Sports Cars

Say you just sold your first mobile app, or your company just got acquired by some search-engine giant. What’s a car-crazed geek to do? Real estate? Retirement plan? We’d do something totally logical like this--the 570S, the first car in McLaren's more attainable Sports Series. Logical...

To Corvette enthusiasts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, is a special place. It is, after all, home to both the National Corvette Museum and the plant that builds the Corvette. And if the latest announcement is any indication, the Corvette plant will be running for quite some time. General Motors has...

Aston Martin is on the closest thing to its home turf this week, where the British automaker's Q division has debuted a new, one-off roadster tailor-made for an unnamed customer. The Q by Aston Martin division creates bespoke versions of standard models at the request of customers, including this...

Nissan is in the car business, but it has commissioned a special drone that is capable of keeping pace with the high-performance GT-R on a racetrack. The GT-R Drone, as Nissan is calling it, was designed by World Drone Prix Champions. Its most impressive spec is that it can reach 62 mph from a...

Mercedes-AMG’s new GT R sports car was hardly a secret, but regardless it’s finally here and there are plenty of details to divulge. The GT R is a track-focused version of the GT sports car launched by AMG two years ago, and it’s coming onto the market next year with even more...

After first presenting the 05 at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Mexican sports car startup VUHL has returned to this year’s running of the popular British event with a new, more hardcore version of the track car. The new version is called the 05RR, and it's said to be packing more power...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed may be more of a homage of the past than a glimpse into the future, but the latter is just what Briggs Automotive Company is offering with the new carbon composite wheel set it is introducing at this annual British automotive celebration. The wheels were specifically...

KTM's wild, bare bones X-Bow will be available to American buyers next year, but the Austrian firm won't need to bother with installing license plate holders for the track-oriented cars. Wards Auto reports that KTM will build about 15 American-specification X-Bows next year, none of which will be...

The compact, rear-wheel drive show car we got so excited about at the Nissan stand a few years ago is back, but it isn't headed to dealers. Instead, as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson pointed out in a post on his Instagram channel, the IDx NISMO show car will apparently play a role in the upcoming eighth...

It’s only been a year since McLaren revealed the first of its Sports Series models, the 570S, but already the automaker’s entry-level range is close to matching the variety on offer in the pricier Super Series. Already this year we’ve been treated to the more practical 570GT and...

A full M version of BMW's next roadster isn't likely to happen, an engineer with the German automaker has revealed. Road & Track recently learned that the new sports car will instead be offered only as a standard model. BMW itself hasn't exactly been confident in the future of the sports car...

The hardcore version of Mercedes-AMG’s GT sports car is set for debut June 24 at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the United Kingdom. In the lead up AMG has been dropping several teasers, and now the Affalterbach tuner has confirmed some of the performance specs. Called a GT R, the new...

Walk up to the counter, tell the Nissan dealer the trim model of the 2017 Nissan 370Z you want, take two steps to the left, hand the cashier your money, take your keys and go home. Nissan has announced the 370Z will live on for at least another year—the ninth for the current model (a Z34 to...

The hardcore version of Mercedes-AMG’s GT sports car is now a little over a week away from its debut. The official tuner to Mercedes-Benz has confirmed the car will be called the GT R and make its debut June 24 at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Along with the confirmation, Mercedes-AMG...

Maybe this is how we'll remember sports cars. Once everything runs off a silent pack of cells charged wirelessly overnight. Once no one actually owns a car outright. Once cars turn into self-driven transportation devices, run by apps, pre-programmed for convenience, drained of life. Savor this one...

Subaru’s BRZ has just been updated for the 2017 model year with a new look, a small bump in power and a more refined cabin. But the rear-wheel-drive sports car also gets a special edition model, the Series.Yellow, which benefits from a flashy paint job and the BRZ’s top-shelf...

There’s no shortage of lightweight track specials hailing from the United Kingdom. After all, that’s where we got classics like the AC Cobra and Lotus Seven. The segment has seen a resurgence in recent years thanks to companies like Ariel, BAC and KTM and their respective Atom, Mono and...

What's the best way to make an Italian roadster? Build it in Hiroshima, Japan. That may sound like a joke, but that's exactly what's going on with the new 2017 Fiat 124. Colloquially known as the Fiata, the 124 Spider is built on the architecture of the Mazda MX-5 Miata, which debuted last year and...

Fifty years ago, Fiat sought the help of the legendary Pininfarina design firm to turn its somewhat stodgy 124 sedan into a stylish convertible sports car. The result was a simple but attractive drop-top that would enjoy a 19-year production run of more than 200,000 cars—roughly 170,000 of...

Honda’s CR-Z, described by the automaker as a Sport Hybrid Coupe even though it’s neither sporty nor a coupe, looks to finally be on its way out. Honda recently unveiled the CR-Z Final Label for the Japanese market and it’s likely we’ll see something similar in the United...