Sports : Car News And Reviews

Ferrari has announced the new front-engine, turbocharged California T ahead of its official debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. The car has a retractable hard-top roof and retains the prior California’s 2+2 seating configuration. Under the hood, the California T has a modified version of the Maserati Quattroporte’s 3.8-liter V8 engine that puts out 552 horsepower and 556 lb-ft.

Oh, to be Tim “Shmee” Burton. This guy has managed to find a way to spend his days checking out the world’s most beautiful and exotic sports cars, and we’re jealous. Recently, he’s been spending some quality time with McLaren’s awesome P1 “hypercar”, showing off exactly what the 903bhp, $1.4 million hybrid beast can do.

It’s been a while since we saw a Civic Type R. In fact, the last production version of Honda’s sportiest Civic went out of production in 2010. Now, Honda is prepping a new version of the hot hatch, and if this concept sketch from Honda Design is any indication, we like what we see.

Using a 2014 Porsche Cayman S as its basis, Italy’s StudioTorino is working on a new vehicle that looks pretty impressive. While the company hasn’t announced specs yet, the exterior design of the Moncenisio is quite stunning.

Nissan is returning to the Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit outside Sydney, Australia for the 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour race with the intimidating Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 race car. This is Nissan’s first GT-R appearance at the track since 1992, when Nissan won the Bathurst 1000.

Koenigsegg is teasing the reveal of their news supercar, the Koenigsegg One:1 which is sure to be astounding. The car will be unveiled at this year’s Geneva Motor Show and is based on the Agera line. 

The Audi RS4 Avant has always been one of the best wagons (as we call them in the U.S.) on the road. And, although Audi no longer brings the RS line of Avants to the United States, they are still sold throughout Europe and remain very popular.

Other than its Tata Motors owned Jaguars, India isn’t exactly known for its sports cars. However, we have to say the DC Design Avanti is a pretty intriguing looking vehicle. The car offers bold and dramatic body styling, with a large honeycomb grille and hood air intakes dominating the front, and large air cooling ports in front of the rear wheels.

Recently, XCAR interviewed the surprisingly down to earth Horacio Pagani, who shared his history and design philosophy. Apparently, Pagani then asked them to take a ride in his personal Zonda. Of course, they couldn’t say no, and documented this very special ride to share with the world.

In the works for the last four years, Montreal, Canada’s Felino is now showing off their new high performance sports car. The two-seater is designed to be primarily a track day car, but it’s possible it will be street legal as well.

These days, we’re rarely surprised by commercials played during the Super Bowl. But Maserati just caught us completely off guard with this commercial, which not only was a total mystery for the first 110 seconds, it threw down the gauntlet against other luxury performance brands.

/DRIVE had the chance to record this practice session at the 24 Hours of Daytona with driver Tommy Milner and Corvette C7.R Racing. Milner’s helmet-cam allows us to follow along as he takes his place behind the wheel and takes to the course.

Chevrolet recently unveiled the special edition Corvette Stingray concept commemorating the release of Gran Turismo 6 on the Sony Playstation 3 and the game’s 15th anniversary. That special edition vehicle is now available in the game, so you can drive it today.

Saleen is well known for its powerful, high performance Mustang, Challenger and Camaro variants, but not every car they drive is a gas guzzler. In fact, they’re now working on a high-end pure electric vehicle which will be based on the already impressive Tesla Model S.

The minute-long version of Jaguar’s #GoodToBeBad commercial for the 2014 Super Bowl takes on the trope that all good movie villains are Brits, hoping we’ll draw the conclusion that their new British-built F-Type R Coupe is just as dastardly as Tom Hiddleston, Mark Strong and Sir Ben Kingsley combined.