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The original Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe is the stuff of legend. Just six of them were built between 1964 and 1965, and in ’65 the car helped secure the Constructors’ title in the FIA World Sportscar Championship, making Shelby the first American constructor to win a title on the international scene. The originals are among the most coveted vehicles in the world, making ownership near impossible. One last sold for $7.25 million, at the height of the global financial crisis, and we bet that same car would sell for much, much more given the current state of the collector car world...
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Mustang Tech Makes Ford F-150 Slipperier Than EverFord has pulled out all the stops to make its latest F-150 pickup truck more fuel efficient than ever before. And while its lightweight aluminum construction and available 2.7-liter EcoBoost V-6 are huge factors in the quest for better MPGs, there are loads of other details which contribute to make...
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Here’s Deadmau5’s McLaren P1 After A Little Customization WorkLate last year, Deadmau5 confirmed via Twitter that he was one of the 375 lucky people to have been promised a McLaren P1. After taking delivery earlier this year, the Canadian DJ and Uber driver took the supercar to vehicle customizer Sekanskin in his home town of Toronto, and the results are...
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Fiat 28-Liter 'Beast Of Turin' Driven For First Time In 100 YearsThe Fiat S76, better known as the "Beast of Turin," was built to break records. It's a proper monster from the dawn of the motoring era more than 100 years ago. Power comes from a 28.5-liter four-cylinder engine, meaning that each pot has more displacement than a 2015 Corvette Z06. The massive mill...
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First Lamborghini Aventador SV Touches Down In U.S.Start keeping an eye out for Lamborghini Aventador LP 750-4 SuperVeloces, because the first examples have landed in the United States and will soon be in the hands of their eagerly awaiting owners. The very first one is this bright green example that was caught by the lens of photographer Jordan...
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Hankook Airless Tires Inch Closer To Production RealityA number of tire manufacturers have been portraying airless tires as the way of the future. A few have even moved into production capacity on the airless front. These non-pneumatic rollers have been utilized mostly in commercial applications. A few years ago, however, America's own Polaris...
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Lincoln is in the process of overhauling its lineup, as well as introducing some brand new additions, and the next model we’re likely to see is a flagship sedan that will revive the Continental nameplate and serve as a replacement for the aging MKS. The new Continental was previewed in concept form earlier this year, and prototypes have already been spotted in the wild. Now we know where the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] will build the car. Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, Ford global manufacturing chief John Fleming said the Continental would be built at Ford’s Flat Rock...
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2015 Ford Mustang GT Laps Silverstone: 360-Degree VideoYou don't have to be Nostradamus to foresee that 360-degree video is about to explode. Prices for cameras have dropped into the $500 range, so YouTube will soon be flooded with amateur and not-so-amateur videos on any variety of subjects. And while the viewing experience feels slightly...
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Notes From The Driveway: 2015 Chevrolet SSBrought to you by the good folks at Chevrolet, this week's ride has been a 2015 Chevrolet SS. Chevrolet delivered the car so I could make the 600-mile roundtrip from Chicago to Cincinnati to attend the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Full disclosure: In addition to the car, Chevy also gave me...
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Jay Leno Examines The Old School Muscle Of A '67 Hurst Barracuda: VideoThe Plymouth Barracuda was a pretty wonderful piece of the muscle car pie back in its day. Today though it seems the second-generation cars get heavily overlooked in favor of the third-generation machines from 1970 and 1971. They shouldn't though, because they can be made to look quite 'Cuda-esque...
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2016 BMW M2, 2017 Mitsubishi Montero Sport, McLaren 675LT: Car News HeadlinesBMW’s new M2 sports coupe has been spied ahead of its debut later this year. The car appears to be considerably wider than the 2-Series on which it’s based, and we hear that its power rating will be well north of 350 horsepower. Mitsubishi has released a new teaser video for its...
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California's Faraday Future Promises New Electric Car By 2017Calling new Californian electric car company Faraday Future's plans ambitious might be a bit of an understatement. Details come from Motor Trend, though at this point, we have more questions than answers about the freestanding automotive skunkworks. Currently, there's no prototype and no factory...
