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Indian auto giant Tata in February launched the Tamo sub-brand to serve as an incubator for potential new businesses and technologies and to develop exciting, low-volume models to help strengthen Tata’s image. Tata has marked the launch of Tamo with the presentation of the Racemo sports car concept at this week’s 2017 Geneva auto show. The concept will be followed early next year by a production model limited to just 250 examples. A dedicated racing version, the Racemo+, is also planned. The Racemo is desgined for the Indian market and features a mid-engine layout with drive going...
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2019 Toyota Corolla spy shotsToyota engineers are out testing what’s destined to be the 12th generation of the Corolla. The engineers are still at the test mule stage, meaning most of what you see here will be changed by the time the car finally debuts. That debut is expected to take place in late 2018 or early the...
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2017 Mini Countryman first drive review: a better BMW crossover?In the burgeoning crossover world, there's always room for one more. Enter the Mini Countryman, which is all-new for a late 2017 model year introduction. It's a smart, focused reboot of what has become the brand's second best-selling model. But success in the Mini world isn't the same as a hit for...
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Mercedes-AMG Project One hypercar to feature 11,000-rpm redline, split turboMercedes-AMG used this week’s 2017 Geneva auto show to divulge a few more details on its upcoming hypercar code-named the Project One. The car will be rolled out during September’s 2017 Frankfurt auto show as part of AMG’s 50th anniversary celebrations and is a precursor of the...
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Toyota Yaris GRMN debuts with supercharged engineTo coincide with its successful return to the World Rally Championship this year, Toyota has launched a high-performance version of its Yaris subcompact hatchback inspired by the Yaris-based rally car. Called the Yaris GRMN, the car made its world debut this week at the 2017 Geneva auto show and is...
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Infiniti bringing icon of Japanese racing to Amelia IslandIf you're a fan of the Nissan brand, you should be aware of a slice of its motorsports history. I'm talking about Prince. No, not the dearly departed Purple One but Prince Motor Company. The small Japanese automaker that became a part of Nissan back in the mid 1960s. Before it did so, it created a...
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Do you know the origins of horsepower? I'm not talking about the history of cars possessing lots of it, but rather where the term itself comes from and how it was derived. Turns out, the term actually goes back to the power generated by a horse. More specifically, it compares the power of a draft horse to the output created by a steam engine. You need one metric horsepower to lift 75 kilograms up one meter in one second. That can be translated into watts, and in its horsepower form it's a figure we use to examine the output of a given vehicle's engine. Now Nissan wants to add a different...
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Pininfarina teams up with Hybrid Kinetic to debut H600 extended-range electric sedanIn 2010, a Chinese startup by the name of Hybrid Kinetic made headlines over plans for production of hybrid vehicles in Montgomery, Alabama. The company even had a wild concept, the Quaranta, which was actually an original Italdesign-Giugiaro creation built in 2008 to mark the Italian firm’s...
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'The Fate of the Furious' looks too insane to watchGuys, it might have finally happened. The "Fast and Furious" franchise may have just jumped the shark. We know, we know, that's kind of a ridiculous statement to make about a series that views the rules of physics as optional, but the latest trailer for "The Fate of the Furious" has completely...
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Glickenhaus’ street-legal SCG003 debuts at Geneva auto showRight from the very start of development of the SCG003 at Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, James Glickenhaus, the founder of the American race team and supercar builder, has insisted that the car be a proper race car that with some simple mods can be turned into a road car. We’ve already seen...
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Camaro GT4.R combines SS and ZL1 1LE elements into turnkey racerChevrolet's latest race car is about to hit the track. It's the Camaro GT4.R and it's a combination of a couple of our favorite Camaros, with some track prep by the Pratt & Miller race shop. The GT4.R starts out with the body from the newly announced ZL1 1LE, and all of the dive planes and big...
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Texas couple adds 80th Dodge Viper to growing collectionDo you like the Dodge Viper? Do you like it so much that you actually own one? Well, this is a story about a couple that enjoys the Viper a bit more than you do. Meet the Rauh family from Texas. They own a few Vipers, and they park them in a very lovely garage. It's a massive garage, which is good...
