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  • 2015 Audi RS Q3 (European-spec)

    Audi’s Q3 has just been launched on the market, priced from about $33k, but overseas the vehicle has been around since 2011. It’s now undergone a mid-cycle update, which sees the compact crossover receive a few visual tweaks, more efficient engines and some new tech features. ALSO SEE: Bargain Ferrari Enzo For Sale: May Need Some Minor Buffing In a strange move, the Q3 that has just been launched in the U.S. is the pre-facelifted model. We’ll likely see this latest version offered for the 2016 model year or possibly even later. While the U.S.-spec Q3 comes exclusively with a...

  • 2016 Jaguar F-Type R Coupe All Wheel Drive
    Jaguar Confirms All-Wheel-Drive F-Type For L.A. Auto Show, Partners With Bloodhound SSC Team

    Jaguar’s F-Type is already available in a number of variants but the expansion of the sports car range is far from complete. The strategy mimics that used by Porsche for its 911, which caters to a wide variety of buyers, and it’s one Mercedes-AMG plans to implement for its new GT sports...

  • How the Hot Wheels Darth Vader car was made
    How The Darth Vader Hot Wheels Car Was Made: Video

    This summer, Hot Wheels unleashed a new life-sized Darth Vader car on the world, and, for the right kind of Sith Lord-favoring car enthusiast, it was utterly impressive. ALSO SEE: Bargain Ferrari Enzo For Sale: May Need Some Minor Buffing Even those not enamored with Star Wars could enjoy the car...

  • Nissan GT-R spins at 220 mph, escapes unharmed
    Nissan GT-R Hits 220 MPH, Spins, Parachute Fails To Open: Video

    This is a story of disaster narrowly averted. Arriving rapidly at 220 mph during a brutal half-mile run, this Nissan GT-R driver soon finds himself pirouetting through the desert. ALSO SEE: Bargain Ferrari Enzo For Sale: May Need Some Minor Buffing A parachute attached to the car doesn’t...

  • M2K Motorsports twin-turbo Ford GT on the dyno
    Twin-Turbo Ford GT Spins Up 1,894 HP On The Dyno

    Ford’s GT supercar was a short-lived but much-loved reinterpretation of the Le Mans-proven GT40, and while it’s no longer in production, it continues to have a strong following in the modification and tuning world. Here, we see an M2K Motorsports-built example turn out a monstrous 1,894...

  • 2015 Lamborghini Huracan
    2015 Lamborghini Huracán: Best Car To Buy Nominee

    When you say “Lamborghini,” many people, even non-car-enthusiasts, have a certain image—both of the car and the owner. For some it’s the iconic Countach, with its owner decked out in a slick ‘80s Italian suit, driving gloves, and painfully narrow shoes. For others...

  • 2015 Jaguar F-Type R Coupe

    Beautiful to look at, glorious to hear, and incredibly fun to drive, the 2015 Jaguar F-Type Coupe is a car any enthusiast would love to wake up to every day. But are its charms enough to overcome the highly competitive field that make up Motor Authority’s Best Car To Buy 2015 nominees list? First and foremost, the F-Type Coupe is about passion. Both the passion that went into its creation and the passion it evokes in its driver. In the case of the F-Type Coupe R, that passion is omnipresent. As Marty Padgett noted in Motor Authority’s first drive review, “It all lines up...

  • 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost
    2015 Ford Mustang: Best Car To Buy Nominee

    The Ford Mustang has a half-century of history building its reputation for muscle car dominance, and while a few models have missed the mark along the way (we’re looking at you, Mustang II), the current Mustang is easily the best ever. Redesigned to look the part in its evolution toward a...

  • RJ Anderson XP1K2
    RJ Anderson Officially Loses His Mind In XP1K2: Video

    Last year, off road youngster RJ Anderson dropped a video bomb on top of the Internet. The 10-minute amaze-fest is called XP1K, and it features Anderson going cuckoo-bananas in a modified Polaris RZR. He has out-Blocked Ken Block on the vehicular video crazy meter. Now he's done it again, outdoing...

  • Mercedes-Benz Metris Party/DJ Van by RENNtech, 2014 SEMA show
    Mercedes-Benz Previews New Metris Van With Four SEMA Concepts

    Mercedes-Benz’s Sprinter van is about to get a smaller sibling in the form of the new Metris, previewed in concept form at the 2014 SEMA show this week and due to go on sale in the fall of 2015. If you’re thinking the Metris looks a bit familiar that’s because it’s...

  • One of the first 2015 Ford Mustangs to suffer a crash (Image via Mustang6G)
    2015 Ford Mustang Already Suffers Its First Crash

    Well that didn't take long. Deliveries of the 2015 Ford Mustang have only just commenced but already photos of a crashed example have turned up on the web. The car is a base V-6 model equipped with an automatic transmission, and it had been driven just 469 miles before its mishap. The crash...

  • 2015 Toyota Sleeper Camry, SEMA 2014
    Toyota Drops Sleepiest Sleeper Ever At SEMA--An 850-HP Camry

    A 2015 Toyota Camry is turned into a flip-top dragster.

