Cars

What do you get when you cross a speed-obsessed television show and some of the slowest vehicles on the road? A new land-speed record.

The 2018 season of Formula One is almost here. As we’re all aware, this season brings several changes to the sport, the most significant being the halo cockpit protection device.

Formula 1 is no stranger to high profile drivers. From Michael Schumacher to Dan Gurney, the number of legends to get behind the wheel is staggeringly high. However, one name tends to stand out: Ayrton Senna. That’s why for this week’s Want we take a look at the car that kicked off the career of one of the best F1 drivers of all time.

Have you ever loved a car so much that you’d build a full-size replica of it out of LEGO bricks? Ryan McNaught of Australia has, and he chose an eighth-generation Toyota Camry.

Gran Turismo’s founder, Kazunori Yamauchi, visited Stanford University in California recently to participate in the 17th “Open Garage Talk”.

Volkswagen has revealed the car it hopes will take it to the top of the racing world, quite literally.

For those who’d say modern motorsport is too officious and rigid, we say “pants”. Specifically, we say “Lucas di Grassi’s underpants”.

The new Formula 1 halos are a source of controversy among the sport’s fans. Some say they’re ugly, while others think they don’t do enough to protect the driver. Nonetheless, McLaren is embracing the odd look by teaming up the clothing company Gandys to make flip-flops.

When you have ghosts, you call the Ghostbusters. However, when you have demons, you call an exorcist. With sights set squarely on the Dodge Demon, the Hennessey Exorcist looks to blitz it in the quarter mile.

Crossovers. These days, they’re a license to print money. Get a family car, put a couple of inches in the roofline, lift it up by a couple more inches, profit.

The Geneva Motor Show may almost be over (click here if you missed it), but that isn’t stopping Ford from teasing its most powerful production car ever from the other side of the globe. Say hello to the mean visage of the upcoming Shelby GT500.

Audi has revealed an electric e-tron four-door GT car at its annual company conference.

Tuner cars are typically hit or miss. Some are overdone while others simply fall out of style. But every once in a while a tuner comes along that reaches legendary status. For this week’s Want, we take a look at one of those tuners with this Rauh-Welt Begriff Porsche 911.

Traffic cops in the odd British town of Milton Keynes were in for a bit of a surprise when they pulled over a suspect car. It turned out that they’d nabbed a superstar.

Is next season the end of The Grand Tour? Well, if the UK-based newspaper Daily Mail is to be believed, the answer is yes.

While all the attention at the Geneva Motor Show may have been on McLaren’s Senna GTR, the Woking company has also revealed some key details about its most anticipated car.

The press days are over, the manufacturers have revealed all they’re going to reveal, and now it’s the public’s turn.

Does the world need a full-size luxury SUV? Probably not. At least that’s what we thought until we got a glimpse at the Land Rover Range Rover SV Coupe. Now we’re pretty sure it does.

It’s getting hard to ignore Formula E these days. Just a few years ago, the electric open-wheel series was being viewed as Formula 1’s weird step-cousin and yet, manufacturer interest is higher than ever. We’re seeing the likes of Audi and Mercedes-Benz get properly into the motorsport and now it’s Nissan’s turn. The Japanese motorsport legend is bringing its own effort to the fray this year.

When Lamborghini set a new Nürburgring record with its Huracán Performante, it was only missing one thing: the open air. The crew from Sant’Agata has rectified this situation with a new Spyder version.