Supercars
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Bugatti rolled out another in its growing list of special edition Veyrons at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show this week, the Wei Long 2012. No doubt already snapped up by one of the automaker’s wealthy clientele, the Wei Long 2012 is based on the Veyron Grand Sport convertible and was built to commemorate the Chinese year of the Dragon. The stunning one-off was developed together with Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin, the same firm responsible for last year’s equally stunning Veyron L'Or Blanc, and has been fitted with several high-quality porcelain motifs throughout. Most of...
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Supercars Get High-Speed Escort From New Jersey State Police: VideoIn the NSFW video you're about to see, a duo of highly excitable and vocal young men narrate the travel of a fleet of super- and sports cars through New Jersey at speeds that are, at times, simply too fast for their poor Mitsubishi Evolution 8--even though speeds only appear to be around 100 mph...
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Nissan Working On New Track-Focused GT-R? Not LikelyA mysterious GT-R prototype fitted with a number of performance modifications has been spotted at Nissan’s test facility just outside the Nürburgring race track in Germany, suggesting that the automaker is hard at work developing a new performance variant of the iconic Japanese supercar...
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Ferrari Previews Enzo Successor’s Hybrid Drivetrain: VideoFerrari’s replacement for the Enzo supercar is due out towards the end of this year and in the lead up to its arrival the automaker has been dropping numerous hints about its revolutionary new powerplant. Today, at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show, Ferrari has revealed the new V-12 powertrain...
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette (C7) Spy VideoThe 2014 Chevrolet Corvette, the next-generation of America's iconic supercar, has been spotted testing in prototype form on a public road in the U.S. A passenger in a passing vehicle managed to film this short video clip of the heavily disguised prototype and was gracious enough to upload it to...
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Savage Rivale GTR Live Photos: Top Marques Monaco 2012Dutch firm Savage Rivale is working on a brand new supercar, but rather than going the traditional route of building a cramped two-seater and strapping a big engine to it the guys at Savage have managed to build something much more substantial. Their creation is the Roadyacht GTS, which made its...
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In the wake of a highly-publicized crackdown on tax evaders in Italy, domestic sales of luxury sports car brands Ferrari and Maserati have fallen off sharply in the first quarter of 2012. Italians fear the Guardia di Finanza, more commonly referred to as the tax police, after a series of sting operations that targeted high-end sports and luxury car owners. After checking on the license plates of 150 exotic cars at a posh ski resort, Italy’s tax office found that nearly 60 owners had reported incomes below 40,000 euros per year. That incident led to further investigations throughout...
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First Lamborghini Dealership Opens In RussiaThere’s no shortage of Lamborghini automobiles to be found on the streets of Moscow. Like other high-end sports and luxury cars, Lamborghinis are a sign of the country’s relatively-new-found wealth and the accompanying conspicuous consumption. Until recently, those shopping for a...
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Jeremy Clarkson, On The Bugatti Veyron: VideoIf you’ve watched Top Gear long enough, you’ve probably come to the realization that aside from the Toyota Hilux pickup and most Italian sports cars, Jeremy Clarkson isn’t a fan of many cars built outside of the United Kingdom. While willing to overlook the faults of vehicles from...
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2013 Chevrolet Corvette Gets New Color, Other OptionsChevrolet has a few more updates for its C6 Corvette before the new model rolls out.
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Patent Application Gives New Details On Ferrari Hybrid SystemFerrari has made little secret of its plans to introduce a hybrid model, even going so far as to unveil a concept version of a new gasoline-electric hybrid system dubbed HY-KERS at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. And only last month the automaker’s CEO, Amedeo Felisa, revealed that hybrid...
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First Reported Lamborghini Aventador Fire Caught On VideoWarning: Video contains some not-safe-for-work language. Firefighters were called into duty on Saturday when a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 burst into flames on a highway near Aliso Viejo in Southern California. With no other reports of Aventadors going up in flames, it’s believed that this...
