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  • Second mystery Lexus LFA prototype spy shots

    Just a week after a very mysterious Lexus LFA prototype was spotted at the Nürburgring, a second example, with similar markings, has now been spotted on some of the German race track’s surrounding streets and entering a nearby facility owned by Toyota. This second prototype, covered in a bright green finish rather than the bright blue we saw earlier, has a few subtle differences and looks more like the regular production LFA, albeit the high-performance Nürburgring Edition. As we can clearly see in this video produced by TouriClips, the green prototype sports the LFA’s...

  • Lotus Evora 414E extended-range electric car prototype
    Lotus Evora 414E Extended-Range Electric Car Starts Testing

    Despite being one of the more performance-oriented brands in the industry, Lotus also happens to be a leader when it comes to fuel-saving hybrid technology. Having already established a hybrid and electric vehicle group years ago, as well as building several concept and engineering mules for other...

  • Supercar parade at 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
    Every Supercar Under The Sun At Goodwood Festival Of Speed Video

    This year turned out to be a bumper one for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with almost every modern supercar in existence making an appearance at the event. This is on top of the huge list of classic models, expensive concepts, original race cars and automotive celebrities that were also in...

  • 2015 Mercedes-Benz SLC AMG spy shots
    2015 Mercedes-Benz SLC Shelved Because It's Too Expensive: Report

    Just a couple of months ago, it looked like the Mercedes-Benz SLC, designed to take on the Porsche 911, was right on track: reports confirming its existence and its name proliferated. Spy shots showed the car in testing just a few weeks ago. But now, the project may be on the shelf. A report from...

  • Sir Henry 'Tim' Birkin's Blower Bentley 4 1/2 Liter sells for record price at Goodwood
    Birkin Blower Bentley Sets Record Auction Price At Bonhams Goodwood

    The Bentley four-and-a-half liter is a racing legend. Known as the "Blower" Bentley, the big-engined, supercharged hot rod was, at the time, an incredibly powerful beast at 240 hp. These days, it's a vintage relic from the dawn of modern racing--the 1930s. The example you see here belonged to Sir...

  • Porsche Cayenne is 500,000th vehicle built at Leipzig facility
    Porsche Cayenne Fire Truck Is 500,000th Vehicle Built At Leipzig Plant

    The Porsche Cayenne is many things: surprisingly fast, especially in Turbo form; also luxurious and comfortable; somewhat awkward-looking from some angles, too. And now it's a command truck for the Leipzig fire brigade and the 500,000th vehicle to roll out of Porsche's Leipzig plant. It took just...

  • Sean Rich's 1973 Chevelle pro tourer

    There’s absolutely nothing unusual about a Chevy Chevelle built for pro touring, as long as you’re talking about a second generation model, built from 1967 to 1972. In 1973, the Chevelle grew noticeably in length, width and weight, while at the same time new emission standards emasculated its once-potent V-8. A few years earlier, buying a Chevelle with the 454 cubic-inch V-8 would have gotten you a conservatively-rated 360 horsepower. In 1973, the 454 cubic-inch V-8 was still an option, but stringent emission regulations reduced its output to a mere 245 horsepower. While beauty is...

  • 2013 Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake
    2013 Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake makes debut

    You've known the Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake was coming for a while now (and you even saw the leaked photos and details this morning), but the time is finally here: the wagon that would be a coupe has made its official web debut. Coming during the Goodwood Festival of Speed weekend, it's a...

  • Chevy prepares to celebrate six decades of the Corvette
    Chevrolet Celebrates 60 Years Of Corvettes: Video

    It may seem hard to believe, but the Chevrolet Corvette turns 60 in 2013. Over the car’s six-decade life, it’s been transformed from an underpowered and hastily slapped-together roadster (the original 1953 model) to a world class sports car (most recently, the Corvette ZR1) and...

  • Jaguar F-Type at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
    Jaguar F-Type Goes Public At Goodwood, GT3 Race Car Rumor Ignites

    The Jaguar F-Type has been making camouflaged rounds of the web since its announcement at the New York Auto Show this April, but today it finally made its public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car, still wearing its camouflage covering, took to the famous Goodwill hill climb with its...

  • 2012 Jeep Wrangler Freedom Edition
    2012 Jeep Wrangler Freedom Edition Honors Military Members

    A news special edition of the iconic Jeep Wrangler honors U.S. military members.

  • 2013 Land Rover Range Rover spy shots
    2013 Land Rover Range Rover Spy Video

    Development work on Land Rover’s next-generation Range Rover SUV is nearing completion, with the covers expected to finally come off at September’s 2012 Paris Auto Show. Today, we captured an exclusive spy video (above) of the upcoming Range Rover in testing in Colorado, as it traveled...

