Make no mistake, the affordable sports car of the future will either go the way of the dodo bird or burn a hole in your wallet. Mazda wants to fix that with one of the most controversial powertrain combinations that’s being previewed in its Mazda Iconic SP concept. What’s running it? A rotary electric hybrid. Yeah, kind of wild but we’re digging it. The concept was first unveiled virtually last year as the “Vision Study Model.” In the metal, it’s the Iconic SP. Once you delve under its streamlin

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

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

“Lightweight sports cars are dead, long live lightweight sports cars.” We can imagine someone at Lotus raising their glass to this as the most memorable models from Hethel, Norfolk, reaches the end of the windy, twist road with Lotus ceasing production of the Elise, Exige and Evora in anticipation of an exciting new future for the marque. Over the course of 26 years, Lotus built a total of 51,738 units of the trio; representing close to half of all Lotus cars ever built in the carmaker’s 73-year

Take a good look at these two cars above. By 2030, you probably won't be able to waltz into showrooms to buy either the Toyota GR86 / Subaru BRZ, or the Mk8 VW Golf GTI new anymore, at least not with the formula these cars are best known for. You can thank new crash test regulations and an increasing disdain of internal combustion engines (ICE) for that. Golf GTI Mk8 continues to be fast, capable, and immensely practical. GR86 / BRZ represents the apogee in affordable RWD driving purity. Last ch

Bermaz Motor has introduced the updated Mazda MX-5 RF in Malaysia, after the model was introduced globally mid last year. For starters, the updated Mazda MX-5 RF now gets a slight increase in power, as Mazda engineers have managed to squeeze out an additional 24 PS and 5 Nm of torque out of the 2.0-litre SkyActiv-G petrol engine. As such, the updated MX-5 RF now outputs 184 PS at 7,000 rpm and 205 Nm of torque at 4,000 rpm. Engine update aside, the updated Mazda MX-5 RF also gets support for And