Sports Cars

Starting your own sports car company is a large endeavor but now may be your chance to get the keys to one that's already developed. The MMI company from the U.K. is selling its Avocet sports car program and including all the designs and rights for it. ALSO SEE: Man Considered "Too Drunk" Is...

Aston Martin has announced that a German collector by the name of Markus Storck has commissioned a series of seven bespoke Vanquish sports cars for himself and presumably six of his friends. The automaker says that Storck, the founder of bicycle manufacturer Storck Bikes, has taken delivery of the...

The 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed gets underway June 25 and one of the stars this year will be Peugeot, which plans to unveil a new performance-oriented 308 hatch that’s widely tipped to be the long-awaited 308 GTI. The new 308 variant will take part in the U.K. event’s famous hill...

When Mazda engineers were faced with the task of designing the fourth-generation of the company's iconic MX-5 Miata, the paramount importance was not lost on them. The MX-5 is revered in enthusiast circles—an entire generation has grown up with it. MUST WATCH: Audi RS 6 Driver Runs Red Light...

McLaren’s 540C unveiled at the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show a month ago won’t be coming to the U.S., the British performance marque has confirmed. The car was originally due here in early 2016 and was set to be McLaren’s most attainable model ever thanks to a price tag of just...

Coachbuilder and design house Zagato has a history of unveiling stunning concepts at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, held annually on the shores of Italy’s beautiful Lake Como. Some recent concepts include collaborations with the likes of Aston Martin, BMW and Lamborghini...

While it’s always fun to think a newer, hotter, more ferocious super-performance version of an already incredible car like the Cadillac ATS-V is on the way, that’s just not the case, this time. There is no ATS-V Plus in the works. That’s the official word from Cadillac’s...

We’ve already pointed out what separates the latest 2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS from the standard Carrera, but here’s a great visual representation direct from the German sports car marque. It shows the new Carrera GTS being put through its paces at the Porsche Experience Center at...

When Mazda first released the Miata more than two decades ago, no manufacturer was selling anything like it. The four-cylinder roadster was affordable, reliable, and handled like a go-kart. It was a little British sports car, without the legions of electrical gremlins and oil leaks which came...

Chris Harris has joined the likes of racing driver Brendon Hartley and actor George Clooney to be among the first to have driven the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Fortunately for us, Harris was kind enough to put together a video of his day behind the wheel of Stuttgart’s latest track special for...

Late last year, Jaguar announced a partnership with current land speed record holder Andy Green and his team at Bloodhound, which is working on a jet and rocket-powered supersonic car (SSC) that will be used in a new land speed record attempt in the next six to 12 months. Green’s previous...

The 1993 Toyota Supra stunt car used during filming for the original Fast and the Furious movie that came out in 2001—and driven by the late Paul Walker—has sold at auction for $185,000. It crossed the block last week at the Mecum Auctions event held in Indianapolis and landed right...

There’s a new version of the Porsche 911 Carrera just around the corner but in the meantime dealers still need to move the current model. To help entice buyers to sign up now, Porsche is throwing in a few extras at barely any additional cost with new Black Edition trim. As the name suggest...

Following the reveal of the Chevrolet 130R concept at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, there was a lot of talk about the bowtie brand possibly launching a small, affordable sports car with rear-wheel drive to take on the Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ twins as well as the Mazda MX-5 Miata. Unfortunately, the...

If you want a little more driving excitement in your life, but you have to keep it practical and sensibly sized for urban commuting, then the Subaru WRX and Volkswagen GTI should be two possibilities near the top of your shopping list. While these two models are both completely redesigned for 2015...

The FR-S might not be selling well (Scion sold just 1,000 examples last month, a 29 percent decrease from levels one year ago) but parent company Toyota is planning to launch two new sports cars, one above the FR-S and one below it. The model above the FR-S will be a spiritual successor to the...

The 2017 Lotus Evora 400 will go on sale later this year priced from $89,900. That’s a significant jump on pricing for the previous Evora, but the new model is a much more substantial car. In fact, it’s the fastest road car in Lotus history. It also doesn’t hurt that the Evora 400...

Aston Martin rolled out a very special version of its Vanquish Volante this week which it developed with its Q personalization department in partnership with Italian fashion label Valentino. But this particular Vanquish isn’t a new special edition along the lines of Lamborghini’s...

Renault has been teasing sports car fans for a number of years now. How you ask? By showing off an Alpine concept that has us all drooling. It was shown to the world a few years back, and soon after production plans for a new sports car, possibly dubbed the AS1, were confirmed. Now though, it seems...

Scion’s FR-S (and the car’s Subaru BRZ and Toyota GT 86 cousins) was launched on the market with great fanfare back in 2012 but since then sales have fizzled, with Scion managing to move just a thousand of the cars in April, down 29 percent on levels a year ago. The lack of sales has...