Back in March at the Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini released a more rabid Superveloce version of its “mass produced” (har-har) flagship, the Aventador. With its extra aero appendages, weight-saving tricks and, oh yeah, about 50...
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Even though many teeth have been gnashed and hands have been wrung over Ferrari jumping on the industry-wide engine-downsizing-and-turbocharging bandwagon for its newest mid-mounted V8 model, the 488 GTB, it’s still an incredible machine. Of...
While there’s no shortage of tiny, mum-and-pop British sports car companies building hardcore track cars, the large (comparatively speaking) firm that arguably pioneered the segment, Lotus, still knows what’s up. In the last decade-and-a-half or...
We’ve all thought about what kind of supercar we’d design and build, right? All the key variables like how it would look, what sort of engine would power it and, of course, the name of...
Of all the standard colors in which Ferrari offers its cars, black might be one of the oddest. Ferraris – like all other sports cars – are supposed to be all about passion and vibrance;...
Considering the F-Type’s status as the first mass-produced Jaguar sports car in more than a generation, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that the automotive aftermarket has really embraced it. German tuner Piecha Design...
We’re already on record as being fans of the Donkervoort D8 GTO. You do remember the Donkervoort D8 GTO, don’t you? It’s the Dutch neo-Lotus/Caterham 7 with the 400 horsepower 2.5L turbo inline-five from Audi’s...
Back in the early 1990s, Honda produced two lustworthy mid-engined sports cars: The Ferrari-baiting NSX (which was sold here as an Acura), and the pipsqueak kei class Japan-only Beat roadster. Jump ahead to the present...
As fantastic a car as the Ferrari 488 GTB will surely be, many car nerds (ourselves included) are dreading how muted and *gulp* tamed that glorious Ferrari V8 music will sound being piped through a...
As loathe as most of us are to thank a tax collector, we think the folks who wrote the tax laws for automobile fuels in Western Europe are owed a tip of the cap, for...