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Hyundai has confirmed plans to unveil a new concept next month that may just preview the next-generation Genesis Coupe. The concept is said to be in the form of a “flagship two-door coupe” and designed in line with the premium ethos the Korean automaker reserves for its upmarket models like the Genesis and Equus sedans. Code-named the HCD-16, the concept will be unveiled August 11 at a special event taking place at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. On hand to unveil it will be none other than Hyundai and Kia design chief Peter Schreyer. While yet to be confirmed, it’s...
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2017 Mitsubishi Montero Sport Teased In New VideoMitsubishi has been hinting at a return of a legend, its Montero nameplate, for a couple of years, and recently some teaser shots for an all-new Montero, a Montero Sport to be exact, hit the web. Now we have a teaser video that reveals even more of the new Montero Sport. In other markets the SUV...
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MINI Sports Car Based On Superleggera Concept Coming In 2019: ReportRemember that very un-MINI MINI concept? It seems the automaker is examining the idea of creating a production version. MINI recently confirmed it was moving to a lineup of five core models, and one of these is to be a sports car-like offering to fill the void left by the discontinued Coupe and...
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2016 BMW M2 spy shots and videoThe new BMW 2-Series is one of the many culprits of the brand’s confusingly revamped naming system, but that doesn’t stop it from being a very fun little luxury sports coupe—particularly in M235i form. Soon, however, the most potent version of the 2-Series should be on the road...
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Yes, Lexus Has Indeed Made An Actual Hoverboard: VideoSince Marty McFly hopped on a pink Mattel version in Back to the Future II, kids—and plenty of people who aren't kids—have desperately wanted to ride a hoverboard. Last October, American startup Hendo released a video of a prototype being ridden on a small half pipe. Some of the skaters...
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Lexani Motorcars Unveils Uber-Luxurious Armored Land CruiserLike the Cadillac Escalade we saw from Lexani Motorcars last September, the interior of its latest Land Cruiser features some seriously next-level luxury. MUST SEE: Yes, Lexus Has Indeed Made An Actual Hoverboard: Video There's Italian leather, a gigantic flat-screen television, a pair of six-way...
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BMW recently unveiled an i8-based research vehicle that it built several years ago when it first started looking at developing a production-ready hydrogen fuel cell stack. A new video from YouTube channel Cars confirms that the vehicle sounds almost as strange as it looks. ALSO SEE: 5,000-HP, 348-MPH Devel Sixteen Spotted In The Wild: Video That’s because fuel cell vehicles are essentially extended-range electric cars that use a fuel cell stack to charge their onboard battery instead of an internal combustion engine. And because the powertrain is virtually silent, the only noise you get...
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Even Honda’s CEO Is Waiting To Buy A Civic Type RWhen Takahiro Hachigo moved back to Japan in March to be the new CEO of Honda, after the previous CEO Takanobu Ito stepped down amid slowing sales and the ongoing Takata airbag fiasco, he was without a car. Rather than pick up a car straight away, however, Hachigo decided to wait so that he could...
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2016 GMC Sierra 1500 Gets A Few Visual Tweaks: VideoIt was only on Monday that we got our first look at the updated 2016 Chevrolet Silverado, and now General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] has dropped the first details on the updated version of the popular pickup’s GMC cousin, the Sierra 1500. Like the Chevy, the GMC Sierra 1500 was all-new for 2014...
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5,000-HP, 348-MPH Devel Sixteen spotted in the wildWhile there’s plenty of reason to doubt the factuality of the Devel Sixteen’s claims of 5,000 horsepower, we now know, at the least, that it’s not total vaporware. It has been spotted out and about on a beach near Dubai. MUST WATCH: LaFerrari Nearly Powerslides Right Into Oncoming...
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Apollo Program-Themed Mustang Built For 2015 EAA AirVenture--Photo UpdateIt’s that time of year again. Time for the EAA AirVenture fly-in aircraft convention which takes place each and every year in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and where the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] typically auctions off a one-of-a-kind Mustang to help raise funds for training of the next generation of...
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2016 BMW 7-Series, LaFerrari For Sale, Volkswagen V-Charge: Today’s Car NewsA new video out shows the complex process that goes into building each and every example of the all-new BMW 7-Series. That’s because the sixth-generation car, which lands in showrooms this fall, as a 2016 model, features carbon fiber-reinforced plastic in its construction. The only known...
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