Sports Cars

How does a $23,000, 201-horsepower Hyundai Veloster grab you? Great, right? You'd be surprised how challenging it is to other front-drive fans. It sounds silly, even ridiculous, to those who bow to the old school of hot hatchbacks. But it has to worry them, too. Sign up: Get our best headlines...

The Scion FR-S' cousin, the Toyota GT 86, has been spotted in Europe wearing a new factory aero kit that may eventually be offered to U.S. customers.

Would you like to see a more powerful, sportier-looking, better-handling Mazda MX-5? Then sound off--Mazda wants to hear feedback on its MX-5 GT Concept it's showing at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year. With 205 horsepower at the crank from its normally-aspirated 2.0-liter four-cylinder (a...

Track days are growing in popularity all over the world, and so are track-day-only cars. While hustling a Corvette around your local road course is undeniably fun, it’s not as much fun as pushing a car designed for the track to its limits. In between road car and race car are street-legal...

We’ve already given you all the news that’s fit to print about BMW’s 2012 M6 Coupe and Convertible models, including our first drive report on the open air version, published earlier this month. We’ve praised the M6’s TwinPower Turbo 4.4-liter V-8, which makes 560...

AMS Performance's heavily modified Alpha 12 Nissan GT-R continues to set the pace for custom versions of the incredibly quick R35.

Maserati's 2013 GranTurismo Sport, seen in the accompanying video, replaces the outgoing Maserati GranTurismo S.

Warning: these videos will make you want to sell your house, rob a bank, and sleep in your garage for the next six months. If you're OK with that, proceed. Magnus Jinstrand is the man you'll have to blame for your newly re-oriented life, as he's the wickedly brilliant Swede behind this supercharged...

Today, we have new spy video of BMW's upcoming 2013 4-Series coupe. Of course, the two-door may yet be badged as a 3-Series, but whichever number it gets, it'll be the same car--and it will likely share its powertrain with the 3-Series sedans. The 2012 J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality...

Jaguar’s upcoming 2014 F-Type roadster won’t hit dealers until the middle of next year (assuming no significant project delays), but Jaguar is already hard at work drumming up attention for its upcoming sports car. The luxury automaker has already released camouflaged teaser images of...

Performance cars are all about performance, except when they're not. In the case of luxury-performance sedans like BMW's M5, there are numerous concessions made to comfort and civility that cost ultimate speed and handling. But the next M5 may make a big concession: no manual transmission, not even...

Porsche has enhanced the power output and the style of its Carrera and Carrera S models for the 2013 model year.

Audi has decided not to sell the latest version of its RS 4 in the U.S., although the brand with the four rings has promised to bring more of its uber-RS models stateside. After watching this video of Chris Harris testing the latest version back-to-back with two previous generations, as well as a...

Since Toyota made the tough decision to pull out of Formula 1 racing at the end of the 2009 season, the automaker’s multi-million dollar motorsports facility based in Cologne, Germany, has been keeping busy with a number of performance-related projects. Although the team at Toyota Motorsports...

The Caterham name may not be all that familiar in the U.S. but over in Europe Caterham is well known for manufacturing a range of lightweight track cars built around the classic Lotus Seven chassis. More recently the British firm has been expanding into the road car business with the launch of its...

Free trips to some of the world's greatest races? Free sports cars? No gearhead/speedfreak/track rat in his or her right mind would turn such a thing down, even across brand loyalty barriers. That's probably part of the motivation behind Chevrolet's latest duo of giveaways. The other part is...

BMW bosses have vehemently denied that a successor to the legendary M1 supercar is in the works, yet that hasn’t stopped reports of a new super sports car being developed by the M Division from surfacing every now and then. One of the main reasons cited by BMW for the lack of such a model is...

Volvo and its performance partner Polestar will build more of its 508-horsepower S60 sedans should anyone--with a spare $300k lying around--require one.

A brand new generation of the MINI Cooper is just around the corner, and that means replacements for all the different variants including the sportier S and John Cooper Works trims, as well as new versions of the Clubman, Countryman and all the other bodystyles MINI is now offering. The first will...

Kudos to Hyundai for putting a new twist on the "can a car outrun this object" theme by outrunning an arrow with a humble Genesis Coupe--but pardon us if we take a closer look at the physics of this video before we go all googly-eyed. Most arrows from a typical modern compound bow will travel...