“2020 Acura NSX” Acura’s venerable Sports Car adds standard Tech Package Acura’s New Sports eXperience (NSX) first appeared on the automotive scene in 1989 as a 1990 model, and that first model is clearly as popular today, perhaps even more so than when it was first introduced, It still maintains a substantial fan base. 1997…
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2019 Acura NSX Test Drive
?2019 Acura NSX? The New Sports eXperience (NSX) Ever Better The first Acura NSX rolled out in 1989 as a 1990 model, and it is clearly as popular now, perhaps even more so than when it was first introduced, and it still maintains a substantial fan base. A performance enhancement came in 1997 with fitment…
2017 Acura NSX Sport Hybrid Test Drive
?2017 Acura NSX? Revolution vs. Evolution ? the New Sports eXperience The first Acura NSX is clearly as popular now, perhaps even more so than when it was first introduced, and it still maintains a substantial fan base. Avid devotees mourned the disappearance of the original iconic sports car from Honda?s luxury division, constantly clamoring…
2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Test Drive
?2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Sport Coupe? The Purest form of the brand?s DNA marks Alfa?s U.S. return Some cars are more than simply machines whose primary purpose is provide transportation. Some vehicles are truly an art form and Italian vehicles in particular display cutting edge design and an elevated sense of artistic fashion held in…
Audi Takes R8 to New Level with Special GT Edition
Audi engineers are raising their supercar ante with the 2012 R8 GT. ?Limited to 333 cars, with only 90 coming to the U.S., the R8 GT promises a new performance level with a world class 0 to 60 mph time of 3.6 seconds and t op speed, just a blink short of 200 mph (198.84…
Test Drive: 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
?Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG: The next gullwing classic?? It has been said that ?Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?, and that?s indeed true up to a point. There?s no question that in the case of either the classic Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing of the mid-?50s, or the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG gullwing, that they are…
Test Drive: 2011 Lexus LFA
?Lexus Gives birth to a Supercar? Lexus, Toyota?s luxury division has brought to the marketplace, their very first supercar ? the Lexus LFA. The effort to bring the venerable, high performance LFA supercar concept to fruition began back in 2000 under the leadership and direction of Haruhiko Tanahashi, chief engineer of the LFA?s development team….
Test Drive: 2011 Nissan GT-R
?A supercar for common folks? Nissan?s GT-R finally made it to North America as a 2009 model, albeit in limited numbers. The model is really not a new one for the Japanese automaker ? it represented the 7th generation for what has been known elsewhere as the Nissan Skyline. Nissan touted the GT-R as a…
Jaguar Explores Electric Supercar Production
Jaguar introduced a stunning new electric supercar at the recent Paris auto show and it attracted so much attention, that the company is considering a limited production of the Jaguar C-X75 concept. Created to celebrate its 75th anniversary, the C-X75 is shorter and lower than most existing supercars.? Its exterior design is about pure performance…
Rapier: America’s Newest Supercar
America?s latest supercar, the Rapier Superlight Coupe, or SL-C for short,? was finally born in Boston on March 31, 2010 after a five-year gestation period. Billed as the ?most exclusive hand-built supercar on the planet?, the Rapier, offers a multitude of unique engineering specifications, power-plant offerings, exterior colors, interior schemes and a host of other…