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  • Supercharged Smart car does wheelie

    Take one part Smart ForTwo, add equal parts Toyota Paseo Sprintex 1.5-liter engine and supercharger, mix well, and take to the drag strip. This is a recipe for beating Shelby Mustangs. MUST SEE: Maserati MC12 GT1 Race Car Sounds Off: Video At least, it’s one recipe for taking the drag-radial-shod pony car to task. And to be fair, the Smart driver didn’t quite win, lifting just before the lights to let the Mustang cruise past. It was still a close race, with the Smart turning a 13.90 to the Mustang’s 13.67 ET. The Smart car’s advantage is all in the hole shot. Despite a...

  • Vita4one Maserati MC12 GT1 race car
    Maserati MC12 GT1 Race Car Sounds Off: Video

    The Maserati MC12 GT1 is one of the most successful cars in endurance racing, having been driven to multiple victories in the original FIA GT series and the short-lived FIA GT1 World Championship. Powered by a 6.0-liter V-12 engine limited to 540 horsepower, the Maserati race car was capable of...

  • Jay Leno drives Steve McQueen's Jaguar XKSS screencap
    Steve McQueen's Jaguar XKSS roars into Jay Leno's garage

    It's hard to say which car is the coolest in the world, but Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar XKSS certainly makes our shortlist. MUST SEE: McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson: Video Update This singular Jag currently resides in Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum, but Jay Leno...

  • McLaren F1 crashed in Italy
    McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson: Video Update

    Upside down in a ditch against a tree is no place for any car, but it’s an especially painful place to find your unique McLaren F1. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to one unlucky owner in Italy today. Now, you can see the aftermath on video. ALSO SEE: Dodge Drops More Photos...

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    2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Order Guide Leaked

    The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray gets a few updates for its second model year.

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    Abarth 695 Biposto Named Official Car Of The 2014 Gumball 3000 Rally

    The Gumball 3000 rally is gearing up for another year of mayhem, with participants scheduled to take off from Miami on June 4 and travel across the U.S. and Europe before ending in Ibiza one week later. Now, for the first time in the event’s history (the first was in 1999), the Gumball 3000...

  • Hennessey HPE650 2015 Chevrolet Corvette

    It's no secret that John Hennessey likes to drive fast. There are many cars to choose from to achieve this, yet none of them seem to fit the bill. So Hennessey turns to his HPE Design team to create truly wicked versions of already fairly wicked machines. MUST SEE: Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 Appropriately Dubbed The Sea Monster Case in point is the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The C7 'Vette is a great leap forward both in regards to the interior refinement and performance capabilities when compared to the C6 version that it replaces. The C6 was pretty good, but the C7 is wonderful. Now...

  • Street-legal, four-passenger DeltaWing Technologies vehicle rendering
    DeltaWing Four-Passenger Street Car Design Revealed

    The DeltaWing’s unusual shape provoked comparisons to the Batmobile when it first hit the motorsports scene. While its on-track record was plagued by bad luck, the company behind the car is taking it to the next level: a street-legal, four-passenger version. This is it. MUST SEE: Google...

  • Mercedes AMG's W05 Hybrid 2014 Formula One car
    Mercedes Road Car Division To Work Closer With F1 Team

    The Mercedes AMG Formula One team is dominating the current season, with one of its drivers named the victor at every race held so far. Part of the reason for the winning streak is the hard work engineers at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, based in Brixworth, England, put into developing...

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    MG Eyes New Sports Car, U.S. Return

    The old MG car company is best known for its lightweight, open-topped sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s, but since 2006 the brand has been owned by Chinese firm SAIC. Now, SAIC has plans to return MG to its sports car heyday—and could even bring cars to the U.S., if conditions are right...

  • Aston Martin production facility in Gaydon, England
    Aston Martin Upgrading Manufacturing Facilities For Future Models

    Aston Martin is working on an all-new platform to underpin its future sports, starting with a next-generation DB9, but there’s much more to the British automaker’s growth plans. Aston Martin is also investing in its manufacturing facilities and looking to hire new staff. Among the...

  • BRABUS program for the Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class
    Brabus Reveals Upgrades For Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class

    If you like Mercedes-Benz cars but find the brand's own AMG line isn't quite fast or eye-catching enough, you've probably heard of Brabus. The Bottrop-based tuner modifies Smarts to S-Classes and everything in between—and now it's turned its attention to the brand-new GLA-Class crossover...

