Over the course of two seconds the planet we live on moves about 37 miles through space, the universe expands by about 100 square miles, five million emails are sent, and Porsche’s Taycan Turbo GT can go from zero to sixty miles per hour. In Car And Driver’s comprehensive instrumented test of the new German … Read more
The price of not just buying, but keeping a super- or hypercar running, is astronomical. What would otherwise be your standard, run of the mill car parts on a regular vehicle can cost as much as vehicle themselves on a supercar. From McLaren F1 windshields that cost as much as a midsize family sedan to … Read more
When Jeremy Clarkson was leading the charge at “Top Gear,” the team came under fire for faking all kinds of stunts and tricks, but he maintained through it all that the show’s road tests were fair. However, his successor at “Top Gear,” Chris Harris, claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that a review of the original … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik I went to a car meet in West Hollywood last weekend that had everything from a Pagani Zonda and Bugatti Veyron to an Audi RS2 and a real Jaguar D-Type, with stuff like two G-wagen cabrios and a Porsche 993 GT2 race car present as well. But one of the rarest things … Read more
History was made this weekend at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance when a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports won Best of Show, marking the first time a preservation-class car has ever won the most prestigious award in the classic car realm. Pebble’s had classes for such unrestored cars since 2001, with the preservation classes now split … Read more
Screenshot: VinWiki on YouTube Popular YouTube, car broker, and onetime Cannonball record holder Ed Bolian has bought the car he’s been dreaming about since high school, the 12-year-old French/German extension of Ferdinand Piech’s ego, Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. After years of dreaming about owning this moonshot hypercar from the Volkswagen Group, Bolian finally managed to … Read more
Screenshot: Engineering Explained Headed into the 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 reveal, we knew it would be powerful. After all, the Corvette Z06 already made 670 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque from a 5.5-liter, naturally aspirated V8, and the rumor was, the ZR1 would get a set of turbos. So a power figure in the … Read more
Twenty years after the game-changing Bugatti Veyron entered production and eight years after the Chiron was unveiled, it’s time for a new Bugatti, and the French brand’s latest hypercar is unlike anything that’s come before it. Enter the Bugatti Tourbillon. Powered by a new V16 plug-in-hybrid powertrain, built on a new structure and featuring a … Read more
Image: Aspark It seems like just yesterday that Aspark was pushing the boundaries of physics by getting its Owl electric hypercar to sprint from 0-60 in under two seconds. In reality that was six years ago, and now every EV automaker can make a sub-two 0-60 run, so Aspark had to set its sights a … Read more
It’s common for modern Bugattis to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in options, with some bespoke commissions through the Sur Mesure division costing seven figures on top of the already mega-expensive car. There is one Veyron that stands above the rest in this regard, and it was never before seen until a few days … Read more
