Lord Charles March – he of the Goodwood Festival of Speed – takes the 2013 Aston Martin Vanquish up the Goodwood hillclimb. Just like every other petrolhead on the planet, we’re big fans of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where one of the highlights is a seemingly endless parade of cars flying up the hillclimb […]
Hennessey Venom GT hits 265.7mph for new world top speed record (+ video)
The Hennessey Venom GT – an American, Lotus Elise-based supercar – has clocked 265.7mph for a new world record top speed for a production car. Somehow, the fastest production car in the world title seems pretty irrelevant when there’s almost nowhere you could actually manage to emulate top speed claims in the real world. But that […]
Porsche 918 Spyder to get 875bhp to take on McLaren P1 & LaFerrari
The Porche 918 Spyder – Porsche’s hybrid supercar – is to get a power boost and go on a diet to better compete with the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari. The fight at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show for star car was between the new McLaren P1 and the Enzo’s replacement, the daftly-named Ferrari LaFerrari. But […]
Want the Jaguar XKR-S GT in the UK? Then demand it.
The track-focused, but road-legal, Jaguar XKR-S GT is aimed just at North America, but Jaguar will build it for the UK if there’s demand. One surprise at the 2013 New York Auto Show was the Jaguar XKR-S GT, an XKR-S with added butchness aimed at North America and being built in very limited numbers. When […]
Vauxhall VXR8 Tourer revealed: Price from £49,500
Vauxhall has revealed the Estate version of the VXR8 – the Vauxhall VXR8 Tourer – which offers oodles of room and 425bhp. It’s taken Vauxhall more than two years to get round to offering an estate version of the slightly bonkers VXR8, but now they’ve done it and delivered the Vauxhall VXR8 Tourer, an estate car with […]
McLaren P1 to make its driving debut at 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed
The new McLaren P1 supercar is heading for the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed to make its driving debut in the Supercar run. We’ve had six months of the McLaren P1 since it was first revealed at the Paris Motor Show as a concept last September, and this month we got the production version of the P1 […]
Jaguar F-Type CRASH!
The new Jaguar F-Type hasn’t hit the road yet – in fact very few outside Jaguar have been behind the wheel – but one has already crashed. The new Jaguar F-Type hasn’t started to hit Jaguar showrooms yet, and very few have been driven by anyone outside Jaguar. Jaguar have been letting a few ‘names’ […]
Koenigsegg can take the P1, LaFerrari & Huayra with the Agera R
Koenigsegg believe that the Agera R has more than the measure of the new toys at Geneva – LaFerrari and McLaren P1 – and Pagani’s Huayra lap at Top Gear was a farce. The 2013 Geneva Motor Show has been a Hypercar Fest, with the stars of the show being the McLaren P1, the Ferrari LaFerrari and, […]
New Mexican Supercar company to launch VUHL 05 at Goodwood FoS
A new track-focused, road-legal supercar from Mexican manufacturer Vuhl – the VUHL o5 – will launch at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Supercar companies spring up all over the place with men in sheds thinking they can take on established supercar makers and take a part of the supercar market in the process. Most fail […]
LaFerrari joins Supercar exhibition at Ferrari Museum in Maranello
The new LaFerrari has joined an exhibition of supercars at Ferrari’s Maranello Museum joining cars like the 250 GTO, F40, F50 and Enzo Ferrari. One of the stars of the 2013 Geneva Motor Show has been the daftly named LaFerrari – Ferrari’s replacement for the Enzo and the latest of Ferrari’s limited edition special series cars. […]