Supercars

UPDATE: It turns out this is the separate F12 e Sport prototype, which Audi researchers have been using to develop a modular electric car platform. It is not the production R8 e-tron. Audi has already told us about the motorsport-inspired digital rear view mirror it plans to install in its upcoming...

A Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera has been involved in a recent crash that took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. This image shows the wreckage of the white Gallardo coupe after it was delivered to a local scrap yard. The car has sustained major damage on all four sides and is...

Following yesterday’s announcement from Porsche of a 7:14 Nürburgring lap time for its upcoming 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid supercar, we now have the first details on the car’s powertrain specs and even a couple of glimpses of its interior. Alleged brochure scans for the Porsche 918...

Porsche's 918 Spyder is no secret--in fact, it's a bit of a camera whore. But we're fine with that--it's a stunner, and it's crazy fast, too. How crazy fast? How about a Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time of 7 minutes, 14 seconds. Yep, that's the official word from Porsche as of just a few...

If you were looking for the ultimate in collectible Mercedes-Benz automobiles to one-up your friends with 300SL Gullwings, we’ve got some bad news for you: one of the most desirable Mercedes automobiles of the modern era recently changed hands at RM Auctions Pebble Beach sale. In other words...

It is truly great days for supercar lovers. After yesterday’s reveal of the new McLaren P1, well, a prototype at least, and word that Pagani’s Huayra remains on track for its U.S. launch mid next year, we now have the first spy shots of the highly anticipated Lamborghini Aventador LP...

Porsche’s 918 hybrid supercar is on track for delivery to customers in late 2013. While we’ve only seen a glimpse of the production-ready street version, Porsche hasn’t been shy about releasing images and video of the 918 in various racing liveries. Early cars were shown in a...

Shelby American showed off its 2013 GT500 Super Snake at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, but details on its latest Mustang-based supercar were harder to come by than reasonably-priced hotel rooms. Now, thanks to Mustangs Daily, we have all we need to know about Shelby’s latest...

The “Bond 50” Blu-Ray box set, which commemorates 50 years of James Bond films, goes on sale in London on September 24. To commemorate the occasion, Bond actors and actresses will use the Aston Martin DBS from Quantum of Solace to transport a golden briefcase containing the collection...

McLaren has finally taken the wraps off the new P1 supercar, which has also been known as the P12. While the car looks nearly production ready, it's actually only a design preview. The production P1 will be revealed sometime in the next 12 months. While McLaren hasn't released any specifications...

In 2006 film producer and longtime Ferrari fan James Glickenhaus unveiled a custom supercar based on a Ferrari Enzo. Inspired by the legendary P series Ferrari race cars of the 1960s, and built by Italian design house Pininfarina, the car was called the Ferrari P4/5 and remains to this day the only...

If Germany’s Autobild is correct, the new Porsche 911 Turbo will make its auto show debut in the fall of 2013, hitting the market (likely in Europe first) in the spring of 2014. As expected, it will benefit from all-wheel-drive and more horsepower (530 hp, versus 500 hp), but it will also add...

A gathering of 964 Ferraris at the Silverstone race track in the UK have set a new world record for the largest single gathering of Prancing Horses, smashing the previous record of 490 cars set in 2008 at Japan’s Fuji Speedway Circuit. Though not quite the 1,000 cars organizers were hoping...

A member of the exclusive world of ‘hypercar’ manufacturers, Sweden’s Koenigsegg for years has been focused on upping the ante of its line of mid-engine exotics, with its latest offering, the Agera R, setting six new land speed records for a production car last year and then...

Former F1 driver and current AMG DTM driver in a (highly modified/barely recognizable) C63 AMG Coupe, David Coulthard is a handy man behind the wheel, to say the least. Behind the wheel of the SLS AMG GT, he's also a bit chatty. Fortunately, unlike the typical manufacturer performance car video...

Even as McLaren teases "another big announcement," scheduled just under two hours from now, the company has released a new video, showing off what may well be the next mega-horsepower hypercar to come from the brand. Billed as the spiritual successor to the famed McLaren F1, the P12--or whatever...

A couple of years ago Mercedes-Benz made the bold promise to launch an electric version of its SLS AMG gullwing supercar on the market by the end of 2013. Since then we’ve seen several concept versions of the car, which has been labeled the SLS AMG E-Cell, though until now we’ve never...

When it comes to crashes between a driving school car and another vehicle, the blame generally goes to the student driver. We don’t know for sure what happened in the accident pictured below, but from the look of things it involved a student driver in a Perodua Kancil and a non-student driver...

A record gathering of Ferrari supercars is expected to descend upon the Silverstone race track in the UK this weekend, and in the process get a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. The number to beat stands at 490 cars, which was achieved at Japan’s Fuji Speedway back in 2008. For...

Peugeot has unveiled a sinister looking supercar concept that will be debuting this month at the 2012 Paris Auto Show. Labeled the Onyx, the new concept builds on other performance-oriented show cars unveiled by the French automaker in the recent past, such as SR1 convertible and EX1 electric...