Track Day

If you're a track hound or at all interested in becoming one, you could do a lot worse than starting with a driving school. Mercedes-Benz's AMG Driving Academy is a good example, with access to cars you won't find anywhere else. Today, we have a more in-depth video to go along with the teaser we...

Barber Motorsports Park is reason enough to visit the Porsche Sport Driving School--it's one of the country's most beautiful motorsports compounds, and has a brief but potent history in Grand-Am road racing use. Now, it's even better: you can drive the 911 GT3 Cup car. Mercedes' AMG Driving Academy...

Yes, it's still another nine months until the season of giving (and receiving!), and another year on top of that until the Mono might come our way, but consider the BAC Mono at the top of our lists as of today. Offered by Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) the Mono is a single-seater, 280-horsepower...

The current 997 generation Porsche 911 is on its way out, set to be replaced at the end of this year by the brand new ‘991’ family, and in Porsche tradition a number of special editions based on the outgoing model are typically rolled out to mark the end of its life. We’ve already...

The AMG Driving Academy just got a lot more interesting: you can now work your way up to getting the SLS AMG GT3 on track in the Masters program. You may remember the SLS AMG GT3 from our live coverage of the world debut event in Oaxaca, Mexico. The FIA race-ready car pegs the pricing needle at...

Hardcore motorsport fans are no doubt familiar with Radical Sportscars, makers of the legendary longtime Nordschleife record-holding SR8. But the firm also makes a range of cars for the track-day enthusiast, including one of its most popular, the SR3. Now Radical has announced the new SR3 SL, a...

Joining its Corvette brother, the 2011 Chevrolet Camaro SSX Track Car Concept goes black-and-white for the checkered flag with a host of racing upgrades. While it's not a streetable car, it shows Chevy's commitment to supporting the teams that actually put Camaros on track, which in turn feeds back...

If the Jake Edition Corvette Grand Sport isn't quite as hardcore as you'd hoped (despite wearing the Corvette Racing mascot as its defining element) fear not: Chevrolet has you covered with the 2011 Corvette Z06X Track Car Concept. Analogous to Dodge's Viper ACR-X--and sharing a paint scheme to...

It's not often that a manufacturer has the courage to turn dozens of auto journalists loose on a racetrack with pricey copies of its new, 556-horsepower performance coupe. So we were eager to get behind the wheel of the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe and find out whether it was as much fun as the CTS-V...

This video depicts the factory's take on its mission to conquer the Nurburgring.

Looking for something rare and unique? Ever wonder what it's like to drive an open wheel race car? Now might be a good time to make a deposit on a Hulme CanAm Supercar. The New Zealand company has announced that it will produce a quantity of 20 Hulme Supercars for purchase on a first come, first...

Caparo has shown how close you can get to the reality of driving a road-legal F1 car with its T1, and now New Zealand’s Hulme has revealed that development of its equally extreme CanAm Supercar has been completed. Hulme’s race car built for the road made its first public shake down test...

Low-volume British carmaker Radical is known for its potent track machines, such as the SR8 roadster, which can lap the Nurburgring in under seven minutes. Despite the recent global economic crisis, business has been booming because of the high-performance but low-budget nature of its cars, and now...

BMW may never again build a 2002-alike or another E30 M3, having moved on to bigger, safer, and more powerful pastures, but track geeks and fans of fast now have another Bimmer to lust after: the M3 GTS, officially launched in Europe this week. Along with the market launch comes some new...

This video is as much about the audio as it is about the visual.

The stripped-down road-legal racer gets a new entry-level price.

The 2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR will make its world debut at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show.

The 2010 BMW M3 GTS is the culmination of months of spy shots and speculation.

For 2010, Porsche added 35 more horsepower to the 911 GT3 RS bringing its output to 444 horsepower.

Even with race-bred GT4 cars and customer track cars, the KTM hasn't been able to preserve interest.