Sports Cars

  • 2017 Ruf CTR

    “It’s a love affair with our own history and with our own car that we created 30 years ago. We’re trying to bring it back in a little bit more modernized way.” So says Alois Ruf Jr., about the fourth-generation Ruf CTR, a car that his company is building as an homage to the famed Ruf Yellow Bird from 1987. In 1987, the Ruf CTR Yellow Bird was a highly tuned version of the Porsche 911. It made a whopping 469 horsepower, weighed only 2,535 pounds, and could reach 210 mph, making it faster than just about all of the established supercars of the day. The new CTR, now in...

  • Subaru STI in St. Moritz
    How can we make auto racing an Olympic sport? Subaru has an idea

    Bobsleds don't have rearview mirrors. Turns out, Subarus about to run down bobsled tracks don't need them. But that's only one of the modifications made to the Subaru WRX STI prepped by rally specialists Prodrive to race down the mecca for bobsledders in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The others? A...

  • 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    Porsche to offer 911 GT2 with PDK only, manual as no-cost option on GT3

    There’s a new generation of the Porsche 911 brewing but the current 991 series still has some life left in it. In fact, it’s about to spawn a new GT2 variant. We’ve been spying prototypes for almost a year but now Porsche CEO Oliver Blume has dropped a few details. Speaking to...

  • 2017 Porsche 911 RSR race car
    Porsche engineer hints at mid-engine 911 road car

    Porsche broke with over 50 years of 911 rear-engine tradition when it rolled out the mid-engine 911 RSR race car at the 2016 Los Angeles auto show. The primary benefit of going with a mid-engine design is weight distribution, since you no longer have the heavy engine behind the rear axle. Keeping...

  • Tata Tamo Racemo concept, 2017 Geneva auto show
    Tata reveals Racemo concept, forms alliance with VW Group

    Indian auto giant Tata in February launched the Tamo sub-brand to serve as an incubator for potential new businesses and technologies and to develop exciting, low-volume models to help strengthen Tata’s image. Tata has marked the launch of Tamo with the presentation of the Racemo sports car...

  • Alpine A110
    Alpine A110 is France's answer to the Alfa Romeo 4C, Porsche 718 Cayman

    As with most things that are good in the auto industry, Americans are getting hosed. That's as true of hot hatchbacks as it is of mid-engine sports cars. For the longest time, the Porsche Cayman/Boxster twins were the only option here in North America, unless you wanted to upgrade to a supercar...

  • 2017 Ruf CTR, 2017 Geneva auto show

    Famous Porsche tuner Ruf has returned with a new generation of its CTR sports car, and the latest is the first car completely developed in-house by the still family owned business run out of Pfaffenhausen, Germany. On display this week at the 2017 Geneva auto show, the new CTR, the fourth in the line of CTR (Group C, Turbo, Ruf) sports cars that began 30 years with the famous CTR “Yellowbird,” is billed as the first car with a carbon fiber tub and rear engine mounting. Its engine is a twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter flat-6 that Ruf’s engineers have tuned to deliver 700...

  • Kahn Design WB12 Vengeance Volante, 2017 Geneva auto show
    Kahn Design Vengeance Volante debuts in Geneva, limited to 3 cars

    After debuting the WB12 Vengeance coupe to critical acclaim at the 2016 Geneva auto show, British outfit Kahn Design unveiled a new convertible version of the car at this year’s running of the Swiss show. The Vengeance is a coachbuilt marvel based on a brand new chassis of a donor Aston...

  • 2017 Aston Martin Vantage AMR Pro
    Aston Martin launches AMR performance sub-brand

    Aston Martin has a new performance sub-brand leveraging the expertise of the Aston Martin Racing motorsport department. The sub-brand will go by the name AMR and offer high-performance derivatives of each model in the Aston Martin lineup. Cars from AMR benefit from enhanced performance, sharper...

  • Porsche 911 GT3
    Porsche listens, reunites 911 GT3 and manual trans for 2018

    Porsche 911 GT3 owners had every right to be angry after the 911 R debuted at the 2016 Geneva auto show. Not only did the R get an extra 25 ponies via the GT3 RS's 4.0-liter, 500-horsepower flat-6, it had what numerous GT3 owners wanted in the first place—a 6-speed manual transmission. A year...

  • Ruf CTR 3 supercar
    Porsche tuner Ruf to unveil standalone sports car in Geneva

    Famous Porsche tuner Ruf has dabbled in standalone sports cars in the past, though these have all been based on models from Porsche’s regular fleet—the most recent being 2011’s CTR 3. At the 2017 Geneva auto show starting tomorrow, Ruf will present a new standalone sports car, one...

  • 2017 Alpine A110
    Alpine reveals 718 Cayman rival, confirms A110 name

    The long road to the market return of the Alpine sports car brand is almost over. It was in late 2012 that French automaker Renault announced plans to partner with British track car specialist Caterham to develop a platform to underpin a future sports car for Alpine and a similar model for...

