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Two stars from the new Ford Performance lineup, the 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350R and Focus RS, took on the famous hill climb during this past weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in England. In the first video is the Mustang, driven by Ben Collins, professional racing driver and former Stig. It sounds absolutely menacing with its 526-horsepower, flat-plane crank V-8. Sadly for fans at the show, the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has confirmed that this particular Mustang breed is for the North American market only. ALSO SEE: Koenigsegg One:1 Meets The Regera At Goodwood: Video On the other...
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2017 Audi A4 Is Lighter, More Powerful And More Advanced: VideoCome 2016, buyers in the market for a small sports sedan with a touch of luxury are going to be spoiled for choice. In addition to the existing Cadillac ATS, Lexus IS and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, all impressive cars in their own right, we’ll see the arrival of an updated BMW 3-Series plus...
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2016 Mercedes A-Class Debuts, Mercedes-AMG A45 Now With 375 HP: VideoEven in this era of engine downsizing and ever-present fuel economy and emissions regulations, the power wars are alive and well. Audi fired the last shot in the hot hatch arena when it lobbed its RS 3 on the market with a 362-horsepower rating, and now Mercedes-AMG has retaliated with an updated...
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With Reveal Of New Giulia Sedan, Alfa Romeo Gets Serious About Brand RenaissanceAlfa Romeo is serious about putting its brand back on the map. This week at the official Alfa Romeo Museum in Milan, Italy, the automaker revealed the Giulia in high-performance Quadrifoglio trim—the first car in an eight-product assault scheduled for the next three years. The Giulia is...
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1989 Mazda 767B Le Mans Racer Crashes At 2015 Goodwood Festival of SpeedMazda’s motorsport heritage is being honored at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, currently taking place on the grounds of Goodwood House in the south of England, and tragically one of the automaker’s legendary race cars has suffered a crash at the event. The car is a...
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Alfa Romeo Giulia, Dodge Challenger Drag Pak, Chevy Camaro Convertible: This Week’s Top PhotosAlfa Romeo’s new Giulia small sedan is causing quite the storm, especially because the small sports sedan has so far only been shown in its high-performance Quadrifoglio trim. The car features a twin-turbocharged V-6 engine developed by Ferrari and produces a class-leading 510 horsepower. It...
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Texas-based tuner Hennessey Performance doesn't do subtle. To paraphrase its founder's slogan, the tuner makes fast cars faster. But in this case? It started with a Ford F-250 Lariat, and transformed it into what the company dubbed a VelociRaptor SUV. It's not Hennessey's first crack at the concept. The previous model was based on Ford's F-150 Raptor, and the new base vehicle allows the creation to be bigger, if not badder, than its predecessor. As you'd expect, power gets a major boost, thanks to a beefy supercharger which takes output from a respectable 411 horsepower to either 600 or 650...
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This Week On The Forums: A Broken 'Vette, A Homemade V-12 And MoreAutomotive forums aren't for the easily offended. They're the enthusiast's Wild West. Simple questions warrant withering mockery. Grown men express profound grief with a "sad angel" emoticon. Proper punctuation? That's like seeing an '80s-era Range Rover moving under its own power... meaning...
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Hell's Revenge And Back: Driving The 2015 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk In MoabUtah's stunning crystal blue sky completely filled the windshield. Off to my left, I could see a Jeep Jamboree spotter. He was on top of a boulder and giving the thumbs up, encouraging me to keep climbing. That's when I laughed and said, "Nobody who buys a Cherokee is going to take it up stuff like...
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Thinking Inside The Gearbox: How A Manual Transmission WorksThe future of the stick shift looks dim. Performance icons like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and McLaren no longer offer traditional manuals. Even on enthusiast models like the Corvette, less than half of buyers opt for a third pedal. But all is far from lost. Alfa Romeo's new Giulia will allow drivers to...
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2015 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak Revealed, Now Available With Supercharged V-8It was last summer that Dodge showed off a prototype of its new drag racer based on its latest Challenger muscle car, the 2015 Challenger Drag Pak, and now the final version has made its debut. The big news is that a supercharged engine is being offered for the first time, in this case a...
