Sports Car

In a page taken from Tony Stark's management handbook, Toyota president Akio Toyoda was candid when asked what vehicles he liked from the competition. Speaking to a group at his inauguration as Chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the grandson of Toyota's founder Kiichiro Toyoda called out his favorite ...    Read more

Summoning its racing heritage from the 1960's, the John Cooper Works sub-brand from Mini has announced its lineup of 2013 models will boast a new engine, promising more power while sipping on less fuel and leaving a smaller carbon foot-print behind. The new-generation 1.6-liter four-cylinder twin-turbo engine is rated at ...    Read more

Eeveryone hates getting traffic tickets. Not only does the citation lighten your wallet, in some states your driving record will take a hit, while other states increase the price of your auto insurance. Now, thanks to Insurance.com's new "Uh-Oh! Calculator," you can see just how much that citation ...    Read more

This week began with the 2013 Ford F-150 shedding the camouflage that once covered the full-size light-duty truck's front-end. BMW's M branch, the performance wing of the German automaker, celebrated its 40th birthday on Wednesday and in honor of the milestone, we've compiled a list of the top five BMW ...    Read more

Ferrari has previously announced that it is recalling some of its 458 Italia models produced between 2011 and 2012 and all California models made in 2012 due to incorrect machining to the crankshaft. This can spell trouble for Ferrari ...    Read more

Former Ford CEO Harold Arthur 'Red' Poling passed away last Saturday at his home in Pacific Grove, Calif. at the age of 86. Poling helped navigate the Blue Oval boys through some turbulent economic times back in the 1980's and can also be attributed with saving the automaker from the ...    Read more

Chevrolet announced today the addition of an all-new sedan to its lineup. Tentatively called the Chevrolet SS, the new sedan will go on sale sometime in late 2013 as a 2014 model. Relevant details, like size (can it truly fit three adults in the rear row?), fuel economy (fuel sipper or ...    Read more

The picture you're looking at with the Audi was taken on flat land. The Aud R8 LMS above was riding a track with an incredible 60-degree banked corner. Now that we have your attention with that tidbit, here's your unusually present update of race cars simply too awesome to ignore. We're ...    Read more

Everywhere you look someone is gripping tightly to an iPhone, Android, or some other type of smartphone, because whatever the need, there's an app for that. As so, Hyundai announced it launched a refreshed version of Blue Link, an app that can control and peek into a variety of vital ...    Read more

BMW has been teasing its 2013 M5 and M6 for a while. Both are already on sale abroad, which makes it even worse. But as the German automaker gears up for pushing its new high-performance cars into dealerships, it's taken some of the guessing out by showing us how much they're ...    Read more

It's funny how time flies when you're having fun. And what fun the BMW M division, the company's motorsports offshoot, has been. BMW M came on the scene in 1972, complementing what connoisseurs had already found out with the "Neue Klasse" cars the automaker started making in the 1960s. BMW already built incredibly ...    Read more

Love it or hate it, there's no denying that the Chevrolet Corvette can keep up with the best of them both on and off the track. Since the end of the 2011 model year, Chevrolet has produced 1,526,747 Corvettes since production began back in 1953. Since 1981, when the National ...    Read more

After hanging around with Germans for a while, it's possible to get the impression that most are born without a sense of humor. Then they surprise you every once in a while. Take, for instance, Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller. He told German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung that the automaker was no longer ...    Read more

You may not know who Patrick Long is, but he's a big deal around Porsche's motorsports activities as the only American race car driver to drive a car for the automaker. Adding to his credits are three American LeMans GT2 racing championships and a slice of a class championship at ...    Read more

With minimal fanfare, Aston Martin has quietly unveiled the limited edition DBS Ultimate model on its website, showcasing understated changes. Only 100 units will be produced, and this DBS model is likely to be the last of its kind. This is a surprising move as no pricing or even a ...    Read more

While many states have already outlawed texting, grooming, reading, and eating while driving, Rhode Island is taking distracted driving to a whole new level. Representative Peter Palumbo, a Democrat from Cranston, R.I., has presented a bill that would outlaw dogs from riding in the lap of the driver. If this ...    Read more

More automakers continue to update the user interfaces for their vehicles' infotainment systems but many are tough to comprehend.  Ford has seen firsthand what happens when an infotainment system is tough to use, while rival Chrysler enjoys a steady stream of compliments with its Uconnect. Ford in response has recently ...    Read more

The Mercedes-Benz C63 Coupe Black Series is one of the most lusted-after supercars among Mercedes line. We can only imagine the conversation when Mercedes engineers went up to tuner division AMG, dropped off the C-Class coupe to the surprised staff, and with the mandate, "make it faster." And the AMG folks ...    Read more

Ferrari is known around the world for the high-pitched scream of its V-8 and V-12 engines. These high-revving masterpieces are built to racecar specs, literally, as the tolerances required for them are exacting. Which makes it all the more surprising that Ferrari is recalling a small batch of its 458 and ...    Read more

Late last year, the world got its first glimpse of the Nissan Juke-R, a concept car version of the Juke with a 485-horsepower, turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 from a Nissan GT-R shoved into it. The idea of putting the mechanical bits from a world-class sports car into a compact crossover body ...    Read more

Neil Armstrong's 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray looks like it was driven on the moon. In fact, it was not. But don't let that affect the selling value: As of this writing, with three days and five hours remaining on the eBay clock, ...    Read more

Host Jessi Lang of the Motor Trend Channel recently put the Nissan GT-R—and herself—to the test at the famed Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca racetrack up at Monterey, California. Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is famous among racers and car enthusiasts alike, its twisty tracks used by both car and motorcycle racers. This ...    Read more

In celebration of Audi Deutschland's Facebook page getting 500,000 fans, the company just uploaded a video of an Audi R8 V-10 supercar drawing out a symbol while drifting. It's a nice gesture. After all, it's not often you get to see a $160,000 car smoking up a storm. "Dindo" Capello mans ...    Read more

Last week, we drove the hot, new 2013 Scion FR-S , the front-engine, rear-wheel drive sports coupe collaboration between Toyota and Subaru. It's more than just pretty neat, we concluded, and now our office mates at sister magazine, Motor Trend, have released the newest video for its Ignition series starring ...    Read more

When looking at South Korean car culture, the first two things you notice are that there are relatively few foreign cars on the road, and there are virtually no sports cars among them. Both points are about to change with the Chevrolet Corvette going on sale in The Land of the ...    Read more