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. [nggallery id=1250 template=customlinks] 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 […]
Jaguar XKR-S GT revealed (+ video)
Jaguar has pulled a surprise with the reveal of a more focused, and expensive, XKR ahead of the New York Auto Show – the Jaguar XKR-S GT. [nggallery id=1453 template=customlinks] We thought the Jaguar XKR-S was a potent GT from Jaguar, but they’ve trumped that this afternoon with the reveal of a new, more focused […]
Last Lexus LFA in Europe gets delivered
The last Lexus LFA to be delivered to a European customer has now arrived with its owner in Switzerland bringing to an end the Lexus supercar adventure. [nggallery id=543 template=customlinks] It was back in 2009 that the first Lexus LFA arrived at the Tokyo Motor Show with its 4.8 litre V10 and a price tag very much […]
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. [nggallery id=1413 template=customlinks] 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 […]
New Mercedes SLS planned – & it won’t be a hybrid
AMG’s Tobias Moers has confirmed that a new Mercedes SLS is planned – as is a sub-SLS SLC – but it won’t come with hybrid power and electric assistance. [nggallery id=1301 template=customlinks] The Geneva Motor Show – which ends this weekend – has seen a proper supercar bonanza with the new LaFerrari and McLaren P1 stealing […]
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. [nggallery id=548 template=customlinks] The 2013 Geneva Motor Show has been a Hypercar Fest, with the stars of the show being the McLaren P1, the […]
McLaren P1 goes round Top Gear Track with Sergio Perez (video)
We have video of the new McLaren P1 taking on the Top Gear track at Dunsfold in the hands of McLaren’s F1 driver Sergio Perez. We reported from Geneva that Ron Dennis has declared he put the new McLaren P1 round Top Gear’s Dunsfold track a full 10 seconds quicker than the contentious Top Gear […]
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. [nggallery id=1444 template=customlinks] 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 […]
McLaren P1’s Pirelli P Zero Corsas key to performance +video
The new McLaren P1 is shod with custom-made Pirelli P Zero Corsa Tyres specially developed to meet the challenges of a 903bhp supercar. [nggallery id=1413 template=customlinks] The McLaren P1 has finally arrived in production guise at the Geneva Motor Show complete with its 903bhp ‘hybrid’ power and the promise of performance more extreme than any […]