Sports Cars
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The Toyota supercar has found a ready home despite its stratospheric price.
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Video: Ken Block Seeking Fan Input On Gymkhana 3, Best Idea Wins A Ride-AlongThe upcoming Gymkhana 3 video is already hotly anticipated.
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Ken Block Faces Off With Kimi Raikkonen At WRC Portugal Super Special
America's dorifto golden boy takes on the ex-F1 Finn in the stadium at Portugal.
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Shelby Says 2011 Mustang GT350 Could His Last Full Car Build
The 2011 Shelby Mustang GT350 may be the last of the full cars built by Carroll Shelby.
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Video: Hennessey Venom GT Lays Down 633 RWHP On The Dyno
The Lotus Elise-based Hennessey Venom GT stands to raise the bar in supercar territory.
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GM Exec Confirms Camaro Z-28
The on-again, off-again story of the Camaro Z-28 is definitely on again, according to Karl Stracke.
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Lotus is probably in the best financial position it’s been in for years, with its debts about to be cleared and production at full capacity. Focus now turns to what’s in store for the future and one of the bright spots on the horizon is a new-generation of the Esprit. However, captured recently in spy shots was a strange test mule of an Elise wearing widened wheel arches and bigger intakes, which suggests that Lotus is planning a new or updated version of the lightweight sports car. According to reports, Lotus plans to shoehorn a V-6 engine into both the Elise and the Exige. Test...
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Video: WRC Driver Mikko Hirvonen Drives The Ford Focus RS500
These two videos give us a look at what a pro rally driver thinks about the RS500.
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Report: Jaguar F-Type Greenlighted, But Still In Design Stage
Rumors of a new Jaguar F-Type have been making the rounds for years.
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Honey, I Shrunk The 'Vette: The Opel GT Story
If I say "Opel," what comes to mind? That’s right, a German manufacturer of mainstream cars for the Average Joe. You might know them as Saturns, Buicks and Cadillacs in the United States, but sometimes they also build surprising machines like the Manta, Calibra and, in cooperation with a...
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Report: 800-HP Electric Bugatti Supercar Built, But May Never See Daylight
AutoExpress is reporting that a Bugatti supercar generating 800 horsepower is already built.
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Report: Toyota FT-86 Delayed For Design Change
Flip-flopping along, the FT-86 isn't expected for another couple of years now.
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Smoky burnouts, lurid powerslides, brutalized rev-limiters. These are all things you might expect from the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500, and you'd be right to, based on previous versions. But that's not what we're giving you. Instead, we're giving you what the 2011 GT500 gave us: a surprisingly good time on one of the best road courses in the country. The 2010 Shelby GT500 isn't a bad car by any means. Brutally powerful, competent enough in the curves and fundamentally comfortable, if not all that luxurious for a car in the neighborhood of $50,000. But the 2011 massages the 2010s faults, tosses in...
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Heidi Montag Boards Her Hubby's Bitchin' Camaro SS
Last year, Heidi Montag gave her new husband, whatshisname, a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro SS. And for some reason the world cared. Apparently the guy still owns it, because behind the link we see la Montag perched against its hood in a near life-like pose, in so far as any 23-year-old who's undergone at...
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Radical Sportscars Builds 1,000th Car
Low-volume British carmaker Radical is known for its potent track machines, such as the SR8 roadster, which can lap the Nurburgring in under seven minutes. Despite the recent global economic crisis, business has been booming because of the high-performance but low-budget nature of its cars, and now...
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Video: 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Coupe Roars
This video shows the 2011 Shelby GT500 Coupe tearing up the asphalt as only a supercharged, large-displacement V-8 can. And better yet, it gives you the sounds as well as the sights. We'll have some more great 2011 GT500 goodness for you soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this clip of the revised...
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More Details: First Ferrari 458 Italia Wrecked In Poland
The car looks like it might get away with some minor repair work.
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Aston Martin AMVOX DBS Transponder Watch Bridges Gap Between Wrist And Car
What, you've never wished you had a James Bond-like watch that would control your car? Well, for those of us with a taste for all things Q, there's the AMVOX DBS Transponder watch. Down side: you have to own a DBS to get the watch. Not that it'd really be useful without one, anyway. Built in...
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The first cities around the world have been chosen for McLaren Automotive dealerships.
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Gallery: ALMS Thursday Testing At Laguna Seca
Our man on the scene, Joe Nuxoll, has fresh photos and a short video clip live from Thursday ALMS testing at Laguna Seca.
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Ferrari V-12s Are Safe From Eco Wars, Thanks To...Hybrids?
The latest out of Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa explains that hybrids are going to enable the continuation of V-12s.
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First Drive: 2011 BMW 135i DCT
The 2011 BMW 135i DCT is pretty much identical to the 2010 model, with the exception of the fantastic DCT gearbox.
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Mercedes-AMG Driving Academy To Feature Gran Turismo 5 SLS AMG Racing Demo
The meta-ness is overwhelming.
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BMW Planning Z Spyder Stradale As Successor To Z8?
The latest reports from fan forums have BMW working on a new two-seater open top halo car.
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