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With all the excitement surrounding the reveal of the new F12 Berlinetta supercar at last month’s Geneva Motor Show, it’s easy to forget that there was actually a second new Ferrari launched at the Swiss event. We’re talking about the latest version of the Ferrari California, which has been updated for the 2013 model year with a more powerful engine, a lighter curb weight and a new ‘Handling Speciale’ suspension package. This video from Ferrari shows the new car as it's put through its paces on the same hilly roads in Maranello, Italy, where Ferrari’s...
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Lexus Supercar Part Deux, Lotus Rants, Vettel Kung-Fu: Car News HeadlinesLexus is rumored to be working on a car that's twice the LFA: twice the price, twice the power/performance, and twice as exclusive. But does that make any sense? Lotus went a little off-kilter yesterday, finally folding under the strain of what it calls widespread mis-reporting of the company's...
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Ferrari F40 Prototype To Hit The Block In MonacoFerrari’s F40 supercar took the world by storm when it was introduced to the public in 1987. More than any other car that preceded it, the F40 looked the part of a race car, and seemed wholly out of place on the street. It’s 2.9-liter, twin-turbo V-8 engine, good for 471 horsepower...
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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse In Beautiful Motion: VideoNow that you’ve read up on all the details and ogled our gallery of live photos, here’s an official promotional video to get you even more excited about Bugatti’s Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse--the world’s fastest production convertible. How fast is it? According to Bugatti its...
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Is Lexus Working On A Million-Dollar Supercar?The Lexus LFA is many things: technological triumph, exquisitely exclusive, incredibly expensive, in many ways oddly archaic, and an icon for the brand and its fans. It was also incredibly costly, took a decade to develop, and even at maximum production volume, won't see many garages--ever, even...
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Design A Supercar Body, Win $3,500Supercars are utterly defined by two things. One is the engine. Be it the Bugatti Veyron's thousand horsepower, quad-turbocharged W16, or the screaming V12 of a Pagani Zonda, the engine is fifty percent of everything that matters about a supercar. The second, and the other fifty percent, is the...
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Set to grace the auction block at Bonhams’ annual Quail Lodge Sale leading up to August's 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is this ultra-rare Gulf Team Davidoff 1997 McLaren F1 GTR 'Longtail' race car. Long-term readers of this site may remember the car being up for sale previously in Japan, though it appears whoever bought it is now selling it off once again. This particular F1 GTR has chassis number ‘028R’ and was the last one of its kind to be built by McLaren, though it originally started out life as chassis number '027R' and was later rebuilt after being...
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The Dream Car Sprint: Drive A Supercar (Hard!) For $100So you've always wanted to hop behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Gallardo, or perhaps a Ferrari 458 Italia or F430, but haven't had the cash for an expensive rental, much less the stack to buy one? Fear not, there's an answer. For $100 (with a coupon--otherwise it'll run you $249), anyone over 21...
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Ferrari Creates Special Edition 458 Italia For The Chinese MarketIn 1992, Ferrari sold its very first car, a 348 TS, into the Chinese market. To commemorate the event, Ferrari is opening its first long-term brand exhibition (outside Maranello, that is) at the Italia Center of Shanghai World Expo Park. The Ferrari Exhibition will include five themes, including...
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2013 SRT Viper Video WalkthroughWith all of the hype and the extended two-year run-up to the arrival of the 2013 SRT Viper, it's no surprise that many came away from the unveiling feeling a bit let down--though we weren't among that group. Here, we take a quick overview of the car, including the ALMS racing version. With 640...
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Saleen Back, VW USA Wants Scirocco, Videos Galore: Today's Car NewsSteve Saleen has regained the legal rights to his own name--at least as it applies to cars--and he's still set on building more of them. Volskwagen USA's chief wants to bring the Scirocco here, even though it was left out of the American product portfolio when it debuted a couple of years ago. Is...
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Lamborghini Trademarks 'Deimos' NameWhat’s in a name? In the case of the name “Deimos,” fear and dread, at least according to the ancient Greeks. Deimos, the son of Aphrodite and Ares, represents the terror brought by war, although he never actually appears in human form in Greek mythology. Car and Driver tells us...
Kurt Ernst