Black Series

    Cadillac’s new ATS-V may be a genuine rival to BMW’s M3/M4 and Mercedes-AMG’s C63, but right now the American luxury brand doesn’t have an answer to more potent offerings from the Germans such as BMW’s GTS-badged cars and Mercedes’ Black Series models. That might...

  • Audi RS 3 "Birth" screencap
    Watch The Audi R8 Give Birth To The... RS 3

    Bet you didn't think the most disturbing thing you'd see today would be an Audi commercial. Audi perhaps got a little too creative with this latest video promoting the new RS 3 Sportback. It actually shows a first-generation R8 giving birth to the hot hatchback. No, we don't know why either. In the...

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