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The Mulsanne is the luxurious sedan that sits in the flagship position of Bentley's lineup. It's expensive, rare, powerful, and wonderfully outfitted. It's a Bentley, though, so there's always room to make a special car even more outstanding. This is where the new Hallmark Series by Mulliner, presented this week at the 2017 Geneva auto show, comes into play. Bentley is offering a new limited run of Mulsannes under the name Hallmark Series by Mulliner, and these cars are inspired by silver and gold. The automaker plans to build just 50 cars, and they'll either be finished with hallmarked...
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Dodge Demon Performance Pages, Airbus flying car, Infiniti Q50: Car News HeadlinesDodge’s latest installment in its teaser campaign for the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon reveals details about the car’s Performance Pages feature. This is a section of the infotainment system that displays and records performance data, including vital metrics such as 0-60 and quarter mile...
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2018 Hyundai i30 Fastback spy shotsHyundai’s i30 hatchback, which is headed to the United States as an Elantra GT, is set to spawn a few additional body styles. A wagon has just been added to the lineup and will be joined by a fastback sedan either late this year or early next. The fastback, shown here in prototype form, will...
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Dodge Demon infotainment system to display performance dataDrivers of the upcoming Dodge Challenger SRT Demon won’t need to bother with aftermarket timing equipment because the car will provide performance data via its Uconnect infotainment system. Drivers will also be able to customize performance settings via the system. The Demon, a new version of...
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Airbus and Italdesign team up for a vision of future travelEvery year we get a new version of the same concept. It's a glimpse into a future that isn't here yet, but we do seem to be inching ever closer to it becoming reality. I'm talking about the flying car, and the newest one comes courtesy of a joint effort between two major names: Airbus and...
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Alpine A110 is France's answer to the Alfa Romeo 4C, Porsche 718 CaymanAs with most things that are good in the auto industry, Americans are getting hosed. That's as true of hot hatchbacks as it is of mid-engine sports cars. For the longest time, the Porsche Cayman/Boxster twins were the only option here in North America, unless you wanted to upgrade to a supercar...
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German sports car marque Artega in 2015 and announced plans to focus purely on electric performance, and since then the company has presented the Scalo sports car and Karo quad bike. Artega says those vehicles served as testbeds for its first production electric car, the Scalo Superelletra, which was presented this week at the 2017 Geneva auto show. The design was penned by Italian firm Touring Superleggara and has clearly been influenced by the lines of the original Scalo. The Scalo Superelletra is a very different beast under the skin, however. Power comes from four electric motors, two at...
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Lightweight Pagani Huayra Roadster arrives to warp your brainPagani decided that Valentine's Day would be the perfect time to reveal its latest Huayra to the world. (Smart move considering that it's one of the most beautiful cars ever created.) This is the Pagani Huayra Roadster, and it's taken seven years to get here. While the coupe was launched in 2011...
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Koenigsegg presents first customer Regeras in GenevaIt was at the 2015 Geneva auto show that Koenigsegg first rolled out its Regera and impressed us with the car’s innovative drivetrain. At this year’s show, which kicks off on March 7, the Swedish firm will show off the first two customer examples of the hybrid hypercar. Car number one...
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Lamborghini Aventador S revealed with 730 horsepowerLamborghini on Tuesday at the 2017 Geneva auto show unveiled the Aventador S, an updated version of the firm’s flagship supercar boasting an aggressive new look, improved handling and, most important of all, more power. The letter S has previously been used to denote enhanced models from...
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Active aero, light weight make Lamborghini's Huracán Performante its baddest supercar yetA few days ago we learned that the forthcoming Lamborghini Huracán Performante had set a new lap record for a production car of 6:52.01 on the 12.8-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife. At the time, we knew only a few details about the car, including the fact that it has active aerodynamics...
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Audi Q8 Sport concept drops plug-in function, slashes 0-60 timeAudi has unveiled a second iteration of its Q8 concept, one that hints at a more performance-oriented version of the upcoming coupe-like SUV. Like the original Detroit auto show concept unveiled in January, the new Q8 Sport concept, which debuted on Tuesday at the 2017 Geneva auto show, also pairs...
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