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Lightning McQueen came home 13th in his first race in the Japanese Super GT-300 Championship, one place ahead of new rival, Speed Racer Mach Go Go Go.The rookie, who looks suspiciously like last year's Team Toy Story APR Toyota MR-S, has apparently been lured away from The Piston Cup by a company th......

The Brooklands-based tuning firm, Avro Motor Cars, has partnered up with Roush Technologies to offer up a run of ten limited-edition Ford GTs that not only get a fresh coat of orange metallic paint and a some matte-black details, but an extra helping of power. The 720 Mirage spells out its claim to ......

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Lotus 2-Eleven.Lotus' original 2-Eleven track toy went on sale soon after its official unveiling last year in Geneva, complete with the same 250 hp, supercharged engine found in the Exige S. While it was hard to argue with the 2-Eleven's performance, particu......

The Oscillating Piston Engine (OPE) is a revolutionary (pun intentional) engine design that the patent holder Rotoblock promises will reduce weight and complexity, as well as offer an improved power to weight ratio over a standard internal combustion engine.. We could explain at length how the OPE w......

click to view more high-res pics in our 30-image gallery Some ideas look better on paper than in reality, but in this case the two are one and the same: a zany Canadian named Yee has crafted a model four-stroke V12 engine... out of paper. The very impressive creation is made from no less than an ent......

Click on above to view our 29-image high-resolution gallery When Mansory hit us with its modified Aston Martin V8 Vantage, we bemoaned the lack of any serious performance upgrades. Unfortunately, although it's more visually pleasing than its stab at the Vanquish, Mansory's take on the DB9 adopts the......

Yea, we know - the automotive press has featured a whole bunch of Corvette ZR1 content lately (including us!), and readers are probably getting a bit tired. However, we figure that a cutaway of the mighty supercharged LS9 should be interesting enough to justify yet another post on the revived King o......

A couple of months ago, Land Rover released a blurry shot of what looked like a concept for a Range Rover Coupe SUV. We still haven't heard a peep more about it, but if you liked it and you want a two-door Rangie a little sooner, LSE Design out of the UK will gladly hook you up with one.LSE is makin......

Click the image above for a high-res gallery of the FiveAxis Lexus IS-FWe've berated the styling of the Lexus IS-F at length, but throw the Southern California team over at FiveAxis into the mix and we're ready to drive it out the front doors of the LA Auto Show. The combination of a custom six-inch......

We've covered the JCW kits for the new R56 MINI already, but it seems we may have gotten some of the details wrong. According to our pal Gabe over at MotoringFile who knows what he's talking about concerning all things MINI, the tiniest division of BMW has two different JCW kits in mind for the R56.......