2015
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A Z06 with an automatic isn’t a real Z06, you say. It’s barely even a sports car, you sneer. It’ll probably get outrun by a grocery cart, you chortle. You obviously haven’t been paying attention. Maybe you will now. CHECK OUT: Yes, The Tesla Model S Can Drift: Video If this description doesn’t sound like you, but like one of your worst enemies, then be sure to post this on their wall. Otherwise, sit down, strap on the headphones, and enjoy the 0-185 mph ride as John Hennessey takes a bone-stock eight-speed automatic 2015 Chevy Corvette Z06 to very nearly 300...
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2015 Callaway Corvette Z06 Coming To National Corvette Museum C7 Bash
In Corvette tuner circles—and performance car circles in general—Callaway remains a legendary name. From the simply bizarre to the purely awesome, the brand has run the gamut, but now it’s working with the best Corvette ever: the 2015 Z06. ALSO SEE: Wing, Bodywork Rip Off Of...
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Lamborghini Limits Aventador LP 750-4 SV Production To Just 600 Units
Lamborghini used this week’s 2015 Shanghai Auto Show to mark the tenth anniversary of its launch in China, but of more interest to global audiences is confirmation by CEO Stephan Winkelmann that the brand’s latest baby, the Aventador LP 750-4 SuperVeloce, will be limited to just 600...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Ferrari LaFerrari Crashes Into Ditch
Proving that not all LaFerraris are pampered garage queens, one owner of the new Ferrari flagship sent his car into a roadside ditch during a recent road trip. The crash took place last week on the famous Route Napoléon in southern France. ALSO SEE: Ultra-Exotic Parking Problems: Veyron On...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Making The 2015 Ford Mustang: Episode 1, Exterior Design
The 2015 Ford Mustang is here, but do you know how it got here? Probably not. But you soon will, thanks to a new video series from Ford. ALSO SEE: Hellcat Converted To E85 Sees 753 Rear-Wheel Horsepower: Video This first episode goes over some of the Mustang’s history and then talks about the...
Nelson Ireson -
Build Your Ideal 1-Of-1 Dodge Viper SRT With New Configurator
As part of its updates for its 2015 Viper SRT supercar, Dodge launched a new variant dubbed the “GTC” that buyers are able to customize in virtually any way they desire—and no two Viper SRT GTCs will be allowed to be alike for any single model year, not even when it comes to their...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
The Corvette's Performance Data Recorder—which captures video and overlays metrics like speed, RPM and steering angle—is a great tool for enthusiasts looking for lower lap times. ALSO SEE: Hellcat Converted To E85 Sees 753 Rear-Wheel Horsepower: Video As we've seen, it can also be used to catch a valet flogging your car in a parking garage. But while owners have found the data useful, there have been complaints about the somewhat murky quality of the imagery. And in one of his periodic Q&As with the faithful fans of CorvetteForum, he addressed a question about the...
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Hellcat Converted To E85 Sees 753 Rear-Wheel Horsepower: Video
In stock form, you already know what the 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat is capable of achieving when it comes to power. That figure of 707 horsepower is burned into the brains of everyone who's ever read anything about the machine. There's always a collection of people out there though for which...
Jeff Glucker -
Bentley’s Latest Mulsanne Special Edition Honors Historic Blue Train Race
In the early parts of the last century, well-heeled car enthusiasts would attempt to beat a train—nicknamed the “Blue Train” because of its blue carriages—that ran across France, between Calais in the country’s north and Cannes in the south. According to Bentley, the...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Volvo S60L T6 Twin Engine Revealed Ahead Of 2015 Shanghai Auto Show
Volvo will use next week’s 2015 Shanghai Auto Show to launch a new plug-in hybrid sedan based on the long-wheelbase version of the S60, the S60L, which is on sale here as the S60 Inscription. The sedan is called the “S60L T6 Twin Engine”, and while we’re unlikely to see the...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Mitsubishi Rolls Out Lancer Evolution Final Edition In Japan
Mitsubishi doesn’t have much in the way of interesting product these days, and the situation is due to become more dire as the last bastion of excitement at the brand, the Lancer Evolution, is set to be culled later this year. Previously, Mitsubishi’s U.S. chief Don Swearingen said a...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Fiat Launches Retro 500 1957 Edition Cabrio
If you’re a fan of the original Fiat 500 but can’t live with a car that’s decades old, then the Fiat 500 1957 Edition may just be for you. It was launched last year to celebrate the 57 years since the launch of the original 'Cinquecento' back in 1957 and came with retro styling...
