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  • Watercar Panther

    Prodrive, the Britain-based company known for building race cars and most recently supporting Subaru's record-setting run up the Transfăgărășan highway, has aquatic plans in its future. The company's boss, David Richards, wants to build an amphibious car. Richards said so in an Autocar report published Thursday after he acquired a Watercar Panther. The Panther, a Jeep Wrangler-esque vehicle, surprised Richards and it spurred plans to import units from California into Europe. However, import laws, crash testing, and other regulatory red tape made him consider his...

  • Hagerty Classic Cars
    $4.5M classic car fraud scheme shut down by FBI

    As classic cars become more than just aspirational items and more investment pieces, buyers should always stay vigilant. Today, it's easy for criminals to scam would-be buyers out of a sale with a little creativity and the Internet. Many enthusiasts found that out the hard way over the past two...

  • 2017 Tesla Model S
    Tesla Model S, X to receive spartan Model 3 interior design

    Tesla's Model S and Model X haven't been put on the back burner as the electric car brand focuses on the Model 3. According to images published by Electrek on Monday, both the larger sedan and SUV models are in for interior refreshes. (Current Model S interior shown.) Hopefully fans and buyers...

  • Tom Cotter's 1965 289 Shelby Cobra, Hagerty photo
    Bear destroys roof of Shelby-signed Cobra in search of cookies

    When a bear senses something to eat, there’s little that can stop it, including the original roof of a 1965 289 Shelby Cobra signed by Carroll Shelby. Hagerty’s Tom Cotter, who hosts the "Barn Find Hunter" video series, learned that the hard way during a multi-day trip across Alaska...

  • "Fast and Furious" cast members recall their first cars
    "Fast and Furious" cast members recall their first cars

    No one forgets their first car. First cars represent freedom, at least within the bounds of curfews and parental scoldings on late nights. For the cast of the "Fast and Furious" franchise, first cars were no different. A video from 2013 shows Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne "The...

  • Philippine President Duterte looks on as cars are crushed
    Watch $5.5M worth of smuggled cars get crushed

    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has instituted a crackdown on crime and smuggled vehicles. The latest casualty was a group of 76 luxury cars and performance vehicles. A video shows Duterte watching in a white hard hat as bulldozers and construction equipment rolled over the cars Monday, which...

  • Ferrari 488 Pista

    Ferrari shares dropped 11 percent on Wednesday after new CEO Louis Camilleri told analysts in a conference call that profit targets previously announced by his predecessor Sergio Marchionne were "aspirational." Nevertheless, Camilleri will still attempt to reach the targets, which call for an increase in total sales to more than 10,000 units and a doubling of profits to $2.3 billion by 2022. He will give details on the latest plan to reach the targets over a two-day meeting starting September 17, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. "Both Sergio and I had the same ambitions," Camilleri said in the...

  • 2019 Hennessey Heritage Edition Ford Mustang
    Mercedes-Benz CLS review, BMW X7 leak, Hennessey Heritage Mustang: Car News Headlines

    Mercedes-Benz is out with a third generation of the CLS but now the nameplate faces some internal competition in the form of the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe. Will it be overshadowed or can it stand on its own? Find out in our first drive review. BMW will add a full-size SUV with third-row seats to its...

  • Cosworth corporate logo
    How Cosworth uses race data to develop self-driving tech

    Cosworth isn't best known for its self-driving car technology, but that could very well change one day. The legendary maker of Formula 1 and other high-performance engines plans to expand into the self-driving car arena, and it's using race data to expedite its offerings. Company CEO Hal Reisiger...

  • Mercedes-AMG Project One concept, 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show
    Mercedes-AMG will block Project One owners from flipping cars early

    Mercedes-AMG's Project One hypercar is right up there with most anticipated cars of the decade, and with just 275 examples destined to be built you can bet they'll probably be worth a lot more than the $2.8 million retail price once on the used car market. But in what's starting to become a common...

  • 2019 Hennessey Heritage Edition Ford Mustang
    Hennessey's 10,000th car is an 808-horsepower Ford Mustang

    The folks at Hennessey Performance Engineering based in Sealy, Texas have been building fast cars since 1991. They've now unveiled their 10,000th build: the 2019 Hennessey Heritage Edition Ford Mustang. It features Hennessey's HPE800 upgrade designed for the current Mustang GT, but this special...

  • 2019 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera
    First details on Aston Martin DBS Superleggera AMR

    Aston Martin has just unleashed upon the world the 715-horsepower DBS Superleggera, but it doesn't represent the end of the performance road for the new super GT. Just as we've seen with the automaker's other performance cars, the DBS Superleggera will eventually receive the AMR treatment. Not to...

