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The 2015 Global Rallycross Championship gets underway May 31 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and one of the cars to watch out for will be the Shark Week-themed Beetle GRC of team Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross. Before you start thinking VW may have jumped the shark with its GRC efforts, recall that that the German automaker is one of the main sponsors of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, so it’s entirely suitable that one its cars features such a livery. ALSO SEE: Official: Lamborghini SUV Confirmed, Sales To Start In 2018 Driving the Shark Week Beetle GRC will be Scott Speed, who last...
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Win This 810-HP 2015 Ford Mustang Built By Chip Foose And Modern Muscle Design: VideoChip Foose is one of the biggest names in the American tuning scene, so when we first heard he was working on a special 2015 Ford Mustang project we were more than just a little intrigued. Now his version of the latest Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] muscle car has been revealed, and we’re glad...
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Hyundai First With Google’s Android Auto In-Car Smartphone IntegrationThe 2015 Hyundai Sonata has become the first vehicle to offer Google’s new Android Auto in-car smartphone integration system, allowing users to seamlessly link an Android smartphone to the car so that they can use the device safely behind the wheel with the car’s own screen and...
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Man Sets Guinness World Record With Homemade Hoverboard: VideoMove over, Marty McFly. Canadian engineer Catalin Alexandru Duru has set a new world record for the furthest distance traveled on a hoverboard, and unlike McFly’s board in Back to the Future Part II, Duru’s actually works on water. He set the new record during a stunt that took place...
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Golf Going High-Tech: Gesture Control, Touch-Screen Interface Pegged For Popular CompactIn an effort to keep up with its American and Asian rivals, Volkswagen will be shortening its vehicle life cycles from seven years to five, with a mid-cycle update coming after the first three years of sale. The first of VW’s models to move to this five-year life cycle will be the Golf, which...
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Zagato Honors Maserati With Stunning Mostro Sports Car At Villa d’Este--Photo UpdateCoachbuilder and design house Zagato has a history of unveiling stunning concepts at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, held annually on the shores of Italy’s beautiful Lake Como. Some recent concepts include collaborations with the likes of Aston Martin, BMW and Lamborghini...
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These are our latest spy shots of a prototype for the new ForTwo Cabrio based on the third generation of the popular Smart minicar. The new ForTwo made its debut last summer alongside a returning four-door ForFour variant. Only the ForTwo will be offered in the U.S.; it will be in local showrooms this fall, as a 2016 model. Eventually, it will be joined by this convertible version. As the latest spy shots reveal, the new ForTwo Cabrio will feature a similar soft-top roof and rear window design as the previous-generation model. This means we can expect a powered soft-top roof that rolls back...
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Car Sing-A-Long Turns Into Blown Tire Ride-A-Long: VideoYou've been there before... you're in the car with some good friends, and one of your favorite tunes comes on. What do you do? You all sing along and belt out that tune together, of course! That's what four friends were doing, and one of them happened to have a camera on a selfie stick to capture...
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No V-8-Powered ATS-V Plus In The Pipeline, Says CadillacWhile it’s always fun to think a newer, hotter, more ferocious super-performance version of an already incredible car like the Cadillac ATS-V is on the way, that’s just not the case, this time. There is no ATS-V Plus in the works. That’s the official word from Cadillac’s...
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2015 Indianapolis 500: Juan Pablo Montoya wins at the BrickyardJuan Pablo Montoya was less than a second—0.1046, to be exact—in front of fellow Team Penske driver Will Power crossing the finish line at the Indianapolis 500. But he was first. The victory marks the Columbian driver's second trip to the winner's circle at the historic 2.5-mile...
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Jay Leno Takes Honda S600 Hot Rod Out For A Spin: VideoThe S600 is a delightful little machine that was produced by Honda from 1964 through 1966. It was offered in a fastback coupe, but the most popular model was definitely the roadster version. In fact, the roadsters outnumber the coupes by ten to one. These plucky little drop-tops were powered by a...
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More Details On Next-Gen Audi A8Audi’s next-generation A8 is still a couple of years away from its market debut but there’s already a lot we know about the new flagship sedan. The car will ride on a stretched version of the MLB Evo platform that debuts in the 2016 Q7, bringing significant weight savings for the big...
