Sports : Car News And Reviews

The limited-edition Moncenisio Porsche Cayman S is a beautiful coach-built vehicle from Studiotorino, an Italian company specializing in custom-built sports car bodies. Built on the Cayman S Type 981, the car maintains the technical characteristics of the car while completely reworking both the interior and exterior.

Many aftermarket tuners will replace body parts with carbon fiber to reduce vehicle weight. Carbon fiber roofs and hoods are popular because the car’s center of gravity is lowered dramatically with the weight reduction. But Overtake International, a Japanese after-market tuning and customization shop, has taken carbon fiber to an extreme with its latest Nissan R35 GT-R project.

There’s a slim chance that most of us will ever get to own or drive an actual Lamborghini Huracán LP610-4. Lambo recognizes this, and has launched an online sim game to help whet our appetites for their shiny new supercar.

All Reiter Engineering does is tune sports cars to make them better and faster. So when reporter Rainer Behounek joins professional driver Peter Kox in the Reiter Murciélago R-SV racecar he’s in for a big surprise.

We’re already big fans of the Jaguar F-Type Roadster around here, and can’t wait until we can get our grubby little mitts on the coupe version when it’s released later this year. In the mean time, we’ll have to live vicariously through other reviewers who’ve already managed to score some time behind the wheel.

The latest variant of Porsche’s mid-engine roadster has been upgraded with a more powerful 330 horsepower engine, and an improved chassis. The new car gets a tuned-up version of its 3.4L 6-cylinder boxer engine, with an extra 15hp.

The Panoz Esperente was a hand-made two-door convertible built in America by the Georgia-based manufacturer. The Esperente was created with a custom aluminum and carbon fiber body and a Ford Cobra SVT V8 engine. Many of the car’s components are Ford performance parts, from the door switches to the air conditioning system.

NM2255 takes us inside the latest build of the Radical RXC. In the clip, we get to ride along for a few laps on Italy’s Monza circuit, powered along by an upgraded 480bhp 3.0L V8 engine that we didn’t even know was an option.

The 2014 Gumball 3000 Rally will go from Miami to Ibiza, and the participants will surely bring some incredible rides, from the Team Galag Batman Tumbler to the Nissan 370Z NISMO. The theme for the 2014 Gumball 3000 is Miami Vice and the official rally wrap has been revealed on a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. 

Waving AMG’s magic wand over the already impressive Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupé, the S63 AMG Coupé has now jumped to the top of the list of cars we really want to drive this year. Revealed by Mercedes-Benz in advance of next month’s 2014 New York International Auto Show, the AMG variant has been amped up with a hand-assembled 5.5L, 577hp biturbo V8 with a whopping 664 lb-ft.

Exotics Racing is an on-track driving experience with locations in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. They give us ordinary humans the chance to drive in dream cars at a high speed. I visited the Las Vegas location to get into some of the cars I’ve wanted to drive for some time.

The Rossion Q1 is a car you won’t see on the road very often – if ever. The car is built in Palm Beach, Florida and each is handcrafted at the Florida facility, then road-tested by the company President.

Most sports cars now come with the ability to do a dead start with “launch control” – a computer-assisted system that maximizes the car’s acceleration for that run. And the majority of cars limit how many such launches can be performed in a day — usually about two — because of the additional stresses put on the engine and drivetrain.

Sit back and enjoy the awesome snap, crackle and pop sounds of this tricked out Mitsubishi Lancer Evo as it repeatedly makes its way around some uphill bends. The car, souped up by Slovakia’s RK Racing Development spews forth a cacophony of incredible noises from its exhaust system as it flies around corners.

If you missed your chance to grab a Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse Jean Bugatti Edition, Bugatti has another amazing Bugatti Legends version for you to consider, the Rembrandt Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse. Unfortunately, Bugatti has sold all three models of the $3 million+ cars it built.