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Out of America’s many contributions to the automotive industry, affordable power is arguably among the greatest ones. Simple, durable and convenient to mass produce, American V8 engines democratized performance by offering an abundance of power between the 1950s and the 1970s. For that reason exactly, European boutique manufacturers often turned...
Friedrich Performance is a new tuning brand from Friedrich Motorsport, located in the Bavarian town of Lichtenfels in Germany, Dirk Friedrich founded the company back in 1992 and became a well-known developer of sport exhaust systems and carbon fiber parts, today a total of 44 employees are creating automotive art...
Just like pitching the perfect design or engineering just the right exhaust note, properly naming a car is an art form itself. In addition to common themes like names made up to sound cool, nautical or mythological references, there’s no greater way to highlight a car’s dynamic and suggest its...
What makes a race track great or special? There is no straightforward answer. However, certain attributes set some racing circuits apart from the others. For some tracks, it is the consistency with which they are able to deliver the ultimate thrill and excitement, regardless of the motorsport activity. For others,...
I for one rather like the Bentley Flying Spur, it is a high-end luxury car which is a notch above a Mercedes S-class, a BMW 7-Series, and an Audi A8, yet not as opulent as a Rolls Royce, and let’s be honest, depending on which spec you go for, it...
Many people dream of owning a supercar—a car with mind-blowing performance and stunning looks that would make anyone drool, including the owners themselves. However, very few can get their hands on a supercar as the price tag on one of those vehicles makes them very exclusive, almost to the point...
Back in 1954, General Motors unveiled a very interesting concept car at that year’s Motorama in New York City, the Chevrolet Corvette Nomad, effectively an estate version of this sports car, remember in 1953 Chevrolet showed the Corvette as an experimental show car at the same event, but it seemed...
Like many of you, we here at Supercars.net are fans of the motoring trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. Be it watching older reruns of Top Gear, or following their often hilarious experiences with cars through The Grand Tour or their more personal projects and cars on...
Mr. John Hennessey has always been very clear about his intention for the Venom F5, his latest hypercar creation. The low-slung hypercar—named after the highest rating on the Fujita scale of tornado strength—is gunning for the title of the world’s fastest production car. To do that, though, it will not...
I guess many among us would be happy with parking a BMW M8 Competition on the driveway, with the impressive biturbo 4-Liter V8 engine mounted in the front of this 4.8-meter long coupe, more specifically the S63B44 unit from BMW which is also used on the M5 supersedan, and in...
Yesterday we posted an article on the Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 4MATIC, a massive SUV powered by a thirsty V8 twin-turbocharged engine capable of a power output of 550 hp in factory original trim, we showcased the Brabus 800 version of it with 800 hp, but the point is, such a...
In Europe, the Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 4MATIC is a large SUV, one of the largest Mercedes has to offer, and it’s almost the more luxurious version of the G-series, but I guess for the United States of America this size of SUV is more widespread, still, Brabus can make it...
Before 2021 ended, Spyker released great news that made their clients and brand followers. On the last day of 2021, Spyker announced that an investor group led by Michail Pessis (Milan Morady S.A., R-Company GmbH, SMP Racing) and Boris Rotenberg (BR Engineering, SMP Racing) has made an agreement with Spyker...
2022. It’s a New Year, and with that, a new fresh-faced and wide-eyed competitor has entered the fray. The arena is the high performance EV segment. The star players are circa 202x fully-electric sedans with violent athleticism, yet a delicate eco-friendly touch. Like its young forefathers, the Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX...
For any car enthusiast, acquiring that gem of a car on the classifieds—especially for pennies on the dollar—can be one of the most gratifying experiences we could possibly have. While this may imply that some form of bargain finding is at play, a $50K USD budget will hardly restrict you...
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We’ve just finished naming our picks for the Best Sports & Performance Cars, covering the following categories: Best New Sports & Performance Cars (Under $50K USD) Best New Sports & Performance Cars ($100K – $200K USD) Best Used Sports & Performance Cars (Under $50K USD) Best Used Sports & Performance...
Long gone are the days when the 2-door coupe had a monopoly on the best performance an automaker had on tap. In modern times, the 4-door saloon has become an increasingly popular platform for companies to showcase their greatest technologies, in a more utilitarian and family-friendly package to boot. As...
The Bentley Bentayga is a rare car in most parts of the world, I know there are regions where these are a dime a dozen, but usually seeing a Bentayga on the road is rare for many people, but the clientele for this luxurious SUV mostly is a breed apart,...
Back in the early Eighties, Lamborghini had the very wide, and very low Countach S in production, but thanks to the massively wide rear wheels and a slight decrease in power the LP400S was a little slower than the narrow-body LP400, and to make things worse, Ferrari came up with...
More than a few eyebrows were raised when the AMG GT Black Series debuted with an MSRP north of $320,000. It’s the kind of price one would typically associate with supercars from marque brands like Lamborghini, Ferrari or McLaren. Who would part with that much cash for a production Mercedes,...
In November 2021, Ferrari peeled the covers off a retro-themed limited-edition car dubbed the Daytona SP3. It is the carmaker’s take on vintage styling seamlessly combined with modern engineering and technology. Enrico Galliera, Ferrari’s Head of Marketing, described the Icona line as a ‘timeless design of iconic Ferraris reinterpreted with...
We’ve talked about the RML Short Wheel Base before, a car inspired by the best-of-the-best from the Fifties and Sixties, more specifically the Ferrari 250 GTB SWB from 1959, and while the RLM SWB might look like a car from the Fifties, it will come with all the 21st-century amenities...
