Luxury Cars
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Order a 2015 Lexus RC F in bright metallic orange, and at least five random individuals on the streets of the U.K. will be happy--as that color is known as Solar Flare, and those five people helped name it from hundreds of other suggestions. The Lexus U.K. Facebook page posed the question earlier this month, having released pictures of the new 2015 RC F high-performance coupe in the vivid orange shade. Hundreds of people suggested colors but Solar Flare won out, the same name suggested by Lexus Facebook page users Peter Robert Shaumburg Fodor, Paul Britt, Joe Ettwein, Matt Frenchy and...
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More McLaren Merchandise At GoodwoodMcLaren unveils its latest merchandise collection at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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McLaren To Build Limited Run Of MSO-Enhanced 650S SupercarsEarlier this year, the official personalization department of McLaren, McLaren Special Operations, unveiled a 650S concept equipped with a number of unique elements aimed at improving both the car’s styling and performance. Now, just a day out from the start of the 2014 Goodwood Festival of...
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Overfinch Tunes The Latest Range Rover SportYou can barely move for customized Range Rovers in trendy city districts these days, but Overfinch was tuning the British SUVs long before it was fashionable to do so. The company has now turned its attention to the automaker's latest product, the Range Rover Sport. DON'T MISS: #GiveAShift: The 7...
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575-Horsepower Jaguar F-Type Project 7 Revealed: VideoThe first undertaking of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Vehicles Operations personalization department is the F-Type Project 7, the production version of last year’s Project 7 concept car. Yes, Jaguar has confirmed that it will build 250 examples of the stunning speedster, and will...
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Land Rover’s High-Performance Range Rover Sport Is The SVR: VideoLand Rover has confirmed that the high-performance version of its Range Rover Sport that we’ve been seeing for months in prototype form is called the SVR. The British automaker has also confirmed that the vehicle will be presented, still as a prototype, at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed...
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Ferrari has already managed to curb its CO2 emissions by almost 40 percent since 2007, back when its cars were averaging about 435 grams per kilometer as opposed to the current rate of about 270 g/km, but the Italian automaker isn’t applying the brakes just yet. A senior Ferrari exec says the marque’s lineup should see average CO2 reduced by a further 20 percent by 2021, thanks to turbocharging and hybrid technologies. "Our average CO2 emissions are currently about 270 grams of CO2 per kilometre,” Ferrari powertrain director Vittorio Dini told Automotive News (subscription...
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Special BMW M4 Coupe And M5 30 Jahre Edition Headed To GoodwoodThe Goodwood Festival of Speed gets bigger and better every year, and there's no better sign of this than how many automakers use the show to launch special versions of their hottest performance models. This year it's the turn of BMW, which is marking the show with the debut of a 30th anniversary...
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20-Year-Old Crashes BMW M4 In GermanyThe first crash involving the all-new 2015 BMW M4 has occurred, with a 20-year-old male in Munich, Germany reportedly losing control of this white example before it ran off the road and crashed head-first into a tree. The accident occurred yesterday near the Sendlinger-Tor-Platz, in the heart of...
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Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge Prototype To Make Dynamic Debut At GoodwoodPoor Infiniti. It can slap its badge on as many race-winning Formula One cars as it likes and get a multiple F1 champion to sign off a V-8-powered SUV, but it's still not blessed with a particularly exciting reputation. Maybe its latest trick will work a little better: Dropping the 3.8-liter...
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2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport Spy VideoLand Rover introduced an updated LR2 for the 2013 model year, with the vehicle receiving a new turbocharged four-cylinder engine, a much more luxurious interior, and the latest version of the automaker’s brilliant Terrain Response off-roading system. Despite all the updates, there’s no...
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Land Rover Releases Second Teaser Video For Its ‘Fastest And Most Agile’ Range Rover SportLand Rover has announced that it is bringing the fastest, most agile and most responsive SUV it’s ever built to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed this week. And to build up excitement the British automaker has released some videos offering a taste of the vehicle’s menacing exhaust...
