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The week hasn’t been good for Bugatti. It started off with the Veyron Super Sport being stripped of its production car land speed record by the officials At Guinness World Records due to the version of the car being sold to the public having its top speed limited below the 267.8 mph record figure. In response, Bugatti revealed it was just days away from unveiling a new performance offering. But less than 24 hours after Bugatti’s announcement, photos of the new performance offering leaked onto the Internet. Today, Bugatti has released the official details: the new performance...
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What Stacks Up Against The F-Type: 30 Days Of 2014 Jaguar F-TypeJaguar’s new F-Type presents buyers with an interesting proposition. Due to a variety of engine options ranging from naturally aspirated V-6s to supercharged V-8s, Jaguar has been able to stagger pricing of its F-Type so that it competes against a much wider variety of models than it could...
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E-Type To F-Type, The Legend: 30 Days Of 2014 Jaguar F-TypeLaunched in 1961, the Jaguar E-Type became an icon almost instantly. It's been displayed in New York's Museum of Modern Art and was the third car to enter MoMA's permanent collection, after a 1948 Cisitalia 202 and a 1990 Ferrari F1 car. The E-Type sprang from a pair of concept cars in 1957 and...
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Fernando Alonso Continues To Fine-Tune The LaFerrari: VideoAlthough Ferrari’s new flagship, the LaFerrari, has already made its world debut, the new supercar is still running the grueling test gauntlet ahead of the start of production later this year. You may recall Ferrari left a number of vital specs undisclosed at the LaFerrari’s reveal...
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2014 Maserati Ghibli Revealed Ahead Of Shanghai Auto Show DebutIt appears Maserati’s mystery teaser for this month’s 2013 Shanghai Auto Show was in fact depicting the automaker’s upcoming Ghibli sedan, which has already been spied in prototype form for several months and was rumored to be debuting at the Chinese show. After an early leak...
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The 2014 Jaguar F-Type And The XK120: 30 Days Of F-TypeTying the present to the past is sometimes easy, sometimes not. With cars there's often a direct lineage to follow. In the case of the 2014 Jaguar F-Type, tracing its roots is a bit more indirect. Jaguar has been keen to play up the ties to the XK120 and its legendary offspring, the C-Type and...
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The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has been stripped of its production car land speed record by Guinness World Records, almost three years after the record was granted. In July of 2010, Bugatti tester Pierre-Henri Raphanel took a 1,200-horsepower Veyron Super Sport to a top speed of 267.8 mph (the average of two separate runs, per Guinness regulations), which at the time was deemed as the new world record for a production car’s top speed. Unfortunately for Bugatti, the version of the car it chose to sell to the public has a governed top speed of 258 mph, which the automaker says was due to...
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Rick Hendrick Buys First 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible For $1 MillionHaving already dropped $1.1 million on the very first 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray to enter production, NASCAR team owner and avid Corvette collector Rick Hendrick has now also bought the first convertible version of the car. The rights to the first 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible, which is...
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65 Years Of Jaguar's Sports Cars: 30 Days Of F-TypeJaguar's sports car heritage is deep, but there have been intermissions. From the very founding of the company, sporty cars were a priority, despite the a desire by William Lyons to parley the brand's sporting success into a broader line of vehicles for greater market reach and profit. Along the...
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BMW Concept X4: Dividing By ZeroAs BMW's model proliferation continues, with a renaming scheme impending, we have to wonder: where will it end? Not here, apparently. The latest addition to the BMW fold is a concept, but it appears to be a concept in name only. The BMW Concept X4 brings to the X3 size class an X6-like Sports...
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2014 Jaguar F-Type Mega Gallery: 30 Days Of F-TypeDay two of our 30 Days of the 2014 Jaguar F-Type starts where everyone should: ogling the little roadster. The second image in the gallery above was submitted especially for Motor Authority by Jaguar Land Rover North America's vice president of communications, Stuart Schorr. The F-Type almost...
