Car News
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The Drift Garage series continues to roll forward, and in this episode the car is quite literally moving forward. Chris Forsberg and Ryan Tuerck get new components installed, which means the car is ready for a short shakedown run at a local track. The components include new suspension, a Recaro seat, and the rest of the turbo bits. After that, the car is given a quick tune and sent over to the dyno. This 240SX now boasts an output of nearly 300 horsepower. It's got a welded differential, some safety gear, and a driver ready to thrash it about. That driver moonlights as Professor M. Issile...
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Get Your 2015 Ford Mustang Groove On...With A Pinball Game?Ford will unveil Mustang-themed pinball games at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show.
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Twin-Turbo HPE C7 Corvette Rips Off Wicked Burnout: VideoAttention Australia, please just give us a moment here. We know that you are the undisputed brake stand and burnout kings of the planet. We're not going to argue with you. Instead, we want to share this fine tire-shredding clip produced by the folks at Hennessey Performance Engineering. The subject...
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2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport R-S Spy VideoThe 2014 Range Rover Sport from Land Rover has just gone on sale, but of more interest to performance fans is the sighting yet again of a prototype of a more potent version, something that’s been hinted at in the past by Land Rover officials. Featured in this exclusive spy video is a Range...
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Alpha Nissan GT-R Destroys The Quarter Mile In 8.11: VideoWatch a Nissan GT-R cover the quarter mile in 8.11 seconds.
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Fast & Furious GT-R, Ferrari 149M Project, Audi Q8 e-tron: Car News HeadlinesAn R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Paul Walker in Fast & Furious 4 is currently up for sale. The asking price may be steep, but the car’s current owner will donate half of the sum to Walker's own Reach Out WorldWide (ROWW) charity. Ferrari is teasing a new car which it plans to reveal...
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A new season of Nissan's PlayStation gamer-to-racer TV series, GT Academy, is coming. According to the new trailer for the upcoming season, the competition will head to India for the first time. Having made versions of the GT Academy competition to find future racers in the UK, U.S., and Russia, the series now expands its reach to India. The first round of the competition kicks off at the Delhi Auto Expo on February 6, followed by stops in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai, where local racing enthusiasts will be able to get in on the live-action events. Beyond growing Nissan's brand...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Enters ProductionThe first retail example of the all-new 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class rolled off the line today at the car’s plant in Bremen, Germany. The event marks the start of another chapter for Mercedes’ best-selling vehicle, which has found a home with 8.5 million customers since the...
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DOT Wants Communicating Cars To Curtail CrashesThat autonomous cars will be available over the next few decades doesn't come as much of a surprise. They will, however, be largely optional for the time being--so you won't be forced to let a computer drive that fancy new sports car you always promised yourself. Cars that prevent crashes may...
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2015 Subaru Legacy LeakedSubaru’s all-new 2015 Legacy is set to make its world debut on Thursday at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show, but the first images of the car have already hit the web. No, we’re not talking about Subaru’s teaser shot released a week ago but leaked images showing the car in full. The...
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Rolls-Royce Previews New Bespoke Phantom Drophead Coupe CollectionRolls-Royce has released the first details on its latest special edition developed by its in-house personalization department Rolls-Royce Bespoke. The new special edition is the Phantom Drophead Coupe Bespoke Waterspeed Collection, of which just 35 examples will be built. MUST SEE: Mercedes-Benz...
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Porsche Demonstrates The Art Of Pit Stops Using Its 919 Hybrid: VideoPorsche--understandably--is excited about its return to top-level endurance racing after sitting out for 16 years and watching sister brand Audi rack up win after win. The sports car brand has been building the excitement with the release of information surrounding its preparation for the new...
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Audi may have failed to outshine closest rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the area of electric cars, but the automaker from Ingolstadt is out to change that. And to do so it plans to target one of the leaders in the field, Tesla. The information was first reported by Autocar, citing some sources at Audi. Rather than target the existing Tesla Model S electric sedan, the sources say Audi will challenge Tesla Motors’ [NSDQ:TSLA] upcoming Model X crossover with its own electric version of the oft-rumored Q8 crossover. The Q8, which is tipped to arrive within the next couple of years, will be...
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Snow Autocross Is Slow, Sideways, Incredibly Fun: VideoIf you've been out on the roads this winter, chances are you've seen some pretty stupid low-grip maneuvers. Don't you wish there were a safe environment where normal people could learn how to control their cars on snow and ice? There is such a place. It's at Road America. Fortunately for those of...
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2014 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake is first car off new Shelby American assembly lineShelby American just opened a new assembly facility in Las Vegas, and the first car has rolled off the line. That car was a Grabber Blue 2014 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, owned by the Carroll Hall Shelby Trust. Probably one of the last Shelby Mustangs built on the current platform, it will go...
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Autonomous Military Vehicles Bring Us One Step Closer To SkynetGoogle may be hard at work trying to bring self-driving vehicles to public roads, but it's the government that is eagerly pushing for unmanned vehicles to rumble across the ground. The military has been working with unmanned vehicles for many year now. Drones take to the skies to handle a variety...
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Paul Walker's 'Fast & Furious 4' R34 Nissan GT-R For Sale, Priced At $1.35 MillionThe car world is still recovering from Paul Walker's untimely and unfortunate death late last year, but love for the Fast & Furious franchise--and especially its modified cars--has never been stronger. As the next movie, Fast & Furious 7, moves onward, some lucky collector will get to take...
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Ferrari 149M Project To Debut At 2014 Geneva Motor ShowFerrari's latest project may be an updated version of the California.
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Future Aston Martins will have AMG engines, but not AMG badges.
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EU Secret Plan Leaked--Police To Remotely Stop Cars?Not the longest, nor the most action-packed, the Mustang versus Charger car chase in the movie Bullitt is generally regarded as one of the best of all time. It wouldn't have been so great, however, were it set in an Orwellian future Europe where police could shut down cars remotely, eliminating the...
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Mercedes-Benz Brings G63 AMG 6x6 To The NortheastOriginally, the plan was to build about three to four of these monstrosities. That number was bumped up to a figure between 20 and 30 units per year, which isn't bad when you consider we're talking about a beastly behemoth of a machine that costs nearly $500,000. It's the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6...
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BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe, Super Bowl Ads, New S-Class Models: Today’s Car NewsOver the weekend BMW revealed its new 4-Series Gran Coupe, which is billed as a four-door version of the automaker’s 4-Series Coupe. It’s an impressive looking car, but we have to wonder whether it will hurt sales of the similar 3-Series sedan. Super Bowl XLVII is now over, so here is a...
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First Transformers 4 Trailer Airs During Super Bowl: VideoWe’re now just a handful of months away from the release of the fourth instalment of the Transformers movie franchise, Transformers 4: Age Of Extinction, and the first trailer for the movie has been shown, debuting yesterday during Super Bowl XLVII. The trailer, which as you would expect is...
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Audi Confirms Driver Lineup For 2014 World Endurance ChampionshipAudi’s assortment of drivers for its campaign in the 2014 World Endurance Championship has been confirmed, and the lineup includes no less than five world champions and Le Mans winners plus a former Formula One driver. Audi will be fielding two of its 2014-spec R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans...
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