Automoto Network

At the 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon, one of the Toyotas we feasted on was the Gazoo Racing GT3 Concept. Born of the Japanese automaker’s belief that it can provide more enthusiast enjoyment by commercializing race cars than by making customer cars racy, the quotes and suggestions at the time were that the GT3 Concept would result […] July 02, 2022 at 12:45AM

The LMDh class created by IMSA in the U.S. and France’s ACO starts racing next year, competing in the both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship. The cars will create a new GTP class populated by Acura, Alpine, BMW, Cadillac, Lamborghini and Porsche. We’ve seen the BMW and the Cadillac. Porsche used the Goodwood Festival […] June 27, 2022 at 02:05AM

Acura is headed to this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with a bevy of race cars. Most notable of all is a Pikes Peak-prepped Acura Integra — yes, Acura is already getting the Integra out there for some racing. Beyond the new hatchback making its motorsports debut, Acura is also bringing two TLX Type […] June 15, 2022 at 12:35AM

Best in Show winners for the 2022 Amelia Concours d’Elegance were just announced, and we were there to see the pair roll up and claim their prizes. The Amelia, like some other concours events, hands out two “best in show” awards. The main (and most prized) award goes to the overall Best in Show, and […] March 07, 2022 at 06:45AM

The successor to the Lexus LFA is beginning to take shape — in unofficial rumors, at least. The firm’s next supercar will reportedly make its debut in the coming years with a V8 under the hood, and it will be followed by a battery-electric model due out at the turn of the decade. Citing anonymous […] March 05, 2022 at 06:10AM

Porsche was out testing its 2023 LMDh racer earlier this week, providing some of the clearest images yet of the complete car. The evaluation, conducted with partner Penske Racing, covered some 1,200 miles over a period of several days at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. Porsche says that the goal was to hone the […] February 20, 2022 at 07:36AM

Carroll Shelby’s touch still lingers to grace the auction fates of vintage racers rarely spoken of in conjunction with his name. Last August, it was RM Sotheby’s offering a Ruddspeed Ace, the English roadster that served as archetype for Shelby’s Cobra. Next month, at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, Gooding & Co will put a […] February 05, 2022 at 06:15AM

The Rolex 24 at Daytona is over, and the pretty pictures are coming in. We’ve assembled a medley of images for you to pore over to see the best of the race. In case you missed it, Acura won the overall race, finishing both first and second and beating out the highly competitive Cadillacs. The […] February 01, 2022 at 06:05AM

The new regulations coming into effect for the 2022 season of the World Rally Championship (WRC) bring together two of Toyota’s areas of expertise: hybrid technology and racing. The Japanese firm unveiled the gasoline-electric Yaris it designed to compete on dirt, snow and ice. Loosely shaped like the Yaris hatchback sold in global markets, the […] January 20, 2022 at 06:17AM

Not long ago, I wrote a story about a pony car tuned with a supercharger. The blower install had been done properly. Then the car’s owner bolted on a set of great looking wheels wrapped in good looking but inexpensive rubber. On my first test drive, I couldn’t get any of that supercharged sweetness to […] January 18, 2022 at 07:01AM

Not content with showing off a bunch of modified versions of its lineup at SEMA, Ford has decided to introduce the most outrageous 2022 Ford Bronco you’ll be able to buy: the Ford Bronco DR. The “DR” stands for “Desert Runner,” which is exactly what the truck is built for. It’s intended for the Baja […] November 02, 2021 at 07:03AM

Another famous race car is being brought back to life in continuation form, this one a bit further afield than the Jaguars and Bentleys we’ve seen of late. England’s CNC Motorsport AWS is building three Ford Sierra RS500 racers that campaigned in the British Touring Car Championship in the 1980s. CNC has chosen the 1990 […] October 31, 2021 at 07:03AM

in 2017, Chevrolet teamed with Hall Racing to develop the Colorado ZR2 using a real race team doing hardcore off-road races. In 2019, without anyone realizing, Chevrolet teamed up with Hall Racing again to develop the Silverado ZR2. The full-sized race truck has done 10 races so far, Chevy finally taking its engineering trials public […] September 29, 2021 at 06:48AM

LAS VEGAS — Toyota will use its Tundra TRD Pro in NASCAR’s Trucks Series next season as part of an overhaul to the vehicles used in the third-tier series. The Tundra TRD Pro was unveiled before Friday night’s race at Las Vegas Speedway. It will make its competition debut in next season’s opener at Daytona […] September 27, 2021 at 06:18AM

Audi prepared its personnel, its drivers and its cars for the 2022 edition of the Dakar Rally by carrying out a series of tests in the Moroccan desert. Powered by a gasoline-electric powertrain, the RS Q E-Tron sprinted, braked hard, drifted and spent a lot of time in the air. Dakar legends Stéphane Peterhansel and […] September 22, 2021 at 11:15PM

Fans of Ken Block and the Gymkhana series will have to get used to a new badge adorning the rally and stunt driver’s charismatic automotive creations. Out: One blue oval; in: four silver rings.  That’s right, Block has defected to Audi. Well, “defected” is perhaps being a bit harsh. Block went “free agent” (his words) […] September 22, 2021 at 12:55AM

Cadillac returned to sports car racing back in 2017 with its DPi race car, and it has had a successful run with it. It won four Rolex 24 Hour races at Daytona from 2017 to 2020, and took home two championships. So it’s not totally surprising that it will continue running in the IMSA series […] August 25, 2021 at 06:47AM

The 24 Hours of Le Mans happened over the weekend, and once again, Toyota came out as the big winners. In case you’re counting, that makes it four-in-a-row for Toyota Gazoo Racing — we may finally be forgetting about that last-lap heartbreak loss back in 2016. This year’s win for Toyota came with a new […] August 24, 2021 at 06:17AM

It’s time to go racing with SUVs, at least that’s what the Ford Performance Racing School is up to. Ford Performance just unveiled this heavily modified Explorer ST that will be used for the racing school’s programs. You’ll also be able to check it out in person at this year’s Woodward Dream Cruise, this coming […] August 19, 2021 at 07:02AM

According to Racer magazine, Lamborghini hasn’t officially said yes to joining the LMDh class in global endurance racing, but folks behind the scenes have green-lit the project and an announcement could come next month. Publicly, the brand’s head of motorsport for the U.S. said work on a factory endurance program is “90% of the way […] August 08, 2021 at 06:24AM