Cars

One thing you can’t accuse Lewis Hamilton of is being too narrowly focused. The six-time and reigning Formula One world champion likes to try his hand at just about anything. As well as his glittering career in motorsports, he delves into fashion and music — and even takes time to show how good he is at gaming during the off-season.

Toyota is bringing the World Rally Championship back to the public roads later this year, with a new model of its Yaris hatchback. The GR Yaris, revealed today at Tokyo Auto Salon, is a 257hp, all-wheel drive homologation special that will form the basis of the brand’s WRC challenger for next season.

It might be very early days in the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, but it looks like Sony has already stolen the event. Not with some fancy new camera, television, phone, or even PlayStation 5, rather a car.

It might be one of the most famous movie cars in history, and now you have the chance to buy it. The original Ford Mustang from classic 1968 movie Bullitt will be heading across the auction block this Friday, in the Mecum auction in Kissimmee, Florida.

Although usually associated with good guy spy James Bond, British brand Aston Martin looks to be stepping up its campaign to be the lifestyle supplier to his supervillain enemies.

McLaren has concluded tests on its Speedtail prototypes with a spectacular display of the car’s performance.

Ferrari has revealed some further information on its new Roma “2+” coupe, due to hit the roads in late 2020. Originally unveiled at a private event last month, details on the car were pretty scarce at the time. Now Maranello is been a little more forthcoming.

The governing body of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) will shake up next year’s race yet with a new two-stage qualifying format. It replaces the three-session qualifying we’ve seen in recent years, as the top-class LMP1 cars make their final appearance.

It’s almost a Christmas tradition now. In the family downtime during the holidays, someone busts out the board games and a perfectly civil evening becomes a blazing row over landing on a hotel or going to jail. Yes, it’s the Christmas Monopoly argument, during which marriages are broken and in-laws become outlaws.

At the end of 2018, the folks at Hooncorp from Auckland, New Zealand, announced that they would be partnering with GTPlanet. The hope was to put together a racing team made up entirely of members from this fine community. Their goal was simple: to survive the biggest race in grassroots endurance racing, the 24 Hours of Lemons.

The phrase “it’s like a race car for the road” is a little overused these days, but in the case of McLaren’s new 620R it’s about as close to the truth as you can get.

Champions of motorsport from across the world will gather tonight at The Louvre in Paris in a celebration of the sport in all its forms. The Federation International de l’Automobile (FIA) will honor everyone who has won an FIA-certified event in any discipline, in its annual Prize-Giving ceremony.

They call it ‘The Split’. In 1996, the burgeoning pinnacle of American open wheel racing, Indy Car, fractured into two rival series: the Indy Racing League; and CART, which stood for Championship Auto Racing Teams.

2018 GT Sport Nations Cup champion Igor Fraga is continuing his real-world motorsports development. To start the 2020 season, he’s heading down to New Zealand to race in the Toyota Racing Series.

The first trailer for James Bond’s 25th outing, No Time To Die, is now live. If you haven’t seen it already, we only have one question: what are you waiting for?

We’d never really considered the Bugatti Chiron to be anything other than a pretty special car. However, it turns out that it’s not quite special enough for Molsheim, which has announced another special edition of the world’s fastest production car (with qualifiers).

The GT Sport FIA Online Championship World Final event in Monaco will play host to the revealing of another Vision Gran Turismo car.

Ford has revealed its new, all-electric SUV in an event in Los Angeles. It bears the name Mustang Mach-E, in a rather opinion-splitting decision from the Blue Oval.

Peugeot has confirmed plans to return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2022 with a new hypercar programme. Parent company Groupe PSA revealed the good news on Wednesday morning. The brief statement confirms its intentions to not only compete in Le Mans, but to contest in the 2022 World Endurance Championship (WEC) as a whole.

Ferrari has revealed its fifth new car of 2019 at a special private event for its clients.