Supercars
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This week we wrote about Bentley's announcement that it's hired a new exterior design chief, David Hilton. Hilton has spent over two decades working for a variety of global companies, including Ford, where he helped design the 2002 Ford Focus RS sold in Europe, among others, and the Volkswagen Group. He's also spent the last 12 years running Cologne-based Motorcity Europe, his own design firm. It's his work here that's been most interesting. As well as the aforementioned Fords, Hilton has also done a retro Jaguar design study, and was responsible for the 2009 Mazda Superlite concept, based on...
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Koenigsegg Bringing First Agera To U.S. In June, Hints At Camless EngineThe same smart airbag issue that has plagued fellow supercar startup Pagani from launching its Huayra in the U.S., and caused Lotus to stop selling its Elise and Exige, has one other high-profile casualty in the form of Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg. The maker of the 1,115-horsepower...
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V12 Zagato, Cruze Wagon, 2014 BMW i3: Car News HeadlinesThe Chicago Auto Show continues today, but there hasn't been a whole lot to get excited about. Fortunately, there are lots of other things happening around the web. Aston Martin's V12 Zagato finally reaches its production version, though it still looks a whole lot like the concept--which is a very...
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Production Aston Martin V12 Zagato DebutsWe knew the stunning Aston Martin V12 Zagato race car that tackled the grueling Nurburgring 24 Hours race last year was destined to spawn a production version, and now Aston Martin has revealed the car ahead of its debut this weekend at the Kuwait Concours d’ Elegance. The V12 Zagato is the...
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Honda Honors The NSX, Past And Future: VideoA new video from Honda honors the original NSX sport coupe, while teasing its 2015 replacement.
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2013 ATS, Next-Gen Audi R8, Fisker Stops Nina: Car News HeadlinesFisker, the startup company behind the Karma hybrid luxury sedan and the upcoming Nina electric car, has been forced to stop work on its new plant because of failure to meet milestones required by the Department of Energy in its loan contract. The 2013 Cadillac ATS continues to impress with a new...
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Despite being unveiled as far back as 2006, the Audi R8 is still a highly sought after performance machine and one of the best super-sports cars on the planet. Understandably, Audi won’t want to muck around too much with the award-winning formula so for the next-generation of the car Audi’s design team are reported to be taking an evolutionary approach. This means that many of the elements found on the current car should appear on the next one, which remains on track for a debut sometime in the second half of 2014 in hard-top form and as a convertible in 2015. According to...
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Bugatti Veyron Doing 220-Plus MPH Runs On Public Road: VideoIt’s a sad fact that a vast majority of supercar owners will never take their million-dollar machinery to the extremes they were designed for. In fact, it’s quite common for many of these beauties to be locked away in garages, only to be driven a few hundred miles each year. While we...
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Man Crashes Lamborghini Aventador After Owning It One WeekEarlier this morning we reported news of a man that crashed a Lamborghini Gallardo he hired on the way to his wedding. Now we have the first details about a man from Houston, Texas, who crashed a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 after owning the car for just one week. According to police, the man was...
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Groom Crashes Lamborghini Gallardo Hire CarYour wedding can be one of the most stressful days of your life but imagine the added pressure of having to tell everyone about the hired Lamborghini you just crashed. That’s exactly what one resident of Sydney, Australia, had to endure after he crashed a hired Lamborghini Gallardo on the way...
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The Vision Of McLaren Automotive: VideoLast year wasn’t just the launch year for the MP4-12C supercar, but for a new car company, with its past and future rooted in motorsport and with technological innovation, manufacturing skill, and British heritage at its core. That new company is McLaren Automotive, the retail offshoot of the...
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Ferrari FF Goes Slalom In The Italian Dolomites: VideoTwo Ferrari drivers go head to head in a slalom ski...FF..race.
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They say that a dog is man’s best friend, but we wonder just how many people out there would leave their pet dog unattended in a car that stickers for about $2 million. We now know of at least one individual that would. Pictured above is a Bugatti Veyron parked curbside on a street in West Hollywood, California. While this in itself is not that peculiar--we are talking about West Hollywood after all--a look inside reveals that a fairly large golden retriever is sitting alone in the passenger seat. Looking at the rest of the photos posted on AutoGespot, we can see that the owner of the...
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2012 Audi R8 GT Spyder Priced From $211,200With just 333 units to be built worldwide, and only 50 of those bound for the U.S., the hand-built Audi R8 GT Spyder isn't just a high-performance roadster, it's an extremely exclusive one. It's priced to match, too, starting from $210,000 plus a $1,200 delivery fee. If you've forgotten what the R8...
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Hennessey Tailors HPE800 Package To McLaren MP4-12CThe McLaren MP4-12C gets boosted to 800-hp by Hennessey Performance.
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Jaguar Celebrates The XJ220’s 20th BirthdayThe XJ220 supercar is one of the most iconic Jaguars ever produced, and to this day remains the British automaker’s fastest production car. It also once held the world record for the fastest production car with a top speed of 213 mph, before being toppled by the equally-iconic McLaren F1. And...
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Acura NSX Super Bowl Spot: Getting The First OneThe next Acura NSX is still little more than a plastic buck, just beyond the twinkle-in-a-designer's-eye stage of development, but known car aficionado Jerry Seinfeld is already fighting some random rich dude for the rights to buy the first one. The spot tracks Seinfeld's ludicrous attempts to get...
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Lamborghini Rules Out Turbocharging, For NowWhile many of its rivals go the turbocharging route in order to boost performance without any detriment to fuel efficiency, Lamborghini has decided to go against doing the same with its models, at least until the end of this decade. The information was revealed by Lamborghini CEO Stephan...
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Yesterday afternoon a black Ferrari 458 Italia crashed near the coastal town of Taranto, in Southern Italy, killing three people--including the driver--and injuring nine others. The Ferrari driver is said to have lost control at high speed on Interstate 172 before his car veered off the road and crashed into a nearby stone wall. His body was thrown almost 100 feet from the crash, leading to suggestion that he may not even have been wearing a seatbelt. Four other vehicles were involved in the crash and as the images reveal, the Ferrari was split in two due to the force and its front-end...
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Bugatti Orders Two More Years Worth Of Veyron TransmissionsBugatti has ordered two more years worth of transmissions from Ricardo, the British engineering and motorsports firm that supplies the supercar manufacturer with advanced dual-clutch transmissions for all versions of the Veyron. This raises the all-important question: Where will the transmissions...
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Next Porsche 911 Turbo To Get Tri-Turbo System: ReportPatent filings have revealed that Porsche is developing a tri-turbo system for its next 911 Turbo.
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Supercar Manufacturer SSC Drops Shelby Name From TitleTo avoid confusion and help it stand apart in the increasingly competitive business of selling supercars, Shelby Supercars, or SSC for short, has agreed to drop the Shelby name from its official title and instead go with SSC only. SSC, as many readers may already know, was founded by a man who just...
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DriveSRT To Tease The 2013 Dodge ViperIf the Drive SRT Facebook page gets 10,000 "Likes" before February 1, the folks at SRT promise to give us a look at the new Viper.
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Pagani Zonda F Crashes In Hong KongThis has been a very bad week for supercars all around the globe. Only yesterday we brought you news of a Lamborghini Gallardo that caught fire in Portland, Oregon, as well as a Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SV that crashed in Indonesia. And of course on Monday there was that Ferrari F430 that...
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