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Alfa Romeo’s new Giulia sports sedan is fast approaching its showroom debut. The car made its North American debut last week at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show where it was confirmed that sales would start in the second quarter of 2016. ALSO SEE: Jay Leno Drives The Lamborghini LM002: Video The Giulia is launching in its range-topping Quadrifoglio trim, which Alfa Romeo said will have a starting price of “around $70,000.” Remember, this is the version that competes with the BMW M3, Cadillac ATS-V and Mercedes-AMG C63, and with 505 horsepower on tap the Alfa is actually the...
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Volvo Trials In-Car Delivery System In Sweden: VideoAnyone who’s away from home during business hours will no doubt know the frustration of having a delivery person turn up at your door with an important package only to find no one at home and thus forced to leave a note requesting that you pick up the package yourself at some busy center...
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Hoonigans Tackle Abandoned Mall 'Tokyo Drift' Style In Black Friday Preparation VideoMany readers no doubt will spend some time at a shopping mall this long weekend. We just hope you don’t get any ideas on how to escape the crowds after watching this latest video from the Hoonigans. The professional drifting and gymkhana squad recently teamed up with Nissan to film a drifting...
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McLaren 675LT Spider Spy ShotsMcLaren’s 675LT is billed as the most track-focused variant in the Super Series lineup, but that won’t stop the British automaker from launching an open-top version of the car. We’ve already reported on McLaren’s plans for a 675LT Spider and now we have the first spy shots...
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Ultra-Rare Mosler MT900 GTR Spotted In Monaco: VideoThe last we heard about Mosler, the company, including the rights to its awesome but relatively unknown MT900 series of cars, had been acquired by Rossion, the former distributer of Noble products in the United States and the maker of the Noble-based Q1 supercar. CHECK OUT: Ultra-Rare Mosler MT900...
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Sebastian Vettel Wins 2015 Race Of Champions: VideoThe Race of Champions has been held since 1988 as a means of pitting drivers from all types of racing against each other in equally prepared cars. This year's Race of Champions, which was held November 21-22 at London's former Olympic Stadium, featured 20 racers, and four-time Formula One champion...
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A man in China found out that the passenger he was shuttling wasn't allowed to ride in his Lamborghini Gallardo. Well, in isn't the right word as this passenger was riding atop of the bright green Gallardo. The passenger in question was a giant teddy bear that the Lamborghini owner was bringing to his girlfriend. ALSO SEE: Jay Leno Drives The Lamborghini LM002: Video It was too large to fit in the passenger compartment, so the oversized fluffy guest had to be affixed to the roof of the car. Unfortunately, this meant it was smothering the engine cover, and may just have led to a toasty...
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Jay Leno drives the Lamborghini LM002Lamborghini is gearing up for the launch of a new SUV in 2018, but this will actually be the Italian marque’s second high-riding model. The original was the LM002, an SUV built in an attempt to secure a military contract in the mid-1980s. CHECK OUT: Ultra-Rare Mosler MT900 GTR Spotted In...
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2016 Kia K900 Gets Minor UpdatesKia’s K900 flagship sedan only arrived in local showrooms a year ago but has already seen a price reduction and now a round of updates, too. It’s no surprise considering year-to-date sales for the K900 total just 2,134 cars, but with the changes Kia has implemented it means the...
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2017 Infiniti Q30, 2016 Ford Focus RS, 2016 Rezvani Beast X: Today’s Car NewsWe’ve just driven Infiniti’s new Q30 hatchback. The car arrives here in the second quarter of next year, as a 2017 model, and will have front-wheel drive only. Those seeking all-wheel drive will be able to opt for the QX30 crossover variant. We haven’t driven Ford Motor...
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2016 Tesla Model X Priced From $81,200The Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] Model X was launched with great fanfare in September, though at the time you could only put your name down for the range-topping 90D cars which start at $133,200, including a $1,200 destination charge. The company has now opened up order books for a more affordable...
