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When Spyker showed its B6 Venator concept at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, it was easy to write off the shapely coupe as just another design exercise from a company struggling to find its niche (and even stay afloat in a changing market). The response to the B6 Venator, however, was overwhelmingly positive, leading the Dutch sports car brand to quickly confirm production and roll out the open-top B6 Venator Spyder concept at the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance just a few months later. Despite a number of headwinds, including recovering from a failed attempt to rejuvenate Saab, Spyker...
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Ford Fusion Lightweight Concept Car Goes All-Out With High-Tech Weight Savings: VideoWhen it comes to vehicle performance, weight is the enemy. But saving weight can do more than make a car turn better, accelerate better, and stop better. It can also make it more efficient. ALSO SEE: Homebrewed Chinese Batmobile Tumbler Replica Proving Wise Investment That’s why so many...
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2015 Porsche Cayenne Spy ShotsPorsche introduced a facelifted version of its Panamera for 2014, and soon a similarly updated version of its Cayenne SUV will be launched. The changes will bring the sporty SUV’s styling into line with that of the smaller and more dynamic Macan, and should keep sales brimming into the new...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class Spy Shots (With Interior)These are the latest spy shots of a prototype for Mercedes-Benz’s updated CLS-Class. The second generation of the CLS, which spans both sedan and shooting brake wagon bodystyles, was introduced for the 2012 model year so it's now about due for a mid-cycle update, which will most likely arrive...
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2016 Audi RS 7 PreviewFollowing the debut of the updated Audi A7 and S7 models at the Leipzig Auto Show in Germany a week ago, Audi has now revealed the updated version of the bahn-storming RS 7 model. There’s no additional power under the hood, which is fine by us since the RS 7 was all-new just a year ago, but...
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VW GTI Wolfsburg, Golf SportWagen Concepts Star At WörtherseeEvery year since 1981, thousands of Volkswagen and Audi enthusiasts have convened in the Austrian town of Reifnitz, beside lake Wörthersee, for one of the world's biggest Volkswagen group festivals. And for several years, recognizing the value of such a gathering, Volkswagen group brands have...
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Now that Lamborghini’s new Huracán LP 610-4 supercar has been revealed and is on its way to customers all over the globe, attention turns to its racing variant being developed for the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo racing series that runs in North America, Europe and Asia. Currently, a Gallardo-based race car is used for the one-make series but a Huracán-based car has been confirmed to start testing midway through the 2014 season. MUST READ: Angry Supercar Hater Throws Rocks At Lamborghini Aventador: Video Lamborghini and its Squadra Corse motorsport division have now...
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Hyundai Reveals Veloster Midship Concept And AG Luxury Sedan In BusanAt the 2014 Busan Auto Show in South Korea yesterday, Hyundai revealed a radical race car concept based on its Veloster sports car as well as a new luxury sedan codenamed the AG. The concept is the Veloster Midship, which as its name suggests is a mid-engined version of the Veloster sports car. The...
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2015 Subaru BRZ Series.Blue Special Edition AnnouncedSubaru will launch a special-edition BRZ with some aesthetic upgrades.
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Volkswagen GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo Revealed: VideoBuilding cars for Gran Turismo 6 has become almost as popular with carmakers as building actual cars. The latest to join the fray is a futuristic concept of the venerable Volkswagen Golf GTI, called the GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo. Yes, there's a comma in the name. And no, we still...
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McLaren Moving Towards All-Hybrid LineupMcLaren has just launched its 650S as a replacement for its 12C, and next year the company will be launching an entry-level model code-named the P13. This will be followed by another new model code-named the P15, which will arrive in 2017 and be positioned between the 650S and P1 flagship. Looking...
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Audi Previews Electrically-Driven Turbo In RS 5 TDI ConceptWe first heard Audi was working on an electrically-driven turbocharger back in 2012, but now the automaker has revealed an engine fitted with the technology in a new concept car. The concept is based on the RS 5 but the car’s standard V-8 has been replaced by an advanced twin-turbocharged...
