Automotive News

If you were particularly taken by Aston Martin’s 2021 F1 Safety Car, as revealed earlier in the month, there’s some good news: you can now get your hands on one.

McLaren has taken the covers off its newest supercar overnight, revealing the “Artura” in full for the first time. It’s a relatively familiar shape on the outside, but the Artura is packed with new technology, including a brand-new engine, and based on a totally new platform.

The latest model in the Porsche 911 GT range has arrived, in the shape of the new 992-generation GT3. Boasting the usual race car-derived technology, the GT3 represents the entry level of Porsche’s highest performance 911s, and it’s quite the high bar for the subsequent models.

Volvo is staging a repeat of its 2020 Super Bowl competition to win a whole fleet of cars, this year worth $2m, and it’s all in the name of safety.

Jaguar is set to create another “continuation” model, this time of the Le Mans-winning C-Type, and has launched an online configurator for potential customers to create their perfect specification.

After successful high-speed tests in 2019 seemed to put its troubles behind it, the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project is once again in need of a new owner.

After more than 25 years in production, during which it became the brand’s best selling car ever, the Lotus Elise is set to retire later this year.

If you’ve always fancied the Porsche Taycan but found the $100,000 starting price to be a little eye-watering, there’s some good news for you. Porsche has now confirmed that the previously Chinese market-only single-motor Taycan is now on its way to North America and Europe too.

Renowned Japanese tuning house and race team Tom’s has revealed it’s started developing its own version of the Toyota GR Yaris.

Toyota has become the first brand to reveal its Le Mans Hypercar in full. Sticking with Toyota’s naming scheme for its World Endurance Championship vehicles, but shaking things up a little to reflect the fresh start for the category, the car is called the GR010 Hybrid.

Sony’s Vision-S Prototype, the vehicle it revealed at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), appears to be on the path to production as it enters a road-testing phase of development.

One of Aston Martin’s works racing drivers is scheduled to make an unusual attempt to remedy a four-decade old injustice. Darren Turner is going to take to the wheel of the Aston Martin Bulldog to try to hit the car’s projected 200mph+ top speed.

Italian supercar brand Pagani has teased its latest halo performance car with a rather unusual video on its social media channels. In what might be the closest close-up ever recorded for a teaser, Pagani has shown off the top of the engine cover.

Bentley has revealed a very special Flying Spur from its bespoke creation arm, Bentley Mulliner, which it states is a commission for a “world-famous customer”.

Jaguar has revealed on social media that it will be unveiling a new Vision Gran Turismo car this week. It’ll take the virtual covers off the car in a special live event on Facebook this coming Wednesday, December 16.

Earlier this month, Porsche released a cache of images revealing previously unseen concept cars. The series, called Porsche Unseen, showed some of the design concepts — in various stages of completion — of vehicles from 2005 to 2019, in connection with a book on Porsche design by the same name.

Bragging rights for the lap record at the Nurburgring Nordschleife are back in German hands, but it’s not Porsche that’s reclaimed its title. Instead it’s Mercedes which has finally grabbed the record, with a 6:48.047 official lap time.

Bugatti has revealed the mystery car it’s been teasing over the past week. The company calls it the “Bolide” (pronounced “Bo-leed”) — Italian for “missile” — and it’s probably the most extreme interpretation of the Bugatti formula ever seen.

Bugatti may have been knocked out of the history books yesterday, but that’s not going to stop the brand which produces some of the fastest, most expensive luxury cars ever seen. Indeed only a handful of hours after the SSC Tuatara rocketed past the Chiron Super Sport, Bugatti is dropping some hints of what’s to come.

The chase for the fastest ever production car just got a lot spicier as SSC has recaptured the crown it lost in 2010. In regaining the record, SSC has also thrown down an incredible challenge, raising the bar by almost 40mph — the largest margin in the record’s history.