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The first undertaking of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Vehicles Operations personalization department is the F-Type Project 7, the production version of last year’s Project 7 concept car. Yes, Jaguar has confirmed that it will build 250 examples of the stunning speedster, and will present the car for the first time at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed starting tomorrow. The F-Type Project 7’s arrival marks the 60th anniversary of Jaguar’s D-Type race car, which inspired its design. The Project 7 name, meanwhile, is derived from Jaguar’s seven Le Mans wins...
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Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Races From Virtual World To RealityNissan’s stunning Concept 2020 Vision was originally designed for the virtual world of Gran Turismo, where it sits among a handful of equally-wild concepts designed in celebration of the popular video game’s 15th anniversary last year. However, Nissan was so pleased with the initial...
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Land Rover’s High-Performance Range Rover Sport Is The SVR: VideoLand Rover has confirmed that the high-performance version of its Range Rover Sport that we’ve been seeing for months in prototype form is called the SVR. The British automaker has also confirmed that the vehicle will be presented, still as a prototype, at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed...
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2015 Ford Edge Revealed, Comes Standard With EcoBoost: VideoFord has taken the wraps off its 2015 Edge. This newest member of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] hits showrooms early next year and for the first time will be sold in global markets, including as far away as Australia. Looking almost identical to a concept version unveiled a year ago, the 2015...
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Drifter Ken Gushi To Pilot Scion FR-S At Pikes PeakScion is turning to someone familiar with both the car and course as it mounts a challenge on this year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, drift star Ken Gushi. MUST SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manuals Transmissions You Can Drive Gushi won last year's Exhibition Auto Class at Pikes Peak...
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#GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manual Transmissions You Can DriveEvery single day, a sportscar gets overlooked. Abandoned. Rejected. It’s fast, it’s beautiful…but it has a stick shift. Automatics, CVTs, dual-clutches—they find their forever homes while thousands of stick shifts are left behind. It's sad, but it's true. Manual...
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Ferrari has already managed to curb its CO2 emissions by almost 40 percent since 2007, back when its cars were averaging about 435 grams per kilometer as opposed to the current rate of about 270 g/km, but the Italian automaker isn’t applying the brakes just yet. A senior Ferrari exec says the marque’s lineup should see average CO2 reduced by a further 20 percent by 2021, thanks to turbocharging and hybrid technologies. "Our average CO2 emissions are currently about 270 grams of CO2 per kilometre,” Ferrari powertrain director Vittorio Dini told Automotive News (subscription...
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Special BMW M4 Coupe And M5 30 Jahre Edition Headed To GoodwoodThe Goodwood Festival of Speed gets bigger and better every year, and there's no better sign of this than how many automakers use the show to launch special versions of their hottest performance models. This year it's the turn of BMW, which is marking the show with the debut of a 30th anniversary...
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Toyota Supra Successor To Feature Convertible Variant?Toyota plans to have a three-tiered sports car lineup, with the GT 86 (Scion FR-S) to sit in the middle and be flanked by a new entry-level model and a range-topping one serving as a spiritual successor to the Supra. We’ve heard that the latter, which will borrow elements from the FT-1...
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20-Year-Old Crashes BMW M4 In GermanyThe first crash involving the all-new 2015 BMW M4 has occurred, with a 20-year-old male in Munich, Germany reportedly losing control of this white example before it ran off the road and crashed head-first into a tree. The accident occurred yesterday near the Sendlinger-Tor-Platz, in the heart of...
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Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge Prototype To Make Dynamic Debut At GoodwoodPoor Infiniti. It can slap its badge on as many race-winning Formula One cars as it likes and get a multiple F1 champion to sign off a V-8-powered SUV, but it's still not blessed with a particularly exciting reputation. Maybe its latest trick will work a little better: Dropping the 3.8-liter...
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Doctor & Daughter In Audi Chase Burglars, Get Crashed, Claim Victory: VideoA Houston doctor recently returned to his house to find a Ford F-150 backing out of the driveway and taking off. Suspecting burglary—several other homes in the affluent Houston neighborhood had been robbed—the doctor urged his daughter at the wheel to give chase. She did. The rest is...
