Sports Cars
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Californian sports car startup Rezvani in November unveiled a new model called the Beast Alpha whose hallmark feature is a new type of door design called “sidewinder” doors. The name is derived from the fact the doors remain parallel to the body as they are moved outwards. Each of the car’s two doors is mounted on a sliding hinge and functions much like a minivan’s main door, albeit moving forward instead of in reverse. Rezvani has released a video featuring CEO and founder Ferris Rezvani operating a door on the Beast Alpha. He was present during the reveal of the car...
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Lotus launches Exige Sport 380
Lotus is in the best financial shape it’s been in perhaps in its entirety. CEO Jean-Marc Gales has revealed that the company has turned in its first operating profit in almost four decades, though he hasn’t revealed any figures just yet. Nevertheless, the company is keen to mark the...
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Canada’s Girfalco plans 3-wheel electric sports car
Move over Morgan. A Canadian sports car startup is working on a rival to the British firm’s EV3 electric 3 Wheeler and it promises to be one of the fastest accelerating cars in production. The company is Girfalco, based in Boucherville, Quebec, and its first model is a three-wheel...
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McLaren announces 5 Design Editions for 570S
In the market for a supercar but not exactly confident in your sense of design and decor? McLaren now has the answer. Today the British supercar brand announced a series of five Design Edition versions of its 570S, each with colors, trims, and finishes chosen by the company's designers. The cars...
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Jay Leno inspects the 'new' 1957 Jaguar XKSS
Jaguar plans to build nine new 1957 XKSS sports cars using the VINs of originals destroyed by a fire at the automaker’s Browns Lane plant before completion. The new cars, known in the business as continuation models, are considered original, though of course they don’t have the patina...
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2017 Rezvani Beast Alpha debuts with ‘sidewinder’ doors
In 2015, we got the chance to jump behind the wheel of a coachbuilt car based on the Ariel Atom that's called the Beast. It’s produced by California’s Rezvani Motors, which bears the name of company founder Ferris Rezvani, and already there are versions offering 300, 500 and even 700...
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Jaguar is building new XKSS sports cars. However, we’re not talking about a spiritual successor to 1950s-era classic. Rather, the new XKSS sports cars are continuation models built to the exact specifications of the original. Jaguar confirmed it was building the cars, nine in total, back in March. Now one has been revealed, though it is not one of the nine. It is a 10th car without a VIN that Jaguar will keep. The car made its debut on Wednesday at the Petersen Museum, finished in a beautiful Sherwood Green paint and with a tan interior. You can’t buy one as the build slots are...
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Porsche opens Experience Center and Motorsports HQ in LA
Porsche North America has you covered on both coasts. After opening an Experience Center in Atlanta, the automaker has just opened the doors on a new center in Los Angeles. Well, just south of L.A. actually, in the town of Carson, which sits right next to the 405 Freeway near where Goodyear lands...
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Gidi Chamdi rips off new Nissan GT-R quarter mile record
You know the name AMS Performance. It's the tuning company turning out insanely powerful and wickedly quick Nissan GT-Rs. You also probably know the name Gidi Chamdi, as we wrote about him and his Lamborghini Gallardo when he used it to hit 240.64 mph in a half-mile airstrip run, securing himself...
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Second Ferrari 250 GTO to come off the line is up for sale
The Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] 250 GTO isn’t the rarest Prancing Horse around, though it does tend to fetch the highest bids whenever one comes up for sale. Just 39 of the homologation specials were built between 1962 and 1964, and one of them, chassis number 3387, the second example to come off the...
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AC to get back into Cobra game next year
It's an icon that has endured for five decades, but the AC Cobra's story has definitely not been completed. Autocar reports that AC Cars will build another "quasi-modern" Cobra series utilizing 6.2-liter V-8 power early next year. Though the cars will be based on the fourth-generation Cobra...
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New Toyota Supra sounds like it has a V-6
Prototypes for a new Toyota sports car expected to revive the Supra name have been testing in public for the past several months. A video of one of the prototypes has surfaced and gives us a good dose of the car’s engine noise. Though it’s hard to be sure, the engine sounds a lot like a...
