Sports Cars

At the Detroit Auto Show at the start of this year, industry veteran Bob Lutz presented a Fisker Karma concept powered by a Corvette V-8 engine. The car was a preview of a new luxury sedan called the Destino that Lutz and other investors planned to launch under the VL name. The last we heard...

Tiny, minimalist, fast, and beautiful: the Alfa Romeo 4C is just about the perfect truly modern interpretation of the supercar--at least for some. It has officially logged a Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time of 8 minutes, 4 seconds. Shown in these photos confirming the lap time still wearing a...

Being Jay Leno has its perks. First, you get to dress head to toe in denim and nobody judges you for it. Second, companies like Jaguar occasionally say things like, "hey, wanna have a go in our one-of-a-kind Project 7 sports car?" Jay does just that in his latest video, trying out the D-Type...

Detractors of Mazda's evergreen MX-5 sports car often come back to one point: It just doesn't have enough power. Fans of the car would disagree, but we're sure nobody will complain at the news, via Auto Express, that Mazda's MX-5 GT concept is set for production. The car, developed by race...

The all-new 2014 F-Type convertible sports car has proven a runaway success for Jaguar, with the company claiming to have already sold half a year’s worth of production despite the model having just been launched. To keep the momentum going, Jaguar will follow up with a new coupe variant...

Charles Morgan will appeal his ousting from the car maker that bears his family's name.

It might seem like the SLS AMG Roadster is still new, and truthfully, it is, having made its debut in late 2011, as a 2012 model. But Mercedes-Benz is planning a facelift for the car, as evidenced by these latest spy shots of a prototype. The updates are intended to keep the car looking fresh until...

the second Corvette Stingray crash in as many weeks shows that owners may be getting a little too enthusiastic.

In mid-2012, normally-conservative Volvo unveiled an S60-based concept, built with tuning partner Polestar, that was anything but ordinary. Boasting some 508 horsepower and 424 pound-feet of torque from its turbocharged 3.0-liter six, the car was a slap in the face of convention. Initially, it was...

Not long ago, we brought you details on Walkinshaw Performance’s new W375 kit for the HSV’s Gen-F range of muscle sedans, which focused on naturally aspirated power. Walkinshaw is now back with two new supercharged kits for the HSVs as well as the regular Holden Commodore SS-V, to be...

A simple sign wouldn't do for the entrance to Porsche's new West Coast Experience Center.

Hyundai will use its return to WRC in 2014 to help promote a new performance sub-brand the Korean automaker has in the works. The focus will initially be on the European market, where WRC is primarily run, but eventually we could see some of the go-fast Hyundais launched under the performance...

BMW’s M Performance range of go-fast parts and accessories aren’t designed strictly for BMW’s regular models, but can also be used to enhance the automaker’s dedicated M cars. In fact, BMW first used the M3 to test the waters with its new M Performance branding and now...

Mazda has just unveiled a stylish new generation of its popular Mazda 3 hatchback and sedan but hasn’t--officially--made mention of a high-performance Mazdaspeed version just yet. We’ve heard through the grapevine however that a Mazdaspeed 3 (a Mazda 3 MPS to readers outside the U.S.)...

Hyundai's third 2013 SEMA show concept is a Genesis Coupe with a retina-searing paint job.

Toyota may soon launch an affordable rear-wheel-drive sedan based on the bones of its Scion FR-S sports car. That’s the claim of a new report coming out of Australia. Citing an inside source, Car Sales is reporting that Toyota is looking at several different models based on its...

The 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray has been making waves everywhere it goes--and occasionally hitting Very Hard Objects. It even managed to get into a tangle or two during development. But this looks like it might be the first known customer crash. While details are non-existent on the Reddit posting...

The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a lot of things to many people, including being a Monopoly token it seems. That’s right, the new Corvette Stingray has been immortalized as a Monopoly token, but not for the version of the game you most likely remember from your childhood but the latest...

Porsche’s new Macan is set for a debut at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show next month, and in the lead up the sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart has launched a microsite offering some new details on the crossover as well as some teaser shots. Rather than describe its Macan as a crossover...

This very well may be our first look at the completed design for Ferrari’s replacement for its California convertible sports car. The images are alleged to be official patent drawings filed by Ferrari with a registry for trademarks and patents in Europe. They were found by World Car Fans...