Sentences with phrase «best sports cars at»

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They're pretty well entrenched at the very highest end of the luxury sports car market.

Now all the sport has to do is make it easier for the cars to overtake each other... Oh well, we can dream - one step at a time for now!

Cuomo, a well - known car aficionado, attended a private fundraiser at a Baldwinsville garage full of Corvette sports cars owned by Cor partner Jeff Aiello.

Dr Andrew Bell, of the Sheffield Methods Institute, used statistical analysis to work out who the sport's most accomplished competitor is — looking at who is the best driver because of their talent, rather than because they have a good car.

Get better at a specific sport, or just get better at carrying bags from your car to your house.

Best Ever Date — We borrowed a friend's sports car, drove to the Lake District & stayed at this amazing pub / B & B near Ambleside.

They buy them drinks, offer rides in their sports cars, take them shopping, and wine and dine them at the best restaurants.

I never know what to put in this box but i am 21 male I have short black hair green eyes slim and I love going out clubbing have a good time I love my extreme sports and I race motorcycles on the track I drive a very modified car on the road I am still living with my step dad at the moment but hoope...

From the original concept car — still one of the best automotive design exercises in history — that debuted at the 1993 Detroit auto show to the first - generation 986 Boxster to the 987 to the 981 unveiled in 2012, Porsche's now 20 - year - old production sports car has taken it from all sides.

Combining the practicality, comfort and usability of a family car with the explosive performance and engaging handling of a dedicated sports machine, these models manage to tug at the heartstrings while also making a well - informed case to the head.

Wenders admits that some will look at an i8 and see only what it could have been: a better, more powerful sports car, a successor to the mid-engine BMW M1.

Add to this a keen starting price, exceptional build quality and the deeply handsome styling and you're looking at the best open - top sports car in its class.

The M Sports seats in our test car are a # 500 option but well worth it, as is the lustrous piano black trim at # 355, but apart from that you wouldn't need to add anything else.

The interesting thing is that the other three key components of any electric car — weight, aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance — are areas sports car manufacturers, and us in particular, are really good at mastering.»

It's all very well to have an American input into sports cars, but it shouldn't come at the cost of honesty, integrity and gentlemanly conduct among friendly rivals.

Starting at $ 67,250, a Cayman R isn't an affordable proposition, but what you get is quite possibly the world's best sports car.

By Alan Marsh / The Uppercu Cadillac — Number 1 in a new series by Nick Baldwin entitled «The best that money could buy» / Art and the automobile, Part 3 — The conclusion of Michael Worthington - Williams's survey of early automobile advertising / Guide to motor museums, Part 2 — Details of over 300 motor museums in Continental Europe that are open to visitors / 1938 MC VA: «cheap but charming» — David Hawtin examines a beautiful example of this stylish sports car / VSCC at Brooklands — An account of this event from Tom Threlfall in his Diary of a Dilettante

But as Manuel Lage has discovered the first car to bear the name was an Alfonso Hispano - Suiza / Americans to the Rear — Rear engined designs — Part Three / Americans to the Rear — Concluding his series on American rear engined cars Karl Ludvigsen examines the role played by General Motors / Epicyclic Gearing — Workshop — Part Two / Settlers Special — A cut - down 1933 Riley Monaco shipped to Vancouver by an ex-pat in the»50s formed the basis for Miles Fenton's ideal supercharged special / Racing in the Rain — Alan Smith has been using his camera to good effect at motor sporting events for over 50 years / Ards TT 75th Anniversary — John Payne reports on the 75th Anniversary of the Ards TT / The Little Engine that could — Gavin Farmer celebrates the Jowett Bradford / It's quicker by Rail — Brian Heath's subject this month is a 1939 Railton long chassis special limousine.

Perhaps not the most exciting car we've seen at Geneva this year, but it's nevertheless good to see Vauxhall's product line continually improving, and the Insignia Sports Tourer will almost certainly take a big step forward from the current model.

