Sports Cars

Lotus has had its share of ups and downs, but the British automaker does have a past worth remembering. To celebrate its past, a special edition of the company's Evora sports car has been unveiled to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hethel assembly plant. The Hethel Edition builds on the...

Last month we saw the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder enter the record books as the world's fastest open-top production car. The all-American hypercar reached 265.6 mph during a scheduled run at California's Naval Air Station Lemoore, with independent speed-testing firm Racelogic on hand to confirm it...

Aston Martin has streamlined its Vantage sports car range as it prepares for next year’s arrival of a redesigned model. It means that for buyers after the current V-8-equipped model, there’s now just the Vantage GTS (a V8 Vantage S in other markets). It’s priced from $137,820 for...

Jaguar will soon implement its first major update to the F-Type sports car since the model’s launch for the 2014 model year. A prototype has been spotted testing at the Nürburgring and reveals many of the planned changes. Thankfully, Jaguar’s design team has preserved the...

One of the rarest configurations of Porsche's classic 1989-1994 911, the 911 Turbo Flatnose, has come up for sale in a high-end British vintage car showroom. Officially known as the X4 option package, the Flatnose, or Flachbau, was released in late 1993 to mark the end of the 964-body 911 just as...

Prices for older Porsche 911s have risen along with those of numerous other classics as more and more purchases are made with a view for investment rather than purely interest or collectability. This has seen new businesses that focus on making modern 911s resemble the classics flourish. One of the...

Porsche makes some of the world's most advanced and complex vehicles, but the automaker has long prioritized quality over quantity. To illustrate that, the Stuttgart-based automaker has detailed a few elements about its production process. Porsche says it actually decentralizes quality control and...

Toyota’s habit of unveiling cool concepts with no chance of production continues with the 86 Shooting Brake. The design was penned by the automaker’s Australian arm and proved to be a major hit with 86 chief engineer Tetsuya Tada, so much so that he ordered the car be built. “I...

Revived British sports car brand TVR used this week's 2016 London Motor Show for its first official appearance. At the show, which itself is enjoying its own revival this year, TVR presented a cloaked version of a new sports car due in 2017. The car will be a front-engined GT powered by a...

Visitors to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum can now take an especially innovative trip through automotive history without having to take more than a few steps. Ford and the museum, which is on the grounds of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Campus in Alexandria, Virginia...

We like the Chevrolet Camaro SS so much we named it the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2016. We cited value as one of the reasons we chose the Camaro SS as our best of 2016, but for 2017 it won't offer quite as much value. If ordering guides that have hit the web are any indication, the Camaro SS...

Mercedes-Benz Classic has partnered with a German leisure tour operator to offer guests the ability to rent a vintage SL roadster for a scenic, pre-planned drive through some of the best parts of Europe. Mercedes says it and Stuttgart-based Nostalgic Tours will have on offer either W113 (1963-1971)...

Although the average attention span may not be anywhere near the 40 minutes required to sit through this documentary on the Porsche 356, we highly recommend you grab a cup of coffee and make it part of your morning routine. Maybe do it every morning. The documentary, first picked up by Road &...

Fiat's revived 124 Spider will hit the market later this year with a sticker price just shy of $26,000, but the Italian automaker plans to offer a wide range of models. That's actually $24,995 plus a mandatory $995 destination charge for the base 124 Spider Classica, which will come with 16-inch...

What's the best Corvette to buy? Well, it looks like it will soon be the Grand Sport. Chevrolet has announced that the 2017 Gran Sport will be priced from $66,445 for the coupe and $70,445 for the convertible when they go on sale this summer. Both prices include the destination charge. The Grand...

Believe it or not, it's possible to get a bit jaded with all of today's automotive machinery. When you drive all manner of new automobiles, they start to blur together. Don't think I don't love what I do, but also realize that your average mid-size sedan starts to look an awful lot like the one...

As Porsche factory driver Patrick Long points out in this last installment of his driver's training course video series, 55 corners and 2300 feet of elevation change over the course of 7.5 miles is bound to be a good time in the proper car. But it is even more fun when the driver has the proper...

Porsche enthusiasts now have a new option for taking delivery of their new sports cars (and crossovers). That's because Porsche has opened an Experience Center located on the grounds of the automaker's new Atlanta, Georgia, headquarters. The Experience Center officially opened yesterday with...

Lego enthusiasts can now put together their own Porsche. The Danish toy manufacturer has unveiled a brick-by-brick version of Porsche's 911 GT3 RS sports car. Although it looks slightly bionic, the Lego 911 GT3 RS is full of proper Porsche cues all the way down to a script RS logo on the model's...

Sports car fans should mark today as a day to celebrate the one millionth example of Mazda's MX-5 Miata roadster. Miata number 1,000,000 rolled off the line last Friday at the automaker's assembly plant in Hiroshima, Japan. ALSO SEE: 2017 Porsche 718 Cayman debuts at 2016 Beijing Auto Show The...