Sports : Car Reviews And News

The Google Street View team continues their plan to map out as much of the world as humanly possible, this time taking their panoramic lens inside McLaren’s Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, UK. What makes this particular Street View special is that the facility isn’t open to the public, so for most of us, it’s the only opportunity we’ll get to see these amazing vehicles in such detail.

We’ve seen a Corvette raced down ice-covered roads and a Formula 1 car taken around the Nürburgring in ice and snow, but when it comes to high-speed potential on snow, the Nissan GT-R may be tough to beat.

Bugatti unveiled the second in its “Legend” series of six cars, the Jean Bugatti model, in honor of the one-time leader of Bugatti, Gianoberto (“Jean”) Carlo Rembrandt Ettore Bugatti. Based on the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, the changes to the vehicle are purely aesthetic, with no changes made to the vehicle’s already astounding mechanics.

The McLaren P1 is the unofficial successor to the incredible supercar the McLaren F1. The P1 is a 903 horsepower plug-in hybrid costing $1.15 million and McLaren brought it to the historic track outside Nürburg, Germany with the sole purpose of setting a sub-seven second lap time.

The 2014 BMW M5 is a beautiful performance coupe right off the assembly line. But the folks at Vorsteiner, a a California-based luxury vehicle tuner, always seem ready to try to boost things a little bit more anyway.

German tuning wizards Regula Tuning have just announced this carbon-fiber body kit for the 2014 Audi R8 V10 Spyder and it’s anything but subtle. The kit includes aggressive body panels, a massive mesh grille, matching air intakes, recessed side skirts, and a rear diffuser apron, all trimmed in bright red, so you sure can’t miss them going down the road.

McLaren’s Special Operations customization group has put together a concept variant of the MP4-12C which takes the already impressive supercar and steps it up another notch, focusing efforts on reducing weight, and improving airflow and aerodynamics.

TaxTheRich, the same guys who famously took their Ferrari 288 GTO into the grass, are back with a new clip – this time showing off its successor, the Ferrari F50 as it drifts, spins and slides around the track in slow motion.

After years of anticipation by eager muscle car aficionados, Ford has dropped the curtain on the worst kept automotive secret in recent times, the 2015 Ford Mustang (S550). Renders and partial images of the car have circulated for over a year now, and full images were revealed earlier this week, but we’re finally getting to see the official release today, complete with high quality images, and at least partial specs on the latest generation of the iconic pony car.

We all love the  beautiful, beastly exhaust notes of the 720 horsepower Pagani Huayra. Alex Goy at XCAR Films was lucky enough to have the chance to take the Huayra for a test drive and shares his thoughts of this exotic Italian supercar in this video.

If there’s one thing that most supercars and hypercars have in common is that they require a highly-skilled driver behind the wheel to handle their brute force – especially when steering at high speeds. While technology has definitely been used to improve traction control and handling in many modern vehicles, we wouldn’t want to suddenly jerk the wheel on most of these high-end rides at high speeds.

Beginning in 2014, professional drivers and privateer motorsport teams will have the ability to purchase a BMW M235i Racing edition coupe, which is based on BMW’s production car but is ready for successful entry-level racing. The coupe comes with many modifications to make it track worthy, like a mechanical limited-slip differential, ABS, DSC and traction control to keep it safely on the road.

The hybrid Porsche 918 Spyder sells for over $1 million, but that’s less than half the price of a Bugatti Veyron. While it can’t match the top speed of the current world champ, it’s likely to outhandle it on a track.

The Lamborghini Gallardo recently went out of production. Let us take a moment to take in a brief tribute to the iconic Italian supercar, captured in some of its many different editions, and lovingly assembled into a short tribute montage by SuperCars of London.

While those of us here in the U.S. have to deal with speed limits of 55mph to 75mph on most highways, in Germany they have these roads called Autobahns, which have no official speed limits for cars or motorcycles.