The middle to late 1990s was a fascinating time in big-time sports car racing. Rule changes and the emergence of what have come to be known as hypercars like the McLaren F1 brought a whole new look to ...

At 7000 RPM, conversation is impossible in the one-and-only street-legal Panoz GTR-1. The coupe’s carbon-fiber race tub vibrates like a tuning fork. Just beyond the firewall, a 6.0 liter Roush Racing ...

Jacob is a former Audi mechanic turned automotive journalist. His love for cars started the first time he held a Porsche 911 Hot Wheels car in his hands, and the very same car continues to fascinate ...

The Panoz Esperante GTR-1 Le Mans Homologation Special has been fully restored after an extensive six-month process. Making its debut at the 2015 Dubai Motor Show, the Panoz Esperante GTR-1 Le Mans ...

This is a car that exists solely because of the homologation rules in the 1990s. Don Panoz needed a “street version” of the GTR-1 in order to appease the rule book, so he built one. This was a GTR-1 ...

Georgia-based Panoz has just finished restoring the only remaining Esperante GTR-1 Homologation Special. Hailed as one of the most hardcore street-legal cars the small company has ever built, the ...

American sports car brand Panoz is present at this week’s 2015 Dubai Motor Show where the company is showing off its latest Esperante Spyder and Spyder GT models. And sharing the stand with the ...

Eight years before Formula 1 Management first intoned the word hybrid, and fifteen years before Audi claimed the first hybrid victory at Le Mans overall, there was Sparky. The year was 1997. Don Panoz ...

Front-engined cars have been absent from the highest echelons of racing since the early 1960s. But in 1997, Don Panoz took a car to Le Mans ready to rattle the mid-engined establishment. It was called ...

1998 was before endurance racing turned into a mileage game. This was before Audi's diesel-powered assault in the 2000s. Back then, Mercedes, Mclaren, and Porsche were dueling with wide, low ...

No, it's not the Batmobile. Striking resemblance, though, isn't it? In fact, it is one of the newest cars introduced to Gran Turismo 3 A-spec-- we spotted it briefly at the Tokyo Game Show, and ...