Supercars
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BMW has enjoyed some success with its CSL range of stripped out ready-to-race M3s and Mercedes-Benz has delivered several of its own lightweight Black Series models. That leaves the third major German luxury automaker, Audi, which has now revealed a lighter and more powerful version of its V-10 powered R8 supercar. Using techniques learned from the construction of the Superleggera models over at sister brand Lamborghini, Audi engineers have managed to shave off 220 pounds from the regular R8 V-10’s kerb weight. They took an elaborate approach involving every aspect of the vehicle, and...
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Malibu Home Comes With Free Ferrari F40The Ferrari F40 is one of the rarest and most sought-after supercars in the world so to get one for free, especially one that is in near-mint condition and only with 734 miles on the clock, would be next to impossible--at least that’s what you'd think. One Malibu agent, however, is giving...
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Video: Ferrari 599XX Breaks 7-Minute Barrier Around NurburgringThe last time we looked, Nissan was claiming a 7m 26.7s Nurburgring lap time for its 2010 ‘Series II’ GT-R, while General Motors was boasting an even better time of 7m 22.4 seconds for its Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 supercar. While manufacturer claims should be taken with a grain of salt--there are...
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Six New Ferraris By 2013, Including Enzo, 599 And 612 Scaglietti ReplacementsIt’s now been almost seven years since the Enzo supercar first entered production, during which time Ferrari has released a number of new models and technologies. More recently we’ve seen the introduction of the California GT and 458 Italia, along with the automaker’s first dual-clutch...
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Ferrari 599 GTO World Premiere Held At Exclusive Modena EventThe Ferrari 599 GTO is the Italian marque’s fastest ever road car, which is saying a lot considering its model lineup includes fabled machines like the Enzo and F40 supercars. So it’s not so surprising that Ferrari chose to revive its most hallowed of badges: GTO (Gran Turismo Omologata)--the...
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Video: Ferrari CEO Presents New 599 GTOThe Ferrari 599 GTO is the Italian marque’s fastest ever road car, which is saying a lot considering its model lineup includes fabled machines like the Enzo and F40 supercars. So it’s not so surprising that Ferrari chose to revive its most hallowed of badges: GTO (Gran Turismo Omologata)--the...
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Carbon-fiber is seen by many in the auto industry as one of the most effective ways of reducing vehicle weight and improving fuel economy and emissions levels, but the relative expense of the material means that it’s still reserved for only a handful of high-end production cars. BMW has effectively used carbon-fiber roofs for its M cars to help lower their center of gravity, and Nissan and General Motors have used the composite material to help save weight for the GT-R and ZR1 supercars. For most automakers, mainstream carbon-fiber use is still several years away but a number of firms are...
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Ferrari 599 GTO revealed ahead of 2010 Beijing auto showFerrari recently showed off its new Laboratorio Technologico 599XX experimental car based on the regular 599 GTB Fiorano, and while we all wished the wild concept would eventually enter production, the chances of actually buying one are next to nil except maybe for a few lucky people enlisted as...
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Hennessey Partners With DiMora To Sell 1,000 HP Venom GT SupercarHennessey and DiMora, two firms with questionable pasts, have come together to help sell the new 2011 Hennessey Venom GT supercar in the Middle East and India. Hennessey, as many would know, has had trouble in the past with allegations of incomplete work surrounding its line of modified Dodge...
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Brazil’s Amoritz GT DR7 Supercar Previewed In New TeaserThe Amoritz name would probably be unfamiliar in most automotive circles. That’s because it doesn’t hail from the U.S. or Europe, but rather it comes from Brazil. Amoritz is the name of a new supercar start-up, whose first product, the GT DR7, has been previewed today in teaser form. The car...
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2010 Rapier SL-C Superlite Coupe PreviewBased out of Boston, Massachusetts, Rapier Automotive has been preparing its mid-engine supercar for the past five years and is now taking orders. Almost completely hand-built, the Rapier Superlight Coupe, or SL-C for short, is completely customizable, offering customers several different...
