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The AMG 4.0 - liter V - 8 biturbo engine is the world's first sports car engine with the turbos inside the V of the engine and dry sump lubrication.

Not exact matches

According to Slywotzky, trying to replicate Apple's success without knowing the backstory to its devices would be like designing a sports car by examining a Ferrari with no engine.

One of the most glamorous sports around, Formula 1 is associated with high drama, loud engines and fast, fast cars.

** Luxury sports car maker Aston Martin said it had entered into a technical partnership with German carmaker Mercedes to help it develop a new generation of models with V8 engines.

A manufacturer who has produced 50 copies of his car can go with a five - liter engine, and the sports prototypes are limited to an engine of three liters.

It also turned out to be the last time a Cooper finished on the podium, as the team (which won titles with Jack Brabham in 1959 and 1960 and revolutionised the sport with its rear - engined cars) disbanded the following year.

The FIA met with various groups, including stakeholders in the sport, Liberty Media, and engine manufacturers from both within and outside of F1 in order to try and decide what engines F1 cars should use in 2021.

They are like little sports cars with relatively powerful engines.

The team probably won't keep the Japanese sports car's 2.0 - liter horizontally opposed four - cylinder engine, instead replacing it with a four - cylinder from BMW.

Much to the joy of purists and fans of Lamborghini's current range, what we won't see anytime soon is its sports cars with turbocharged engines.

As was the case with many boutique sports cars at the time, Ferrari provided the chassis, engines, and transmissions while custom coachbuilders like Carrozzeria Touring, Ghia, Vignale, and Pinin Farina (then still two separate words) styled bodies to fit the chassis.

You know how it goes: On one hand, you can't even fathom buying a pony car — or a sports car, or even a minivan, for that matter — with the smallest engine on offer.

This year's lineup featured a diverse cast of sports cars, luxury SUVs and sedans, and conveyance appliances with price tags ranging from affordable to unobtainium, and engine outputs between putting and thundering from all manner of cylinder layouts, aspiration configurations, and electrification applications.

Reports from earlier this year suggest that the new Supra will likely be based on the same platform as the next BMW Z4, with power coming from either a BMW - sourced turbocharged engine or a hybrid drivetrain, possibly with front - wheel electric motors which could endow the rear - wheel - drive sports car with all - wheel drive.

As if these outputs were insufficient for a car with a 2 - litre engine, later editions sported FQ - 360 and even FQ - 400 designations and power to match.

The exceptional balance and spunky, but not overwhelming, engine take away most of the fear that comes with piloting sports cars in the wet.

The engine wound up smoothly toward its redline, the transmission snapped between gears with the immediacy of a sports car, and the big brakes bit down wickedly hard when I came to a series of mild chicanes.

Fitted with a monster 5.4 - litre V8 engine producing over 500bhp, it's set to compete in Touring Car and sports car races across the globe beginning later this yeCar and sports car races across the globe beginning later this yecar races across the globe beginning later this year.

Advance to the Rear — French Style Much lest resistant to new technological ideas than their neighbours across the Channel the French came up with some highly imaginative proposals in the 1930s as Karl Ludvigsen relates / Vauxhall Velox & Wyvern — Buyer's Guide / Royal Restoration — Michael Ware looks back at the restoration of a Royal Daimler that was carried out for the Queen's Silver Jubilee / Commercially Speaking — Lighter Commercials / Dashboard Instruments — Part Two — Workshop / Cammy Sammy - Salmson Twin Cam / Classic Commemoration — Richard Cass reports on the Le Mans Classic / Singer Super Six — Michael Worthington - Williams recalls a Singer «buult like a battleship graceful as a yacht» / Coventry Cat — Fitted with the first engine entirely designed by Jaguar the XK 120 set the standard by which so many postwar sports cars are judged.

Fitted with a 4 - litre V8 engine mated to an electric motor and battery pack, the hybrid sports car offers up in excess of 800bhp and Mercedes says it will sprint from 0 - 62mph in less than three seconds.

First revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the lightweight open - top sports car is powered by a supercharged 3.5 - litre V6 engine, which together with a featherweight chassis results in more than 500bhp per ton.

Stuttgart's topless sports car starts at $ 53,095 with its base 265 - hp, 2.7 - liter flat - six engine, with prices rising to $ 64,895 for the 315 - hp, 3.4 - liter Boxster S, $ 75,595 for the 330 - hp Boxster GTS, and $ 83,095 for the 375 - hp, 3.8 - liter Boxster Spyder.

ASTRO II XP - 880 After experimenting with two rear - engined design studies — the 1967 Corvair - based Astro I and the ill - conceived XP - 819 V -8-powered prototype — various departments within the GM hierarchy finally settled on mid-engined sports cars as the most appropriate platform for advanced engineering.

To this day it has remained a lightweight, open - top sports car with the engine up front sending power to the rear wheels with a hand - built ash body.

This hardcore sports car makes 475 hp from a six - cylinder engine in standard form, and an even more intense 911 GT3 RS with more power and performance is rumored to in the cards for the Geneva show as well.

Instead, the goal was simply to better achieve the basic 599's target — to combine the handling of a mid-engine sports car with the passenger comfort of a front - engine grand tourer.

While this geeky - looking subcompact has pretty much nothing in common with the iconic German sports car, both cars will have you questioning logic: it turns out the rear - engine Porsche handles better than many mid-engine competitors and the subcompact Fit is as cavernous as a small cargo van.

The purest sports car of the bunch, and the only one with its engine positioned behind the driver, the Alfa Romeo 4C makes up for a lack of displacement with its featherweight footprint.

Its no sports car but the engine seemed to have a enough power to keep up with traffic with three decent size people.

While previous estimates about a 450 - hp Mazda RX - 7 with a turbocharged rotary engine arriving as soon as 2017 don't look promising, Autocar speculates that a new Mazda RX sports car could debut in time for the original RX - 7's 40th anniversary in 2018 — that is, if Mazda's rotary development is going as well as Kogai says it is.

Maranello, Italy Anything with a prancing horse on it seems to sell like crazy these days — Ferrari flags, Schumacher caps, fire - engine - red scale models, embroidered polo shirts, and, of course, sports cars.

Aston will continue to develop its VH architecture — which currently underpins all of its models — but will simultaneously enter into a joint project with Benz to develop a front - engine sports car that will also replace the SLS AMG.

The Eclipse is Mitsubishi's performance two - door sports car and is offered in coupe and convertible Spyder form, both with a choice of four - cylinder or V - 6 engines.

With the engine up front, the battery in the middle, and the power going to the rear, Toyota says it's able to provide the performance of a genuine sports car while also offering the environmental friendliness of an economy car.

Subsequently Triumph TR - powered, it was Morgan's most popular car of the 1950s and»60s / Lewis Lloyd and Associates — Michael Worthington - Williams looks at the cars made by Hurst & Lloyd, Lloyd & Plaister and Hurst & Middleton and their connection with Harry Ricardo / A 1930s Rear - engined Sports Car — With research by Nicolo Cafferena, Simon Moore describes a 1928 Alfa Romeo 1500 which, over the winter of 1936/37, was developed into an intriguing and advanced competition sports ccar of the 1950s and»60s / Lewis Lloyd and Associates — Michael Worthington - Williams looks at the cars made by Hurst & Lloyd, Lloyd & Plaister and Hurst & Middleton and their connection with Harry Ricardo / A 1930s Rear - engined Sports Car — With research by Nicolo Cafferena, Simon Moore describes a 1928 Alfa Romeo 1500 which, over the winter of 1936/37, was developed into an intriguing and advanced competition sports with Harry Ricardo / A 1930s Rear - engined Sports Car — With research by Nicolo Cafferena, Simon Moore describes a 1928 Alfa Romeo 1500 which, over the winter of 1936/37, was developed into an intriguing and advanced competition sportSports Car — With research by Nicolo Cafferena, Simon Moore describes a 1928 Alfa Romeo 1500 which, over the winter of 1936/37, was developed into an intriguing and advanced competition sports cCar — With research by Nicolo Cafferena, Simon Moore describes a 1928 Alfa Romeo 1500 which, over the winter of 1936/37, was developed into an intriguing and advanced competition sports With research by Nicolo Cafferena, Simon Moore describes a 1928 Alfa Romeo 1500 which, over the winter of 1936/37, was developed into an intriguing and advanced competition sportssports carcar.