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Land Rover introduced an updated LR2 for the 2013 model year, with the vehicle receiving a new turbocharged four-cylinder engine, a much more luxurious interior, and the latest version of the automaker’s brilliant Terrain Response off-roading system. Despite all the updates, there’s no hiding the fact that the LR2 is getting long in the tooth, having been on the market since the 2007 model year. The good news is that a successor is in the works, although the new model won’t be called an LR2. It won’t even be called a Freelander, which is the name the LR2 uses overseas...
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David Coulthard Gives Racer’s Tour Of The Goodwood Hill Climb: VideoThe Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of the racing world’s greatest celebrations, and has been since 1993. This year, Motor Authority will be there to take in all the sights, sounds, and speed—and share it with you. So why not ride along with David Coulthard to get a bit more familiar...
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Elemental RP1 track car set for Goodwood debutFor those who think a sports car is too soft, there's always a track car. This relatively-new niche features cars that don't conform to any racing-series rules, but are still too extreme for street driving. The latest is the Elemental RP1, which is set to make its global debut at the 2014 Goodwood...
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James Glickenhaus Gives Insider's View Of His Amazing Garage: VideoThe P4/5 Pininfarina Enzo, the P4/5 Competizione, the upcoming SCG003—James Glickenhaus is the man behind some of the last decade’s most amazing one-off cars, and in this video, he explains his passion, his collection, and more. MUST SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manual Transmissions You...
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TMG Unlikely To Build Hotter Toyota And Lexus Road CarsToyota’s motorsport partner TMG is unlikely to develop high-performance road cars based on Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The motorsport skunk works, which is based in Cologne, Germany, currently builds Toyota’s Le Mans prototypes as well as customer race cars based on the Yaris and GT 86...
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Jay Leno drives a De Tomaso PanteraThe latest episode of Jay Leno's Garage features a 1971 De Tomaso Pantera.
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Aside from vehicles turning into robots and obligatory Michael Bay lens flare, the Transformers movie franchise is perhaps best known for each installment being a two-hour long advertisement for General Motors vehicles. Okay, maybe that's a bit unfair. But Bumblebee, the movie's chief non-human protagonist, is a Chevrolet Camaro. Sparks, Sonics and more have also had their time on the screen, and the upcoming fourth installment of the franchise, Transformers: Age Of Extinction, will feature Corvettes, the Chevy Trax and a Sonic RS rally car. Oh, and the guy in charge of General Motors...
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Ferrari F12 TRS, Toyota Sports Car Plans, 2015 Ford Mustang Safety: Today’s Car NewsFerrari has released official details for its latest one-off creation, the F12 TRS. The car is based on the F12 Berlinetta and features a design inspired by the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. Toyota may turn to BMW for help with development of more cars in the future, including a successor for the...
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2015 Ford Mustang Offers Glovebox Knee Airbag, Seven Others: VideoPeople crashing their brand-new muscle cars is as much a universal constant as the arrow of time and the speed of light. At least when the inevitable happens, and photos of said crash end up all over the internet, the owner will take solace that their new 2015 Ford Mustang is the safest the company...
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Land Rover Releases Second Teaser Video For Its ‘Fastest And Most Agile’ Range Rover SportLand Rover has announced that it is bringing the fastest, most agile and most responsive SUV it’s ever built to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed this week. And to build up excitement the British automaker has released some videos offering a taste of the vehicle’s menacing exhaust...
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Ferrari 360 Modena Crashes Down Steep Malibu Embankment: VideoWe have dramatic video footage that shows a driver of a Ferrari 360 Modena suddenly losing control of his exotic and crashing down a steep embankment. The crash recently took place on a stretch of the Mulholland Highway in Malibu. CHECK OUT: Official Details On The One-Off Ferrari F12 TRS: Video...
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Carice Sports Car Is Like A Tiny Electric Porsche 356Do you ever wonder whether cars are getting too aggressive these days? From sports cars to sedans, everything needs to look angry, with headlight and grille designs seemingly styled to shovel up other vehicles and deposit them in a ditch at the side of the road. CHECK OUT: Official Details On The...
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