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This is something you don’t see every day, even if you live on the German Autobahn: a Porsche 918 Spyder chasing a Koenigsegg Agera R at 217 mph—the same speed the 918 ran in Australia for a stunt. CHECK OUT: Drunk California Woman Stalls Car On Freeway, Urinates, Wanders Into Traffic: Video Of course, that was just the speed of the 918 Spyder chase car—the Agera R may have been going even faster. While it’s the Autobahn, and presumably an unlimited section, the speeds attained here seem a bit risky: it’s wet, and there’s a fair amount of traffic...
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Porsche 918 Spyder Completes World-First Stunt In Aussie Outback: Video
Everybody knows about Germany’s speed-unlimited autobahns, but what many may not know is that there’s another stretch of road where drivers can push their cars to the limit without fear of losing their license: the Stuart Highway in Australia’s Northern Territory. To demonstrate...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2015 BMW X6 M first drive review
BMW's X6 M is a venomous cane toad of an SUV, one with some obvious warts. Even so, it's made friends and set trends, spawning imitators in the Acura ZDX (extinct: mercy killing) and the upcoming Mercedes GLE Coupe (viability TBD). It's also an honest-to-God, track-capable car. Mmmmm, crossover...
Martin Padgett -
Stephen King Takes Tesla To Drags, Compares It To X-Wing Fighter
You might expect Stephen King to employ a more sinister analogy to describe the wicked performance of his Tesla. But rather than writing it "was killer," "went like a bat out of Hell," or had "demonic power," this morning on Twitter, the horror writer chose to compare his electric car to the...
John Coyle -
Don’t Let The Door Hit You In The Ass: Adios, Honda Crosstour
Cars are great. They’re awesome. We nerd out over them, drool at inconvenient times (sorry, dear), and generally spend way too much of our lives obsessing over them. But some cars suck—so much so that they hurt other cars by their mere existence. The Honda Crosstour is one of those...
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Tesla Model S 70D Coming With 514-HP Rating, $75,000 Price Tag
Just when you think Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] can’t make any more updates to its award-winning Model S electric sedan, the automaker goes out and introduces a new variant. The new variant is the 70D, with the “D” in the name signifying that it packs the automaker’s dual-motor...
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When Maranello revealed its latest hypercar would be called "LaFerrari," the reaction from auto media and fans alike was withering. MUST WATCH: Off-Road Charger Is Our 'Furious 7' Dream Car Come True: Video So when Ferrari was tasked with naming the model's $2.4 million track-only variant, the company demonstrated the careful consideration of criticism which has come to define its public face, and decided on a moniker which—at least to the English-speaking world—appears to be a censored expletive. It's quite perfect, actually, for a car we've previously described as "utterly...
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Alpina Drops New Super Sedan To Celebrate 50 Years
What started in a building that used to produce typewriters has come quite a long way. The Alpina that you know today actually came to be as far back as 1965, when Burkard Bonvensiepen began a business of tuning the BMW products of his era. This involved tinkering with carbs and revising cylinder...
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Rolls-Royce Unveils Wraith 'Inspired By Film' In New York
Rolls-Royce unveiled a special-edition Wraith inspired by its own film.
Stephen Edelstein -
2015 Mercedes-AMG C63 Priced From $64,825
Mercedes-AMG’s brilliant C63 is ready for its market debut and today we learned that the sledgehammer of a sedan will retail for just $64,825, including a $925 destination charge. That’s not a bad deal considering you’re getting a lightweight, rear-wheel-drive platform in which is...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
BMW Celebrates Three Millionth Vehicle In Spartanburg, Status As Largest U.S. Auto Exporter
While enthusiasts the world over still complain about forbidden fruit, in reality, today's automotive industry is more global than ever. Fiat and Chrysler have merged, Pirelli is now—in a Twilight Zone-worthy twist—property of the Chinese government, Jaguar Land Rover is a subsidiary of...
John Coyle -
Pennzoil's Hellcat-starring 'Airlift Drift' is obviously fake, awesome anyway
As an enthusiast, sometimes, you almost have to feel bad for oil companies—or at least their marketing departments. Now, tire companies don't exactly have it easy—consumers gravitate toward the cheapest round, black option—but at least tires are visible, and attentive drivers can...
John Coyle