Sports Car

Talk about a world changer. As you're aware, we're more of a consumer operation, so when available, the cars we choose to drive and review tend to be the budget, economy, or bread and butter offerings. Sometimes, though, we don't really have a choice--we get what's available in the media ...    Read more

Have you ever owned a vehicle that you loved so much you wished you could build your house around it? Meet Holger Schubert, the architect who did just that. Schubert is the proud owner of a Ferrari 512i BB, one of only 929 units ever produced by the Prancing Horse, ...    Read more

If this were a battle of which sports car had more syllables in its name, the 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Pack would be at a dead heat with the 2014 Audi R8 V10 Plus, as both have inordinately long names. Try ensuring your valet can make sense of them. Fortunately, this ...    Read more

The announcement earlier this year that BMW and Toyota would be teaming up to produce a sports car took many by surprise. Toyota needs help building its performance portfolio, but what does BMW get out of this partnership? Taking a closer look at the BMW-Toyota lineup that began in 2011, the ...    Read more

Thanks to the partnership between McLaren and Honda for Formula 1 and the success of McLaren's road car division, there are rumors that the next McLaren road car set to be slotted below the 12C to fight the Porsche 911 will be powered by a Honda-developed engine. This speculation isn't that ...    Read more

Motor Trend's Carlos Lago and Randy Pobst head out to the track at Streets of Willow to test out the 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Pack, the latest version of one of the most extreme performance cars out there at any price. For the 2014 model year, the GT-R doesn't get ...    Read more

Both Maserati and Alfa Romeo are recalling select vehicles over concerns of rear tie rods that have the potential to rust. This is cause for concern because these rusty tie rods can weaken and may even break, causing the vehicle to loss control. Maserati is blaming the faux pas on ...    Read more

You know that whole corporate average fuel economy standards thing where the government is asking automakers to start producing vehicles that achieve 54.5 mpg by 2025? Yeah, Chrysler Group is aware of CAFE and plans to participate, but that's not to say it won't build one last ozone-incinerating 6.2-liter V-8 ...    Read more

When Fiat took over Chrysler back in 2009, there were rumblings that the Italian automaker would bring the Pentastar back to Turin. Now, as Italy's economic turmoil rages on, it appears that Fiat is kicking around the idea of ditching its home of more than 100 years in Lingotto--and its ...    Read more

The 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder will herald in a supercar revolution of sorts for the German automaker, rivaling the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari for superiority much like the Carrera GT did for Porsche alongside the ...    Read more

Two French fellows who look like they just fell out of a Matrix sequel are going to be taking what some would consider a "hella dope" 2013 Nissan 370Z Nismo bedecked in camouflage on a 3,000-mile tour of Europe for the Gumball 3000 rally. Adorned with the number ...    Read more

Like Acura and the second-coming of the NSX, fellow Japanese automaker Infiniti has plans to roll out a flagship sports car that will rely on a hybrid powertrain. This unnamed sports car is expected to feature technology previously seen in the Emerg-e and Essence concepts. Infiniti hasn't confirmed anything yet, ...    Read more

If you live in North America, you have an array of muscle cars to choose from. That's not the case everywhere else in the world, as some markets only get Ford Mustangs with four cylinders, let alone something as hair-brained as a Dodge Challenger SRT. Then there's the 2013 Hyundai ...    Read more

As part of the Gran Turismo generation, I'm supposed to like big wings on cars, quote the Fast and Furious movies--which, you can ask my boss, I do regularly -- and finishing each sentence with the word "brah." I'm supposed to wear a flat-bill hat, flash signs to my homies, ...    Read more

Hollywood loves itself some sequels, as is evident this year (there are 25 sequels planned for release in 2013 alone!), but how many installments of a movie is too much? Fast & Furious 6, the sixth installment the movie with the same name, is set to be released this coming ...    Read more

To be the best you have to beat the best, and apparently, that's a saying Chevrolet has taken to heart with the C7 Corvette Stingray. These images our spy photographer snapped can attest to that, as a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is seen here testing on public roads with an ...    Read more

Here's your "no surprise here" moment of the day. The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has been chosen as the next vehicle to pace the field at this year's Indianapolis 500. The race is scheduled to go ...    Read more

I've ridden in a Porsche 911 Turbo S once, a 2012 model with 530 horsepower. It accelerated so quickly from 0 to about 80 mph that I could feel the blood being sucked from one end of my head to the other. It was the only time I've ever been ...    Read more

What's black and orange and fast all over? The 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport, duh. You may remember hearing Bugatti's name in the news recently, as the Guinness Book of World Records decided to take the title of "fastest production car" away based strictly on a technicality. In ...    Read more

You saw the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro SS and Z/28 at the New York Auto Show, each sporting a new nose and tail lights, among other tweaks. Now we're starting to see them testing on the roads. All models get LED single-piece tail lights, ...    Read more

The final full week of April 2013 has come to a close, but before it goes away forever, you'll want to check out all of this week's important happenings in the automotive world. The week began with news from Germany as BMW is pondering the possibility of a 1 Series ...    Read more

It all comes down to personal preference. Do you want a beefy V-8 engine? Or are you more concerned with your carbon footprint? Do you want smartphone integration? Or do you like left being left alone while you drive? According to a recent report by J.D. Power and Associates, when ...    Read more

When we were standing around in Detroit in January, gazing longingly the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray for the first time, whispering sweet nothings to the 450-horsepower sports car, ...    Read more

If you'd believe it us auto journalists, the 1989 BMW M3 was the high watermark of sports coupes. Everything for the last two and a half decades since then has just been wheezing hard as it struggles to catch up. Or has it? Motor Trend writer Mike Febbo partnered with European Car's ...    Read more

What happens when an all-new 2014 Jaguar F-Type, Damian Lewis, and Jordi Molla come together, and not necessarily on their own terms? You get a lot of misunderstandings, high speed car chases, and some errant bullets. All of which are to be expected. Nevertheless, as one commenter so aptly puts ...    Read more