Supercars

In 1963, the Ford Motor Company very nearly became the owner of Ferrari. Ford reportedly invested millions of dollars on due diligence, only to have Enzo Ferrari back out of the deal after learning his cars would be ineligible to compete in the Indy 500 under Ford’s ownership. That...

Trailing a cloud of unburned petrochemicals and furious sound, the 1,244-horsepower Hennessey Venom GT is quick. How quick? How about 0-124 mph in 7.96 seconds? Or 0-186 mph in 13.48 seconds? Not good enough? How about 0-230 mph in 19.96 seconds. This video is, at its core, nothing but the second...

Californian tuner and top Ford dealer Galpin Auto Sports, otherwise known as GAS, will build a limited run of supercar models that draw their inspiration from the Ford GT built between 2005 and 2006. The new supercar will be called the GTR-1 and it will deliver more than 1,000 horsepower...

When it comes to exclusive cars, you can’t get much more exclusive than the Bugatti Veyron, and even among these rare beauties is the set of special edition models of which only a handful are produced each year. The latest is the Veyron Grand Sport Venet, a car Bugatti bills as the...

One of the standouts of this week’s 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show was a bright yellow supercar from the tuning gods at AMG. That supercar is the new 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series, possibly the wildest and most capable car to ever emerge from AMG’s headquarters in Affalterbach...

Few other automakers spend as much time, money and effort in honing their range-topping sports cars as Nissan devotes to the GT-R. Proof of that was seen in May of 2012, when the automaker entered a near-stock GT-R in the Nürburgring 24 Hour race, finishing first in class and 30th overall. As...

In September of 2011, supercar builder Horacio Pagani brought his latest masterpiece, the Pagani Huayra, to Jay Leno’s Garage for a bit of show-and-tell. Since the car lacked advanced airbags and hadn’t been approved for U.S. sale, Leno never got a turn behind the wheel (although he did...

Did you ever wonder how much fun a stretched Lotus Elise platform would be if you shoehorned in a twin-turbo Chevy LS V-8 engine? Tuner extraordinaire John Hennessey wondered the exact same thing, and hence the Hennessey Venom GT was born. As the car heads into its third year of production...

When it comes to automakers that are perceived to be “green,” Lamborghini probably isn’t the first company to come to mind. After all, it’s product line consists exclusively of supercars like the Gallardo and Aventador, powered by V-10 and V-12 engines. If you want fuel...

Supercar builder Koenigsegg isn’t known for subtlety in either design or performance, so when word spreads that the Swedish automaker is building its most extreme car yet, we tend to listen closely. Dubbed the One:1 in reference to the car’s power-to-weight ratio (one horsepower for...

Audi has hinted at the launch of a diesel-powered supercar for the good part of a decade, with things really heating up when the company unveiled its R8 V12 TDI concept car in 2008. However, plans for a diesel-powered R8 were eventually abandoned, even though Audi would continue to develop...

The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta has only just started deliveries in Europe, but already the people at Novitec Rosso, the German experts at tuning Ferraris and other exotics, have got their hands on the car and prepared a first round of modifications. And yes, Novitec’s engineers have managed to...

We’ve just driven the all-new 2013 SRT Viper, and can confirm it is a marvelous machine, and now production of the car is ready to be lifted to full capacity as customer orders start getting filled. Chrysler will be waiting until after this week’s Thanksgiving break before production of...

Mercedes-Benz has the SLS AMG, Audi has the R8, and even Lexus has its LFA, but BMW, a brand that prides itself on building some of the best driving machines on the planet, is without a dedicated sports car. That’s all set to change in 2014 when the automaker releases its i8 plug-in hybrid...

So far, the Ferrari Enzo's upcoming hybrid replacement, or F70 as it may be called, has raked the muck from nearly every rumor pond in all of the Great Rumor Swamp, a.k.a. the Internet. Filtering the good from the bad is difficult. The latest rumor may be the most outrageous yet. According to...

Since taking over Lotus’ parent company Proton last January, and in effect taking control of the British sports car manufacturer, Malaysian conglomerate DRB-Hicom has set about ousting Dany Bahar and the former CEO's overly ambitious plan for a six-model lineup, injecting some funds and...

A Ferrari-organized charity auction coinciding with this past weekend’s United States Grand Prix saw the star attraction of the event, the very first F12 Berlinetta offered for sale in the U.S., delivered to its new owner Larry Roth of Long Island. All proceeds of the auction, a sum of $1.5...

Due to popular demand, McLaren has decided to put its track-focused 12C GT Can-Am Edition concept car into production. The company announced the plans during a special event at the United States Grand Prix, which is taking place this weekend in Austin, Texas. Revealed as a concept at the 2012...

When it comes to automobiles, nothing defines wretched excess quite like the Bugatti Veyron. Everything from its 987-horsepower (or 1,184 hp, in Super Sport trim) W-16 engine, to its multi-million dollar selling price, to its absurd cost of maintenance, is meant to signify that the Veyron is not...

Fresh from its global (digital) debut earlier this week, and just ahead of its real-life debut at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show, the Lamborghini Aventador Roadster has been priced. In the U.S., you'll pay $445,300 for the privilege of owning one. That figure includes $441,600 in purchase price and...