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Supercar and racing specialists McLaren have officially announced the McLaren GT, and the car is a true grand tourer in every sense of the word. While most McLarens aren’t designed for carrying anything but you and the lucky passenger inside, the McLaren GT is made to be usable on road trips. The GT has a more compliant ride than other McLarens thanks to a Proactive Damping Control suspension system that can make a comfortable ride, but still deliver the driving dynamics that McLaren is famous for.

André Frève has a 1992 Miata that he has taken to the same dealership in Canada for service since they opened in 1993. Recently, the man took his Miata in for service, and to reward him for his loyalty to the guys at Longueuil Mazda provided him with some service that was truly above and beyond. You see, the seats in the 1992 drop top were in sad shape, and the service department decided to give their regular customer an unexpected gift.

A company out of Indiana called Gruppe5 Motorsports wants to build the craziest BMW 2002 cars ever. The cars start with an original 1968 to 1975 BMW 2002′ steel structure, and get upgraded with an alloy roll cage and bonded carbon fiber body panels. The company wants to build 300 of the widebody 2002s seen in the renderings here. 

Ferrari has been supplying engines to Maserati for years now, ever since the two were under the same FCA ownership. But a few years back, Ferrari was spun off into its own company. During a recent earnings call, Ferrari announced that it would no longer supply engines to Maserati after 2021 or 2022.

One Lap of America is a racing event for that has been going on for 36 years, challenging car owners and builders to make a car that can perform on the track and drive on the highways as the cars must be driven on public roads between track venues.

Late last month we talked about the insane 1000hp 426 Hemi Hellephant MOPAR crate engine that had a giant blower on it. It’s basically the supercharged SRT Hellcat engine all hopped up on industrial strength catnip.

If you look up the word overkill in the dictionary, it should have a picture of the BMW M5 Competition as an illustration of the term. Everything about BMW’s fastest and most powerful sedan is absolutely ridiculous… in the best way possible.

With so many of cars on the road today being front-wheel or all-wheel drive, if you put someone into a high-performance car with rear wheel drive and let them go, things can go very wrong, very fast.

The Nissan 370Z isn’t a very common sight on the roads today for a lot of reasons. The two-seater is getting pretty long in the tooth, and down on performance compared to its peers in the segment.

Aston Martin has announced a new variant of the Vantage, a limited edition ride with only 200 units to be made globally. Every single Vantage AMR gets a manual transmission. That manual is a 7-speed with a dog-leg first gear and AMSHIFT technology that automatically matches revs to mimic heel-toe shifting. Power for all 200 units comes from a 4.0-liter

The 2020 Toyota Supra is an intriguing new sports car that looks cool from some angles, and not so cool from others. Toyota gave the machine a 335 horsepower six with 365 lb-ft of torque for the US market, and initially said that the less expensive and powerful four-cylinder versions were initially destined for Japan only.

With the new Toyota Supra hitting dealerships soon, it’s easy to lose sight of the Japanese automaker’s other rear-wheel drive sports coupe. While the 86 might not have the horsepower or torque grunt of the Supra, its price is also within reach of far more buyers than the Supra will likely be.

There are all sort of cool hypercars on the market today from Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche, and others. Perhaps the most high-end of them all is the Koenigsegg family of cars. Every automaker around the world who wants to sell cars in the US and abroad has to crash test rides.

Let’s face it. The folks over at Hennessey Performance are insane. They build cars with way more power than they really need or can use much of the time. Take the new HPE1200 kit for the C7 Corvette ZR1. Hennessey ports the factory blower, adds a billet high-flow throttle body, special upper and lower pullies, a high-flow induction system, custom cam, and ported cylinder heads.

Aston Martin has unveiled the fastest convertible sports car it has ever made. It’s called the DBS Superleggera Volante, and is the Volante (convertible) form of the already available DBS Superleggera coupe. That said, power comes from the same 5.2-liter