Sports Cars

There have been numerous reports and official hints that Mazda could launch a rotary-powered sports car to either celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first rotary-powered model in 2017 or its own centenary in 2020. Now, the automaker’s CEO has put an end to the speculation. Speaking with...

Since 1910, the Morgan Motor Company has been churning out cars. Well, that's not exactly true because the company originally produced vehicles known as cycle cars. These were three-wheel machines that could seat two or four people. The first four-wheel car came to be in 1936, and Morgan has...

Picking the best performance and luxury car of the year is a difficult thing. Determining which is the best, or at least your favorite, from a crowd of very pleasing choices, can often come down to purely qualitative elements. So it is with Motor Authority's Best Car to Buy 2015, the 2015 Alfa...

McLaren Automotive is set to launch a new supercar positioned below its 650S and plans to reveal it for the first time next year, most likely at the Geneva Motor Show in March. We’ve already spotted test mules for the new car, which is referred to internally as the P13 and has been confirmed...

American sports car brand Panoz has been making headlines lately with its Esperante Spyder, which has just been extensively updated. The car is available in basic Spyder or more potent Spyder GT variants, and this year is being offered as an exclusive 25th anniversary model. Panoz plans to build...

It was at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show that Lotus first unveiled its current Exige S, and now, three years on, the British automaker has announced that it has just built the 1,000th example. It’s a significant milestone for a company that’s been through a lot these past few years...

Jaguar’s F-Type is already available in a number of variants but the expansion of the sports car range is far from complete. The strategy mimics that used by Porsche for its 911, which caters to a wide variety of buyers, and it’s one Mercedes-AMG plans to implement for its new GT sports...

Radical Sportscars, the company that made headlines back in 2009 after setting a Nürburgring lap time of just 6:48 in its street-legal SR8 LM, unveiled two new models over the weekend. One is a tweaked version of Radical’s mid-range SR3 and the other is a yet-to-be-built high-performance...

Not only are Honda’s cars cooler overseas, its ads are too. Take for example the automaker’s new interactive ad for the 2015 Civic Type R, which won’t be offered in the U.S. The ad, which you can view here, is called Other Side and it's designed to bring to life Honda’s wild...

Nissan will have its own booth at the upcoming annual show of the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), where it will feature a new ‘NISMO Lounge’ showcasing all the best parts of its official go-fast division as well as some of the people behind the brand. MUST SEE: Watch...

It was just over a year ago that revived electric car brand Detroit Electric revealed a Lotus-based sports car not unlike the original Tesla Roadster. The car was called the SP:01 and was said to be going on sale shortly after the debut with a starting price of $135,000. MUST SEE: Watch Dodge Build...

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...

It was in 2010 that Porsche first announced plans for an all-electric car, which it followed up a year a later by rolling out a battery-powered prototype based on its Boxster sports car. Since then, Porsche has been testing the waters for electrified performance cars, starting initially with...

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...

The Exige may not be on sale here anymore but overseas the car continues to be updated, with Lotus announcing that for 2015 the range-topping Exige S variant will be available with a paddle-shifted automatic transmission. This should help the wide-body Exige appeal to a much wider audience, which...

The all-new 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 hasn’t even gone on sale yet but already a crashed example has been spotted. The sorry-looking Z06 was spotted on a flatbed in Chicago and is likely the same car that crashed on the Nürburgring late last month. ALSO SEE: 2015 Chevy Corvetet Z06...

The National Corvette Museum will begin filling in the famous sinkhole next month.

Could Hyundai be considering a new sports car? According to one of the automaker’s senior executives, a launch of a new sports car has been discussed but no decision has been made yet. The information was revealed by Hyundai’s European chief Allan Rushforth in an interview with Autocar...

Porsche is working on a mid-cycle update for its 991-series 911, which in the automaker’s tradition will be classified a 991.2. The update is expected to consist of a few visual tweaks for the exterior and some new features in the cabin, and according to a new report the 911 Carrera models...