  • Force Protection Europe's Foxhound

    As the face of modern warfare changes, so do expectations for military vehicles. General-purpose models like the Jeep and the early Land Rover, as well as their evolutionary counterparts, the Humvee and the Snatch Land Rover, were based on old-school warfare, with an established front line. Recent combat has shown that unarmored but highly-mobile vehicles like the Humvee and Snatch aren’t well suited to urban warfare, with its constant threat of insurgent and roadside bomb attacks. Big, explosion-resistant vehicles like the U.S. military’s MRAP trucks are safe, but expensive...

  • Renault Alpine models, new and old
    Renault Shows Off Its Alpine A110-50 Concept: Video

    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Renault Alpine 110, the French automaker launched its 2012 Renault Alpine A110-50 Concept ahead of this year’s Monaco Grand Prix. There’s no denying that the concept is a stunner, and we sincerely hope that Renault decides to build it...

  • A McLaren MP4-12, destroyed on a test drive in Germany
    McLaren MP4-12C Test Drive Ends In Crash, Fire

    By anyone’s standards, the 616-horsepower McLaren MP4-12C (and soon, the MP4-12C Spider) is a fast car. Thanks to its advanced electronic stability control system, it’s also a very safe car, even in the hands of drivers unfamiliar with the car. Despite this, the car is still governed by...

  • Jaguar XJ_e prototype
    Jaguar Previews Plug-In Hybrid XJ With New Prototype

    Building on its XJ Limo-Green project of 2009, Jaguar has unveiled today an updated XJ plug-in hybrid prototype at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in under 6.5 seconds and cruising to a top speed of 150 mph, the XJ prototype, dubbed the XJ_e, delivers...

  • McLaren MP4-12C Spider
    2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spider Preview

    McLaren has announced a new model for 2013, the open-air MP4-12C Spider

  • BMW and Toyota to swap green technology
    BMW And Toyota To Collaborate On Sports Car Development

    At a presentation held today at BMW’s headquarters in Munich, the German automaker together with Toyota announced a further expansion of an original alliance established late last year. The heads of both automakers signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at long-term strategic...

  • 2013 SRT Viper GTS on Jay Leno's Garage

    It’s hard to believe that not even three months have passed since the 2013 SRT Viper made its debut at the 2012 New York Auto Show. Since then the car has been featured in literally thousands of magazines and websites around the world, and now it has made an appearance on Jay Leno’s Garage. Being the Viper fan that he is, television host and comedian Jay Leno does little to hide his enthusiasm. After all, with the new Viper packing an 8.4-liter V-10 engine delivering 640 horsepower and 600 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels in a chassis that weighs less than 3,300 pounds, who...

  • 2013 Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake spy shots
    2013 Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake Spy Shots

    Mercedes-Benz's new CLS Shooting Brake will also come in high-performance AMG flavor.

  • 2013 Audi R8 e-tron with 8:09.099 Nürburgring lap time
    Audi R8 e-tron Is The Fastest Production EV Around The ‘Ring

    It may not be the fastest electric car around the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, but Audi’s R8 e-tron electric sports car, which goes on sale later this year, has set the fastest lap time around the famous German race track for a production-destined EV. The time set by the R8 e-tron was...

  • 2013 Dodge Dart
    2013 Dodge Dart Rallye DDCT: Quick Drive Of Dual-Clutch Automatic

    The 2013 Dodge Dart is one of the most eagerly anticipated models of the new model year—not just because it’s the first model to be developed under pooled Fiat and Chrysler engineering resources, but because it represents a return to form for Dodge compact cars. That said, the Dart is...

  • 2013 Jaguar XJ
    2013 Jaguar XJ Ditches Base V-8, Opts For Supercharged V-6

    While a supercharged V-6 Range Rover Evoque R may or may not be in the works, on the other side of the Jaguar-Land Rover house, the changes for the 2013 XJ are confirmed: it will drop the base normally-aspirated 5.0-liter V-8 model in favor of a supercharged V-6. With 335 horsepower (340 metric...

  • 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Coupe
    Range Rover Evoque R To Get Supercharged 340-HP V-6?

    The Range Rover Evoque is stylish, sporty, and surprisingly good. But for some, it may lack a little punch even at 240 horsepower. If the latest rumors hold true, that may be about to change. According to Autoblog.nl, a supercharged, 340-horsepower V-6--borrowed from the upcoming F-Type, though...

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