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The long road to the market return of the Alpine sports car brand is almost over. It was in late 2012 that French automaker Renault announced plans to partner with British track car specialist Caterham to develop a platform to underpin a future sports car for Alpine and a similar model for Caterham. (Renault bought Alpine in 1973.) By 2014 Caterham had dropped plans for its sports car to focus on its core track car range, leaving Renault to take over the project. Renault has continued to develop its own sports car since then and in early 2016 we got a preview in the form of the Alpine Vision...
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Prototype for Techrules GT96 electric supercar surfacesChinese startup Techrules is bringing an extended-range electric supercar to next week’s 2017 Geneva auto show, and we’ve got photos of a prototype. The prototype is being tested at Italy’s Monza circuit by professional racer Manuel Lauck and reveals the flip-up door mechanism...
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New Volvo XC60 to automatically steer out of troubleThe latest version of the Volvo City Safety collision avoidance system will be able to automatically steer a car of trouble, within the given road rules. It will debut on the redesigned Volvo XC60 due to be unveiled at next week’s 2017 Geneva auto show, and will make its way into other...
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Ford Mustang police car leads 2017 Cologne Carnival paradeA 2017 Ford Mustang police car led the famous Rose Monday parade at this year’s Cologne Carnival. Ford has close links with the city of Cologne as it is where the automaker’s European headquarters and largest factory are located. The Mustang isn’t part of the regular police fleet...
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2018 Land Rover Range Rover Sport spy shotsLand Rover is working on a mid-cycle update for its Range Rover Sport and we’ve just spotted a prototype. The current Range Rover Sport, the nameplate’s second iteration, was all-new for the 2014 model year. The original had a lifespan of about eight years, and assuming the same for the...
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2017 Mercedes-AMG C43 Coupe first drive review: seeing what sticksIts impossible not to notice that the 2017 Mercedes-AMG C43 has too much tire. The 225- and 245-millimeter, 19-inch Pirelli P Zero rubber sticks to the road like hot Doublemint, and the standard traction control setting has a short leash anyway. Back and forth in the C43 along coastal roads, we...
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Just before the running of the 2017 Daytona 500, Chevrolet has taken the wraps off the new 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE. What is it? In short, a ZL1 with enhanced aero and some cool suspension technology. As if the new Camaro ZL1 wasn't going to be track-ready enough, the 1LE version cranks things up a few notches with Multimatic DSSV (Dynamic Suspensions Spool Valve) suspension featuring monotube adjustable ride-height front strut dampers, 19-inch forged aluminum wheels wrapped in Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3R tires (305s up front and 325s in the back), and a 6-speed manual as God intended. The power...
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2017 Ford GT Competition Series cuts weight from already light carbon fiber supercarThe Ford GT is a pure supercar, so you figured it was designed to be as light as possible, right? Wrong. Ford has just released information on the Ford GT Competition Series, a limited edition model that cuts weight from the carbon fiber-bodied supercar. Weight-savings measures include a...
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2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon coming with drag modeDodge has revealed that its upcoming 2018 Challenger SRT Demon will come with a special drag mode designed to help it get down the line quicker. Whereas the related Challenger SRT Hellcat was designed to be a good all-rounder, whether it was running the drag strip, attacking a road course or...
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Lexus confirms multi-stage hybrid system for 2018 LS 500hLexus will unveil the 2018 LS 500h hybrid sedan at next month’s 2017 Geneva auto show, and the automaker has confirmed the car will feature the innovative multi-stage hybrid system that we first saw in the LC 500h. The system combines an internal combustion engine with two motor-generators...
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2018 Audi S4 previewThe Audi A4 is an appealing compact luxury sedan with the cachet of the Audi name and the inherent goodness of German engineering. So, what's the S4? Well, it's just that much better. The 2018 Audi S4 is also better than the car it replaces. Under the hood sits a longitudinally mounted, twin-scroll...
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Land Rover teases Range Rover Velar ahead of Geneva debutLand Rover is expanding its luxury-oriented Range Rover family with a new model called the Range Rover Velar. The vehicle has been called everything from a Range Rover Sport Coupe to a Grand Evoque but Land Rover on Wednesday finally confirmed it as a Velar. Its arrival is no surprise as prototypes...
