Radical smashes own ‘ring record

Now we are not going to become too involved in recording the breaking of lap records at Germany’s famous Nurburgring north circuit, that 22 kilometres of “Green Hell” that so fascinates car racers, but having reported recently on some record attempts we need to finish it off with this one.

Radical Sportscars has broken its own [...]

Gumpert Apollo Sport annihilates Nurburgring

On August 13, the Gumpert Apollo Sport became the undisputed king of the infamous Nordschliefe track at the Nurburgring in Germany.

That was when 26 year old German driver Florian Gruber, completed the 22.87 kilometre lap in seven minutes 11.57 seconds.

Porsche merged into Volkswagen

German sports car maker, Porsche, will be merged into the Volkswagen group of companies following an all-night board meeting that sealed the fate of the company.

Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech tightened his grip over Porsche on Thursday after the company’s chief executive was ousted following a power struggle to keep Porsche independent.

Aston Martin – racing at Le Mans

“Le Mans 24 Hours is the single biggest motor sport event in the world and many of the 250,000 fans are giving Aston Martin the thumbs up”
words Anthony Crawford, photography Nick Dimbleby & Rachel Palmer

Porsche Boxster to receive Audi engine treatment?

Porsche is reportedly considering a down-scale move in order to combat slowing sales, and growing debt, by introducing an all-new base model to the range.

The idea is that the Porsche badged “budget” model would feature the same 2.0-litre, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine as found in the current Audi TTS and would be based on either the [...]

Brembo joint-venture to bring ceramic brakes to masses

Once a highly-priced performance option found on only the world’s fastest and most expensive supercars, Brembo is now helping to bring carbon ceramic brakes to the masses with the help of a new joint-venture with carbon-fibre specialists SGL Group.

The team in Milan is working on a formula to mass produce the fade-resistant compound as well [...]

Lexus LF-A spied at the ‘Ring, again

The Lexus LF-A has been spied yet again on the challenging Nurburgring race circuit in Germany as engineers hunt down the benchmark lap time of the Nissan GT-R.

Lexus has reportedly refused to sign-off on the LF-A project until it has toppled the 7.26 minute lap time of the GT-R and considering its extended development time [...]

2009 Aston Martin DBS – driven by Kevin Bartlett

2009 Aston Martin DBS – driven by Kevin Bartlett

His autobiography is entitled Big Rev Kev for good reason. Kevin Bartlett or KB to those lucky enough to know him, has always been a hard charger.

2009 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport

Grand Sport, it’s one of the most storied names in the Chevrolet Corvette’s illustrious racing heritage and it is returning to the lineup.

Chevrolet announced the new, 2010 Corvette Grand Sport at the 12th annual C5/C6 Corvette Birthday Bash, held at the National Corvette Museum, in Bowling Green, Kentucky in the good old US of A.
The [...]

New variants for Nissan GT-R?

Nissan’s chief engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno has confirmed that another high performance version of the GT-R is in the pipeline for future production.

During track testings for the newly released GT-R SpecV, Mr Mizuno explained that a more powerful, performance-honed GT-R is in development for release to the public.

Ferrari 599XX and HGTE package at Geneva

The Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano has always been held in high praise as a modern technological marvel, boasting some of the most advanced driving systems in the world.

Now Ferrari is set to debut a new special edition model at the Geneva Motor Show that it refers to as a “technological laboratory”, aimed at a select [...]