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Bentley recently took the covers off its new Continental GT-based race car, which has been designed for GT3 competition and will be competing initially in the FIA-sanctioned Blancpain Endurance Series. Its first race is scheduled for the 2013 Gulf 12 Hours, at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi on...

It’s official boys and girls; the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is on its way out, set to be replaced next year by a brand new sports car currently in the works at AMG’s Affalterbach skunk works. To give the SLS AMG the send-off it deserves--it is, after all, the first Mercedes gullwing in...

Audi would have you believe that every car it offers with the famous quattro all-wheel drive system is infused with the spirit of the seminal 1980s Sport quattro. That isn't really the case, but a few get closer than others--like the new 2015 Audi S3, as we recently discovered. We've already...

Just last month, IndyCar racer Dario Franchitti suffered a scary wreck after touching wheels with Takuma Sato at the Houston Grand Prix. Today, Franchitti announced he is retiring from racing as a result of the head and spinal injuries suffered in the accident. The decision was made "based on the...

The long-anticipated Jaguar F-Type Coupe is coming. It’s not quite here yet—fully, anyway—but it’s definitely coming, at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. Today, we get our second preview of what to expect, this time in the form of a look over the rear fender of the sleek new...

This year's Neiman Marcus special-edition car is the new Aston Martin Vanquish Volante.

Just as it did in the 1980s, Buick is using turbocharging to make the Regal better.

John Hennessey is a man who makes fast cars faster. His HPE-tuned stable includes a wide range of vehicles from ultra exotics like the Ferrari 458 to rowdy domestics like the Ford Raptor. Now that Chevrolet has brought a brand-new Corvette out to play, it only makes sense that Hennessey gets his...

Having spent some more time behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series on track recently (stay tuned for our write-up), we can vouch for the no-B.S. credentials of the car when pushed hard. Here, it's pushed beyond hard, well into crazy territory, on the Nürburgring...

Fiat is celebrating its original 1957 ‘Nuova’ Cinquecento with a special edition 500 that goes on sale in 2014.

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, AKA JCVD, AKA the Muscles from Brussels, is best known by his professional name Jean-Claude Van Damme. He's also, I would assume, best known for the film Bloodsport, which tells the story of Frank Dux as he battles for his life, the memory of his...

Our latest spy shots of the 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class show a prototype wearing the least camouflage gear we’ve seen yet. Engineers have clearly let their guard down now that official photos of the car have leaked and its 2014 Detroit Auto Show debut is only a couple of months away. The 2015...

No stranger to perhaps the most brutally expensive, technical, and intellectually difficult racing series in the world--Formula One--McLaren has taken the first produce of its road car division and kitted it out for racing duty in the form of the MP4-12C GT3. The race car has enjoyed reasonable...

Mercedes-Benz’s in-house tuner AMG is preparing something special for next week’s 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show, and has released some teaser shots on its Facebook page to help build the excitement. Two shots have already been released, with the promise for more in the near future. The...

A police officer in Montgomery, Alabama has resigned after a video of him racing a local motorcycle rider went viral. The unidentified officer was captured on camera by the rider, Lawrence Lee Spillers, accelerating hard away from a green light after being asked, "do you wanna race?" The officer...

Just as the Phantom has its coupe and convertible variants, the latter dubbed a “Drophead Coupe”, it is only natural Rolls-Royce would launch similar two-door versions of its smaller Ghost sedan. The first of these, a Ghost coupe, has already been launched in the form of the 2014...

All 375 McLaren P1 supercars destined for production are accounted for, which means if you’re in the market for a hybrid hypercar your only option left would be the Porsche 918 Spyder. Ferrari’s LaFerrari supercar was sold out even before the car was unveiled. In fact, there was so much...

Yes, you could take a turbo boost buggy and hoon it all around a made-to-order course, or you could keep it simple, like this guy. Simple, and glorious. All it takes is a series of back roads, a shed, a smoke bomb or two, and a handful of sparklers. Oh, and a Ferrari 288 GTO. MORE FROM TAX THE...

The John & Table Race is made of carbon fiber and trimmed in leather and Alcantara, just like many high-performance cars.

The BMW M3 has plenty of bark. Will it have enough bite to match?