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Thankfully Spyker’s glass-domed C8 Laviolette has managed to live down its star billing alongside Sharon Stone in the truly rancid Basic Instinct 2 movie. But only just. These days it continues to be one of the rarest, and most dramatic sights on the highway. From its scissor-hinged doors to its voluptuous.

If you are planning a Rock-style comeback, you better have an awesome comeback kid. And Alfa Romeo’s drop-dead gorgeous 8C Competizione and recently unveiled 8C spider are just that. You’ll probably have to wait till late 2010 for the volume Alfa models to land, but the 8C coupe should be here this fall with the [...]

You have to be out of the automotive loop if you haven’t heard or read anything on the Hennessey Viper, which has been highlighted, tested, and pushed into competition with other tuners (mostly in Venom 1000 twin-turbo trim) by nearly every other reputable reviewers on automotive stage.

“This car is not scheduled to go into series production” insists BMW’s automotive design director, Adrian van Hooydonk. Standing before this Liquid-Orange dream machine with the look of cultivated indifference that has become his signature style, the Dutch-born designer adds “The goal of this concept study is really celebrating out rich heritage and showing how [...]

The handsome new Maserati Gran Turismo, like every other car of noteworthy design, embodies something old in its appearance and something new. No, that doesn’t quite get at the notion I want to convey. I shouldn’t say “old” because that word carries lots of negative baggage in a culture like ours that values newness so [...]

If the sultry supercar lines are familiar, that’s because they were taken wholesale from the 1999 Ronart Lightning. Rather than deriving its power from a Mustang engine, however, the new Lightning uses a quartet of in-wheel electric motors to produce more than 700 hp.