Sports : Car News And Reviews

When it comes to late ’90s Mercedes-Benz cars, the AMG CLK GTR sits at the top of the heap. It’s an incredibly rare sports car built to help get Mercedes into the FIA GT Championship. The rules for the racing series required each vehicle participating to have at least 25 road-going versions built.

Famed Italian design firm and coachbuilder Pininfarina has revealed a few images of the first of its custom commissioned Battista electric hypercar. The car is carbon fiber on the outside with the blue color courtesy of weaving in Iconica Blu Thread with the carbon fiber.

Audi has revealed its latest versions of its RS 3 Sportback and RS 3 Sedan. Both models can reach 62 mph in 3.8 seconds and have top speeds of up to 180 mph. The engine under their hoods is a 2.5-liter five-cylinder producing 395 hp and 369 lb-ft.

Hyundai has revealed a new performance car that it’s calling a “hot sedan.” The 2022 Elantra N combines high performance and practicality in a four-door body that packs 276 horsepower and 289 lb-ft. under the hood.

The new Lotus Emira is one sexy-looking sports car. It’s got an amazingly sleek and aerodynamic style, and I love the body sculpting visible from every angle. The doors and side air intakes are especially drool-worthy.

The Lotus Emira is a new mid-engine car, a single sports coupe set to take the place of the Elise, Exige, and Evora. Its design draws inspiration from the Evija hypercar and is extremely attractive. Lotus based the Emira on its recently announced new Sports Car Architecture.

Tuning firm Novitec has announced its latest customized supercar. The vehicle started as the already impressive Ferrari F8 Tributo before being massaged into something even more exclusive. The car is the limited edition Novitec N-Largo, and the company will produce only 15 of them.

In order to meet homologation requirements, it’s not uncommon for sports carmakers to create road-going versions of racecars. Aston Martin did that backward with its Valkyrie, first debuting the road car and now revealing the Valkyrie AMR Pro racing car.

It’s been a long time since you could purchase a new Peugeot here in America, but back in the 1980s you still could. During that period, the French automaker built the Quasar, a boldly styled concept vehicle that turned up at the 1984 Paris Motor Show.

Ferrari has revealed a new high-performance supercar called the 296 GTB. The car utilizes a hybrid powertrain featuring a turbocharged V6 engine and electric system, producing a total of 610 kW from the electrical system alone and up to 819 horsepower of combined total output.

The oldest Aston Martin sports car still in existence is the A3, and it’s turning 100 this year. To celebrate the centenary of the A3, UK dealership HWM Aston Martin commissioned Q by Aston Martin to create the A3 Vantage Roadster.

Acura is showing off a high-performance SUV that will be the first to wear its Type S badge. The 2022 MDX Type S is billed as the most powerful SUV Acura has ever built. Rather than simply tossing pictures out and saying the SUV will launch later this year, Acura has revealed the vehicle as the official tow car for one of its Pikes Peak race cars.

Porsche is certainly no stranger to the Nürburgring. The automaker has run various road cars there during testing and race cars during racing events. Recently, the Performance model of the Cayenne went to the racetrack to try and grab the lap record for a production SUV.

Porsche has revealed another enthusiast car that should be popular with 911 fans. The car is called the 911 GT3 Touring, a name inspired by a special version of the 911 Carrera RS from 1973. The 911 GT3 Touring features a 503 horsepower 4.0-liter six-cylinder engine, and comes standard with a six-speed GT sports gearbox.

Back in 2016, Ferrari celebrated its 50th anniversary in Japan by producing a special and extremely limited-edition car. The car was called the Ferrari J50. It was based on the Ferrari 488 Spider, though it had unique exterior styling and more power.