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Lotus 3-Eleven debuts at 2015 Goodwood Festival of SpeedLotus has developed a hardcore, track-focused machine along the lines of its previous 2-Eleven launched in 2007. The new track car is called the 3-Eleven to signify its relation to the original Eleven racer of the 1950s as well as the previous Elise-based car, and this time around it is based on...
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There’s a high-stakes X Prize competition running, and this one’s to the moon—literally. We’re taking, of course, about the Google Lunar X Prize, which has been running since 2007 and pits teams against each other in a race to launch, land, and operate a rover on the moon’s surface and send back footage. Audi has now announced that it has joined the Google Lunar X Prize, teaming up with German team Part-Time Scientists in the moon mission. The team has selected the old landing site of the last manned mission to the moon, Apollo 17, as the target, and thanks to...
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A Look Back At The 2015 Kitzbühel Alpine Rally: VideoEach year, for close to three decades, the Kitzbühel Alpine Rally has been taking place in Austria and sees some of Europe’s most notable classic cars come out for some sun, a little driving and some getting acquainted with a new generation of fans. The Volkswagen Group, one of the...
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MINI Confirms Five Core Models, Announces Radical Car Sharing ProgramCoinciding with this week’s unveiling of its new, much more premium second-generation Clubman, MINI made a few additional significant announcements. One of these was confirmation of the oft-mentioned move to a lineup consisting of five core models, which will allow MINI to focus on building...
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2017 Cadillac XT5: The SRX Successor Spotted On The StreetsCadillac managed to do a pretty good job of keeping its upcoming SRX replacement under wraps, but now the vehicle has been spotted completely undisguised on the streets of New York City. This photo and another showing the rear of the vehicle were posted to the Opposite Lock forum by member Saw930...
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NASCAR's France Family Negotiating For Control Of Laguna Seca: VideoHere's news that may make racing enthusiasts nervous: NASCAR's first family is interested in taking operational control of California's historic Laguna Seca circuit. If the deal is successful, the France family's International Speedway Corporation would take over track management from the current...
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Alfa Romeo Reopens Its Official Museum To The PublicAlfa Romeo helped kick off the launch of its new Giulia sports sedan by also reopening its official museum, located in Milan, Italy, to the public. The museum closed in 2009 following the decommissioning of an adjacent plant and a relocation of the brand’s headquarters. However, as part of...
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British actor Jason Statham has let slip that he will be returning to help film an eighth installment for the Fast and the Furious franchise. In case you haven’t watched the last one, Furious 7, Statham plays the role of Deckard Shaw, the bad guy who conveniently remains alive at the end of the movie. “We’re already talking about doing another one, part eight,” Statham told Access Hollywood. “I’m a newcomer—I just got invited to the party in this last one, so it’s nice to know I’m going to be doing another.” Fellow actor Vin Diesel...
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Goodwood Festival Of Speed Central Feature Honors Mazda's Motorsports HeritageIt's that lovely time of year... when a large group of motoring and speed obsessed folks trek to the very large lawn of one Lord March in the south of England. It's time for the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this year Mazda will be sharing a large share of the spotlight. The automaker's...
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Acura NSX Serves As Official Pace Car For 2015 Pikes Peak Hill ClimbThis weekend is the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in Colorado, and one of the more standout cars racing to the 14,110-foot summit will be this Acura NSX supercar. It’s serving as the official pace car for this year’s event, and it’s just one of four Acura models that will be present. The...
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Alfa Romeo Giulia, Nissan Juke-R 2.0, Shelby GT350R-C Racer: Car News HeadlinesAlfa Romeo’s new Giulia sedan is causing quite the storm, especially because the small sports sedan has so far only been shown in its high-performance Quadrifoglio trim. The car features a twin-turbocharged V-6 engine developed by Ferrari and produces a class-leading 510 horsepower. If you...
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2016 Ford Focus RS Coming With 345 Horsepower: VideoThe Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has made big promises to blow your enthusiast face off as of late. The Blue Oval is certainly delivering too, with the arrival of a new GT supercar, a new Raptor performance pickup, and the Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R duo. There's one machine noticeably absent...
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2015 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R-C Race Car RevealedThe Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] latest Mustang Shelby GT350R is following in the footsteps of its predecessors by going racing, in this case in the remainder of the 2015 season of the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. A specific racing version of the car has been revealed today in...
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