Motor Mania

Since the first model released in 1925 the Phantom has been defined several times as "the best car in the world" so surely it is not an easy task to enhance it. Despite that the engineers at Rolls-Royce as always came up with innovative ideas and technologies to maintain this title. Let's start from the engine which is a newly developed 6.75 liter...

Here are five very rare cars which may seem innocent at first glance but wait to know what they have under the hood. There are lots of cars out there which may have even bigger engines, these are the ones that i liked the most. 5- 2003 MG ZT-T 260 This may seem like a regular station wagon, a car which you can use as daily drive to ride your...

After its first appearance a while back at Goodwood Festival of Speed the new Spyder variant of the 570s is finally available. Convertibles like this one may look very good but usually the performance is affected by the chassis, this because that the roof is an important element for the structural rigidity so if you take it off you have to compensate...

Let's make a leap into the future to the year 2019 when BMW is planning the release of a very special hypercar. We still know very little about this vehicle, it will come in two versions a hybrid and a fully electric which will be called E10. The hybrid will have a 3.0 liter engine and a total power output of 591 hp (600 PS) costing around 200,000...

Towards the spring of 2018 the new Lotus Evora GT430 will be available on sale with a production limited to 60 exemplars. This model is the follow up of the previous Evora 400 and Evora Sport 410 which already had a great success. This car is fitted with a newly developed 3.5 liter supercharged engine, the six cylinders are arranged in a V shape...

The four-time WRC champion finally had his chance to try a F1 car for the first time. In 2016 he and the Moto GP legend Valentino Rossi were invited by Mercedes F1 team to test their race-car but apparently only Rossi ended up doing the test. Finally nearly one year later he had the occasion to get in a Red Bull Racing F1 car, the same team he runs...

After the great success with the F-Pace Jaguar continued it's SUV production with a more compact version, the E-Pace, a model which is going to be a tough competitor for the German trinity the BMW X1. the Mercedes Benz GLA and especially the Audi Q3. The exterior and interior are inspired to the F-Type as you can tell from the headlights, taillights...

As i said in a previous post Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia are doing everything to gain the respect they deserve and loose their old reputation of "cheap car manufacturers". The i30 N is the first performance car of the N line, a hot hatch which has the experience of the brand in the WRC infused in it to make it a tough competitor for cars like...

According to a report in Britain's Car magazine for the first time Ferrari is working on a SUV under the code name Project F16X. This contradicts what the CEO Marchionne said multiple times firmly denying that they would build such vehicles with statements like "Non violentiamo la nostra storia" which means "we won't violate our history". It is true...

After the great success with the Demon SRT Dodge released another vehicle to destroy the drag strip, this time it's an SUV. The new Durango SRT has a 392 cubic-inch (6,4 liter) V8 with 475 hp and 470 lb-ft (637 Nm) of torque. This SUV combines strength with its towing capacity of 8,700 pounds (3084 kg) and speed, 0 to 60 mph (0 to 96 km/h) takes just...

The new X Class is classy but it's not afraid to get dirty, after the concept presented in 2016 we heard a lot of talking about it until finally on the 5th of July Mercedes Benz released a teaser on You Tube. This is just an anticipation, the official debut of the pick-up will be on the 18 of July. The look is astonishing, i am very curious to see...

For long the guys at SRT wanted to build something unique, different from the competitors like the ChevroletZL1 or the Shelby GT350, well, with the new Challenger SRT Demon they really nailed it. For the first time we see a production vehicle equipped with drag racing radial tires and a transbrake which are components very specific to drag racing....

Like Aston Martin did for the Vulcan AMR Porsche also waited for the Goodwood festival of speed to launch it's the new model, the 911 GT2 RS. Let's start immediately from the engine, it is a 3.8 liter bi-turbo coming from a Turbo S pushed to 700 hp and 750 Nm (553 lb-ft) of torque making it the most powerful street-legal 911 of all...