By Bryan Goodman / VSCC Silverstone & Derbyshire Trial — Reports of these two events from Tom Threlfall in his Diary of a dilettante / Silverstone collage — More colour photos of the VSCC race meeting on 11th April / Pre-war saleman's aids — Malcolm Green looks at a series of little publications produced to help salesmen to sell MG cars / Rare Jensen V8 prototype — David Hawtin describes a very interesting prototype sports car built in 1935 / Bert Hadley at Shelsley Walsh — The well - known 1930s Austin works racing driver recalls his memories of the oldest hill - climb / The go - anywhere Citroen — Part one of Malcolm Bobbitt's assessment of the extraordinary half - tracked Kegresse.

War Horse Vauxhall — David Burgess-Wise examines the rôle played by the Vauxhall D - Type in the First World War, and drives the example in the manufacturer's collection / The Pomeroy Trophy at 60 — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the VSCC's event for finding the best sports touring car, and explains the arcane formulae behind it / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part three — In the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappeared

The seats are covered in a quality of leather appropriate for a sport / utility that starts at $ 120,825, though the driver's seat lacks the comfort of the brand's cars and other SUVs, which have some of the best, most sumptuous seats in the world, even before you turn on the power massage.

You're in for a treat — on this special, 100th episode of Head 2 Head presented by Tire Rack, Motor Trend «s Jonny Lieberman and Automobile «s Jethro Bovingdon take a look at two of the best sports cars to ever hail from Germany, the AMG GT R and the Porsche 911.

In Monte Carlo — and bust, Tom Clarke and Will Morrison explain how one man's love of using his in competition led to tragedy / Preston Tucker aimed to give Americans their safest and best cars yet, as Karl Ludvigsen relates in Preston Tucker's bid for glory / Often maligned by sports car purists, the Vale Special of the 1930s, Made in Maida Vale, offered brisk motoring at reasonable cost.

Malcolm Robertson experiences a 1938/1939 example / 1904 single - cylinder Cadillac — Peter May writes about his restoration of and attachment to an early model B «one - lunger» / The Westcar and the Heron — Two little - known 1920s makes — both produced by the same company — are described by Michael Worthington - Williams / BMW 328 — ahead of its time — This month the Editor samples a Frazer Nash version of what was perhaps the best sportscar of the 1930s / Maudslay history 1902 - 1914 — Nick Baldwin writes about the company that first introduced overhead camshaft engines and pressure lubrication / Three Vintage Sports - Car Club events — Tom Thelfall reports on driving tests at Brooklands the Pomeroy Trophy at Silverstone and the Exmoor trial / Non-skid & puncture - proof tyre covers — The story of a remarkable invention that profoundly influenced the development of vehicle road tyres.

Unlike the world's best sports cars, which are as fun at 15 mph as they are at 150 mph, the GT - R only comes alive at the limit.

THIS CAR HANDLE WELL FOR A CAR OF IT SIZE, AND ONCE YOU PUT IT SPORTS MODE THE CAR TURN INTO A BEAST, THE STEERING TIGHTENS UP AS WELL AS THE SUSPENSION, A LITTLE PRICEY WITH ALL THE BELL & WHISTLES, I»M FINE WITH THE BASE MODEL, WHICH GOT AT INVOICE PRICE...

That would not only help at the track — where the additional output could be matched by gripper tires and still maintain that near - perfect balance or power and handling, but it would go a long way to make this very special sports car as good in normal driving as it is at its limits.

Now, the starting price of a 2011 MX - 5 comes in at $ 23,905, still making it one of the best sports cars on the road for the money — if not the best.

Overall, this car is a pure sports car built to drive fast and durable high performance driving at its best.

Through Sturup's devilish corners, the first takeaway is the Cayman's zesty steering and turn - in — long a sports - car benchmark, now palpably better with the steering gear from the 911 Turbo, including a 10 percent faster ratio at 15.0:1 versus 16.6:1.

Last summer he returned to travel with the MG Car Club's Triple - M Register and experience open air motoring at its invigorating best / Alfa book review / Old Stone Face — A true amateur racing driver, John Broad owned and raced a wide variety of sporting machinery.