  • Teaser for new Audi design concept debuting at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show

    Audi is set to reveal a concept at the upcoming 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show that lays out the design strategy of its new design chief Marc Lichte, who only took over the design reins at the German automaker late last year. The concept is thought to be in the form of a grand four-door coupe, meaning it may also be a preview of a potential new flagship for the brand that if built would likely be badged an A9. MUST SEE: 2015 Ford Mustang Already Suffers Its First Crash Audi recently released a teaser photo showing the concept from above. Now, the German automaker has released a video that...

  • Left Hand Utes HSV Maloo, 2014 SEMA show (Image via Carsguide)
    Yes, You Can Get Left-Hand-Drive Holden Utes In The U.S.

    General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] came close to importing the Holden Commodore Ute (short for utility) as a Pontiac G8 Sport Truck late last decade but was hampered by CAFE regulations and its own bankruptcy. That doesn’t mean all is lost as a number of smaller firms are independently...

  • 2015 Porsche Cayenne GTS
    2015 Porsche Cayenne Base And GTS Models Headed For L.A. Auto Show

    When Porsche introduced its updated 2015 Cayenne range at the recent Paris Auto Show, the base model and sporty GTS were noticeably absent. It turns out Porsche were saving these for this month’s Los Angeles Auto Show, and we now have the first photos and details ahead of the show’s...

  • World of Speed screenshot
    'World Of Speed' Game Aims To Grab The Massively Multiplayer Online Racing Crowd: Video

    There are plenty of automotive video games out there at the moment, and they reach out to a number of audiences. There's the hard core sim lovers, the console wars fueled by fans of Gran Turismo and Forza, and there are also plenty of arcade choices as well. A new entry into the field is always...

  • 2016 Mazda Global MX-5 Cup race car
    Mazda Announces New Global MX-5 Cup Race Series At SEMA

    The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show is getting underway in Las Vegas today, and among the more interesting announcements to come from the event is Mazda’s new Global MX-5 Cup race series. To be populated by a fleet of identically-prepared race cars, the spec series promises...

  • 2015 Lexus RC 350 by Gordon Ting and Beyond Marketing, 2014 SEMA show
    2015 RC Coupe Headlines Lexus' 2014 SEMA Show Lineup

    The 2015 RC coupe is the star of Lexus’ stand at the 2014 SEMA show, which is currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two of the standouts are a custom RC 350 and RC F developed using off-the-shelf parts by Gordon Ting at Beyond Marketing. ALSO SEE: 2015 Chevrolet COPO Camaro Debuts At SEMA...

  • Ken Block's Hoonicorn RTR for Gymkhana 7

    SEMA is kind of ridiculous, most of the time, with everyone from tuners to manufacturers unveiling their most extreme—and often most tasteless—takes on everything from the family minivan to the heaviest super-duty trucks. But one item on display at SEMA this year is utterly badass. ALSO SEE: 2015 Ford Mustang RTR Revealed, Offers Up To 725 Horsepower It’s Ken Block’s Hoonicorn RTR, an 845-hp all-wheel-drive retro-modern 1965 Ford Mustang built to do what Block does best: hoon. It will be featured in Gymkhana 7. “I’m stoked to be able to publicly unveil this...

  • 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 'Blue Devil' restoration
    First Restored 'Sinkhole' Corvette Rolled Out At SEMA

    The 2009 Corvette ZR1 "Blue Devil" was the first of three recovered cars to be restored.

  • 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
    2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Best Car To Buy 2015 Nominee

    707 horsepower. Seven. Hundred. Seven. Horsepower. It’s an entire 19th century town’s worth of productive capacity. And it all lives under the hood of the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. That power comes from the centerpiece of the Hellcat’s appeal: the 6.2-liter supercharged...

  • 2015 BMW M3
    2015 BMW M3 & M4: Best Car To Buy 2015 Nominee

    Very few cars have the following or the legacy—both on the street and the track—of BMW’s M3. The latest generation of the M3 mixes up the formula quite a bit, in ways going back toward tradition, in other ways moving into the future. In nearly every way, the 2015 BMW M3 (and its...

  • 2016 Audi R8 LMS ultra race car spy shots
    New Ford Performance Car, 2015 Chevy COPO Camaro, 2016 Audi R8 LMS: Car News Headlines

    Ford plans to unveil a new performance car on November 17, and today the automaker released a teaser video that suggests the car could be the long-awaited Mustang GT350 built by the SVT performance division. The 2014 SEMA show is currently underway in Las Vegas, and one of the highlights is the...

  • 2014 F1 United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas
    2014 F1 United States Grand Prix: A Talk With Mercedes AMG Petronas Chief Toto Wolff

    The race is over, the trophies handed out, the trucks packed, the crowds gone home. The full grid couldn’t even make the trip to America this year. But despite controversy and hyperbole, F1 in the U.S. is still going strong—and growing stronger. CHECK OUT: 2015 Ford Mustang RTR...

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