Supercars
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It’s hard to believe it has now been five years since we first laid eyes upon the Pagani Huayra. Back then, the car’s twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V-12 and all 700 horsepower and 811 pound-feet of torque that came with it seemed out of this world. Now, such power barely cuts the mustard in the rarefied world of hypercars. Pagani is working on a more extreme version of its Huayra, though. The car is called the Huayra BC, and it is set for a world debut this March at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. A completely undisguised version has just been spotted, as evidenced by these photos...
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Qatar's Elibreia Unveils Supercar Concept: VideoOn this week is the 2016 Qatar Motor Show, an event that doesn't normally make international headlines but this year it is. That's because of a crazy concept from a group known as Elebreia. As detailed in this video from ArabGT, the overall design aesthetic comes off a bit Mad Maxian... if Mad Max...
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Behind The Scenes Of The #BATTLEDRIFT VideoLast December, Monster Energy pitted two of its drift stars against each other. The stage was set in a derelict Russian-themed village in Japan. Vaughn Gittin Jr brought his RTR Ford Mustang while Daigo Saito came prepared with his Liberty Walk-bodied drift-ready Lamborghini Murcielago. That's one...
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254-MPH Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Car Up For SaleThe Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse is the world’s fastest convertible. It’s top speed with the roof open is a governed 233 mph. However, a handful of the cars, eight to be exact, can be driven at speeds of up to 254.04 mph with the roof open. These are known as the World Record...
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Lamborghini Delivers Record 3,245 Cars In 2015Lamborghini set a new record in deliveries in 2015 thanks to an impressive 28 percent increase in sales. By December 31, the automaker had delivered 3,245 supercars worldwide, which compares to the previous record of 2,530 deliveries set in 2014. The surge in sales was due mostly to the...
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Aston Martin Vulcan Up For Sale At $3.4 MillionIt was only last month that we saw the first Aston Martin Vulcan land in the United States. The track-only supercar was bought by Bernie Moreno, owner of Aston Martin Cleveland, for $2.3 million. Now the car’s up for sale, with a listing on duPont Registry asking for a cool $3.4 million...
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Remember the Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] F60 America? The limited-edition supercar based on the F12 Berlinetta and built to celebrate six decades of Ferrari’s presence in the United States? Well, the first of only 10 examples to be built has been delivered to its eagerly awaiting customer. The hand off took place over the weekend at the 25th annual Palm Beach Cavallino Classic in Florida. MUST WATCH: Valet Takes Lamborghini Aventador For Joyride, And Of Course It Catches Fire As previously reported, all 10 F60 Americas are destined for the United States, and the cars were pretty much accounted...
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Invite Suggests Updated Ferrari FF Reveal Coming SoonThe Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] FF is now the oldest Prancing Horse in the stable but work on an updated version has been underway for some time. Now, it appears the reveal of the updated FF is coming soon. Ferrari recently sent an invite for the world premiere of a V-12 grand tourer with 2+2 seating...
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Tax The Rich Returns With Ferrari F40 Farmkhana VideoIt’s been almost a year since we last saw a video from Tax The Rich, the mysterious group on YouTube that flogs rare supercars and other expensive metal on a muddy farm somewhere in the United Kingdom. It’s been rumored that one member of the group is famous Ferrari [NYSE:RACE]...
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Manifesto Supercar Wins 2015 Ferrari Design Challenge: VideoFerrari [NYSE:RACE] recently ran a challenge that pitted students from some of the world’s top automotive design schools against one another in a mission to pen the supercar of the future. Student projects from around 50 schools were submitted and then these were whittled down to four...
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2017 Audi R8 Priced From $164,150: VideoIt’s been almost a year since we first saw the new Audi R8 at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, but now the car is finally approaching its showroom debut and we have the all-important pricing details. Interested buyers of the 2017 Audi R8 will need to fork over at least $164,150, which includes a...
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Valet Takes Lamborghini Aventador For Joyride, And Of Course It Catches FireWe've seen the lessons time and time again on why a valet should never ever take a customer's car for a joyride. In case you were wondering, aside from it being simply wrong, the valet's employer and the employee are probably on the hook if something happens to that vehicle while in their...