  • BMW X7 patent drawing

    BMW is working on a full-size SUV with third-row seats called the X7. Prototypes have been testing for a while and a world debut is expected at the 2018 Los Angeles auto show this November. We've got an early look at the design thanks to patent drawings submitted by BMW to a patent office in Brazil. Discovered by Motor1, they show that the design of the production X7 adheres closely to what we saw on an X7 iPerformance concept unveiled at the 2017 Frankfurt auto show. As has become commonplace with the latest BMWs, the design is hardly a surprise. The X7 looks like your standard three-row...

  • World's most powerful Nissan GT-R with 3,500 horsepower
    World's most powerful Nissan GT-R makes 3,500 horsepower

    The standard Nissan GT-R is no slouch with 565 horsepower coming from a 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 , but this GT-R is something else. If the car looks familiar, that's because it's currently the world's quickest GT-R in the quarter mile. The Extreme Turbo Systems GT-R set a 6.88-second...

  • Josef Juza owns 114 Volkswagen Golfs
    This man loves VW Golfs so much, he owns 114 of them

    Do you have a favorite car? Are you fortunate enough to own it? Josef Juza has a favorite car and it's the Volkswagen Golf. He doesn't own just one, however. Juza currently owns 114 Volkswagen Golfs. “When I sat in a Golf for the first time I just had the feeling that this car had been built...

  • The Rock gifts his stuntman a Ford F-150
    The Rock gifts custom Ford F-150 to his longtime stunt double

    Having someone recognize hard work and dedication is always a positive experience, but when it's someone like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, he goes above and beyond. As in, gifting his longtime stunt double a custom Ford F-150. Johnson posted the touching video to his Instagram showing him surprise...

  • 2018 Kia Stinger, 2017 Seoul auto show
    Kia recalls Sunset Yellow Stingers to respray cracked paint

    Owners of Sunset Yellow Kia Stingers at this point are likely aware of chipping and cracking paint finishes, and the brand has acknowledged the problem and will remedy the situation. First reported by Australian publication Car Advice last month, Kia confirmed it will recall all Stingers finished...

  • Ferrari plant in Maranello, Italy
    Ferrari improves painting process

    Always looking for ways to improve its production process, Ferrari has a new paint that reduces energy consumption at its plant and improves the resistance of the painted surfaces. The paint has been developed in collaboration with supplier PPG and offers several benefits. It incorporates a...

  • 2019 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class

    Growing up in Sindelfingen, Germany, as the daughter of a Mercedes-Benz engineer who worked on three generations of the E-Class, Jennifer Schefczik heard the same thing over and over. “Child, the E-Class is always about style, safety, and comfort,” her dad told her. Some 20 years later, Schefczik works as the U.S. product manager for the E-Class and its coupe-like offshoot, the CLS-Class. Here at the media launch event for the third-generation CLS, she is more than happy to espouse the merits of the 2019 CLS to me. With a new inline-6-cylinder engine, more interior space...

  • 2019 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera
    Mercedes EQS spy shots, Aston Martin DBS review, Opel GT X teaser: Today's Car News

    Mercedes-Benz's new electric sedan to sit alongside the S-Class has been spotted. Expected to be called the EQS, the electric sedan can already be seen to feature a low-slung, sleek design. Aston Martin's rival to the Ferrari 812 Superfast features a full carbon fiber body and 715 horsepower of...

  • 2018 Lynk & Co. 03
    Lynk & Co. reveals 03 sedan

    Lynk & Co. has unveiled its third model, a compact sedan called the 03. It joins the 01 and 02 compact SUVs in Lynk & Co.'s expanding lineup and will hit Chinese showrooms late this year. It makes its debut in September at the Chengdu auto show. Lynk & Co. first burst on the scene in...

  • 2018 BMW 5-Series
    BMW drops price of car subscription in battle with rivals

    Car subscriptions are uncharted territory for major automakers, especially as it remains unclear how much partakers will be willing to spend for the ability to swap in and out of cars nearly seamlessly. BMW is the first to realize it perhaps asked a bit too much. The German brand announced...

  • 2019 Volkswagen T-Cross spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2019 Volkswagen T-Cross spy shots and video

    Almost a year on from the reveal of the compact T-Roc, another member of Volkswagen’s expanded SUV family has been spotted. The latest prototype is for a new subcompact SUV that VW previewed at the 2016 Geneva auto show with the T-Cross Breeze concept (shown below). The production model keeps...

  • “Ferrari” art book by Taschen
    Ferrari book comes with signatures of Marchionne, Enzo's son

    Ferrari owners tend to be a passionate bunch. They also tend to be relatively wealthy. Now, art book specialist Taschen is out with a new work we're sure many Ferrari owners will be clamouring after. It's dedicated to the Prancing Horse, and the first 250 editions come complete with the signatures...

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