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Quick--ignore these unabashedly erotic images, pretend you never saw a thing...and name this car. It’s a mid-engined two-seater not from Germany or Japan. It flaunts a supercar monocoque and a humbler suspension. It cauterizes corners courtesy a dual-clutch gearbox and turbocharged power. It's exotically shaped from equally exotic materials. It doesn't wear a Lotus badge, or a Ferrari one. But it could, easily. It’s the Alfa Romeo 4C, and it’s set to kick off the brand’s U.S. revival later this year. MUST SEE: Jaguar XJ220 Lights Tires On Fire In Ultimate Burnout...
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BMW M4 Laps The 'Ring In Under 8 MinutesBMW's new M4 coupe has become the latest car to score a sub-8 minute lap at the infamous Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany. At the hands of Horst von Saurmer from German magazine Sport Auto, a production M4 lapped the 12.93-mile circuit in a time of 7:52. CHECK OUT: $4.2 Million Ferrari F12...
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Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations To Reveal New Car At GoodwoodIt was only a week ago that Jaguar Land Rover announced the formation of a new department called Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations, whose job will be to handle the personalization of vehicles as well as develop high-performance models and work on historic vehicles. Now, Jaguar Land Rover has...
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Mercedes-Benz Starts C-Class Production At Alabama PlantMercedes-Benz on Wednesday started production of the 2015 C-Class at its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the same site where it builds the M-, R- (for Chinese market only) and GL-Class models. It was first confirmed that the Tuscaloosa plant would start C-Class production as far back as 2009, and now...
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Audi Prices 2015 S3 Sedan, A3 Cabriolet, A3 TDI SedanThe stylish and high-tech Audi A3 and S3 range is soon to expand in the U.S., and based on pricing information released today, it’s fairly affordable, too. The enthusiast’s pick of the range, the S3 sedan, starts from $41,100 (all prices excluding destination). Packing a 292-horsepower...
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Audi’s Electrically-Driven Turbo To Debut In Next-Gen Q7 TDIAudi recently presented an RS 5 TDI concept car powered by a diesel engine equipped with an electrically-driven turbocharger. The engine features a twin-turbocharger setup where the smaller of the two turbos uses an electric motor to spool up its compressor at lower revs (up to 70,000 rpm in a few...
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Aston Martin is working on a new platform to underpin its next generation of sports cars, starting with a new DB9 in 2016. A new Vantage is expected in 2018 and should be followed a year later by a new Vanquish, but what of Aston Martin’s uber-stylish Rapide four-door? Autocar is reporting that there are no plans at present for a new Rapide, with Aston Martin said to be confident of boosting sales with two-door models only. The British publication also reports that production of the current Rapide may be phased out when Aston Martin starts building cars off its new platform. Of course...
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Rolls-Royce Wraith Destroyed When Truck Carrying It Catches FireA poor Rolls-Royce Wraith was the victim of a fire that engulfed a truck carrying it plus a handful of other exotics on a highway in China recently. The fire must have been quite intense and raging for some time as there’s not much left of the Wraith apart from its burnt shell. CHECK OUT...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class and CLS63 AMG revealedThe four-door coupe segment is rapidly growing, but the progenitor of the niche, the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class, is still powering along. Currently in its second generation, the CLS has just undergone a mid-cycle update, bringing new styling, a revamped interior and plenty of tech upgrades to the...
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Audi R8 LMX Lights Up At Le Mans: Mega Gallery And VideoAudi's new R8 LMX supercar was shown for the first time in public at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans this past weekend. The car was shown prior to the race, and on hand to present it was Audi racing driver Tom Kristensen who would later go on to come second overall along with Lucas di Grassi and Marc...
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2015 Acura ILX Drops HybridThe 2015 Acura ILX occupies an unusual place in the market, a place Acura calls “gateway luxury.” For 2015, a few changes are in store, including the deletion of the hybrid model from the lineup. While the hybrid won few plaudits from pundits, mostly because it was woefully underpowered...
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2016 Jaguar XE Spy VideoJaguar’s new small sedan to rival the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class will be known as the XE, and a prototype has been spotted at the Nürburgring. As our spy video confirms, the new XE is shaping up to be a very capable sport sedan, with the prototype making short work of the...
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