Sports Cars

What do you get when you pair the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG with a winding mountain road, mellow cello music, and Boris Becker? Ninety kilos of dead weight spoiling the ride with a spec-sheet narration. This latest European-market commercial for the 530-horsepower, 590 pound-foot (or 557/664 with...

Lotus must temporarily halt development activities while new Proton investor DRB-Hicom completes its due diligence.

A 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Riley & Scott race car was the last Paul Newman, famed actor and renowned racing driver, ever took into competition. It sold this weekend at the RM Auction at the Amelia Island Concours for a price of $275,000. The 2002 Corvette racer was powered by a 5.7-liter V-8...

A 1962 Ferrari 330 LM took home top honors in the Sport category at Sunday's Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.

Porsche saw growth in sales and profitability in 2011, and appears to be on track for reaching its Strategy 2018 business plan goals.

Just revived from a 75-year slumber last fall, Britain's Atalanta sports car brand has now launched its first new car--except it's a 75-year-old design. Called the Atalanta Sports Tourer, the car was first shown to the public on March 5, 1937. But despite its aged design, the modern Sports Tourer...

As one of the great on-again, off-again projects of recent years at Porsche, the sub-Boxster roadster, referred to internally as the 550--after the historic 550 Spyder--has at times straddled the cusp of both reality and cancellation. In a way, it continues to--but we recently sat down with...

It's annoying when a parcel you've ordered is held up in customs, right? Well, famous British carmaker AC, and design house Zagato, are showing the 378 GT at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. But just like that parcel, the AC was initially a no-show at Geneva. According to CAR magazine, the prototype had...

Audi's mid-engined wundercar, the R8, is five years old--soon to be six. Six models have been built, and soon, the facelifted, updated 2013 model will be on the scene. This video gives us a tiny taste of what to expect--and a look back on what's already been. While the whole 90-second run of the...

If you're yet to be convinced about electric cars, then you aren't alone. They're certainly not suitable for everyone, but that's not to say there aren't aspects we can appreciate. 649 pounds-feet of torque from a standstill is an appreciable quality, as is 525 horsepower. Those are the figures...

As the maker of the first racing hybrid that would do serious business on the track--courtesy of an F1-style kinetic energy recovery system--Porsche is no stranger to the idea of high-performance hybrids. But the brand, under then-CEO Michael Macht, has said as recently as 2010, that it won't build...

Built as part of a UK-sponsored technology initiative, the Infiniti Emerge-E electric sports car concept is the first Infiniti model to be designed in Europe. Called the “ulitmate expression of Infiniti’s inspired performance,” the mid-engined, twin-motored concept gives a glimpse...

While it wasn’t the long-rumored convertible Evora that we had been hoping for, Lotus did stay true to its word and blew “the roof off” one of its models at this week’s 2012 Geneva Motor Show. That model was the Exige S, which has now been revealed in Exige S Roadster form...

Italian coachbuilder Touring Superleggera is showing the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione-based Disco Volante 2012 at this week's Geneva Motor Show.

If you're going to make your debut at a motor show as a new manufacturer, you have to make sure the car is special. After all, it's competing against the biggest automakers in the world, and every supercar under the sun. So does the Roding Roadster cut it against some of the other cars revealed at...

Normally, electric cars look futuristic. Normally, they don't have a five-speed manual gearbox. And normally, electric cars are about economy, rather than fun. Morgan isn't the sort of company to do things normally. As such, the small English sports car maker has unveiled the Plus E at Geneva - a...

The 2012 Geneva Motor Show is well underway even though it's still early morning in the States, and one of the highlights thus far--aside from the odd one-off Lamborghini--is the official auto show unveiling of the 2013 Porsche Boxster. With a much cleaner, more powerful look than its predecessor...

Las Vegas, if you haven't been lately, kind of sucks. Everything is twice as expensive as it should be, good blackjack tables are nearly extinct (even at $100 a hand), and traffic is bad enough to make trekking on foot seem like a good idea even in the summer desert heat. But fortunately, I wasn't...

While we're still not allowed to talk about the Fiat 500 Abarth's performance or other qualities--don't worry, we will be soon--we can show you this new ad--pitched at the recent media launch as an alternate Super Bowl commercial that was deemed a bit too saucy. Considering Catrinel Menghia's spot...

With the Mazda MX-5 Miata sitting more or less alone at the affordable end of the rear-drive, two-seat roadster market, a convertible version of the Toyota GT 86/Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ is an attractive proposition--and it may be on the table. According to Germany's AutoBild, Toyota's lead developer...