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A sick kid gets his wish to become a Lamborghini-driving superhero, Jurassic World shows off its Mercedes vehicles, and we compare the Volkswagen GTI to the Subaru WRX. It’s The Week In Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. If a cute, sick little boy living out his fantasy as Batman behind the wheel of a Lamborghini doesn’t warm your gearhead heart, nothing will. But trust us, this will. From President Obama to the entire city of San Francisco, the story of Miles Scott has engaged the world. Now it will engage you. Would you like to own the Hennessey Venom GT that made the...
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Cadillac ATS-V ‘Plus’ Trim To Feature 7.0-Liter LS7 V-8?Back in the Cadillac ATS-V’s early development days, there was talk there might be two versions of the car: a standard version equipped with a V-6 and a more extreme ‘Plus’ offering packing a V-8. The ATS-V has since made its debut in both sedan and coupe form, and so far it comes...
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White Phantom: A Disappearing Rolls, Snoop Dogg, And The FBIWhen a high-profile ride like a Rolls-Royce Phantom goes missing, we imagine it winds up on a shadowy slow boat to South America, or categorically corrupt enclave in Eastern Europe. The kind of place where washing a title is as easy as washing a car. But that's not what happened here. ALSO SEE: BMW...
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Audi R8 e-tron, 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350, 2017 Porsche Boxster: Car News HeadlinesAudi has unveiled a new concept that combines its R8 e-tron electric supercar with its Piloted Driving autonomous car technology. The concept was unveiled this week at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show Asia in Shanghai, China. Pricing information for the 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350 has emerged and...
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Leaked Pricing Info Suggests 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350 Will Start At $49,955, GT350R At $63,495The Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] will have a new performance bargain on its hands if leaked pricing information for the new Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 proves accurate. When it goes on sale later this year, the latest Mustang variant will bring to the table a new 5.2-liter V-8 with a flat-plane crank...
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Porsche Points Out Benefits Of Its 2015 911 Carrera GTS: VideoWe’ve already pointed out what separates the latest 2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS from the standard Carrera, but here’s a great visual representation direct from the German sports car marque. It shows the new Carrera GTS being put through its paces at the Porsche Experience Center at...
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The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show Asia is taking place this week in Shanghai, China, and there to give a keynote address on the opening day was Audi CEO Rupert Stadtler who talked about the car becoming an integral part of the networked world, and who also presented a version of the new R8 e-tron electric supercar equipped with Audi’s upcoming autonomous driving technology. ALSO SEE: Audi And Partners Develop E-Benzin Synthetic Gasoline: Video Called the R8 e-tron Piloted Driving, the car on show in Shanghai is strictly a concept but many of its self-driving features are virtually...
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Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato Awarded Best Of Show Honors At Villa D’EsteZagato had a lot to celebrate at this past weekend’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. After revealing the stunning Mostro powered by Maserati sports car concept and confirming a limited production run of just five units, another of the legendary Italian coachbuilder’s cars...
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Nico Rosberg Pulls Surprise Victory At 2015 Formula One Monaco Grand PrixMercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg secured his third victory in a row at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, with his win in yesterday’s race coming after a mistake made by his own team that cost his teammate and Monaco pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton the top prize. The mistake came when Hamilton...
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Bye Bye Zoom-Zoom: Mazda Goes Deep With New MX-5 Miata Spot: VideoWhen Mazda first released the Miata more than two decades ago, no manufacturer was selling anything like it. The four-cylinder roadster was affordable, reliable, and handled like a go-kart. It was a little British sports car, without the legions of electrical gremlins and oil leaks which came...
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Gumball 3000 Aston Martin Sports New Glow-In-The-Dark PaintThere's nothing like the Gumball 3000. The inter-continental sprint popular with the racers, rappers, rock stars, and ridiculously rich dudes is without a doubt, the most glamorous rally in the world. And given that the starting grid is stacked with hardware like the Rebellion R2K and McLaren P1s...
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Lewis Hamilton Takes 2015 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix PoleMercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton will start at pole tomorrow at the 2015 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix after a stunning performance during today’s qualifying. Monaco is a race where qualifying is crucial and for Hamilton it was his first pole at the famous location. He put in an impressive...
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