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The sixth-generation Mustang has been in showrooms for less than a year but already we’ve seen a new track-focused Shelby variant introduced and a host of tuning firms announce mega-horsepower packages for the muscle car icon. Now the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has announced a new round of updates for the Mustang’s 2016 model year, whose timing no doubt has been purposefully made to coincide with this week’s arrival of an all-new Chevrolet Camaro. At the top of the bill is a new California Special based on the Mustang GT Premium trim level. This is available for both coupe...
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Nico Rosberg Back In The Championship Race After Winning 2015 Spanish Grand PrixAfter pushing hard throughout the 2015 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg ended the weekend with a decisive victory. His teammate Lewis Hamilton was second, but the current 2015 Drivers’ Championship points leader finished...
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2015 Roush RS3 Mustang Delivers 670 HP and 545 LB-FT: VideoTired of Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat owners having all of the fun at the drag strip? For any sixth-generation Mustang owners out there, famous Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] tuner Roush has a package that may just silence those Hellcat owners. It’s called the RS3, short for Roush Stage 3, and...
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Volkswagen Presents Next-Gen W-12 Engine At Vienna Motor SymposiumThe future of the Volkswagen Group’s W-12 is safe thanks to innovations that ensure the big brute of an engine meets more stringent emissions regulations coming into force over the next several years. At the past week’s Vienna Motor Symposium, the same event where Audi presented its...
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Rosberg Edges Out Hamilton For 2015 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix PoleMercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg showed he’s still a force to be reckoned with in the 2015 Formula One World Championship by securing pole position for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, which once again is taking place at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The German put in a...
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2016 Mercedes G-Class, Kahn WB12 Vengeance, Freightliner Inspiration Truck: This Week’s Top PhotosMercedes-Benz announced a round of updates for its iconic G-Class off-roader this week. While the big news was the addition of a new V-8 engine in the G550 model, the G63 from the Mercedes-AMG performance division also received some extra horsepower from its own V-8. The BMW 3-Series has just...
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Promoting movies is, mostly, the business of frippery. Here, it’s nothing but. But it’s badass frippery. Yes, frippery can be badass, if it’s a Lotus F1 car decked out Mad Max: Fury Road style with bladed wheels, giant treaded tires, a dually rear axle, flame throwers, human skulls, and protruding spikes. MUST WATCH: POV Video Of The 1,341-HP Koenigsegg One:1 Hitting 225 MPH And that’s exactly what this is. Hence: frippery, meet badass. Of course, this isn't the only Mad Max-Lotus tie-in: the real race cars are wearing Mad Max livery for their race at this weekend's...
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Nissan Explains Why It Went Front-Wheel Drive For The GT-R LM NISMO: VideoFront-wheel drive. Also known as wrong-wheel drive, at least in performance driving circles. Yes, front-drive cars can be made to go very fast—but it’s always a compromise compared to rear-drive cars. Or is it? MUST WATCH: POV Video Of The 1,341-HP Koenigsegg One:1 Hitting 225 MPH...
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Miller Motorsports Park Closing October 31Just ten short years. That’s all it took for Miller Motorsports Park, the longest road course in America, to go from breaking ground to closing up shop. Located 35 minutes outside Salt Lake City in Tooele, Utah, Miller Motorsports Park has hosted professional car and motorcycle racing as well...
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1964 Pontiac Banshee Concept Car Heads To AuctionThere are certain concept cars that stand out from the rest. You'll remember them long after the idea of such a vehicle has come and gone without ever inching closer towards production. One such vehicle is the Pontiac Banshee. This was going to be the PMD sibling to Chevrolet's Corvette, and it was...
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Rally Car Wrecks Hard And Drivers Walk Away: VideoYoan Droumenq and Gabriel Durand were working together to get their Citroen C2 rally car from one end of the Rally Ronde de la Durance stage to the other. They didn't quite get there though. Getting squirrelly through a series of small turns in a tight section of track, the car connected with one...
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2016 Dodge Viper ACR street-legal racer revealedThe Dodge Viper American Club Racer has become the stuff of legend. The track-focused but street-legal machine was first launched in 1999 and by its second generation had already smashed the Nürburgring lap record for a production car with a time of 7:12.13, a feat surpassed only by the...
