The German supercar company, Gumpert, last moth claimed to have smashed the Nürburgring lap record for a production car with a lap time of just 7 minutes and 11 seconds in its Audi-powered Gumpert Apollo Sport supercar! That’s 11 seconds faster than the the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR and the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, and 15 [...]
Earlier this year we reported on Nissan testing a GT-R FIA GT1 race car in Japan, last week Nissan Motorsports (Nismo) entered the Nissan GT-R FIA GT1 race car at the Total 24 Hours of Spa endurance race at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. The race car was driven by Michael Krumm of Germany, Darren Turner of [...]
Two Dutch designers have been hard at work creating a rather odd sports car with and extremely odd name –the Bewerp Savage Rivale Roadyacht GTS! Emile Pop and Justin de Boer spent five years designing the Savage Roadyatch and completed their first fully operational prototype earlier this year, in time for its appearance at the [...]
Porsche and Nissan are at it again, trading (unofficial) lap times at the 12.9-mile Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit. Nissan claimed a time of 7:29.03 for the Nissan GT-R in April last year, which Porsche subsequently disputed when they could only achieve a lap time only 7:54 with a U.S.-spec GT-R! Porsche were testing the 911 Turbo, [...]
Stile Bertone has unveiled the Bertone Mantide based on the 2009 Corvette ZR1 at the Shanghai Auto Show. Apparently the design of the Bertone Mantide has been influenced by Formula 1 and aerospace technology. Unfortunately it’s butt ugly so it’s quite fortunate that it’ll be a one off front engine sports car for an anonymous [...]
While we hold our breath as General Motors accelerates quickly to bankruptcy and its suppliers struggle, one of GM’s most anticipated cars, the Chevrolet Camaro Z28 seems to be in limbo as it will cost as much as $50 million to produce the high-performance car. For now the Z28 is being canceled but Chevrolet has [...]
