Supercars

When Mercedes-Benz decided it was time to give the SLR McLaren supercar a boost, it created the 722 edition. But don’t for a second think that number has anything to do with the car’s output. In fact, the supercharged 5.5-liter V-8 engine puts out 650 horsepower, a significantly lower...

Another Schumacher wannabe has crashed a Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] Enzo. Bizarrely, comedian and actor Eddie Griffin crashed the rare supercar during a practice session at a charity race to promote his new film Redline. Valued at an estimated $1.5 million, the wrecked exotic is said to be owned by the...

America’s Shelby Super Cars has failed to eclipse Bugatti as the maker of the world’s fastest production car, with its Ultimate Aero TT managing to reach a top speed of 230mph, 23mph shy of the Veyron’s 253mph mark. The widely publicized challenge, which was run yesterday on a...

Everyone’s favorite F1-style road car, the Caparo T1, is getting an engine upgrade before it’s even released. The bespoke lightweight, all aluminium V8 has a higher capacity of 3.5 litres and is now normally aspirated. The Caparo designed engine uses the latest in F1 derived technology...

American performance car manufacturer Shelby Super Cars, SSC, is prepping its Ultimate Aero TT to end the reign of the Bugatti Veyron as the world’s fastest car. Led by its founder and lead designer Jerod Shelby, SSC has announced today that it will commence initial testing on the 21st of...

In a surprise move, the head of Bugatti Thomas Bscher has resigned and it’s rumored that he left his post because of the frustration faced under the leadership of Volkswagen Group boss Martin Winterkorn. German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that Bscher was a key backer for the introduction of...

Update: More details surrounding the Veyron crash have emerged, including the identity of the driver and its unfortunate owner. The Mail reports the vehicle was registered to 41-year old businessman Kumar Soni, but it’s believed the person behind the wheel at the time of the accident was his...

To comply with FIA GT1 series regulations, Koenigsegg were forced to reduce the output of its 806-horsepower CCX to the tune of 600 hp. To do this, engineers removed the standard car’s supercharger system but bored out the 4.7-liter V-8 engine to 5.0 liters. Labeled the CCGT in motorsport...

Swiss company Weber Sportscars, best known as an auto parts supplier, will be displaying its own in-house designed supercar during April’s Top Marques Monaco Auto Show. The car's chassis construction consists of aluminum and weighs just 65kg. It’s so rigid that during testing, a strain...

German automaker Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur (yes, that’s how you spell it) will be displaying the new Apollo Sport supercar at next month’s Geneva Motor Show. Following the strong response received for its original Apollo model at last year’s Geneva Show, Gumpert has come out...

General Motors’ VP of global product development Jim Queen has spilled the beans on one of GM’s most crucial future models. In an interview with Motor Trend, Queen said the next-generation C7 Corvette will retain a naturally aspirated V8 engine but will develop up to 700hp in flagship...

U.K. niche supercar manufacturer Noble Automotive has sold the manufacturing rights of its M12 and M400 cars to America's 1g Racing, its Ohio-based U.S. distributor. This means that these two models will now be constructed in the U.S., but they will have to be rebadged and renamed for sale by July...

Edo Competition, a specialist at tuning Porsches and other exotics, has taken its previous MC-12R tuner car and squeezed even more power out of it. The MC-12R already produced an extra 70hp over the standard Maserati MC12 on which it was based, but now the tuners have created the MC 12XX that...

Though production of Aston Martin’s flagship Vanquish coupe is nearing its end, the prestige label has announced it will be building a limited run of just 40 examples of a new Vanquish S Ultimate Edition. The cars will be handcrafted at the company’s Newport Pagnell production facility...

General Motors’ Bob Lutz has confirmed that there’s a limited-edition super-Vette in the works that will develop in excess of 600hp and is due by mid 2009 as a 2010 model. "There is a distinct appetite for something beyond the Z06 in performance, beyond the Z06 in exclusivity and beyond...

We don’t need an excuse to show you more images of a Lamborghini, but this time we have some reason. An event in Beverly Hills to honor the late Gianni Versace and his sister Donatella Versace saw the auction of a Versace Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 Roadster that sold for $500,000...

A group of enthusiasts who happen to own some of the fastest cars on the planet complete runs down a deserted Canadian highway to see who’s the fastest. Some of the cars include the Ferrari Enzo, a Novitec Rosso twin supercharged F430 and a couple of Lamborghini Gallardos. If only there were...

Coinciding with the start of its 60th anniversary relay celebrations, Ferrari is releasing a limited run of 60 special edition 612 Scaglietti Granturismos as its representative car for the occasion. Unique features of the special Ferrari include the one-off two tone paint scheme, highlighting the...

Dubai is fast becoming the market for supercar aficionados and an important market for the likes of Ferrari, Porsche, and Mercedes-McLaren, who have released this new collection of images showing the SLR 722 in the Arab emirate. Click ahead for the high-res gallery.

Update: Italy’s Milan based Zagato has been confirmed as the designer for the new Spyker flagship. Dutch carmaker Spyker is planning to produce a limited edition flagship model built around its C12 platform to meet increasing demand from its expanding customer base. According to Autoblog.nl...