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The 2014 Nissan GT - R is one of those cars and it might just be the most approachable high performance sports car of the entire group costing under $ 100k.

This gives the BMW M3 and BMW M4 a degree of variability and everyday usability that is well beyond the norm for high - performance sports cars of their level.

This gives the BMW M3 and BMW M4 a degree of variability and everyday usability that is well beyond the norm for high - performance sports cars of their level.

Not exact matches

FORD has created a new experience for prestige performance car buyers with the establishment of a select group of dealers nationally to distribute T - Series Falcons and the fully imported Cougar Sports Coupe.

This is a waste of human potential: it's like driving a high - performance sports car at 20 kilometers an hour.

Fisker, a U.S. start - up focusing on the creation of high performance, energy efficient vehicles, plans to sell an $ 80,000 plug - in hybrid sports car by late 2009.

Morgans hand built British sports cars - a unique blend of charisma, craftsmanship and performance.

It is the desire not to be a Chrysler, but something more akin to a sports car — high performance, head turning, state of the art.

In a bid to keep his very expensive racing team afloat, famed race car driver Briggs Cunningham created a line of high - performance grand touring sports cars, including this gorgeous 1952 Cunningham C3 Continental.

If you like Caterhams, sports coupes or tuned Porsches you're in for a treat, and as ever we've got test drives of the latest performance cars too.

Surprisingly, the tyres chosen for the Valkyrie aren't some entirely new type designed to Adrian Newey's exacting requirements, but a set of Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s — a tyre we're more than familiar with from dozens of other sports and performance cars.

By the 1930s, the company evolved to become a builder of sports cars on the premise of performance and elegance.

Our car has the optional Adaptive M suspension and Servotronic steering (though thankfully not the Sports Steering, an aggressively variable rack that brings agility but also inconsistency of response), so by toggling the Drive Performance Control button up to Sport + the car is primed with the stiffest suspension setting, weighty steering and the more relaxed DTC (Dynamic Traction Control) mode for the stability and traction control system.

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.

Doubts have been cast over Alfa Romeo's ability to build a high - performance, rear - driven super-saloon that could seriously mix the practicality of a four - door with the performance of a sports car.

They may not be as sexy as luxury sedans or high - performance sports cars, but the competitors in our 2013 Compact Car Challenge represent the go - to vehicles for the majority of us regular folks in our everyday lives.

«Our job is to faithfully re-interpret famous Alpines of the past and project Alpine into the future with a beautifully designed, agile, high - performance sports car,» said Alpine managing director Michael van der Sande, in a statement.

There's a healthy roster of performance metal in this month's issue, from a full first test of the Audi R8 V10 Plus, to two mid-engined sports cars — the Porsche Boxster Spyder and Lotus Evora 400.

The experience and expertise garnered by BMW M in the world of motor sport and the development of high - performance sports cars are also channeled into the development of our BMW M Performance Aperformance sports cars are also channeled into the development of our BMW M Performance APerformance Automobiles.

However, SRT owners who take advantage only of the one free day will not be disappointed, as the Bondurant SRT program is the best way to become accustomed to your new high - performance Dodge sports car.

The 2013 Tokyo motor show yields plenty of new performance cars, including a turbo Civic Type - R, the Nismo GT - R and a cool new Lexus sports car

For some, it's a triumphant accomplishment of American engineering creating a formidable performance machine that rivals the performance of European sports cars costing twice or three times as much.

There is yet another chapter in the long story that is the promised Subaru / Toyota rear - wheel - drive sports coupe: at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Subaru will preview its version of the performance car with the BRZ Prologue concept.

Overall, the Focus's driving dynamics feel better balanced than those of some sports cars, which is probably why I enjoyed driving it around town more than I have any number of expensive performance machines.

While the X5 doesn't equal the driving performance of the FX45, which is more sports car than SUV to begin with, it holds its own against the others.

The same can be said when automakers leverage that ever - growing computational power to refine and improve the performance of a sports car.

While the car is clearly set up for performance rather than continent - crossing, it still achieves 130 miles of range during normal driving, and Genovation says it maintains the ideal sports car 50/50 weight distribution front to rear.

We've browsed dealers, classified sites and auctions, and here's our pick of the best used classic, sports and performance cars on sale - as chosen by evo staff.

For a car to deliver so much performance — indeed, McLaren has clearly produced one of the quickest road - legal sports cars of all time — yet be so approachable is a staggering achievement.

