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Opel has lifted the veil on their extremely aggressive new Astra: the Opel Astra OPC Extreme, which will make its world debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. This race-inspired Astra was developed on the vaunted Nürburgring Nordschleife and carries over all the key high-tech components from its racing peer, the Opel Astra OPC Cup.

The guys at the famous UK Goodwood motor circuit recently got their hands on a luscious candy apple red Alfa Romeo 4C and took it for a spin on their short, but challenging hillclimb course. While the road was very wet at the time of their drive, the car handled very well, besting the Corvette Stingray, Aston Martin V12 Vantage S, and Jaguar F-Type V8S handily, with a time of just 61.1 seconds.

This beautiful 1957 Porsche Speedster is track ready and has been winning races for years. It’s for sale at Jack Hunt Automotive for $135,000 and the current owners purchased it in 1985. Although they believe it’s been racing since the day it was built, the documentation only goes back as far as the 1960s.

Godzilla has lost his top! At least that’s what a limited number of buyers will experience thanks to the team at Newport Convertible Engineering, who will be offering convertible conversions for the Nissan GT-R. While some may think the idea seems sacrilegious, the idea of enjoying the full power and control of this beast with the top down definitely has some appeal.

UK Designer Mark Hostler envisions this incredible “LaMaserati” concept car, based on the LaFerrari platform. The LaMaserati carries over the same 6.3-liter V12 engine with the kinetic energy recovery system removed to save weight. Hostler decided to build the car on a LaFerrari platform in much the same way as the Maserati MC12 was built around the Ferrari Enzo.

Long in the works, the Mazzanti Evantra V8 is one of those elusive supercar designs that has been shown numerous times in rendered and prototype forms, but we didn’t know if or when we’d see the actual car driving on a road.

Each year, Porsche takes some of its beautiful cars to Vermont’s equally beautiful Sugarbush Resort to give attendees an opportunity to drive them in harsh, wintry conditions. Specifically, this year’s Porsche Winter Driving Experience put drivers behind the wheel of an all-wheel drive 911 Carrera 4S, under the guidance of professional driving instructors.

Since there’s a slim chance any of us will ever be able to afford a $250,000 Lamborghini Huracán, we’ll have to settle for looking at them from afar. Thankfully, Lambo has rolled out its online configuration application for the new LP 610-4, so we can all paint up our own personal dream car without having to mortgage our futures.

Hyundai collaborated with the Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin to create this stunning concept car, dubbed the PassoCorto, which will be unveiled at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. The 16 students designed the car as part of their thesis project in the Master of Arts in Transportation Design course and worked in collaboration with the Hyundai Design Center Europe.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about cars in Japan is that there’s a crazy nighttime custom car subculture. In this video, we meet a group of these drivers as they show off their exceptionally flashy Lamborghinis (and a Ferrari), several of which have been bestowed with an arsenal of bright and colorful LEDs and strobe lights.

While we’re big fans of the power and performance you can get in today’s Camaros, we’ve never been huge fans of their design – probably because all they ever remind us of is The Transformers’ Bumblebee.

The single-seat BAC Mono has been speeding around circuits in its native U.K. for the last couple of years. Now, the lightweight, carbon fiber track day car is being assembled in the U.S. for customers on this side of the Atlantic.

This classic commercial for Porsche highlights the company’s racing roots with some terrific footage from road races, off-road rallies, top performance circuits, and the early days of auto racing. It’s great to see all the early Porsche race cars and modified 911s winning races and flying over dirt roads.

Aston Martin will be officially unveiling these incredible special edition V8 Vantage models at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. The V8 Vantage N430 will be available either as a coupe or convertible roadster in a variety of stunning finishes.

When we saw the Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge up close and personal at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, we were duly impressed by its awesome iridescent paintjob and carbon fiber body accents. The car is being touted as Infiniti’s most powerful car ever, and in advance of the 2014 Geneva International Motor Show now they’ve released a recording of its forced induction engine being revved for all to hear.