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Jaguar and their Classics department have found a brilliant way to make some serious cash, and that is re-making their old legends and selling them for over a million apop to waabecooisseurs. These are cars, mind, you can’t drive on the road. The latest is thisJaguar D-Type race car which has re-entered production 62 years after the last examples were produced 1956. That alone is quite remarkable and makes the newJaguar D-Type race car worth whatever it’s going to cost. But there are other factors making this thing a highly collectible item. For one thing, they are only producing 25 examples,hand-built at Jaguar Land Rover Classic Works in Warwickshire. But more important than that is th...

It does not come as a surprise that the2019 Corvette ZR1 in its first track outing has done an amazing thing. After all, this is a 755 horsepower supercar. It would have been a surprise if the car had gone around theVirginia Inteational Raceway circuit not having set new lap record. The time in which2019 Corvette ZR1 completed a lap of the4.1-mile Grand Course West at Virginia Inteational Raceway was 2:37.25 which is a new record for production cars at this circuit. The car was in stock form save some necessary safety equipment such as haess bar and track seats with five-point haesses. It relied for this record on its 755hp and 969NmLT5 6.2L supercharged engine, its carbon fiber aero kit...

It was not exactly a secret that an extra-hot version of the 488 was in the works deep inside Ferrari factory in Maranello, especially since Porsche released their GT2 RS last year. Now the first complete picture of this beast has leaked and we get our first look at the new2019 Ferrari 488 GTO. And in case you are in a hurry to know, it has 700 horsepower. Ferrari 488 GTO is the successor to the 360 Challenge Stradale, the 430 Scuderia, and the 458 Speciale. But this one is apparently so good, they went ahead and gave it the venerated GTO badge. The name has not yet been confirmed officially, but a lot people are calling it that. So it is almost certainly the official name. Now, those th...

The fans of Peugeot 308 GTi will be happy to know that their hot hatch now has some serious motorsport cred. Well, yes, there was the 308 Racing Cup before, but the new2018 Peugeot 308 TCR is in a much cooler proposition. Available to order from today, thePeugeot 308 TCR is built forTCR and inteational touring car competitions. It can be used inVLN (in Germany), CER (in Spain) CITE (in Italy), BGDC (in Belgium) and other endurance racing championships like the 24H Series. So it’s a very versatile race car and makes possible the prospect of affordable professional racing. The car is priced at 109,000 EUR before taxes and options. The racing machine is close to the production 308 GTi, boa...

McLaren GT, the racing arm of McLaren Automotive, aounced today the start of a project that will bring about a GT3 racing version of the highly praised 720S road car. Set for launch in 2019, the still far offMcLaren 720S GT3 will phaseout...

In a fairly extravagant ceremonyin Neuburg last night Audi reveled their new Formula E contender. Backed by ABT and with full support of the company, theAudi e-tron FE04 is set to take the brand into the future of motorsport and, hopefully, repeat the success they had in Le Mans only a few years ago. The development ofAudi e-tron FE04 and the subsequent technical work that is required to k...

It’s McLaren Automotive tu’s to present the fans of Gran Turismo video game with a super sick virtual car. This is what they have come up with, theMcLaren Ultimate Vision GT, available in Grant Turismo Sport on PlayStation 4 from October. Of course, there is more to theMcLaren Ultimate Vision GT than enabling a bunch kids to have a really good time playing the game. Designers and engineer...

During Formula One’s 64 year history, the World Championship’s fate has been decided in the last race on 26 occasions. And while most of the times the wier was the driver who was favorite before the race (the one who was leading the Championship), on 10 occasions things went a little different and the title was won by the driver who started the last race of the season with the second and even t...

Is this your dream car? Well, we’re sure it’s many people’s dream of a lifetime (ours too), anyhow some dude in Paris drives around what appears to be a pile of junk. Either his girlfriend is somehow mad at him or we really don’t know what’s wrong with a person that keeps a Ferrari in this condition… Help us out reach Ferrari and get rid of this. Ferrari’s rules are pretty clear, so if you’re d...

Ferrari is known for being at the forefront of relief efforts whenever a natural disaster occurs, or being charitable just because. In one of their latest bouts of generosity they donated a uniqueLaFerrari Aperta which was auctioned for charity atRM Sotheby’s for a record-breaking8.3 million euro. All the proceeds from theLaFerrari Aperta auction, which was part of the Prancing Horse’s 70t...

The Italian Formula One Grand Prix came and went this past weekend and a Brit in a German car won it. That is probably because Ferrari drivers were off goofing around in anAlfa Romeo Giulia QV (Quadrifoglio). We kid, of course. The trio, including Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönenand Antonio Giovinazzi, were doing sister company Alfa Romeo a favor by taking the QV around the track for a frie...

Rain has always been one of the factors that made a Formula One race even more exciting, especially because the difference between the cars’ performances is significantly reduced and on a track filled with water, all drivers have the chance to prove what they’re really made of. In the last few years there have been a number of interesting wet races which provided a little drama but also showed...

A new Ferrari GT is in town and it’s replacing the lovely Califoia. The newFerrari Portofino is much more macho than the Cali, and more potent too. It packs a 600 hp Turbo V8 engine and a host of advanced electronics. There is also the all-importantretractable hard top. A genuine sports car,Ferrari Portofino is a two-seater GT with a big boot capable of covering long miles. It accelerates form 0 to 100 km/h in 3.5 seconds and tops out at 320 km/h. But it also has a wind deflector, a great new air con, and a10.2” touchscreen infotainment display. [embedded content] Follow Our Chael fo...

As you may know by now,Ferrari 70th Aiversary celebration has become this huge global party with owners and fans around the world forming their own groups and rallies and meetings to mark the occasion. The latest of these celebratory meetings took place in Edinburgh, Scotland. In an unchara...

It would have been a shame if a car as potent and as capable as the 2018 Camaro ZL1 didn’t have some sort of motorsport career. But that’s a problem you no longer have to worry about because Chevy has just aounced theZL1NASCAR Cup Race Car, set tomake its competition debut next February dur...

While we are waiting with bated breath for the release of the new Alpine sports car, the French company revealed they are making a racing version of the car and it’s going to be ready for competition this fall. TheAlpine A110 Cup race car will get its own dedicatedAlpine European Cup series in...

Honda NSX GT3 Honda/Acura aounced the highly anticipated 2018NSX GT3 customer race car is now available to order by qualified customers for the 2018 Motorsport season. Sold throughJAS Motorsport in Europe, HPD in North America and by Mugen in Japan at a base price of€465,000, the GT3 may n...

We are currently living the age of hybrid hypercars and it’s been fairly exciting, what with the rivalry between the LaFerrari, McLaren P1 and Porsche 918. But already it seems the tide is shifting towards crazier, more technologically sophisticated machines such as Mercedes AMG Project One and ...

Celebrating their participation in theNurburgring 24 Hours endurance race for the third consecutive year withthree Continental GT3s, Bentley has released a new limited edition model. It’s called theBentley Continental 24 and as you may have already guessed it is limited to24 bespoke models f...

The interior experts at Carlex Design have tried their hand this time at a very high-end supercar. The amazingCarlex Design Ferrari F12 Berlinetta sort of takes Ferrari themselves to school on how to properly trim the inside of a grand tourer in a maer that is both classy and practical.The cabin...