Sports : Car News And Reviews

Caterham is bringing its line of ultralight performance cars to the United States soon, so you’ll be able to own one and drive it to your local supermarket at some point. But Top Gear’s James May has a few sound words of advice when you’re trying to decide between the blistering 620R and another model, like the Caterham 160.

Bentley has done a great job producing vehicles that can not only offer luxury and performance, they also can handle winter driving conditions. In this clip from The Fast Lane Car, they took the powerful Continental GT Speed Convertible into the frozen Colorado Rockies to see how it handles on a sheet of ice.

Lexus will be unveiling its RC F GT3 concept at the upcoming 2014 Geneva Motor Show. Weighing in at just 2,755 pounds, the GT3 Racing Concept packs a modified version of the RC F’s 5.0-liter V8 engine, boosting horsepower from the production 450 up to a whopping 540.

Audi will be unveiling the new 2015 Audi TT at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show on March 4th, and the German automaker has released a short teaser and some design sketches in anticipation. We had a preview of the new TT interior at CES in January, showing off the vehicle’s new slimline instrument panel, Audi virtual cockpit, and a new MMI interface.

Koenigsegg has officially revealed the much anticipated and somewhat strangely named One:1 after giving us a peek a few weeks ago, and presumably ahead of schedule after some low quality pics leaked out this past week.

While there’s still no word if or when we’ll see the Acura NSX Concept go into production, that hasn’t stopped Acura’s parent company, Honda from showing off a test footage very special build of the car – the NSX Concept-GT.

While the Kode9 is based on the Lotus Elise, it sure doesn’t look like one. In fact, it looks more like Speed Racer’s Mach V than an Elise. It doesn’t hurt that it was designed by Ken Okuyama, the man behind the Enzo Ferrari when he worked for Pininfarina.

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.