Sports Cars

In general conversation, the terms “reliable” and “high mileage” aren’t usually applied to Italian sports cars, of any vintage. As with any rule, there are exceptions, and one happens to be the 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2 owned by Jack Riddell. At first glance, the car...

Porsche will be introducing two new models next year that will serve as bookends for the automaker’s lineup, helping it to reach its goal of selling as much as 200,000 vehicles per year by 2018. One of these will be a high-end supercar whose numbers will total less than a 1,000 units. The...

The 2013 SRT Viper isn't hitting dealers showrooms or customer driveways just yet, and only a handful of people outside of Chrysler have even driven it, but SRT has just released official pricing information: the new Viper starts from $97,395. That gets you into the base model--and doesn't include...

By 1963, the Chevrolet Corvette had established itself as a legitimate sports car, racking up racing success at the club, national and international levels. As the Corvette closed out its first decade, Chevrolet began production of a new C2 version for 1963. Dubbed the Corvette Sting Ray, it...

Just last week we told you about a 1.0-liter EcoBoost-powered Formula Ford that managed to lap Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife in just 7:22, making it faster around the ‘Ring than cars like the Ferrari Enzo and the Pagani Zonda. At the time, few took it as more than a Ford...

Chevrolet’s C1 Corvette made its public debut at the 1953 GM Motorama, hosted at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Displayed as a show car, production of the Corvette began six months later, in July of 1953. While early Corvettes were influenced by the designs of European sports cars...

Americans, right or wrong, tend to equate the size of a vehicle with its safety. While you can’t get around the laws of physics, the latest testing from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows that small cars, when designed properly, can be safe, too. The latest vehicles to earn the...

Audi has taken the wraps off the convertible version of its RS 5 brute. Peak output remains at 450 horsepower, though with a reinforced body adding extra weight, the 0-60 mph time for the RS 5 Cabrio is a few tenths of a second off the pace of the coupe. The 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show is only a...

Esteemed moto-journalist Chris Harris doesn’t like the Mazda MX-5 Miata. In an now-famous article, Harris shot down the MX-5 as a sports car, calling it “just a way of being exposed to the elements.” Worse, he penned that the MX-5 “drives with all the precision of a boneless...

The Audi RS 5 has just gone on sale, and we’ve even had a chance to drive one, but now the covers have come off a new convertible version, which will be presented to the public for the first time at the 2012 Paris Auto Show this month. Combining brute performance with an elegant convertible...

Here’s today’s hard life lesson: when you own a collection of Ferraris and your real estate business goes bankrupt, its best to move the cars before the bank forecloses on your storage warehouse. If you’re into the potentially illegal act of hiding assets, that is. A Dutch...

Mercedes-Benz will be previewing its upcoming 2014 S Class at the Paris Auto Show this month with a striking new sculpture and lighting display show. A consortium made up of Chinese and Japanese firms has finalized its purchase of the remaining assets of Saab. Though it can’t use the famous...

Maserati is tipped to reveal a new performance-oriented model at the 2012 Paris Auto Show taking place this month, and according to some sources it could be a preview of a new sports car the brand is working on. An email sent to Maserati customers announcing the brand’s attendance at the...

BMW’s M cars, like many of us who’ve been around for decades, have packed on a few pounds over the years. While the original E28 M5 sedan tipped the scales at a svelte 3,417 pounds, the latest F10 M5 weighs in at 4,288 pounds, and that’s a lot of bratwurst to haul around...

Though it’s hard to imagine today, the Chevrolet Corvette didn’t begin life as a high-performance sports car. Instead, early models went intended to be “sporty” convertibles, fitted with the “Blue Flame” in-line six-cylinder engine and a live rear axle. A V-8...

There is a simple joy in a properly rev-matched manual gearbox downshift that’s near impossible to describe. For a brief moment in time, years of practice blend muscle memory, mechanical motion and precision timing to yield perfect harmony between man and machine. Some manual-transmission...

Currently, the only model in Subaru’s U.S. lineup that's been enhanced by the people at Subaru Tecnica International (STI), the official motorsports division of the Japanese automaker, is the Impreza WRX STI. In the future, however, we could see several more models sporting the trademark pink...

Bentley’s past is littered with racing achievements, particularly before the Second World War when the likes of the Bentley Boys, a group of hard-driving, wealthy and dedicated works team racers, helped push the brand to numerous racing successes. Even as recently as 2003, Bentley was...

Like us, you've probably been tracing the projected path of Mazda's next-generation MX-5 for years. Whether you thought the third-gen NC MX-5 was a step in the right direction or not, the fourth-gen car is shaping up to be very interesting indeed. We already know that the next MX-5 will be shared...

Last week we brought you the incredible story of a historically significant racing Corvette, believed lost to history but then found in storage in St. Petersburg, Florida. As one of three Corvettes campaigned by Briggs Cunningham at the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans, the car has a potential value in...