Spyker to build lightweight race-derived C8 LM 85

Filed under: Sports/GTs, Supercars, Spyker, Special/Limited Editions

Take your exotic sports car and put it in a room with its racing counterpart. Put on some R&B, dim the lights and wait nine months. It’s a winning formula that has worked for some of the world’s best automakers and resulted in such stunning performance vehicles as the [...]

Autoblog visits the San Diego Auto Museum, Part II – The Bikes

Filed under: Time Warp, Motorcycles
Click above for more motorcycles from the San Diego Auto Museum

Today we continue our photographic tour of the San Diego Auto Museum. Despite the fact that the building is dedicated to four-wheelers, there are actually more motorcycles there than cars. That’s alright with us, as the bikes on display are some [...]

Ultimate rally car collection hits the block

Filed under: Motorsports, Etc., Euro, Audi, UK
Click above for a gallery of David Sutton’s rally car collection

In the eighties, the late David Sutton owned the company that prepared rally cars for Audi UK. It turns out he was collecting cars at the same time as he was preparing them, and putting them in his Historic [...]

Tanner tests his Top Gear skills on the Lambo Reventon

Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Etc., Supercars, Lamborghini

One-third of American Top Gear, Tanner Foust, spent a day in the Lamborghini Reventon, and here’s his verdict: “Thumbs up big girl!” The fractional bit of additional horsepower didn’t mean much to him, but he did say the brakes were more capable, and, surprise, the car is quite wide [...]

Spy shots: RR4 wearing even less camouflage

Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedans/Saloons, Geneva Motor Show, Rolls-Royce
The RR4 — the Rolls-Royce that asks that you “don’t call me ‘baby’” — is slowly undressing, striptease-like, before its final reveal at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. Previous spy shots hinted at rear suicide doors, or coach doors as Rolls-Royce refers to them, and now it [...]