  • Genovation GXE sets new electric car top speed record of 209 mph

    Genovation Cars is intent on proving that electric cars can perform. Last year, the Rockville, Maryland, company set the standing mile record for a street-legal electric car and then the land speed record. Now it's at it again. Running its prototype Genovation GXE based on a C6 Chevrolet Corvette, the company set a new standing mile speed record and a new land speed record last week. The hits just keep coming. Taking off from a stop, with just a whisper from its EV powertrain, the GXE reached 209.0 mph at the Kennedy Space Center's Space Shuttle Landing Facility in Merritt Island Florida...

  • Honda Project 2&4 concept, 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show
    Honda files patent for car inspired by 2&4 track car concept

    It appears that Honda might be serious about its wonderful Project 2&4 concept. If you're not familiar, this was a roadster originally shown to the public at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show. Honda designers developed a concept vehicle that attempted to bridge the gap between the world of...

  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster Edition 50
    Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster Edition 50 to debut in Geneva

    Mercedes-AMG is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, and the Affalterbach tuner has numerous models planned to mark the milestone. The first of these was the GT C Edition 50 that we saw at the 2017 Detroit auto show. At next month’s 2017 Geneva auto show, AMG will introduce the...

  • 2017 Aston Martin Vantage Red Bull Racing Edition
    Aston Martin reveals first Red Bull Racing special editions

    It was in March of 2016 that Aston Martin announced a technical partnership with the Red Bull Racing Formula One team, the crowning glory of which is the upcoming AM-RB 001 hypercar whose development is being led by Red Bull’s expert aerodynamicist Adrian Newey. The hypercar isn’t due...

  • 2016 BMW M2 with M Performance parts, 2015 SEMA show
    2017 BMW M2 Performance Edition amps up already great car

    Yesterday, Bimmerpost and BMW Blog spotted order code ZL9 for the 2017 BMW M2 in the U.S. BMW dealership ordering system. It specifies the 2017 M2 Performance Edition. We reached out to a spokesman from BMW, who confirmed that this limited edition package is indeed available to order at this time...

  • 2017 Cigarette Racing 50’ Marauder AMG inspired by the 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R
    Cigarette Racing celebrates Mercedes-AMG’s 50th with GT R-inspired speedboat

    The folks at Florida's Cigarette Racing build some of the coolest-looking speedboats in the business, and the coolest of them all is the Marauder series. Stretching 51 feet and 7 inches in length, these come with not one but two top-of-the-line Mercury Racing V-8 engines delivering a combined 3,100...

  • 2017 BAC Mono

    Britain’s BAC, maker of the street-legal, single-seat Mono track car, now has an official presence in the United States. The Mono has been on sale in the U.S. since its 2011 launch, though until now the cars were sold through Sector 111 and other importers. Sector 111 is also the importer of one of the Mono’s main rivals, the Ariel Atom. A new BAC USA division has been established in Sonoma, California and headed up by Mark Rayner. BAC USA will handle partial assembly of the cars as well as sales and maintenance services for customers in the U.S. No pricing details have been...

  • Hardcore BMW M4 variant spotted during photo shoot - Image via Bimmerpost
    Hardcore BMW M4 ‘CS’ spotted during photo shoot

    When BMW in January announced its round of mid-cycle updates for the M4, many, including us, were disappointed to learn there were no real changes apart from some tweaks to the lights and new colors. That’s because BMW is saving the M4’s more substantial updates for a new model tipped...

  • Scan of alleged brochure for new Toyota Supra - Image via Auto.Blog.rs
    Alleged brochure for new Toyota Supra is fake

    Update: The alleged brochure for the new Toyota Supra has turned out to be a fake. After some further digging, 'Motor.es' discovered that the scan was compiled using the original brochure from the MkIV Supra as well as some enthusiast magazines from Japan. Our original post is below. An image...

  • Screenshot of Instagram post from Porsche Centre Brisbane - Image via CarAdvice
    Porsche dealer hints at Cayman GT4 RS with 4.0-liter flat-6

    There have been rumors for years of an extra spicy “RS” version of the Porsche Cayman GT4, and now one of the automaker’s dealerships may have just confirmed it. Porsche Centre Brisbane recently posted a photo of a Cayman GT4 on its Instagram page along with the message that a...

  • Jannarelly Design-1 HT
    Jannarelly reveals flip-up roof option for Design-1 sports car

    Sports car startup Jannarelly is bowing to popular demand for an enclosed version of its first model, the deliciously retro Design-1. The company, which is based in Dubai, has revealed the design of a hard-top roof option (HT) in a series of computer-generated images. Jannarelly has also revealed a...

  • Porsche Camp4 Canada 2017
    Fast camp: Take me to Porsches on ice

    Drivers dread the moment they effectively "run out of talent." That sinking feeling in the bottom of your stomach when a turn goes pear-shaped and the car goes sideways isn't exactly thrilling. For some, talent runs out on the day's last lap, when tires are hot and tensions are hotter. For others...

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