When the Toyota GR Supra was first revived in 2018, then President and CEO Akio Toyoda had expressed hopes of having ‘three brothers’ of sports cars to complete the line-up, joining the GR 86. The MR2 and Celica were obvious candidates, but work along this direction went quiet as Toyota introduced the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. The sports car market is an incredibly difficult one to make a successful business case. Very few buyers are willing to put their money where their mouth (or keyboard strok

Nearly one in every 3 new Lamborghini sold worldwide went to the United States, while Urus contributes 3 out of every 5 new sales closed by Lamborghini globally. The Italian bull marque ended 2022 by setting its highest sales record ever, with 9,233 cars sold worldwide, up 10 percent from the year before. The USA is Automobili Lamborghini’s most important market, buying 2,721 cars (up 10 percent from 2021), followed by China with 1,018 cars delivered to the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macau (up 9 p

Nurburgring lap records have become a bit of a penis size comparison between carmakers; that meaning it doesn’t quite translate into much in the real world although the one with the biggest, sorry… quickest lap time, will always take every opportunity to exercise his bragging rights. For a while, the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series could fling those rights around. Until recently, it was the fastest production car on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife with a lap time of 6:48.047 and also boasted the most

Toyota GR86 debuts in the UK, priced from RM 166k Production for UK limited to just 2 years Automatic variant adds TSS Following the launch of the Toyota GR Supra and Toyota GR Yaris, Toyota UK will be launching the 2022 Toyota GR86 as the third full-on GR model there. It will launch in the UK on 20-April. For the UK market, the 2022 Toyota GR86 is priced from GBP 29,995 (~RM 166k) for the manual variant, and GBP 32,085 (~RM 177k) for the automatic variant. The model is imported (CBU) from Japan

It would seem even the most iconic, pure driver's cars are not immune to the inevitable shift to electrification. Mazda has announced that its venerable sports car, the MX-5 Miata, will feature some form of electrification, for the model that will succeed the current ND generation. According to a Japanese publication, Mazda's R&D and Cost Innovation boss, Ichiro Hirose has remarked that the convertible MX-5 is in the "scope of electrification in 2030," which is consistent with Mazda's Sustainabl

Back in the early 90s, if you wanted to buy a performance car, you’d most probably choose the manual transmission option. The equivalent automatic option was probably heavier, slower-reacting, and had higher fuel consumption. My own uncle once told me back then, “In a sprint, my manual car would always be faster and more accelerative versus an automatic.” Those words stuck with me. Fast forward to today, and self-shifting transmissions have gotten so good, no human input could possibly match its