Sports Cars
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Do you ever wonder whether cars are getting too aggressive these days? From sports cars to sedans, everything needs to look angry, with headlight and grille designs seemingly styled to shovel up other vehicles and deposit them in a ditch at the side of the road. CHECK OUT: Official Details On The One-Off Ferrari F12 TRS: Video If you subscribe to such a theory, you might like the Carice Mk1, a new sports car hailing from the Netherlands. As if its cute little bug-eyed face, tiny proportions and buxom curves aren't enough, it's also powered by electricity. Carice calls the Mk1 "the realization...
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Subaru May Lose BRZ As Toyota Turns To BMW For Future Sports Cars: Report
Toyota and Subaru worked together to develop their respective GT 86 (Scion FR-S) and BRZ sports cars, but that may not be the case for any replacement models. Toyota turned to BMW for development of its new flagship sports car, a spiritual successor to the Supra based on the FT-1 concept, and the...
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Detroit Electric Sports Car Is Still Here, Now Testing
It's easy to be cynical of startup companies. They enter the industry, guns blazing, trying to convince us all that their product will change how we look at cars, or internet shopping, or toasters, and most then quickly vanish never to be seen again. You'd be forgiven for thinking Detroit Electric...
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BMW M4 Laps The 'Ring In Under 8 Minutes
BMW's new M4 coupe has become the latest car to score a sub-8 minute lap at the infamous Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany. At the hands of Horst von Saurmer from German magazine Sport Auto, a production M4 lapped the 12.93-mile circuit in a time of 7:52. CHECK OUT: $4.2 Million Ferrari F12...
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Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations To Reveal New Car At Goodwood
It was only a week ago that Jaguar Land Rover announced the formation of a new department called Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations, whose job will be to handle the personalization of vehicles as well as develop high-performance models and work on historic vehicles. Now, Jaguar Land Rover has...
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VŪHL Founders Reflect On The Launch Of The 05 Track Car: Video
It’s been a year since the Mexican sports car startup VŪHL launched its first model, the 05 track car, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. And now the founders of the company, brothers Iker and Guillermo Echeverria, have taken a look back at all that’s passed. MUST SEE: World's Fastest...
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Jay Leno drives an immaculate Ferrari with an unusual pedigree.
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Aston Martin Rapide May Be Phased Out With Arrival Of New Platform
Aston Martin is working on a new platform to underpin its next generation of sports cars, starting with a new DB9 in 2016. A new Vantage is expected in 2018 and should be followed a year later by a new Vanquish, but what of Aston Martin’s uber-stylish Rapide four-door? Autocar is reporting...
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Is 718 The Codename For Porsche's Lightweight, Four-Cylinder Sports Car?
Porsche is reportedly working on a smaller sports car that would slot in below the Boxster.
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Bentley Continental GT3-R Races Into 2014 Goodwood Festival Of Speed
A hardcore version of Bentley’s Continental GT has been hinted at since 2011 but the possibility of the luxury cruiser being turned into a track weapon never really seemed plausible until a racing version of the car was revealed last year. Now, the Continental GT race car has spawned a...
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2015 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Revealed In Scale Model Form?
Porsche was meant to reveal its new 911 GT3 RS this summer but decided to delay its arrival following the discovery of a fault with the 3.8-liter flat-six engine in the 911 GT3 that the 911 GT3 RS was to share, albeit in uprated form. The German automaker is yet to announce when we might finally...
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Mercedes-AMG’s New Twin-Turbo 4.0-liter V-8 Revealed, Rated At 503 HP
Meet the new engine that will power the next generation of Mercedes-AMG sports cars: the M178. As expected, the engine is a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8, and its first application will be in the new Mercedes-AMG GT. The engine has been fully developed by the engineers at AMG and features a...
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If the name Zora means anything to you, you're probably a fan of Chevrolet's Corvette. Zora Arkus-Duntov was the guy who helped put a V-8 engine in the first-generation 'Vette, turning it from boulevard cruiser into something approximating a proper sports car--and further worked his magic on the Grand Sport program that took the Corvette C2 racing. DON'T MISS: 8-Yr-Old Son Promises Dad '57 Chevy For 57th Birthday, Follows Through When Grown Up: Video Interestingly, reports Autoblog (via GM Authority) GM has recently trademarked the name 'Zora'. Companies often do such things to protect parts...
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Alfa Romeo Establishes U.S. Dealer Network, Prices 2015 4C From $55,195
Alfa Romeo will return to the U.S. with 82 dealers this year.
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Italy's ATS Updates Sport 1000 Track Car For 2015
It's all go at Automobili Turismo e Sport right now. Alongside fellow revived Italian brand Ermini back in 2012, ATS has embarked upon a busy schedule of new sports cars promising old-school fun and typically Italian good looks. MUST SEE: Enhanced Ayrton Senna NSX Video Shows The Importance Of...
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Tree crushes million-dollar Toyota 2000GT
The Toyota 2000GT is one of the rarest and most valuable Japanese cars around.
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Porsche 911 Carrera S Martini Racing Edition Commemorates Zuffenhausen's Le Mans Return
Porsche celebrates its return to Le Mans with a blast from the past.
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Subaru Planning Hybrid SVX Successor?
With the next Acura NSX and Nissan GT-R set to go down the hybrid route, and Mitsubishi and Toyota both rumored to be launching new generations of their respective Lancer Evolution and Supra nameplates complete with hybrid power, it doesn’t come as much surprise that Subaru is also reported...
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Bentley is working on a hardcore version of its Continental GT inspired by the car's GT3 racing variant, and we could see it unveiled as early as this month. It is expected to be the most potent version of the Continental GT yet, meaning it will fill the space previously occupied by the Continental Supersports. According to Autocar, the hardcore Continental GT will be unveiled at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed running from the 26th to the 29th of this month, the same event where the racing variant was unveiled a year ago. The car is expected to be badged a GT3 and develop upwards of 700...
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BMW i8 Hits The Dyno After Rolling Off The Assembly Line: Videos
The BMW i8 is being hailed as a new kind of car. Whether you’re into the green-meets-mean theme or not, however, it’s undeniably an interesting and impressive convergence of technology and design. But how is it made? MUST SEE: Volkswagen Anti-Texting Ad Is Brilliantly Simple, Incredibly...
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Lotus Celebrates F1 History With Exige LF1: Forbidden Fruit
Lotus is celebrating its Formula One provenance with a special edition Exige S called the Exige LF1 (Lotus F1). The car marks the 81 victories in F1 that have been made by Lotus-branded cars, from the very first win at the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix up to the final one at the 2013 Australian Grand...
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Scion FR-S Hybrid In Doubt
Anyone hoping for a new variant of the Scion FR-S sports car is in for disappointment, with yet another official from parent company Toyota ruling out one of the car’s many rumored variants, this time the hybrid. It was a couple of years ago that we first heard Toyota was seriously...
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Korea’s Spirra Sports Car Gets Electric Version For Europe
The South Korean sports car known as the Spirra, built by Oullim Motors, is about to launch on the European market. However, instead of the usual mid-mounted, twin-turbocharged V-6, the Spirra sold in Europe will be fitted with an electric powertrain. According to Autovisie, a Dutch businessman by...
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Meet The Modern Day ATS 2500 GT
The world doesn't really need any more shapely Italian sports cars, but it doesn't really seem right to complain about them so we're happy to roll with it. The latest is the ATS 2500 GT, part of a joint ATS and Ermini revival giving us extra options beyond the usual Ferraris, Lamborghinis...
Antony Ingram