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Cute as a button and spelling doom for the enthusiast; no, it’s not the Rabbit of Caerbannog. It’s Google’s first in-house-designed self-driving car prototype, built from the ground up to deliver a seamless driving experience. But you won’t be doing the driving. Still a prototype, and quite obviously so in many ways, the as-yet-nameless car is Google’s new testbed for its vision of a computerized, egalitarian future of transportation. ALSO SEE: Dodge Drops More Photos And Specs For 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat As the video demonstrates, right now this reduces to...
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Zagato Shows Off Bespoke Lamborghini 5-95 At Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’EsteA partnership between Lamborghini and Zagato that dates back to 1965, when the Italian design house built a pair of special 3500 GTZ models on the bones of Lamborghini’s first model, the 350 GT, has just seen a new chapter written. That chapter is the Lamborghini 5-95 Zagato, which made its...
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Another One-Two Finish For Mercedes AMG At Formula One Monaco GPAs always in the Monaco Grand Prix, qualifying is critical, and this was proven yet again with polesitter Nico Rosberg of Mercedes AMG winning the 2014 race in spectacular form. Once again the only real challenge came from Mercedes AMG’s other driver, in this case Lewis Hamilton, who...
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MINI Superleggera Vision Concept Is The Most Wonderfully Un-MINI MINI YetUnder the BMW Group’s tutelage, the MINI brand has grown into something that only loosely resembles its truly pint-sized past. That’s not entirely a bad thing, however, as some of the newest MINIs are also some of the best. But the MINI Superleggera Vision concept is the most un-MINI...
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Nissan GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 To Tackle WEC And Le Mans In 2015: VideoThis year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans is just a month away, with Nissan set to compete with its radical ZEOD RC plug-in hybrid race car in the event’s Garage 56 experimental entry. However, the Japanese automaker recently confirmed that it plans to compete alongside the likes of Audi, Porsche...
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Mercedes CLC May Return As C-Class-Based Four-Door CoupeMercedes-Benz has just launched a new generation of its C-Class sedan and once again there will be coupe, wagon and high-performance AMG variants. However, according to one of the automaker’s senior staff, there will be some additional variants. We already know that a convertible will be...
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There are those who harp on the 650S, somehow deriding it for being an updated, more P1-like version of the 12C. Those people are missing the point entirely. The 650S isn’t just an updated 12C with a new face; it’s a better 12C. And that makes it a very good car. With the 12C already high in the pantheon of cars I’ve driven (right up there with, and in some ways even edging out the 458 Italia and 918 Spyder), the 650S has an almost unfair advantage. That is, until you realize the 12C was McLaren’s first attempt at building a road car in nearly 20 years—and its...
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2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And VideoFollowing the debut of the updated 2015 Challenger lineup at the 2014 New York Auto Show last month, Dodge has dropped the first details on the high-performance variant developed by the brand’s in-house tuner SRT: the 2015 Challenger SRT. We can confirm that the car will come in two flavors...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Wagon RevealedMercedes-Benz has revealed the first details for its 2015 C-Class Estate (C-Class Wagon if ever makes it to the U.S.), which has just entered production at the C-Class main factory in Bremen, Germany. Though it’s yet to be confirmed, Mercedes is unlikely to offer its new C-Class wagon in the...
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2016 Jaguar XE Spy ShotsJaguar is now in the latter stages of development of a small sedan that will target the likes of the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and spy shots of a prototype wearing the production version’s sheet metal have surfaced yet again. The new car was recently confirmed to be called the...
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2016 Mercedes-AMG GT Teased In New Video And MicrositeMercedes-AMG has started its official teaser campaign for its new SLS-replacing sports car, the 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT. The Porsche 911 rival isn’t due for a reveal until the third quarter of the year, but we’ve already seen numerous prototypes as well as the car’s luscious...
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2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS Spy ShotsThese are the latest spy shots of the upcoming GTS version of the current Type-991 Porsche 911 Carrera. The previous Carrera GTS was launched in 2010 and proved so popular Porsche launched more GTS models based on the Cayenne and Panamera, and most recently the Boxster and Cayman. Porsche’s...
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