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BMW built a fearsome reputation for speed with its M cars. But you're forgiven if the last generation of Ms left you a little wanting. They're high-performance demons--but they can feel brittle and digital. There's one M car that captures the best of BMW and puts it all in a reasonably priced package. It’s the BMW M2 and today we're taking you along for a video road test. The M2 is a 2-Series spin-off, and it's a performance car engineered to a price point. To keep it affordable, BMW's canned some of the usual M add-ons like carbon-fiber trim and composite roofs. It's not the...
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Mazda goes with sexy and sinister for MX-5 concepts at SEMA
Mazda impressed us at the 2015 SEMA show when it unveiled a lightweight speedster concept based on its fourth-generation MX-5 Miata, which at the time was just hitting the market. On Tuesday at the 2016 SEMA show, Mazda unveiled an evolved version of its MX-5 Speedster concept that’s been...
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Toyota 86 with Ferrari 458 V-8 is an insane rev machine
Remember the Toyota 86 / Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] 458 mashup from drifter Ryan Tuerck? Well, he and the crew at Huddy MotorSports have given a little taste of what’s to come. It may not be much to look at right now but it certainly sounds awesome. That’s probably due to the custom headers...
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2017 Porsche 911 GT3 spy shots
Fans of Porsche’s track-focused 911 GT3 can look forward to an updated version of the car coming later this year. The complete 911 range is currently undergoing its mid-cycle update, with the most recent model to be updated being the Turbo. It looks like the next will be the updated GT3, and...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2017 nominee: BMW M2
At Motor Authority we like cars that are fun to drive fast, so we stand up and take notice when BMW releases a new M model. M cars have defined engaged driving excitement for ages, but recent examples have become a little too digital for our tastes. That’s not the case with the new BMW M2...
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Hyundai RM16 N concept spotted at the Nürburgring
Hyundai’s RM16 N concept unveiled at the 2016 Busan auto show has been spotted testing at the Nürburgring. The car isn’t destined for production, though. It’s being used to hone the driving skills of the Korean automaker’s engineers as well as test upcoming...
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Mercedes-AMG’s sexy GT sports car gets a 456-horsepower base model for the 2017 model year, priced from $112,125. But if you’re willing to pony up some extra cash, you’ll be able to drive away in a custom version spitting out a supercar-worthy 745 hp. California’s Dime Racing, a motorsport engineering squad and now vehicle tuner, has teamed up with Mercedes-AMG to offer a GT with 745 hp and 731 lb-ft of torque—all for an estimated starting price of $150,200. The cars will be sold at select Mercedes-AMG outlets in the United States and limited to just 100 examples...
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You can now pre-order a new DeLorean DMC-12
You’ll soon be able to buy a new DeLorean DMC-12 that’s virtually identical to the original of the 1980s. There’s a company in Humble, Texas by the name of DeLorean Motor Company that plans to build the cars and expects to start deliveries in 2017. It recently started accepting...
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BMW celebrates 2016 DTM title with M4 Champion Edition
Marco Wittmann became the first BMW driver in the history of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters to win two Drivers’ Championships. Having won the title in 2014, he was again crowned champion on Sunday, after finishing fourth in the final race of the 2016 DTM season, held at the Hockenheimring...
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Report: Maserati Alfieri sports car delayed
The Maserati Alfieri concept wowed audiences at its 2014 Geneva auto show debut, helping the Italian brand celebrate its 100th anniversary in style. However, the Alfieri wasn't just a bit of auto show bling as a few months later Maserati confirmed the car for production, providing a tentative...
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Genovation’s electric Corvette priced from $750K
Genovation, an engineering skunkworks based in Rockville, Maryland, is working on an electric Chevrolet Corvette called the Genovation Extreme Electric (GXE). The company made headlines earlier in 2016 after initially setting the standing mile record for a street-legal electric car and then the...
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Here's a look at how the Mazda MX-5 RF roof operates
The 2017 Mazda MX-5 RF is the targa-topped Miata that some fans of the car have been hoping would come to light. Not everyone is excited about the cut-up coupe, but there are some enthusiasts that prefer a real roof over their heads and this MX-5 delivers just that. How does that folding hardtop...
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