How Ferdinand Porsche’s Great-Grandson Is Gearing Up to Disrupt The Sports Car Market

In 1948, Ferdinand Porsche—the famed Austrian automotive engineer and designer of the original Volkswagen—and his son, Ferry, started building sports cars for the first time under their family name. Seven decades later, the Porsche brand is synonymous with some of

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The 2020 Toyota Supra Is the Proper Sports Car It Needs to Be

Tetsuya Tada, the 2020 Toyota Supra’s chief engineer, can be cagey. He shrewdly avoids being nailed down about the range of the car’s electrically assisted variable-ratio steering rack or its engine’s peak boost. He won’t say if this Supra is quicker

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Inertia Kinetik Is One Man’s Take On The Sports Car Of Tomorrow

If the future is a place where open-top sports cars such as this Inertia Kinetik concept roam free, then sign us up. It’s low, it’s aggressive-looking and highly aerodynamic, not to mention high-tech. Designed by Guillaume Garcia, the Kinetik was actually inspired by an old

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The Audi TT Sports Car Is Expected To Go Electric

The Audi TT, whose future was uncertain, is now expected to go electric. The automaker is currently looking at several battery layouts after the company has tentatively decided to develop a variation of the sports car with full-electric power. The

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THIS ALLEGED DRUG KINGPIN’S COLLECTION OF RARE ’90S SPORTS CARS IS UP FOR AUCTION

It’s not everyday that you come across a 2000 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Tommi Makinen Edition, a 1998 Subaru Impreza WRX STI, or a 1998 Toyota Celica GT-Four available for sale. The cars were previously owned by Kong Meng Vang—the Oklahoma owner of

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Even French-Owned Opel Is Skipping This Year’s Paris Motor Show

Opel was recently purchased by French PSA Group, so it is interesting that the automaker won’t show up at what is now its home turf, this after also skipping Geneva earlier this year. As with other automakers, Opel says it

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Switchblade is the free-to-play, car-combat game you never knew you wanted, from acclaimed developers

Switchblade might seem a left-field concept at first, but the further you dig into it, the more it starts to make a great deal of sense. Lucid Games, the developer of Geometry Wars 3, is making a free-to-play, car combat, MOBA

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Tesla is adding Atari games to the in-car display with next software update

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla’s 9.0 vehicle software update will include several playable Atari games as new Easter eggs, according to CEO Elon Musk. He said that the update should be released in “about four weeks.” In a

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