If the name Gemballa puts images of gumballs in your head… you’re the only one. The rest of us know Gemballa as the specialist performance tuner that takes regular everyday Porsches (‘regular’ is a relative term here), and churns out ballistic missiles. With wheels. Now the lads from Leonberg [...]

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British performance car magazine Evo, is claiming to have smashed the production car lap record at the Nurburgring race track in a Maserati MC-12, taking just 7:24.29 minutes to lap the circuit known as ‘the green hell’ and regarded as the ultimate test of a super car.

Evo was lucky enough to run back-to-back Nurburgring laps with [...]

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Slovenian website Avtomanija has weighed in on the juicy topic of McLaren’s much-rumoured successor to the indomitable F1 with these renderings of what it says represents the new F2/F12/P12.

There’s a little bit of Lotus Evora and Porsche Carrera GT in the design as well as a tinge of Aston in those wide rear arches, [...]

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Anthony Hamilton, the father of F1 racer Lewis, had a friend (and we do mean had in the past-tense) with a Porsche Carrera GT who offered to let him take it for a spin.

Unfortunately, he took it a little too literally. From The Daily Mail:

“[Hamilton] ploughed up a grass verge, crashed through a hedge, and [...]

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We haven’t reported on the rumoured “Blue Devil” hi-po Corvette yet, simply because there hasn’t been a whole lot to report, just rumour and speculation – not that we make a habit of letting that get in the way of a good story… The speculation continues with a CorvetteForum.com member posting a pic of a [...]

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If you are really into cars you will know what I mean when I say the Cabriolet version of anything fast is always viewed as being the softer, weaker “lilly-livered” version of the real thing, made to cater for the whims of wealthy hairdressers or 60 year old stock-brokers with well nailed down rugs.

Well, [...]

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This is one of the best videos that I have seen. Three of the best supercars being thoroughly spanked in the Italian Alps. Grab a cup of tea and kick back for 5 minutes of hardcore Supercar porn.

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Fittingly, Redline the movie was released in the US this month on Friday the 13th. During the making and marketing of the film two rare and hideously expensive super-cars were wrecked. Both belonged to the film’s producer Daniel Sadek.

Porsche Carrera GT was purposely crashed during the shooting of the movie

Sadek made his money as [...]

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