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Audi has taken the wraps off a new concept that may just preview the next-generation TT RS. The concept is called the TT Clubsport Turbo, and it features a 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine with an electrically-driven turbocharger and 600-horsepower output. Volkswagen has a Clubsport concept of its own, and this one is thought to preview a 40th anniversary GTI hot hatch due out next year. This one has a 261 hp on tap. Love the Veyron but don’t have the bank account of a Bugatti buyer? Then perhaps you won’t mind settling for a desk that’s been styled to only resemble the...
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2015 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix Weather ForecastThe Spanish Grand Prix, the first of the European races in the 2015 Formula One World Championship, got underway this morning in beautiful Barcelona with the first of the free practice sessions. The event’s Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya home is a familiar one for all the teams, as it was...
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Porsche Inaugurates New U.S. Headquarters And Experience CenterPorsche Cars North America has called Atlanta, Georgia home since 1998, but it’s gone and made that arrangement even more permanent. The German sports car manufacturer has just opened a new headquarters and experience center on a 27-acre site adjacent to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson...
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600-HP Audi TT Clubsport Turbo Concept Heads To Wörthersee Tour Tuning FestAustria’s annual Wörthersee Tour tuning fest is on again this month, and Audi is set to be one of the stars thanks to its 600-horsepower TT Clubsport Turbo concept unveiled today. The track-tuned concept looks similar to Audi’s TT Cup racer but it sports a larger 2.5-liter...
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Rolls-Royce Wraith - Inspired by Fashion Is For Lovers Of Haute CoutureRolls-Royce has been on a—for lack of a better word—roll lately with its special edition models, with the latest out of Goodwood, the Wraith - Inspired by Fashion, perfectly expressing the virtues of the automaker’s Bespoke personalization division that churns out these creations...
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Tesla Model 3 to be unveiled March 2016With a new home battery just hitting the market, the Model S P85D kicking down supercar doors around the world, and a series of drone rockets (nearly) landing on drone ships, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk must be feeling pretty good about himself. By the time next March roles around...
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The ‘Flying Mile’ is a historical high-water mark, a thing of legend. In 1927, Sir Malcolm Campbell drove a modified Bentley—the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird—to a U.K. land speed record of 174.8 mph. That’s faster than most of today’s sports cars, just 41 years after the Daimler Patent-Motorwagen first did it’s three-wheeled crawl. ALSO SEE: 2016 Dodge Viper ACR Street-Legal Racer Revealed: Video But now, 88 years after Sir Campbell’s record run (and 129 years after the Patent-Motorwagen for those keeping track), a new Bentley has claimed the...
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Has Jeremy Clarkson Gone Back To Work Already?Jeremy Clarkson has already said he'll be back with a new car show—and it looks like it could be sooner rather than later. On Tuesday—in a message which manages to be simultaneously cryptic and specific—Clarkson posted a photo to his Twitter feed, along with the description "I...
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First Look At Bentley Bentayga's Interior: VideoBentley’s Bentayga is due for a reveal later this year but we already have a pretty good idea as to how the ultra-lux SUV will look thanks to numerous spy shots of prototypes and now an official video teasing the interior. It’s clear the look has been substantially updated since the...
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2016 BMW 3-Series, Kahn Design WB12 Vengeance, Ford Mustang Shelby GT350: Car News HeadlinesBMW’s 3-Series has just undergone its mid-cycle update. The car’s styling may not have changed much, but underneath the skin there are some significant updates. Some of the highlights include a new 340i variant powered by a new six-cylinder engine, as well as a new 330e variant powered...
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2016 BMW M3 Gets A Few Visual Tweaks: VideoBMW’s 3-Series range has just undergone its mid-cycle update, receiving a few visual tweaks, a new six-cylinder engine and a host of chassis upgrades as part of the update. Some of those changes have also made their way across to the M3 high-performance variant, which is featured in our...
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2016 BMW 3-Series benefits from significant updates under the skinForty years on since the launch of the original 3-Series, the E21, BMW has unveiled its most advanced version of its bread-and-butter sedan and wagon yet. The updated 3-Series range goes on sale later this year, arriving in showrooms as a 2016 model. Importantly, the changes also affect the M3 and...
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