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The Jaguar XK will reportedly leave showrooms due to low sales.
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Coffee-Burning Car Gives You A 77.5 MPH World Record Boost
You might have heard of Cars and Coffee before but almost certainly not in this way... Rather than car park full of shiny supercars and classic metal, this combination of a car and coffee involves powering the former with the latter to break a land speed record. It's not as simple as giving your...
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EcoVelocity's Modern Tech Transforms Classics (Virtually...)
We may spend the day writing about modern car technology, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate the classic cars that helped form the industry we know today. Some might even suggest "they don't make 'em like they used to", and they'd be right. Unfortunately, they also lack all the safety...
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GPS Racing: Over 7 Million Brits Try And Beat The Sat Nav
How long will a journey take from point A to point B? To get the answer, many of us will punch the destination into our GPS satellite navigation devices which give us an estimated time of arrival (ETA). However, a new survey thinks that subconsciously trying to beat the displayed ETA could be...
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You Have Reached Your Destination... With A Map, Not Sat Nav
If you're aged between 18 and 24 years old you could be forgiven for having never seen a road atlas. These archaic paper-based devices require you to use planning and a sense of direction to navigate from one place to another, and remain silent throughout your journey. According to research by the...
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General Motors Picks U.K. For EN-V City Car Euro Manufacture
Small cars are becoming big business. The smart fortwo, Scion iQ, Gordon Murray's upcoming T.25, the Renault Twizy... more and more carmakers are developing tiny vehicles to provide our city transportation of the future. General Motors has jumped on the bandwagon too. GM showed the cleverly named...
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Drifting defines adolescent ridiculousness, yet we can’t get enough of it. The style of driving--if you can call it that--requires a driver to intentionally over steer, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels through turns, while maintaining vehicle control and a high exit speed. Let’s just say, it’s a lot easier said than done. The current world record for a drift stands at 8,000 feet, which is around one and a half miles. A man by the name of Mauro Calo, a Mercedes-Benz demonstration driver, now wants to smash that record by completing a single drift that will carry...
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Aston Martin Rapide Production Moving To UK In 2012
It’s hard to believe but one of Aston Martin’s most popular models, the Rapide luxury four-door coupe, is not actually manufactured by Aston Martin. Instead, production of the Rapide is handled by independent vehicle manufacturer Magna Steyr in Austria. The decision to outsource...
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Bloodhound Land Speed Car Gets First Record (In Scale Speed)
If you've been following the race for the Land Speed Record you'll be familiar with Bloodhound SSC. The U.K-based team headed by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green hopes to smash the previous record, set by Green himself, by achieving over 1,000 miles per hour. A car with the Bloodhound name has...
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Project Kahn TR8 Is A Baby R8 Based On The Audi TT
Audi may have ditched plans for its own baby R8, the long-rumored R4 sports car, but the guys from Project Kahn have stepped up to the challenge and built the new TR8 based on the Audi TT. Admittedly, the TT is a front-engined compact sports car, which in base trim only drives the front wheels and...
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Ferrari 458 Italia Crashes Spectacularly In The UK
We’ve lost count of how many Ferrari 458 Italia supercars have been lost, either due to fire or from their owner’s own carelessness, but it’s safe to say that at least one of the sultry supercars has been lost each and every month since the car was first launched back in late...
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What's Under The Hood? 4 Million Brit Drivers Can't Tell You
They say that cars are getting more complicated, and that home maintenance is becoming less easy to accomplish under all the plastic covers and with unfathomable electronics. Still, for four million motorists in Great Britain, dabbling in a little mechanical upkeep is the least of their problems -...
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When people say that the 2011 Chevrolet Orlando is great for families with kids, your first thoughts are probably along the lines of loads of seats, lots of space, a tough interior and something that's cheap to run. The Orlando that's appeared in a London street today is none of these things, but it's still great for kids. How can this be? Well, it's made entirely out of mouldable putty-toy Play-Doh, which Chevrolet U.K. research has revealed to be number one in a list of the top ten nostalgic toys. At 15 feet long by just under six feet tall, it's the world's biggest Play-Doh sculpture and...
