The Stillen GT-R from last year's Targa Newfoundland featured a set of AP Racing carbon ceramic brakes (same ones found on the Koenigsegg CCX). Watch those rotors glow like Godzilla's angry eyes as the GT-R chases down an STI ...
The Renualt Wind is a new compact targa set to debut at the Geneva Motor Show. It's principle innovation lies in the car's flip-and-store roof, which disappears in 12 seconds and doesn't hog all the trunk space ...
When GM offered the 2005-2007 C6 Corvette with a targa top they intended for owners to be able to remove the top for an open air experience – what GM didn’t intend for was the open air removing the top on its own. GM has announced that the targa top C6 will be needing a [ ... ] ...
The Acura NSX was a vehicle of firsts — first production car with titanium connecting rods, etc. And today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe brings you the opportunity to be the first on your block to own a convertible one! ... The barbershop quartet-toting Ferrari Mondial overcame its innate ugly ducklingness, with a squeaker 51%/49% vote, resulting in a Nice Price swan. A number of you noted that for that Ferrari's price, you could buy an Acura NSX. How accurately (see what I did there?) the
The fully-electric 2011 Reva NXG tops out at 80 MPH, can travel 125 miles between charges and seats two beneath a removable targa top. Does that make it smarter than a Smart car? ...
For the dozen or so of our readers who looked at the Lamborghini Reventón and said, "Eh, maybe if it were a convertible," today's a good day. The Reventón Roadster's made its pictorial debut ahead of Frankfurt ... Perhaps looks modeled after an F117A stealth fighter, the 650HP, 6.5 liter V12, 211 MPH top speed and strictly limited production of 21 units weren't quite enough to urge you to buy one for the trifling $1.3 million asking price. It just didn't come with an open top, and that was
Our real-life cars are great, but we can't usually use them to catch funky crooks or evil spies, and we can't race them in Formula One — or in 2560 or 1967. Luckily, there's video games! Here's our twenty favorites ... Start your journey though our top 20 auto-themed video games by clicking next on the right and give us what you think we missed in the comments below ... Game: Spy Hunter ... Creator: Namco ... Release Date: 1983 ... Original Platform: Arcade ... Why We Love It: Elegantly
Steve Millen has a long history tweaking Nissans and this version of the STILLEN GT-R for the Targa Newfoundland has been bumped to provide 620 HP AWD horsies — good enough for a 0-to-60 MPH jaunt of 2.9 seconds ...
Following the release of the facelifted Porsche 911 Carrera and Carrera 4 models late last year, as well as the new Targa and GT3, comes the first details and images for the updated 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo.Once again, Porsche has continued its tradition of only implementing minimal changes to the styling of its AWD Turbo, opting to focus on changes taking place under the revised sheet metal instead.For the 2010 model year, the Turbo has been given more power, better handling, and you can expect a
Audi currently sells two versions of its R8 supercar, the original 4.2L V8 model and the recently revealed 5.2L V10 version, but there are two more versions in the works, one of which will be unveiled at September’s Frankfurt Motor Show. The two new versions are the R8 Spyder convertible and high-performance RS variant. As for the R8 Spyder, a spokesman for Audi previously confirmed that it has been delayed to allow time for sales of the V10 hard-top to eventually die down. The Audi rep also