1903 Brightmore Steam Lurry — Exploded diagram of the mechanism / Four inches of History — A.B. Demaus relates how the 1908 TT race was a particularly significant event / 1930 Double Six Low Chassis Daimler — Michael Brisby conducts a remarkable Daimler / Waldron's Wayfarer — Michael Worthington - WIlliams tells this remarkable survival story / Overhauling a Clerget Rotary engine «The music goes round and round...» by A.F.Carlisle / Austin Ruby Restoration — Bryan Purves recalls that the Ruby has been with us fifty years and tells how he restored his example / Ardingly 1984 — The 15th Historic Vehicles Spectacular / Shelsley Walsh — News of the final event of the Vintage Sports Car Club / On Making a Crankshaft — Charles Howard has broken a crank but how do you make a new one.

About the engine, just fit a sports cat and tune the ECU and the car will come truly alive, with 280hp and 400nm, easy.

While Toyota got a boxer engine - powered sports car shared with the BRZ under that deal, Subaru wisely stepped away from a program that would have netted the marque an SUV with an inline four and maybe a V - 6.

Nevertheless, the cars were an interesting foray into the sports - car arena with a fiberglass body and an iron - block, 2.5 - liter V - 8 engine (with hemispherical heads!)

It's worth noting that renowned Mazda tuning firm BBR has already announced a tuning package for the 118bhp petrol car, lifting its output to as much as 185bhp with a new engine chip, exhaust manifold, induction system and sports exhaust.

a stout, rear - wheel - drive chassis with well - weighted steering and beefy brakes; a powerful, torquey V - 6 engine; sleek good looks mixing restrained retro styling themes into a modern sports - car profile; and an affordable price.

With body - on - frame construction and a fairly agricultural 1.3 - liter overhead valve engine, the MG was far from modern or refined in post-war America, but it gave thousands of people their first taste of what a sports car should feel like and served as a gateway drug to both racing and more expensive, more powerful sports cars.

The Marcos GT is an English sports car that started life in 1964 with a plywood chassis, fiberglass body, and Volvo B18 1.8 - liter I - 4 engine.

The Z5 will share its platform with the upcoming Toyota sports car (possibly dubbed Supra), although the two will not share any sheetmetal and the Japanese version may offer an all - wheel - drive hybrid platform using its electric motor technologies alongside BMW combustion engines.

While its newest hybrid — the CR - Z sports coupe — looks set to crank the fun up somewhat, Honda's halo car will be sorely missed, especially with the 5 - litre V10 engine it was due to sport.

Matched with the Quattro drivetrain, this engine delivers sports car performance and, Audi claims, overall fuel consumption of 33 mpg.

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.

Mazda's rich rotary history was forged with the popularity of the RX sports car, ranging from the compact RX - 3, to the lithe and athletic RX - 7, to the RX - 8 (pictured in gallery below) that departed the world — and brought an end to production - car use of rotary engines — in 2012.

The four - door sports car returns with a 290 - hp 3.5 - liter V - 6 engine mated to Nissan «s Xtronic continuously variable transmission, all for a base price of $ 29,950 including destination.

A chassis like this makes one wonder what this car could be like with an engine that is equally sporting.