Supercars

Vienna’s Luxus Motor Show, an event dedicated to high-end luxury saloons and supercars, exclusive motorbikes and rare racing and classic cars, saw the unveiling of the Swiss designed Beck LM800 supercar. Based in Berne, Switzerland, Beck is a builder of niche supercars and an expert in the...

The Dodge Viper has never been short of power, but the latest iteration due as a 2008 model gives buyers an additional 90hp, to make a total of 600hp. To achieve this, Dodge has had to tweak the engine by increasing bore size by 1-millimeter, raising the displacement to 8.4L from 8.3L. The SRT10...

Lamborghini took the covers off the roadster version of its LP640 supercar at the L.A. Auto Show and has released some official images of the car to coincide with the launch. Lamborghini is in its best position ever, with sales up 45% during the first six months of the year over last year’s...

Yes, we know we have a car crash fetish, but according to the page view statistics, so do you. This time the accident involved a silver Porsche Carrera GT that ran off a road and crashed head-on into a telegrapgh pole. Images of the crash site have been posted on a North American Lotus Elise forum...

A very rare Lamborghini MIURA “S” has turned up for sale on eBay with only 14,244 miles on the clock despite it being a 1970 model. Everything about the car is factory original including its Giallo yellow paint and blue leather interior. Only 140 S edition Miuras were ever made, so this...

Maserati will reveal its MC12 Versione Corse for the first time at next month’s Bologna Motor Show. The Versione Corse is a track-only car derived from Maserati's MC12 GT1 race car, and is aimed at well-heeled track enthusiasts. The Versione Corse features a modified version of the 6.0-liter...

Ferrari’s Panamerican 20,000 has come to an end with the two cars, a pair of 599 GTB Fioranos, crossing the finish line at the New York Stock Exchange. The cars started off on the 24th of August in Brazil and completed the trek in 15 stages and with 50 different international journalists...

Florida based supercar manufacturer Mosler Automotive has delivered its first street-legal MT900S to a noted Californian film maker. Until now, all versions of the MT900S have been configured and sold for use in motorsport. Left Lane News reports that company founder Warren Mosler stated that the...

TVR may be suffering in the financial stakes, but it hasn’t stopped plans for the launch of an all new model from the British sports carmarker at next year’s Geneva Motor Show. Picking up the Typhon label, the new TVR will run a supercharged version of the company’s Speed Six...

A production version of Gemballa’s incredible Mirage GT, which was recently displayed in concept form, has been ordered by a person from Dubai. The final version will run a detuned version of the concept car’s twin-turbo 5.7L V10, and will develop around 750hp. Gemballa claimed that its...

The Jiotto Caspita was a prototype supercar developed by Japanese constructor Dome for another company, Jiotto, back in 1988. Touted as the original F1 car built for the road, the original Caspita was powered by a Motor Moderni horizontally opposed twelve-cylinder. This engine developed a very...

Swedish video game entrepreneur Bo Stefan M. Eriksson has pleaded no contest to embezzling two supercars and being a felon in possession of a firearm. You may recall that Eriksson, who has already pleaded no contest to drunken driving charges, was arrested after crashing a Ferrari Enzo at 162 mph...

The motoring world is well aware of the performance potential of Audi’s diesel technology. We’ve already seen the diesel-powered R10 come first in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans race as well as the confirmation that a diesel engine will feature in the TT coupe. Now there are...

The trial of former Swedish video games executive and ex-mafia boss Stefan Eriksson has progressed with the announcement of a mistrial for charges of fraud and grand theft. You may remember that Eriksson was originally arrested after crashing a Ferrari Enzo during a drag race with a McLaren SLR...

Alfa Romeo has just released a new set of photos of the 8c Competezione, this time with a more stylistic approach. We’ve placed them in a gallery after the jump, all sized to 1600px wide so you can use them as wallpapers. They’re that good.

There’s always been an unofficial gentlemen’s agreement between the mainstream German automakers to limit the top speed of their cars to 155 mph (250 kmh), even the high-performance models from Mercedes-AMG and BMW’s M division as well as Audi’s potent RS range (many of...

If owning the fastest production car on the planet is not enough, you can always deck it out in some outrageous paint scheme just like this one. Somehow, we think that this car won’t be getting the kind of attention that most people would like, we’re thinking along the lines of more...

Update: This attempt is now scheduled for 5th November. The reason for the delay is poor weather conditions at the test track. It’s well known that the Bugatti Veyron is the fastest production car on the planet with test cars reaching speeds beyond 400km/h. What many do not know is that the...

On their way home from a tour of Northern Montana, the owner of a McLaren F1, one of the most desirable supercars in the world, and his wife, came across some major road-works reconditioning the normally glass-smooth Montana highways. After spending an appropriate $1.2 million on the car itself...

U.K. supercar manufacturer Ascari has created the 625bhp A10, which is being touted as a genuine Enzo FXX rival by its spin doctors. The new car does have the benefit of being completely road legal, and is priced somewhat lower than the Ferrari, at £350,000. Currently, only 10 units have been...