Toyota is already hard at work evaluating a high performance version of the new Toyota GT 86 sporting coupe. Chief engineer Tetsuo Tada revealed at the Tokyo Auto Show that not only is a supercharged GT 86 envisaged, test cars have already been made and are being evaluated by Toyota Racing Developments, the Japanese giant’s in-house tuning division.
Tada favors the supercharger approach because … More
As Formula One recovers from its end-of-term party in Brazil, we look at how innovations in the sport have been employed to benefit road cars.
Innovations made in racing eventually benefit us all as the technology tried in the white heat of top-level motorsport filters down into the cars we drive every day. Perhaps the clearest example is the disc brake, pioneered by Jaguar at Le Mans in 1953.
Massive mechanical leaps are … More
It’s a running joke in the automotive world that the person in charge of styling the next Porsche 911 has the easiest job in the industry. But, in reality, that task is one of the most difficult. Unlike most cars, Porsche has to walk a fine line with the 911, keeping faithful to the car’s decades-olds shape while still moving the overall design forward.
And, as if that charge wasn’t difficult enough, Porsche engineers have to ensure the 911 can live up to its modern rivals, despite the limitations of a six-cylinder engine and a rear-engine layout … Pictures and more
A driver who swerved a million-dollar supercar into a Texas swamp will have to convince a jury that he didn’t purposely end up in the water in order to claim on an insurance policy which would have doubled his money.
Andy House, a car dealer from Lufkin, Texas, drove  … More
Bugatti Veyron Lake Crash– Original Video- 1st hand account