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If you were born later than the 1970s, chances are good you’ve never heard of the Maserati Ghibli. Launched in 1967, the Giorgetto Giugiaro-designed grand-touring coupe helped Maserati outsell...
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Maserati Plans New Supercar Based On LaFerrari: ReportIn 2002, Ferrari set the supercar benchmark with the release of its Enzo, of which 400 were produced. Even more exclusive was the Enzo-derived Maserati MC12, which was built solely to allow a racing version to run in FIA GT competition. Only 55 MC12s were built, with 50 ending up in the hands of...
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Jeep And Mopar Show Their Moab Easter Jeep Safari ConceptsJust yesterday we bought you word that Jeep and Mopar would again collaborate on concepts for the 2013 Moab Easter Jeep Safari, complete with teaser images of the Jeep Trailhawk II and Jeep Wrangler Slim concepts. There wasn’t much to go on, but Chrysler did promise more details in the coming...
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Watch Rhys Millen Drift A McLaren 12C Spider Down An Icy Loveland Pass: VideoIf you’ve ever driven Colorado’s highway 6 across Loveland Pass, you know it can be a bit intimidating in the best of weather. With a maximum elevation of 11,990 feet, the road bears the distinction of being the highest mountain pass in the world to remain open year-round. Though the...
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Tanner Foust Shows Off His 2013 Ford Fiesta ST Rally CarLast month, the 2013 Ford Fiesta ST Global RallyCross race car broke cover at the Chicago Auto Show. Dressed in a generic Ford livery, it was announced that drivers Tanner Foust and Brian Deegan would campaign the 2013 Global RallyCross Championship season behind the wheel of OlsbergsMSE-prepared...
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1968 Shelby GT500KR Convertible For Sale On EbayFollowing on the success of the Shelby GT350 Mustang, Shelby American introduced an even more potent version for the 1967 model year, dubbed the GT500. Under the hood lurked a 428-cubic-inch “Police Interceptor” V-8 engine, equipped with dual four-barrel carburetors for a reported...
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Every year, the end of March brings with it increasing daylight, the promise of spring, and the annual Moab Easter Jeep Safari. A longstanding tradition in the off-roading community, the yearly event...
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Appeals Court To Decide On GPS Tracking Without A WarrantIn January 2012, the United States Supreme Court ruled that attaching a GPS tracking device to a subject’s car without a written warrant was the equivalent of an illegal search, prohibited by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The current administration views things a bit...
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Trans Am Depot shows off Hurst Edition in new commercial: VideoDo you long for the days of bell-bottomed jeans, 8-track tapes and billowing chest hair? Do you mourn the passing of the Screaming Chicken, emblazoned on a hood with a protruding intake? Take heed, retro muscle car fans: thanks to the team at TransAm Depot, the Pontiac Trans Am lives on. In fact...
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Detroit Electric To Debut All-Electric Sports Car In AprilIn the early years of the 20th century, electric cars were seen by many buyers as preferable to internal-combustion-engine automobiles. Electric cars were easier to start, more reliable and required far less maintenance than their fossil-fueled cousins, and their limited range was far less of an...
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McLaren MP4-12Cs On IceGstaad, Switzerland is well known for its variety of winter sports, including downhill skiing, cross-country skiing and tobogganing. It’s climate is cold, but not too cold, and the city receives an average of around 13 inches of snow between December and February. It’s also earned a...
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First Details On James Glickenhaus’ Next Project Car, The P33Movie producer James Glickenhaus has a thing for Ferraris, but doesn’t necessarily want an off-the-rack product. In 2006, Glickenhaus unveiled the Ferrari P4/5, a one-off supercar that used Ferrari Enzo mechanicals in a body penned by Pininfarina. The P4/5 was meant as a homage to racing...
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If you’ve ever had the luxury of ordering a new Porsche model from the factory, you understand what a daunting task this can be. Like many other high-end sports and luxury cars, most Porsche... -
Has The Nissan Juke-R Started A Super-Crossover Trend?The original Nissan Juke-R seemed to answer a question that few people were asking: what if you took an ordinary crossover and grafted the mechanicals of a world-class supercar to it? The end result was an unexpected hit the world over, and enough buyers stepped to the plate with a cost-be-damned...
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Cadillac ELR Could Downsize To Three-Cylinder Engine As Part Of Facelift: ReportThe 2014 Cadillac ELR extended-range electric luxury coupe is still nearly a year away from arrival in dealer showrooms, but that hasn’t halted speculation on what the future holds for Cadillac’s Voltec-platform option. As Edmunds reports, General Motors may be looking to replace the...
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China's Geely Out Of Final Bidding For Fisker: ReportAfter a string of disasters in 2012 left startup automaker Fisker on the ropes financially, last month it appeared that some good news was finally on the horizon for the struggling firm. Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely, owner of Volvo, was said to be the leading candidate for an ownership stake in...
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NASCAR Food City 500 Recap: Kasey Kahne Wins At BristolWhen we penned the NASCAR Sprint Cup Food City 500 preview last week, we told you that our money would be on Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch for the win. When Busch put his Toyota Camry on pole for Sunday’s race, we began think we were onto something with our pre-qualifying prediction. In...
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Food City 500 PreviewThe NASCAR Sprint Cup series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee twice each year. Early in the season, it’s for this weekend’s Food City 500, while the Irwin Tools Night Race is held in late August. Though the two races run at different times of the year, under...
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In January, we bought you news that Lamborghini would be bringing its Blancpain Super Trofeo racing series to drivers and fans in North America.
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2014 BMW 3-Series Diesel Confirmed For 2013 New York Auto ShowIf you’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of a diesel-powered BMW 3-Series sedan, you may want to make plans to attend the 2013 New York Auto Show. BMW has officially announced that its new 328d sedan will makes its U.S. debut at the New York show. Fitted with a 2.0-liter turbodiesel engine...
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Sergio Perez Drives The McLaren P1: VideoNow that Lewis Hamilton has moved on to AMG Mercedes for the 2013 Formula One season, his former seat at McLaren Mercedes is being filled by Mexican driver Sergio Perez. One of the perks of being a driver for McLaren is that you get to test the company’s wares before anyone else does. For...
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DeltaWing Coupe Unveiled At SebringAs we confirmed in yesterday’s United SportsCar Racing announcement, the DeltaWing racer has a guaranteed future in North American sports car racing. Eligible for competition in the Prototype class, the current open-cockpit DeltaWing (now in a bright chrome livery) will make its 2013 ALMS...
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Fernando Alonso And Felipe Massa Wring Out A 458 Italia: VideoIf you’re wondering what Formula One drivers do for fun on testing days, this video should answer that question. While at the Circuit de Catalunya for pre-season shakedown testing of the new Ferrari F138 Formula One car, Scuderia Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa borrowed a...
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Best In Show At Amelia Island: 1936 Duesenberg SJN And 1968 Ford GT40If you couldn’t make it to this year’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, you missed a truly memorable show. Once again, the weather was spectacular, and event chairman and founder Bill Warner managed to attract an impressive array of cars and draw a crowd of some 25,000...
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