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The 1970s provided us with a whole host of potent V8-powered sports sedans and grand touring coupes. The Rover SD1 was not one of them. It was a rather handsome fastback sedan with a well-equipped and superbly comfortable cabin. Unfortunately, the model fell short on power. In fact, competitors from elsewhere in Europe got close to matching the eight-pot Rover's grunt even with efficient diesel engines. Rover's poor reputation for reliability didn't help matters either.

Published Jun 11, 2026, 10:07 PM EDT It's easy to imagine sports cars as coupes and convertibles like the BMW M4. But one can stretch the definition to include sports sedans like the M5, before breaking the definition entirely to include performance SUVs. While some enthusiasts still refuse to consider anything with more than two doors a sports car, the simple truth is that larger vehicles are becoming quicker, faster, and more agile than some two-door models from decades ago ever were.

Every generation of the Porsche 911 needs to introduce new innovations and achieve even higher standards than the one before it. When developing the 991-generation Porsche 911, which first hit the road for the 2012 model year, one such innovation would put a world-first piece of hardware in the driver's right hand: a 7-speed manual transmission. The six-speed manual had long been the standard for performance cars, and a 7-speed box had never been done before.

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features Writer for HotCars early in his career. He joined CarBuzz as a Features Correspondent in 2023. His future in the automotive world has been guaranteed since he was a kid, as he remembers rattling off the names of car brands as one of his earliest memories.

Think of an old-school Porsche, and you'll typically picture a rear-engine, two-door sports car of the type that made the German brand truly famous. Today, the company is also known for four-door creations like the Panamera, but even before they dreamed up that particular vehicle, Porsche had a lot to do with a different four-door sedan.

An ocean of still tides sits 200 miles south-west of Dubai on the Arabian Peninsula. The Rub’ al Khali – known simply as “the empty quarter” – is a section of the Arabian Desert which sat untouched for thousands of years before humans arrived to pump oil up hundreds of meters from beneath the dunes of red sand. Out here, far removed from the makeshift oil towns and coastal ports, is the last place you’re likely to hear the dulcet hum of a Lamborghini Countach’s V12.

Mitsubishi and Ford worked together in the 1980s to produce pickup trucks for the American market. That's a partnership that still boggles the mind today, 40 years later. The partnership is made all the more surprising by the fact that Chrysler held a 15% stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in the early 1980s, so Mitsubishi apparently had a pretty mercenary attitude about who it would and wouldn't do business with.

Modern vehicles grow more complex and more computerized with every passing model year, and that complexity is starting to show up in the form of increasing dependability issues, even at Toyota, long the industry benchmark for durability. Recent recall actions tied to the automaker's new twin-turbocharged 3.4-liter V6, which serves as a V8 replacement across high-volume body-on-frame models, including the latest Lexus GX, have only sharpened the concern.

The Ford F-150 Raptor is a great high-speed off-roader, but what doesn't get better when you swap out a twin-turbocharged V6 for a supercharged V8? The Raptor R variant is happy to answer that question with 720 horsepower, a huge upgrade from the base Rap's 450 hp.

We've known for a little while now that Lamborghini has been working on a high-performance version of its Revuelto supercar, probably called Revuelto SV. Lamborghini's test cars haven't exactly been subtle, either, having "Attention, Fast Machine" plastered in Italian along the sides. However, not much concrete information has leaked out of the company, so aside from the looks, much of it has been a mystery.