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A Chinese company by the name of Techrules will use the 2017 Geneva auto show to introduce an extended-range electric supercar with a three-seat layout and central driving position, à la the McLaren F1. (Note, McLaren is working on its own modern three-seat supercar.) Unique to the Techrules car, however, will be individual jet fighter-style canopies for each of the seats, which is a design more like that of the Homer. Techrules says the design was chosen because of the excellent visibility it affords. The company also states that a “theatrical arrival” is guaranteed...
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2018 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross spy shotsA prototype for Mitsubishi’s upcoming Eclipse Cross has been spotted for the first time. Mitsubishi will use next month’s 2017 Geneva auto show to introduce the new SUV which will sit between the automaker’s compact Outlander Sport and mid-size Outlander. It’s meant to be a...
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2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1's top speed confirmed at 198 mphBack in the halcyon days of 2011, Ford revealed the wildly fast—but exceptionally primitive—2013 Mustang Shelby GT500 could crest the magical 200-mile-per-hour mark thanks to its 662-horsepower supercharged 5.8-liter V-8. More recently, Dodge revealed its Charger SRT Hellcat will do the...
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Ford recreates Paris ‘Rendezvous’ run... with a twistAny car enthusiast knows the story of “Rendezvous,” the video of a highly illegal drive through the streets of Paris, supposedly, in a Ferrari 275 GTB. The video was created by filmmaker Claude Lelouch in August of 1976, and years later we learned that the car he used was actually a...
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2017 BMW 740e xDrive iPerformance first drive reviewThe word hybrid is indelibly attached to the Toyota Prius, a vehicle renowned for its frugality. And when the suffix plug-in is added, perhaps the first car to come to mind is the Chevrolet Volt. Both cars are true green machines that save owners money over the course of ownership, as well as at...
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Hellcat-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk headed for 2017 New York auto showIt looks like the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is going to have to share the limelight in April as the Hellcat-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk will also be making its debut at the 2017 New York auto show. While many have written off the idea that the Grand Cherokee Trackhawk would debut in...
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We know the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon will pack more power than its 707-horsepower Hellcat sibling, but this is just one of the factors that will enable the car to launch off the line much harder. In the latest installment of its teaser campaign for the Demon, which debuts April 12 at the 2017 New York auto show, Dodge detailed some of the mods designed to help the car claw at the road and get down the line quicker. We already learned that custom 315/40-size Nitto NT05R tires will be fitted at each corner. These are street-legal drag radials with a 15 percent larger contact patch...
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Hagerty speculates on top 10 future classic cars, and we weigh inWouldn't we all love to be Marty McFly? Then we could travel back in time to 1955, play Chuck Berry's 1958 song "Johnny B. Goode," and look like geniuses. The car guy equivalent would be going back to 1995, buying a Porsche 911 GT2 for just over six figures, socking it away for a couple decades...
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2018 Lexus LS 500h confirmed for 2017 Geneva auto showLexus has released the first photo of the hybrid version of its newest LS sedan ahead of a debut at next month’s 2017 Geneva auto show. The fifth generation of the Lexus flagship made its debut in January at the 2017 Detroit auto show was only shown as an LS 500, which comes with a...
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BMW M4 CS, next-gen Ford Focus, Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross: Car News HeadlinesBMW is about to launch a more potent version of its M4. The car was just spotted at an official photo shoot and is thought to be the first of a new generation of “CS” cars developed by the M division. The first prototypes for Ford’s next-generation Focus have been spotted. Our...
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Fittipaldi EF7 supercar coming with V-8, 2,200-lb weightSet to star at next month’s 2017 Geneva auto show is a new supercar developed in partnership by Brazilian racing driver Emerson Fittipaldi, Italian design house Pininfarina and German motorsport and engineering firm HWA. The car is called the Fittipaldi EF7 Vision Gran Turismo by Pininfarina...
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2017 Bugatti Chiron previewIn the supercar world, a V-8 will cut it, a V-10 is better, and a V-12 is the most desired engine. Then there's Bugatti, the French brand that laughs at your measly V-12 and ups the ante to 16 cylinders. Bugatti started its 16-cylinder, ungodly power onslaught in 2005 with the Veyron. The car's...
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