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2011 Pagani C9 Spy ShotsUnadulterated, bombastic carbon-fiber insanity--the current Pagani Zonda and its several variants are the embodiment of what it is to be a supercar. And its replacement, the C9, looks set to have even more more, and it'll be headed to the U.S., as well. Sadly, these latest spy shots show the car in...
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The all-new 2012 McLaren MP4-12C supercar isn’t set to appear on U.S. shores until the middle of next year but eager customers already have the ability to pick and tweak the car to their own desires thanks to the launching of a new online configurator today. The configurator was developed using data obtained from the McLaren’s design and engineering teams based at the company’s headquarters in Woking, England. The site is essentially designed to link McLaren’s planned 35 retail outlets in 19 countries across the globe when retailers are appointed from this May onwards. A choice of 17...
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Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera Hits The Road - Image UpdateOne hundred and fifty four pounds. That's how much the latest Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera saves over the standard Gallardo. While it might not sound like much, it brings the total weight down to 2,954 pounds, which makes Lamborghini’s latest supercar as light as many compact...
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Lamborghini Giving The Boot To Manual Transmissions?Lamborghini is changing the way it designs and builds cars. For years, Lamborghini would focus on the design, top speed, acceleration and handling of its cars--in that order. However, in the last year or two the automaker has shook things up a little, shuffling the order of priorities to design...
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Report: BMW M6 May Be Replaced By New Super-Sports CarBMW’s next 6-Series is just around the corner and while we can be certain there will be a new Coupe and Convertible, there’s a chance that the M6 variants may not make a return for the new generation. We know that BMW is working on a new high-end sports car based on its Vision...
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2011 Hennessey Venom GT revealedAmerican-designed and built supercars are on the comeback, it seems, with the Devon Motorworks GTX making its debut at the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and now Hennessey Performance Engineering revealing its Venom GT supercar in its final form for the first time. Originally announced as...
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America’s AMS Performance Builds World’s First Nine Second R35 Nissan GT-RThe Nissan GT-R is the quintessential Japanese sports car--high-tech, efficient and with styling that could only have come from the Land of the Rising Sun--but when it comes to performance tuning of the latest R35 model, America is king. AMS Performance, based in Chicago, Illinois, currently builds...
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Dealers are always a little hesitant to lend out expensive cars for test drives so imagine the feeling one dealership in the U.K. must have felt when an exotic supercar it lent out to one individual ended up in a crash. A Pagani Zonda S, similar to the one pictured here, suffered a crash during a test drive in Aberdeen in the UK last September. Fortunately for its owners it was insured because the bill to repair it cost upwards of $445,000, which includes transportation of the car to Pagani’s factory in Modena in Italy for repairs. If you’re thinking the car should have just been...
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McLaren Boss Hints At MP4-12C Race Car For Privateer TeamsDuring last week’s launch of McLaren’s new road car division, McLaren Automotive, CEO Ron Dennis revealed plans for several new sports cars but deterred from announcing that any of these would be turned into McLaren-backed race cars nor would they ever be used for a special one-make...
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McLaren Future Will Only Be Sports CarsBritish motorsports company McLaren yesterday announced the establishment of a brand new sports car company, McLaren Automotive, along with the announcement of its first model, the all-new MP4-12C supercar, which is set to go on sale in the second half of 2011. The MP4-12C will be followed by...
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Report: America’s Shelby Supercars Teams Up With Designer Jason CastriotaBelieve it or not but the current holder of the world land speed record for a production car is America’s very own Shelby Supercars (SSC), the manufacturer of the Lamborghini Diablo-esque Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo supercar. That car is capable of a proven top speed of 255.83 mph--3.11 mph faster...
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2012 McLaren MP4-12C previewWhen the McLaren F1 first hit the streets it almost immediately catapulted to the top of the performance car scene, taking home the title of world’s fastest production car in 1998 and holding it up until 2005. Building a car better than the original F1 was always going to be a difficult...
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ABT Tuned Audi R8 GT R And R8 Spyder Cruise InThe formula for supercar success is surprisingly simple: mid-engine, rear or all-wheel drive, 500-plus horsepower and look-at-me styling--so the latest creation from Audi tuning specialists ABT Sportsline is almost guaranteed to be a hit from the get-go. The tuners at ABT have been very busy in...
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