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30 Days Of The 2014 Jaguar F-Type Begins TodayGet ready for a month of in-depth, media-rich coverage of one of the hottest new sports cars to hit the streets this year: the 2014 Jaguar F-Type. Whether you're a fan of the stylish new high-performance roadster already or not, you probably will be by the end of the month. We'll bring you...
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Making its debut at the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show in China this month is the 2014 Porsche Panamera, which represents the first major update to the sporty sedan since its original debut, also in Shanghai, four years ago. On initial glance, it doesn’t look like much has changed, as the 2014 Porsche Panamera has only received subtle visual updates. However, peer under the skin and you’ll quickly realize that this is not only one of the most significant launches for Porsche but also for the rest of the Volkswagen Group. That’s because the 2014 Porsche Panamera is being launched...
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Tesla Model S For $500 Per Month? No. Just No.Contrary to Tesla's ambitious claims, you can't really buy a Model S for $500 per month.
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2014 Porsche Panamera LeakedUPDATE: The 2014 Porsche Panamera has been revealed. Click here for all the details. We just brought you updated spy shots of the 2014 Porsche Panamera undergoing final testing this morning, but today, thanks to the embargo-busting of a certain U.K. publication, images and info on the mid-life...
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Maserati Teases New Model Ahead Of 2013 Shanghai Auto ShowMaserati has released a teaser image for a new model it’s set to unveil at the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show later this month. Though no mention of what model is hidden beneath the teaser’s blue veil, we do know Maserati is working on a new generation of its Ghibli nameplate, which...
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2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Video PreviewThe most hardcore, track-focused version of the Camaro was just unveiled last week in New York, and we took some time to check it out and bring you our first-hand impressions. So is this the Camaro you'll really want? Maybe. It's going to be surprisingly hardcore. Many people will find it...
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About All Of This Whining Over The PDK-Equipped Porsche 911 GT3 & GT3 RSThe new 911 GT3 and GT3 RS will have a PDK transmission only. Get over it.
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Now that the new Porsche 911 GT3 has made its debut, attention turns to the next performance variant of the Type 991 Porsche 911 family, the infamous Turbo. Though we’ve been spying prototypes of the car for several years now, today, we have a new set of shots that show the new Porsche 911 Turbo almost completely undisguised. Being this late into its development, we expect the new car to debut soon, most likely at September’s Frankfurt Auto Show before reaching showrooms around the end of the year as a 2014 model. The Porsche 911 Turbo is a car that needs no introduction here at...
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Hyundai HND-9 Coupe Concept Debuts At 2013 Seoul Motor ShowCoinciding with this week’s festivities in New York is the 2013 Seoul Motor Show taking place in Korea, where the stunning new HND-9 coupe concept from Hyundai made its debut. After a brief preview last week, Hyundai has now revealed the full details for the HND-9, which the automaker has...
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2014 Hyundai Equus: Upping The Ante Against The Luxury EstablishmentWhen Hyundai first revealed its Equus several years ago, adding a model to compete with the likes of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Lexus LS, or Jaguar XJ, among others, seemed downright outlandish. But what was seen as far-fetched then is now seeming quite smart. Now for 2014, as previewed at the 2013...
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2014 Chevrolet Camaro Sees The Return Of The Z/28: VideoFor the Camaro faithful, nothing says “affordable performance” quite like the alphanumerical combination of one letter and two numbers: Z/28. Originally an option code for cars built to compete in the SCCA Trans-Am series, the name stuck and has been associated with fast Camaros since...
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Next-Gen Subaru WRX Previewed By New ConceptSubaru has gone to some length to separate the WRX from its former pedestrian platform-mate, the Subaru Impreza. In 2012, Subaru dropped the Impreza name from the WRX and introduced an all-new Impreza; since then, only spy photos have hinted at what the next WRX would look like. Thanks to...
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Volkswagen Debuts 2015 GTI And Golf In New YorkAmerican consumers will need to wait until next year to buy a 2015 Golf or GTI at their Volkswagen dealer, but New York Auto Show attendees can see the Mark VII models in the flesh (or in the sheet metal, actually). Volkswagen’s latest Golf models will use the modular MQB platform, and North...
Kurt Ernst