The reigning champion in the World Endurance Championship, Japanese automaker Toyota, will be out to defend its title in the premier LMP1 category this season with its hugely successful TS040 Hybrid race car. The TS040 […]
BMW is set to phase out its Z4-based race car from GT competition at the end of this year and replace it in 2016 with a new car based on the M6 platform. The new […]
If you’ve ever sat around with your toy cars, sliding them tail-out as you make (more or less convincing) motor sounds with your mouth, you know the joy that is drifting. Whether it’s the flat-brim-and-energy-drink […]
This Throwback Thursday we take a trip way back to July 2004 and the feature photoshoot for our 3rd issue of Down Shift Magazine. We shot three very different Porsche 911 turbos in Tampa’s Channelside […]
Hot off its media debut in Nissan’s Super Bowl XLIX commercial, the 2015 GT-R LM NISMO LMP1-racecar is now on its way to the Chicago auto show, where it is beleived Nissan will also present […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nissan has announced that after its brief cameo appearance in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIX “With Dad” commercial, the radical new Nissan GT-R LM NISMO race car will make a two-week pit stop at the […]
This particular DB9 belongs to a collector in Naples, Florida who was kind enough to bring it up to Tampa one weekend for some photos and coffee in Tampa’s SoHo district. Super clean, this 2009 […]
New addition to the GT family of Porsche high performance models The benchmark in its class: the Porsche Cayman GT4 Porsche is proud to introduce a new addition to its line of revered GT high […]
What’s better: the McLaren P1, the Porsche 918 Spyder, or the Ferrari LaFerrari? That’s been the focal auto debate since the three cars were first introduced back in 2013, and it’l likely be a discussion […]
The Porsche Cayman GT4 is perhaps the most anticipated new performance car of 2015. Why? Simply because this is the car that should finally demonstrate the full potential of the brilliant Cayman mid-engined chassis. Up […]
Over the past couple of years, Nissan has perplexed spectators at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its DeltaWing and ZEOD-RC experimental racers. These cars were entered as the non-competitive “Garage 56″ entry, but this […]
The Ferrari 458 Italia is the yardstick by which other supercars are measured, but it won’t stay that way if it can’t evolve. Set to be unveiled at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show next month, the […]
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