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  • Guerlain Chicherit's world record jump attempt ends in crash

    French daredevil driver, skier, and rally racer Guerlain Chicherit's Guinness World Record jump attempt was promoted all around the world earlier this year. Chicherit was aiming to surpass Tanner Foust's 332-foot record with a 360-foot jump in a modified MINI Countryman rally car. The jump, which took place Sunday, March 16, started well enough, with plenty of distance to clear the enormous gap. But the landing didn't go so smoothly. The new video shows that better than ever. MUST WATCH: Drag Racer Makes Awesome Save When 250-MPH Car's Chutes Fail: Video Toward the end of Chicherit's flight...

  • Tracy Morgan's crashed Sprinter van
    Tracy Morgan’s Crashed Van: Photos, Report Released By NTSB

    The National Transportation Safety Board has released a report and images of the accident that injured actor and comedian Tracy Morgan. The report determines that the Wal-Mart truck that rear-ended the van Morgan was traveling in was speeding at the time of the accident. MUST SEE: Jaguar XJ200...

  • Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R race cars adopt Le Mans-winning livery
    Racing Vipers To Wear Le Mans-Winning Dodge Livery Again

    The SRT Viper is no more, returning instead to its Dodge Viper SRT appellation. To match this move, the racing Vipers will shed their rather plain blue-on-silver livery of recent years and don the white stripes over red livery of the last Le Mans-winning Vipers. ALSO SEE: Tracy Morgan's Crashed...

  • Harley Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle prototype
    Range Rover Sport R-S, Cuda Convertible Sale, Electric Harley-Davidson: Today’s Car News

    Land Rover is bringing its fastest and most agile SUV ever built to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed next week. The vehicle is expected to be the Range Rover Sport R-S model that we’ve been spying in prototype form for the past year. In the muscle car world, the Plymouth Hemi Cuda is a...

  • 2015 Dodge Charger
    2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat In The Works?

    Dodge gave us an early look at its redesigned 2015 Charger muscle sedan back at the 2014 New York Auto Show, but the automaker is yet to reveal the high-performance SRT version of the car. During the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles five-year strategy announcement just a month ago, we learned that a new...

  • Rhys Millen rips around Washington, D.C. in his Hyundai Veloster Global Rallycross car
    Rhys Millen Thrashes Global Rallycross Car Around Streets Of Washington, D.C.: Video

    The Global Rallycross Championship is one of the most exciting racing series in the United States, so where better to celebrate it than in the nation’s capital? That’s exactly what Rhys Millen has done, escorted by a police motorcade on his way to the track at RFK stadium. MUST SEE...

  • Teaser for McLaren global premiere at 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed

    McLaren has announced a global premiere for the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed taking place this month and has released this teaser image to whet our appetite. The global premiere will be a new track-focused version of one of McLaren’s supercars, developed by the automaker’s McLaren GT motorsport offshoot. Rather than the highly-anticipated P1 GTR that was recently confirmed by McLaren, the global premiere is more likely to be a new 650S-based race car to replace the 12C GT3 or possibly a track-focused version of the 650S similar to the previous 12C GT Sprint. If you look...

  • 2014 Porsche Cayman
    Porsche Remains The Top Brand In 2014 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study

    In a year that saw the average number of problems experienced by new car buyers increase, Porsche remains on top and actually managed to improve its score. Yes, the results for 2014’s J.D. Power Initial Quality Study are in, and it’s Porsche on top for the second year in a row, followed...

  • 1971 Plymouth Barracuda Convertible sells for $3.5 million (Image: Mecum Auctions)
    Plymouth Hemi Cuda Convertible Hits $3.5 Million At Mecum Auction

    If further proof were needed of the growing value of America's iconic muscle cars, the sale price of a 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda convertible sold at a recent Mecum auction in Seattle should do the trick. Wearing the correct shade of Bright Blue paintwork and matching painted steel wheels, the '71...

  • Audi 3.0-liter V-6 TDI with electrically-driven turbocharger
    Audi’s Electrically-Driven Turbo To Debut In Next-Gen Q7 TDI

    Audi recently presented an RS 5 TDI concept car powered by a diesel engine equipped with an electrically-driven turbocharger. The engine features a twin-turbocharger setup where the smaller of the two turbos uses an electric motor to spool up its compressor at lower revs (up to 70,000 rpm in a few...

  • Bloodhound SSC's cockpit
    A Glimpse Inside Bloodhound SSC's Cockpit: Video

    It's rather pleasing to note that the cockpit of Boodhound SSC—the Land Speed Record attempt vehicle aiming to hit 1,000 mph—is exactly as high-tech and spaceship-like as you'd expect, given its mission. All too often the innards of boundary-defining machines are disappointingly drab...