Pushing the boundaries of high - performance technology today means something very different from what that original car embodied, so the formula for the New Sports eXperience is considerably different in the 2017 Acura NSX: The basics include a hybrid powertrain made up of three electric motors, a lithium - ion battery pack, a mid-mounted twin - turbocharged V - 6 engine and a dual - clutch nine - speed automatic transmission.

The central theme of this year was «Peaks of Performance - Motorsport's Game - changers», and paid homage to cars so dominant, technically advanced, fast or expensive that rules had to be created to rein them in - think Group B cars, ground - effect F1 cars or some of the wilder sports cars that have dominated racing over the years.

The benefit is that the shifts are lightning - fast, so while you give up the row - your - own fun of a traditional sports car, you gain serious performance.

While the people running Chrysler's newly formed SRT performance brand have high - test pumping through their veins, their idea of a sports car runs closer to the industry norm.

Measured in dollars per pound of performance or horsepower per ton of excitement, the Acura NSX is one of the world's finest sports cars.

It has the power, speed, grip, and the looks that make it an impressive sports cars, and with a starting price of $ 63,435, it costs one - fifth of what supercars offering comparable levels of performance cost — a stupendous bargain.

1991: Acura NSX Why it won: It distilled all of Honda's engineering experience and vast successes over the preceding quarter century while establishing new benchmarks for performance, affordability, and technology in exotic sports cars.

«But there is something very emotional about a sports car that conveys the ultimate in the sense of performance and design.»

All of this performance potential combined earlier this year to set a blistering lap time of 7 minutes, 50 seconds on the challenging Nürburgring racetrack, beating the previous front - wheel - drive production lap record, not to mention more powerful sports cars.

Part of the reason for that is increased responsiveness, as you'd want when driving enthusiastically; part of the reason is that, in sport mode, the engine tries to keep the battery topped up to a level that allows maximum performance of the electric drive system, extracting the greatest total performance from the car without the sad face of an empty battery popping up on your instrument panel display.

But the boxer configuration isn't the most emission friendly, and with Subaru already confirming an electric car for 2021 and its next Forester SUV expected to be offered with a hybrid powertrain, the Japanese firm may be forced to turn to hybrid technology if it's to continue to offer the outright performance expected of its sports saloon.

Lotus is far from the first manufacturer to put its sports car around the «Ring, but it's a mark of how serious the firm is about the new car's performance that over 2000 kilometres were covered there in two weeks of testing.

BMW finally revealed the high - performance follow - up to one of AUTOMOBILE «s favorite sports cars.

The 1989 Nissan 300ZX was featured as one of our 5 Japanese Cars that Shocked the Auto Industry in 1989, and this sports car was truly a revolution with its high - tech, high - performance construction that brought new life to the Z nameplate after a few decades of softer and heavier Z cCars that Shocked the Auto Industry in 1989, and this sports car was truly a revolution with its high - tech, high - performance construction that brought new life to the Z nameplate after a few decades of softer and heavier Z carscars.

GT Radial encroached into the world of ultra-high performance tyres last year with its first tyre designed for sports cars and hot hatches, the SportActive.

If the only practical way to use this car is to dress up like you were going to ride a motorcycle, why wouldn't you just get a modern sports - bike for the same performance and (lack of) weather - protection, comfort and practicality at about an 8th of the price?

Jock Manby - Colegrave — Jonathan Wood chronicles the life and 1930s racing career of Jock Manby - Colegrave, whose impressive stable of road and racing cars embraced Aston Martins, supercharged 4 1/2 Litre Bentley, MG K3, Squire and ERA / Fiat's 8001 Turbina — If a country's character defines its cars, perhaps it was inevitable that Italy's first — and so far only — turbine - powered automobile should be a striking high - performance sports car.

As Mercedes - AMG chairman Moers notes, «We've evolved from a successful tuner of Mercedes racing cars to the sports and performance brand of Mercedes - Benz, producing some of the world's most exciting performance cars.»

There are endless versions of ultra-fabulous super-duper 80 - to -240-mph sports cars that only some of the 1 percent can buy and only a hundredth of a percent of able buyers would be capable of driving at anywhere close to their performance potential.

For the rest of us, there are worse things than the 911 Turbo, a sports car that dares to combine supercar performance with everyday ease.

No matter how you consider it — as a front - line competition car or a fabulous high - performance coupe — Ford's decision to return to serious international sports - car racing 50 years after GT40s first showed up at Le Mans was the biggest performance - car news of the year.