Sports Cars

With only a few months to the release of Forza Motorsport 4 (FM4) on Xbox 360, Porsche fans the world over were looking forward to getting behind the wheel of several dozen of the Stuttgart sports cars. Only now, they won't be able to. Thanks to rival developer Electronic Arts (EA) tightening its...

As far as road-going roofless track cars go, the KTM X-Bow is in a very exclusive class, kept company primarily by the Ariel Atom and the Lotus 2-Eleven. However, at the end of the day, its design is a little too impractical for regular use on public roads, especially in colder climates...

Tamara Ecclestone, the daughter of billionaire F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, has just received a Ferrari 599 GTO from her boyfriend Omar Khyami. [MotorAuthority] The 2012 Toyota Camry looks like it’s set to be the most American vehicle, thanks to its high-level of local content...

Saying your brand is all about performance is one thing, but actually putting your own butt on the line in an all-out open road rally is another. SRT Brand president and CEO Ralph Gilles isn't afraid--even when he's doing it in a Dodge Viper SRT10. Gilles will join experienced Targa Newfoundland...

Brumos Racing is well-known as one of the leading Grand-Am GT efforts these days, and the principals also own and operate a Porsche dealership in Jacksonville, Florida. This month, they've announced plans to build a special-edition Brumos Porsche B59 911 GTS to honor Hurley Haywood. If you don't...

The venerable BMW inline six-cylinder is, and has long been, one of our favorite engines. But for 2012, it's being replaced, in naturally aspirated guise, with a turbocharged four-cylinder. Blasphemy? Sorry, no. Not at all. That's right: The turbo four-cylinder in the 2012 Z4 sDrive 28i is a worthy...

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is still a fresh, frenetic memory, but I've spent the last two days driving some of BMW's newest hardware up and down California's central coast. Between clipping canyon apexes and whirring along in high-tech quietude, it became clear: the new 6er coupe is about...

Hyundai has just announced that its funky new hatchback can be yours for the price of $17,300, plus a $760 destination charge. That price includes the 1.6-liter GDI inline four-cylinder and a six-speed manual transmission. If rowing your own gears isn't your style, you can add another $1,250 for...

For the rest of the details on the Skip Barber High Performance Driving School, visit part one and part two of this review. We pick up with the last two elements, the slalom and the road course. Slalom The slalom might be the simplest of vehicle dynamics tests, but it's also one of the most...

Porsche unveils the new 2012 911. [MotorAuthority] Ferrari makes the 458 Spider official, retractable hard-top and all. [MotorAuthority] The rear-wheel drive Subaru version of the Toyota FT-86 will be called BRZ. [MotorAuthority] We drive the 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. [GreenCarReports] Jaguar is...

It's sure better (if not more creative) than Boxer Sports Car Architecture Concept. And we're definitely not missing Rear-Wheel Drive Sports Car Technology Concept. What are we talking about? Subaru announced that it will finally drop those awkward, unwieldy names in favor of the much simpler...

Mazda has reportedly ceased production of its RX-8 sports car, the only rotary-powered vehicle currently on the market, and possibly the last. The reason is due to falling sales and an inability to meet toughening emissions and fuel economy regulations all around the world. Last year Mazda only...

Today's supercars, sports cars, and performance sedans are without doubt some of the most impressive bits of machinery humans have ever built, capable of feats of speed and handling that were unthinkable just a decade ago. But it takes a capable driver to get at that performance, and a quality...

The 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK55 AMG is the high-performance variant of the 2012 SLK range, and comes packing a naturally-aspirated 5.5-liter V-8 with 415 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque on tap.

The new wave of super-performance sports cars is going carbon fiber monocoque, including the McLaren MP4-12C and, of course, the Lamborghini Aventador. The result, as seen in these rolling chassis photos from Pebble Beach's concept lawn, is a whole lotta carbon fiber going on beneath the surface...

It seems like the winner at Pebble Beach is chosen through a mixture of politics, personal history, effort required in restoration (though not necessarily that of the owner), and money spent--but picking a winner of any kind out of the stellar assortment of cars arranged here this week is bound to...

The 2011 Frankfurt auto show opens to the media on Sept. 12, and one of the most anticipated concept cars making its debut on the show floor will be the Jaguar C-X16 concept, a promise-keeper for the brand's future entry-level sports car. Chief designer Ian Callum says it's one of the most exciting...

After fifty years on the road, a decade off duty and with a permanent place secured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, what's left for the venerable Jaguar E-Type? Jaguar's resident cougar had a belated birthday party at The Quail 2011, as the annual Monterey classics weekend and Pebble Beach...

We're just days away from the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Monterey, but already the drive reports and inside info is starting to emerge for the next crop of production cars. The latest is confirmation that BMW will in fact offer a 5-Series diesel with M Division's tuning. Whether this means...

Long a favorite of sports car aficionados, the Porsche 911 is due for its next full redesign, to be unveiled in under a month at the Frankfurt Motor Show. As tends to happen with hotly anticipated cars, however, the images have been leaked in advance. Looking just like the cars captured in our spy...