  • Jaguar XJ220 executes the perfect flaming burnout
    Jaguar XJ220 Lights Tires On Fire In Ultimate Burnout

    If you should ever find yourself in possession of a Jaguar XJ220 and you don’t do something like this, the world will be disappointed in you. Fortunately, the gang at TaxTheRich don’t disappoint. CHECK OUT: Rhys Millen Thrashes Global Rallycross Car Around Streets Of Washington, D.C...

  • 1964 Jaguar E-Type barn find for sale in France

    The Jaguar E-Type needs no icing on its cake of sultry vintage speed, but this find has some anyway. Once owned by a Bugatti race driver, this E-Type was worked over by a race mechanic at Bugatti’s shop in Molsheim, France, to extract more power—enough for an extra 7 mph of top end. MUST SEE: Jaguar XJ220 Lights Tires On Fire In Ultimate Burnout: Video Even aside from the Bugatti pedigree, however, this E-Type is lust-worthy. The exterior, while dusty, appears to be almost entirely straight and rust-free, while the interior is nearly pristine—even after sitting in storage...

  • Ferrari F430 crashed on exotic car tour
    Guy Crashes Ferrari F430 On Exotic Car Tour: Video

    Canadians have a reputation for politeness, but all of the Canadians in this video put that theory to the test. The worst behavior comes from the driver of the Ferrari F430 ahead of the chase car, but the foul-mouthed videographers aren’t much better. ALSO SEE: Rolls-Royce Wraith Destroyed...

  • Saab logo
    Is India’s Mahindra About To Purchase A Stake In Saab?

    There seems to be no end to Saab’s woes, even with new owner NEVS running the show. A month ago, NEVS said a cash shortage had forced it to stop production of the Saab 9-3 sedan and that it was in negotiations with other firms over the potential sale of a stake in Saab to help raise funds...

  • Lapping Le Mans in an Audi A8 L TDI
    Lapping Le Mans During Race Week In An Audi A8 L TDI: Video

    It’s a very, very rare thing to be let out on the Circuit de la Sarthe during the 24 Hours of Le Mans race week unless you’re a racing driver—but then, that’s rare enough, too. Motor Authority was fortunate enough to have that opportunity, in an Audi A8 L TDI. What’s...

  • Jay Leno's Garage 1952 Ferrari Barchetta screencap
    Jay Leno Drives Henry Ford II's 1952 Ferrari Barchetta: Video

    Jay Leno drives an immaculate Ferrari with an unusual pedigree.

  • 2015 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class
    2015 Mercedes CLS, 2015 Ford Edge, Tesla Model X: Car News Headlines

    Mercedes-Benz has revealed an updated version of its CLS-Class, which will be introduced for the 2015 model year. In addition to new styling, the car gets a new nine-speed automatic transmission, more powerful engines and an improved interface. A prototype for Ford’s next-generation Edge...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Coupe

    The latest GM recall includes 33 Corvette Stingrays and every fifth-generation Camaro.

  • 1957 Maserati 250F accelerates away from a 1934 Alfa Romeo Tipo B
    Maserati, Italian Cars Featured At 2014 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion

    The Monterey Peninsula is the place to be in the motoring world for a couple of weeks every year, with the combination of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. This year, Maserati will celebrate its 100th anniversary as a featured marque alongside...

  • Ferrari LaFerrari
    Ferrari LaFerrari Spider in the works?

    At the launch of the LaFerrari at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] said it would build just 499 examples of the flagship supercar. But on top of this the automaker will build a handful of track-only ‘experimental’ cars as part of the XX program, and we may also see an...

  • 2014 Aston Martin Rapide S
    Aston Martin Rapide May Be Phased Out With Arrival Of New Platform

    Aston Martin is working on a new platform to underpin its next generation of sports cars, starting with a new DB9 in 2016. A new Vantage is expected in 2018 and should be followed a year later by a new Vanquish, but what of Aston Martin’s uber-stylish Rapide four-door? Autocar is reporting...

  • 2015 Ford Edge spy shots
    2015 Ford Edge Spy Shots

    Ford is in the final stages of development of its next-generation Edge crossover, a prototype for which has just been spotted. Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] previewed the new Edge with a thinly-veiled concept version at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show, and it looks like the concept’s lines have...

  • Wreckage of a Rolls-Royce Wraith destroyed in a fire
    Rolls-Royce Wraith Destroyed When Truck Carrying It Catches Fire

    A poor Rolls-Royce Wraith was the victim of a fire that engulfed a truck carrying it plus a handful of other exotics on a highway in China recently. The fire must have been quite intense and raging for some time as there’s not much left of the Wraith apart from its burnt shell. CHECK OUT...

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