Mercer Raceabout — Fulfilling a youthful dream, David Burgess-Wise rides on a remarkably untouched 1914 Mercer Raceabout / Best of West Kent — With the largest entry yet, Alistair Hacking reports on the Veteran Car Club's popular Best of West Kent run / Brussels - Bombay by Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire — Bruce Lindsay recalls an epic journey undertaken in 1954 by the late Paul Frere / Lagonda 12/24 — The Editor tells the story of this distinctive light car and describes the delightfully original example in The Automobile «oily rag» collection / MG TD — Jonathan Wood looks at the introduction and history of an iconic British sports car which found customers across the world and particularly in AmeriCar Club's popular Best of West Kent run / Brussels - Bombay by Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire — Bruce Lindsay recalls an epic journey undertaken in 1954 by the late Paul Frere / Lagonda 12/24 — The Editor tells the story of this distinctive light car and describes the delightfully original example in The Automobile «oily rag» collection / MG TD — Jonathan Wood looks at the introduction and history of an iconic British sports car which found customers across the world and particularly in Americar and describes the delightfully original example in The Automobile «oily rag» collection / MG TD — Jonathan Wood looks at the introduction and history of an iconic British sports car which found customers across the world and particularly in Americar which found customers across the world and particularly in America.

At the rear Morgan has created a new diffuser for the car as well as a twin tip centrally mounted sports exhaust.

You see, if you didn't know better or have pictures to look at, you'd swear that I was talking about a well - engineered sports car.

That it's capable of making a pretty good first of being a sports car while cosseting you like you're sitting in your favourite armchair at a gentleman's club while smoking a Montecristo No. 2 after a jolly fine lunch is a stroke of genius.

The DeTomaso Pantera was an Italian - built, mid-engine sports car, designed in Italy by American transplant Tom Tjaarda while at Ghia and fitted with a good, ol' American V - 8 (a Ford «Cleveland» 351).

This will almost certainly be the first and last time I drive an all - new Viper, at least one built in this vein: a sports car that offers what is perhaps the most uncut and unfiltered driving experience available and is, for better or for worse, the palate cleanser for the artificial sweetening of today's most potent performance machines.

By putting the Mission E project into production, the German sports car maker is making a significant commitment to the technology — as well as investing $ 700m at Stuttgart - Zuffenhausen, and creating more than a thousand new jobs.

Instead, it's a long, circuitous, sometimes tortuous route that seems, at first, better suited to a sports car than what some might call a glorified minivan.

It became Motor Trend's Import Car of the Year and also made Car and Driver's 10 Best, plus it was introduced at the same time Toyota partnered with Dan Gurney's All American Racers to win a string of championships in IMSA sports car raciCar of the Year and also made Car and Driver's 10 Best, plus it was introduced at the same time Toyota partnered with Dan Gurney's All American Racers to win a string of championships in IMSA sports car raciCar and Driver's 10 Best, plus it was introduced at the same time Toyota partnered with Dan Gurney's All American Racers to win a string of championships in IMSA sports car racicar racing.

Obviously, having the well - calibrated stability control system to save your butt helps your confidence, but the underlying chassis balance we felt at GingerMan is also crucial to making the new Viper feel like a modern sports car.

At the same time, Mazda must prove that it's capable of producing a top - tier sports car that can take on the best in the business, and do it with a new, more efficient rotary engine that has enough power to compete.

For my taste, the grille is much too big, and the surfaces around it too diverse, with elements pointing up and down at various places, with only the top and bottom of the grille and the bar below the chin inlet emphasizing the horizontal.This is again a very good - looking car with some conventional contemporary elements and a few others out of the past, like the inverse - curved backlight that recalls the 1974 Citroën CX and some Pininfarina sports cars from about the same period.

Comfortable, nimble, peppy, handles more like a sports car than a family car and the body is good to look at.

But possessing such gorgeous curves and an unmistakably characterful V8, on roads like this we can't imagine there'd be many better sports cars to point at the Romanian mountains.

Our test car was fitted with this option, as well as ceramic brakes, Porsche Torque Vectoring, a sports exhaust and Sport Chrono, making it the 718 Boxster S in its most focussed form — for the time being at least.

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I am also a Contributing Editor to Road & Track Magazine, as well as Editor - at - Large for Sports Car Market and American Car Collector Magazines for the past decade.

I agree with Rod and TJ they should stick to what they're good at - making sports cars.