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British Police Choose Jaguar XF For Patrol Duty
It’s good to be a cop in the UK. While local law enforcement agencies get around in Chevrolets and Fords, across the pond they’re rolling in Jaguars. The first ever police-spec XF is about to go on patrol across the Midlands. The Central Motorway Police Group, which patrols highways across...
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Report: Toyota planning production of two new hybrids in Europe
Toyota has some bold plans for its hybrid lineup in Europe. The auto giant will reportedly launch a new entry-level, dedicated hybrid Lexus hatchback in Europe next year and now it’s claimed Toyota will also start production of another hybrid model in France. While the Lexus version will be...
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Right-hand-drive Tesla Roadster coming next year
Just a few weeks ago Tesla got a new lease on life with a $465 million U.S. Department of Energy loan to build the infrastructure it needs for the mass-production of the Model S luxury-electric sedan. Soon after that the company announced plans to grow its brand overseas while also opening its...
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New images of Jaguar’s lime green XKR ‘Goodwood Special’
The UK's historic Goodwood Festival of Speed has just completed another running of its famous show and hillclimb events, and today Jaguar has released new images of its unique XKR 'Goodwood Special' that made a showing at the event. The car, finished in a custom lime green paint scheme, is...
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Report: Toyota plans to mass produce plug-in hybrids by 2012
Toyota has already confirmed it will release a plug-in hybrid vehicle powered by next-generation lithium-ion batteries in Japan, the U.S. and Europe sometime next year but production of these will be limited and only commercial and government fleets are expected to receive the cars. Mass production...
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The Zolfe Orange is a compact British sports car designed and built for racing enthusiasts looking for a fun and relatively low-cost entry into the world of weekend motorsports. The car was spawned from a collaboration between Midlands business entrepreneur Nic Strong and former Caterham Technical Director Jez Coates. The vehicle first entered production back in January and now a new special edition titled the Zolfe Classic GTC4 has been launched. Like the original Orange on which it’s based, the new Classic GTC4 features a spaceframe chassis and composite body, and tips the scales at...
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Tesla opens European flagship store in London
Just a few days ago Tesla got a new lease on life with a $465 million U.S. government loan to build the infrastructure it needs for the mass-production of the Model S luxury-electric sedan. Today, however, the company is focusing on growing its brand overseas with the grand opening of its first...
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Driven: 2010 Bentley Continental GTC Speed
There's only one thing Denzel Washington and Kim Kardashian could have in common, and it's clearly not talent-related. Not even videotape-related, so far as we know. It's what they drive - the celebrity vehicle of choice that doesn't come with a big opening weekend and an Oscar nomination, the...
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Michael Schumacher latest to be revealed as 'The Stig'
Michael Schumacher was unmasked as the BBC car programme Top Gear's mysterious 'The Stig' on tonight’s episode of the long-running show. The enigmatic white-overalled, gloved and helmeted figure, who for years has anonymously tested cars for the TV show, appeared on the floor of the British...
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The Bugatti Veyron experience isn't priceless: it's $25,000 a day
With only about 300 of the Bugatti Veyrons in existence, a single-day rental may be the only chance some get to experience the car first hand. And for £16,000 ($25,000) the folks at Holders Vehicle Contracts in the UK will deliver exactly that. The single-day rate might sound like a pittance...
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Lewis Hamilton to pilot Ayrton Senna’s championship-winning McLaren at Goodwood FOS
In just four weeks at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (FOS), current F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton will tackle the event’s famous 1.16 mile hill-climb in the McLaren-Honda MP4/4 turbo race car that led to Ayrton Senna’s championship win in the 1988 F1 season. Hamilton has been a...
Kenneth Hall