Sackey & Co. recently set a new world record with the sale of the 2003 Ferrari Enzo on their Online Supercar Auction platform. With a final sale price of $3,700,000, it set the record for both the highest sale price achieved on an online car auction platform as well as...
I’m sure you have heard about Hennessey before, over the last 30 years John Hennessey and his team have made some of the fastest cars ever, and let’s not forget those insane 6×6 Velociraptor pick-up trucks based on the 2017 to 2021 Raptor 4-Door Truck, priced at $349,000 which makes...
The 2022 model year of the Audi TT RS will mark the final year this high performance, smaller size two-door sportscar from Audi will be available on the United States market, to celebrate this farewell of the legendary five-cylinder engine and bid farewell to the pinnacle performance of a design...
The Volkswagen Group took over the Bugatti brand in 1998 following a period of extreme financial challenges for the French automobile company. In 2005, Bugatti announced its resurgence with the launch of the Bugatti Veyron, a formidable hypercar that took the car community by storm. It was a rocket ship...
The concept of coachbuilding might have been lost for a few decades, but it’s back in full force on today’s automotive market, many of the big constructors offer their clients the option of creating a very personal car, Sur Mesure from Bugatti for instance, or the Mulliner department at Bentley,...
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of one of the main forces behind the creation of the iconic Mazda Miata (also known as the MX-5 and Eunos Roadster in other parts of the world), its chief designer Shunji Tanaka who died earlier in the month. He...
Hispano Suiza Fábrica de Automóvil S.A. is a company that dates back to the ‘old days’ of automotive history, between 1904 and 1946 they not only created a total of 12,000 luxury high-performance cars but also 50,000 aircraft engines in Spain, sadly after 1946 this glorious name became somewhat dormant...
I guess it was only a matter of time before Maserati would create a topless version of their latest supercar, the MC20, and that time has come now, the first prototype test mule for an MC20C, or Cabrio has been seen on the road during initial trial runs, covered under...
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Did Automobili Lamborghini SpA drop the ball and accidentally drive the new V12 Hybrid model inside the factory compound, right in front of a camera lens with just a loose cover and some camouflage decals on the door, the new model we’ll only be seeing towards the end of 2022...
Collecting Cars recently offered a practically new 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder in their global online auction platform. The plug-in hybrid hypercar is one of only 918 units built. Under the hood of this gorgeous Porsche hypercar is a 4.6-liter naturally aspirated V8 engine with an electric motor for each axle....
Tuning company and Porsche Motorsport affiliate, Manthey-Racing GmbH, have just revealed their first upgrade package for the new 992-gen Porsche 911 GT3 road car. Known more amicably as ‘Manthey Racing‘, the world renown P-car specialists have grown their reputation and fine-tuned their products on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, where their ‘MR’-equipped...
I am sure we all remember the legendary Audi Sport Quattro S1 we’ve seen attacking the Pikes Peak Hill Climb event, also known as the ‘Race to the Clouds’ as the finish line is so high up on the mountain it is usually above the cloud deck, and it is...
If it seems like your car insurance costs are rising faster than the cost of living, you’re not alone—and you’re not wrong. In fact, car insurance rates have been rising steadily throughout 2021; the average cost to insure a vehicle in the USA is now $1451 per year. Of course,...
Bespoke, personal, one-off, Coachbuild, Ad Personam, sur Mesure … these are all terms used by the more high-end car builders to make one thing clear: when you order one of their automotive masterpieces, you don’t have to be content with the usual options list, no matter how extensive these already...
In his famous style of video, YouTube video creator Doug DeMuro takes us through the ‘quirks and features’ of the impressive Rimac Nevera, one of the most powerful cars in the world, a true hypercar, and it’s all-electric too with a power output of nearly 2,000 hp, and while we’ll...
The concept of restomods is an intriguing one indeed within the dynamic space that’s the automobile industry. The term is reserved for cars, primarily classics that have been ‘restored’ and ‘modified’ (hence the name, restomod) in some way. It is a seamless combination of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ that allows...
Thanks to a certain financial phenomenon known as depreciation, automotive enthusiasts around the world will always have a good shot at procuring some of the world’s finest automobiles; if they’re willing to wait. Although we’re currently in the middle of a hot used car market–chip shortages, supply chain issues, et...
For some owning a Rolls Royce that came straight from the factory just isn’t exclusive enough, I guess it all depends where you are living, most people in the world don’t even see a real Rolls Royce in their entire life, while others see them driving around daily, especially the...
Personally, I rather like the idea behind the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, a big two-door car with a stupendous amount of power going to the wheels, and yes, I get this is a straight-line drag race car, but that’s fine by me, and in case you really need four doors,...
Collecting Cars recently posted a 2011 Pagani Huayra – Pacchetto Tempesta on offer on their online auction platform. This rare supercar is equipped with a 730bhp, 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged Mercedes-AMG V12 engine that drives the rear wheels through a seven-speed Xtrac automated manual transmission with a paddle shift. Pagani partnered with...
Recently, the unmatched, flashy, sporty, three-wheel vehicle, Polaris Slingshot announced its 2022 model year lineup. It featured four trim levels and numerous accessory options that really elevates the drive, style, and sound. The 2022 Slingshot lineup has a practically limitless personalization options that will really enable their owners to really...
You might think the options list on your latest car purchase was long and it took some time to wrap your head around which options to add, and which didn’t seem too interesting, but when you are up there in the ultra-high net worth list, things change considerably, shopping for...
Morgan Motor Company has just finished manufacturing the first Morgan Plus 8 GTR, the most powerful car in Morgan’s history so far. The first Morgan Plus 8 GTR was completed at the company’s Malvern Link, Worcestershire factory. The first example was given a Yas Marina Blue finish which evokes the...