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Christian von Koenigsegg simply cannot hide how excited he is about his company’s latest creation, the Regera. The hybrid supercar was shown for the first time at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show and is due to start production at the end of this year. In this latest video, von Koenigsegg gives the guys at Shmee150 a close look and then takes them out for a spin. This is still a pre-production unit so some of the interior details aren’t indicative of the final design. Nevertheless, according to von Koenigsegg most of the calibration work is complete so the driving experience is pretty...
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Justin Bieber gets ride in Lewis Hamilton's LaFerrariLast March, Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff confirmed that star driver Lewis Hamilton, the current Formula 1 world champion, had purchased a Ferrari LaFerrari. We’ve seen Hamilton post photos of a number of his cars on social media, though—likely due to contractual...
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McLaren P1 Suffers Serious Crash In Washington, D.C.Considering there were only 375 McLaren P1s ever built, and that such rare cars are barely driven by their owners, you wouldn’t expect to see too many of them involved in serious crashes. That isn’t the case however as we now have news of the second P1 involved in a serious crash. The...
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Lamborghini: Manuals Are History, And Dual-Clutch Looks Like The FutureThere’s no future for manual transmissions in the Lamborghini lineup. For enthusiasts who might have been out of the loop for some time, it may come as a big disappointment to learn that the old three-pedal setups have already been quietly phased out, with the last of the Gallardo and...
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Will wake of VW diesel scandal help electrify Lamborghini?Could an electrified Lamborghini—or Bugatti, or Bentley—arrive any sooner as a result of the Volkswagen diesel scandal? It might be easy to rush to an answer and say that, no, neither of these models currently offer diesel powertrains, and even prior to the scandal, Lamborghini...
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Sinister-Looking LaFerrari Tears Through Prague: VideoWatch as 950 Italian horsepower tears through the Czech capital Prague in the beautiful package that is the Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] LaFerrari. The video comes to us from YouTube channel Cossie670 and according to the person that filmed it the owner of the LaFerrari had only owned the for two weeks but...
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It’s been almost a year since Polish supercar startup Arrinera first unveiled its Hussarya. While the company continues to jump through all the hoops required to get the car certified and on sale, it will offer a dedicated racing version that was shown for the first time at Autosport International 2016 currently underway in the United Kingdom. ALSO SEE: Here's The Ford GT Going Into Race Mode: Video The racing version is called the Hussarya GT, and it’s been designed for FIA GT4 competition. It’s being offered by a new division, Arrinera Racing, and in an effort to keep the...
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Here's The Ford GT Going Into Race Mode: VideoYesterday, we ran through a list of everything that's changed on the Ford GT for production from the original car shown last year in Detroit. Now we have video of the new Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] supercar going into race mode courtesy. ALSO SEE: Here's What Changed On The Ford GT For Production...
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Meet The Guy With The First McLaren P1 GTR In The U.S.: VideoCustomer examples of the McLaren P1 GTR recently reached the country and the very first one, a black car with orange accents, was delivered to none other than Bruce Canepa, a racing driver who’s also an expert in the field of vehicle restoration and investment at his own firm Canepa, based in...
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Behind-The-Wheel Footage Of The Koenigsegg Regera: VideoWatch as Christian von Koenigsegg takes his latest baby, the Regera, out for a spin. The hybrid supercar is still in development but as you’ll see in the video the car drives just like a production model. MUST SEE: Here's The Ford GT Going Into Race Mode: Video But the Regera is unlike any...
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Dodge Viper Production Ending Due To Airbag Regulations?If you didn’t already know, production of the Dodge Viper is scheduled to end in 2017 and there are no plans at present for a successor—although that may change at some point, according to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] CEO Sergio Marchionne. FCA hasn’t come out and stated...
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Here's what changed on the Ford GT for productionLast month a photo of what was supposedly a production-intent Ford GT surfaced on the Internet. Turns out, that photo was of a production-intent GT buck. As in, it wasn't a real car, just a design buck. That was then, this is now. Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] quietly placed a real working GT that...
Joel Feder