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700-Horsepower Rezvani Beast X UnleashedDuring our recent first drive of Rezvani’s entry-level Beast Speedster, we learned that the company was working on a much more extreme model packing as much as 700 horsepower. This week, the Californian sports car startup’s Beast lineup was expanded with the new Beast X. At the heart of...
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A Chinese-backed electric car startup by the name of Faraday Future will make its first public showing at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show next January. The company, which operates from a facility located to the south of Los Angeles, will roll out a concept car said to be inspired by its “design and engineering vision.” Unfortunately, that brief descriptor and this single teaser is all we have on the concept right now. ALSO SEE: Technology Preview: We Drive Honda's 10-Speed Automatic Transmission It’s still early days for Faraday, whose name is borrowed from British...
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VW & Audi ready software fix for emissions cheating dieselsVolkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller confirmed in a speech made to managers on Monday that the automaker was ready with a fix for most of the four-cylinder diesel engines discovered in September to have been fitted with “defeat device” software designed to fool regulators about the...
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2017 Kia Cadenza Gets Sporty New LookThe current Kia Cadenza was only introduced here in 2013 but has been on sale overseas since 2010, which is why the Korean brand already has a new version of its large, front-wheel-drive sedan. The car made its debut overnight in Kia's home market of Korea, where it's known as the K7. These...
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2016 Ford Focus RS first ride reviewFord Motor Company [NYSE:F] is in the midst of a run of performance cars like we have never seen before. The Shelby GT350 and GT350R Mustangs are arriving right now. Next up is the all-wheel-drive Focus RS, followed by the SVT Raptor, and then the king of them all, the reborn GT. The 2016 Focus RS...
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Ford GT Drivers For 2016 United SportsCar Championship Announced: VideoThe 2015 motorsport season may be coming to a close but things are already heating up for next year. One of the most exciting prospects is the competitive debut of Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new GT race car. The car has been confirmed for both the United SportsCar Championship and the...
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2017 Bentley Bentayga first drive reviewSpain is a country of contrasts: exclusive estates tower over luxury resorts at the Mediterranean coast, while just a few miles inland, crumbling villages scrape by in picturesque poverty. So, too, the Bentley Bentayga. Not in its economics, of course, but in its character. As Bentley’s first...
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In only its second year back in top-level endurance racing, Porsche has managed to secure both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ titles in the World Endurance Championship. The top drivers in the premier LMP1 class were Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber, who together managed 166 points each piloting the number 17 Porsche 919 Hybrid. The runners-up were Audi men Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer, who were just five points behind in the number 7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro. ALSO SEE: McLaren Sports Series GT Spy Shots Given the close...
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McLaren Sports Series GT Spy ShotsMcLaren will add a new model to its entry-level Sports Series range next year but we’re not talking about a Spider convertible. Instead, the car will remain a coupe but sport a larger, more practical body than the current Sports Series models. A prototype has just been spotted, and sadly it...
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Cadillac Compact Crossover Coming In 2018At last week’s 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show, Cadillac introduced the stylish XT5. The vehicle replaces the SRX and is just the first of four new crossovers Cadillac plans to launch in the coming years. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait more than two years until we see the next one. The...
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More VW diesels confirmed to be in violation of EPA standardsIn September, the Volkswagen Group admitted to having installed “defeat device” software on some diesel engines designed to switch on performance-sapping emissions control systems whenever onboard computers determined an emissions test was being conducted. The VW Group’s admission...
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2017 Audi TT RS spy shots and videoAudi recently launched its all-new, third-generation TT, which at present comes in standard TT and sportier TTS variants. The one we’re looking forward to the most however is the new TT RS, a prototype for which has just been spotted again, this time benchmarking against some potential rivals...
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Range Rover Rides Up And Over A Bridge Of Paper: VideoLand Rover's Range Rover is 45 years old this year. To celebrate this, the British automaker took a current supercharged example of the long-running model and created a unique way to show off its capability. Land Rover reached out to artist Steve Messam for his ability to work with paper... and in...
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