  • Volkswagen future tech

    Volkswagen in July will reveal a new generation of the Passat sedan that the rest of the world enjoys. The new sedan will be packed with the automaker’s latest technologies which will eventually filter across to more of its models, and some of those technologies were recently previewed. DON'T MISS: Google Unveils Its first Self-Driving Car Prototype: Videos Underpinning the new Passat will be VW’s flexible MQB platform. Engineers have worked to make the platform even lighter by incorporating high-strength, hot-formed steel and aluminum in certain areas. The new model will be 187...

  • Audi RS 5 TDI concept
    Audi Previews Electrically-Driven Turbo In RS 5 TDI Concept

    We first heard Audi was working on an electrically-driven turbocharger back in 2012, but now the automaker has revealed an engine fitted with the technology in a new concept car. The concept is based on the RS 5 but the car’s standard V-8 has been replaced by an advanced twin-turbocharged...

  • 2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS Cabriolet spy shots
    2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS Cabriolet Spy Shots

    Porsche is working on a new variant for its 911 family that’s expected to revive the GTS badge last used on the iconic sports car back in 2010 to help send out the previous Type-997 generation. We’ve already spied the new GTS coupe but now we have our first look at the convertible...

  • Google Self-Driving Car Prototype
    Google Unveils Its First Self-Driving Car Prototype: Videos

    Cute as a button and spelling doom for the enthusiast; no, it’s not the Rabbit of Caerbannog. It’s Google’s first in-house-designed self-driving car prototype, built from the ground up to deliver a seamless driving experience. But you won’t be doing the driving. Still a...

  • Pastor Maldonado receives his new Lotus Evora S
    Pastor Maldonado Gets New Lotus Evora S, We Wonder How Soon He’ll Crash It

    The best weekend of racing this year is just behind us, and while most of us only had hangovers or lots of nacho-cheese-fueled regret to show for it, Lotus F1 driver Pastor Maldonado drove off in a brand-new Evora S. Lucky guy. ALSO SEE: McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson...

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    Nissan’s Le Mans History: Gallery

    This year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will be an exciting race, both in the GT classes and in the headline P1 category. With Porsche’s return to the top tier, Audi and Toyota will face new and somewhat unknown competition. Next year, Nissan will throw its hat back in the same ring with the...

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    Caterham, the British sports car manufacturer and Formula One team, is reportedly going up for sale, with an information memorandum said to have already been sent to potential investors in the Middle East. The information was first reported by The Edge Malaysia, citing an unnamed source. Caterham’s current owner, a small consortium led by Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes, is reportedly seeking £350 million (approximately $589 million) for the entire Caterham portfolio, which not only includes the aforementioned sports car arm and F1 team but also the Caterham Technology and...

  • Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 Sea Monster
    Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 Appropriately Dubbed The Sea Monster

    The Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 is a glorious monument to excess. It's both perfect, and way too much at the same time. It's both useless, and incredibly useful. It's beautiful and ugly. It's wonderful. Also, it's wonderfully expensive, which is why most of these limited-edition machines are finding...

  • 2014 Indianapolis 500
    Indy 500 Tops Must-Attend Sports List: Infographic

    Sporting events across the globe draw in passionate fans who show support for their favorite teams, players, drivers, riders, and combatants. Watching a live sporting event is a wonderful way to spend a few hours, regardless of which sport you out there enjoy the most. Some sports, however, are...

  • 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
    Dodge Drops More Photos And Specs For 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat

    We got our first look at the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat a week ago but now Dodge has dropped a few more details and photos for what’s shaping up to be the brand’s most potent muscle car in its entire history. No, we still don’t know how much power and torque will be...

  • ken block jumps audi r8
    Ken Block And Crew Battle Darkness, Lasers, And Dirt: Video

    Castrol is keen on promoting its Edge oil lineup, which utilizes a component called Titanium FST to make sure it lasts for a long time. One way to help with such promotion is the creation of a video spot that shows off the benefits of said products. Or you can go in a different direction, and have...

  • Pagani chief test driver Davide Testi lashes the Pagani Huayra in first-person view
    Pagani Huayra From The Driver’s Point Of View: Video

    The closest most of us will get to driving the boutique-built Pagani Huayra hypercar will be in Gran Turismo 6. Or, possibly, right here in this video. MUST SEE: The World's Strongest Brakes Stop The 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC: Video With a camera strapped to Pagani’s chief test driver’s...

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