Sports Cars

At the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show on September 10, Toyota will present a new concept car based on its Yaris hatchback that leverages the automaker’s hybrid technology developed for its TS030 Hybrid Le Mans prototype. We’ve already had our first look at the concept, dubbed the Toyota Yaris...

Maserati is well on its way to achieving 50,000 annual sales by the middle of the decade, with the company already having received 17,000 sales over the first seven months of the year, almost triple its sales for the whole of 2012. Should the success continue, Maserati aims to be profitable by...

Despite a recent string of bad luck for Germany’s niche sports car brands, a few North American startups have announced their intention to launch new sports cars of their own. Recently we looked at Lucra and its new 2.2 project as well as Mexico’s VŪHL, whose 05 track car looks to be...

Late last year, a Nissan GT-R finished in ‘Bolt Gold,’ a unique paint finish developed by Nissan in celebration of Usain Bolt’s success at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, was auctioned off to help raise funds for the athlete’s charitable foundation in his native Jamaica...

Evil. Fantastic. Both. That doesn't describe the 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo and Turbo S, but the members-only track at Bilster Berg Drive Resort near Bad Driburg, Germany. It's the most fun we've found in a closed circuit this year. And the 911 Turbo and Turbo S make it look easy. Well, not quite easy...

British journo drives a 3-Series enhanced by Germany's Alpina.

Prototypes for the Z06 version of the seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette have just started testing, though they don’t reveal too much detail just yet. However, we hear that the car will break from tradition and no longer be called a Z06 but will use a new “Z07” designation to...

A 2014 Cadillac CTS Vsport has been clocked running the 13 odd miles of Germany’s Nürburgring-Nordschleife, one of the most grueling race tracks in the world, in an incredible time of 8:14.10. That might not sound fast when you consider General Motors’ own Chevrolet Corvette ZR1...

The new Vsport trim that debuted on the 2014 Cadillac CTS and has since been announced for the 2014 XTS will morph into its own sub-brand and eventually be available on most Cadillac models, according to one of the automaker’s executives. The Vsport models aren’t dedicated performance...

The long-awaited M version of the latest generation ‘F30’ BMW 3-Series is on track for a debut at January's 2014 Detroit Auto Show, and these latest shots show the most complete prototype we’ve seen yet. Since the reveal of the M4 concept car at the recent Pebble Beach Concours...

The SP:01, Detroit Electric's battery-powered sports car not unlike the Tesla Roadster, is currently on hold, pending the company's purchase of a facility in which to build it. Production was due to start on the Lotus Elise-based electric car this month, but delays in finalizing a manufacturing...

BMW has just shown off its new M4, the replacement for the M3 Coupe, in concept form and at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show in January we’ll see the covers come off the production version, seen here as a prototype. BMW engineers have become a bit more relaxed about the camouflage gear now that the...

Car and Driver has managed to get its hands on a trademark application for a new logo from Nissan, which contains “Pure Drive” and “R-Hybrid” labels. Nissan already uses the Pure Drive designation on some of its more fuel-efficient offerings but R-Hybrid is new and may hint...

We’ve been spying prototypes for Subaru’s next-generation WRX for months but soon the heavy camouflage will be coming off and the car ready for its debut on the world stage. That debut will reportedly take place at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show in November, where Subaru is confirmed to...

French automaker Peugeot is launching a new generation of its 308 hatchback at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, and to help build excitement will also roll out this performance-oriented concept version. Dubbed the 308 R, the concept hints at a hotted-up Peugeot 308 that if built would target the likes...

The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is probably etched into your retinas with the frequency of its appearance on your computer monitor, smartphone, and tablet of late. But there's a very good reason for that. It's a very good sports car. It's also quite popular with enthusiasts, it seems, with...

The LT1 V-8 found in the latest 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the most advanced engine ever put under the hood of a 'Vette--but how do its power and torque numbers stack up? You could read the official spec sheets of course. Chevy claims 460 horsepower and 465 pounds-feet of torque from the...

Fans hoping General Motors will utilize its seventh-generation Corvette platform, debuting in the 2014 Corvette Stingray, in other models will be disappointed to learn that there are no plans for such a move. The information comes directly from the Corvette’s chief engineer, Tadge Juechter...

The 2014 Chevrolet SS rear-wheel-drive muscle sedan is almost here and we can’t wait to hop behind the wheel. But as most readers will know, the SS is essentially a rebadged Holden Commodore SS V already on sale in Australia, albeit with a few performance tweaks thrown in. In a previous...

11. The split-window made the original Sting Ray unique, but it's not on the table for the new model. In fact, Chevy mocked up a car with a split window for the 2014 Stingray, but ultimately decided not to pursue it for the same reason the original only lasted one model year. The team found it to...