Supercars
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A handful of charitable organizations will receive fresh funds, thanks to the Pope and his Lamborghini Huracán. Last Saturday, Lamborghini announced the special Huracán model it had built for il Papa sold for $861,000 at RM Sotheby's Monaco auction. The Italian supercar maker first donated the Huracán to Pope Francis last November. His Holiness never set out for any track days or anything of the sort. Instead, the Pope placed his autograph on the specially outfitted model. The supercar wears a Bianco Monocerus exterior hue with Giallo Tiberino striping from hood to tail...
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You can lease a Pagani Huayra Roadster for $25,000 per monthLooking to get into a supercar but don't like the idea of actual car ownership? Putnam Leasing has a deal for you, and it will put you in the driver's seat of a Pagani Huayra Roadster. It will cost quite a bit of dough, though. For $25,339 per month, you can now lease a Pagani, and it may be the...
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The Gumpert Apollo that set a Nürburgring record time is now for saleIt may bear a name that's easy to poke fun at, but this 2009 Gumpert Apollo is also responsible for a record-setting run around the Nürburgring, lapping the iconic track in just 7:11.57 back in August of 2009. At the time, that was the fastest a production car had ever been pushed around the...
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Today in first-world problems: Your Porsche 918 supercar may be recalledLast year, 30.7 million cars were recalled in the U.S. That's more or less one car, every second for the entire year—otherwise known as "routine." The Porsche 918 is anything but routine. Same goes for its recalls. Porsche announced Friday that it will recall 305 918 Spyders over a potential...
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Lamborghini is recalling all 11 Centenarios in the USLamborghini Centenario owners have first-world problems. The prized rare machines are being hit with a recall notice, and the cars must be repaired immediately. This is a tough day for the group of people that own all 11 examples of the coupe and roadster versions of the Centenario, which were sold...
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A "controversial" Bugatti Chiron variant is comingBugatti, Volkswagen Group's French hypercar brand, has a new Chiron variant in the works. Apparently, this won't be a typical special edition model. Instead, the vehicle is quite "controversial." That's the word YouTuber Whitesse JR used to describe the new Chiron variant. The cameraman was...
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Brabham just announced its new track-only monster machine called the BT62. When you introduce a new race car, you're also introducing a need to collect, transmit, and store a hefty amount of data. Be it vehicle data, customer information, or all sorts of on-track telemetry bits and bytes, a technical partner serves a much-needed role in understanding and handling all of that information. To that end, Brabham is teaming up with Microsoft. This partnership represents a number of bonuses for Brabham. First, potential BT62 customers will be able to view their future race cars through a variety of...
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Brabham BT62 tipped to spawn road car, Le Mans racerBrabham this week revealed its new BT62 supercar and already there's talk of additional versions. The BT62 that debuted in London on Wednesday is a track-only model limited to 70 units, the number representing 70 years since Brabham founder and namesake Jack Brabham started his racing career. But...
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Brabham BT62 is a 700-horsepower track monsterIf you love all things Formula 1, then you know the name Brabham. Throughout the early days of the sport, Jack Brabham and his race team captured plenty of wins, two constructors championships, and four driver's championships. Now the Australian racing legend's son David, a racer himself and...
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Abt Sportsline readies Audi R8 art car for 2018 Wörthersee TourAttendees of this year's Wörthersee Tour tuning fest in Austria will be treated to the unveiling of an Audi R8 art car crafted by top tuner Abt Sportsline. Responsible for the design is cartoonist Timo Würz, who went with the theme “Nun meets Abt,” with Abt in this case being...
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Race driver hangs Pagani Zonda Revolucion as wall artPablo Perez Campanc loves all things Pagani. The Argentinian race car driver, who has competed in Indy Car racing among other series, owns a Pagani Zonda that he drives on a regular basis. Now he also owns a Pagani Zonda that he keeps inside his house where it is mounted as a work of art suspended...
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Three young engineers created the Lamborghini MiuraThe Lamborghini Miura broke down numerous walls when it reached production in 1966. It was perhaps the first "supercar" by today's definition with a mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. What's most shocking is the fact that a group of rather young engineers created the machine. A new video from...
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McLaren have teamed up with Chinese fashion house Cabbeen to introduce a special limited-run variant of the 570GT. The idea behind the car is to showcase the philosophy "Designed in China, built in the United Kingdom." Just five examples will be built, and the car is being shown to the public at the 2018 Beijing auto show. This collaboration works well for the 570GT. It's easy to go over the top with any supercar, but the 570GT is closer to an ultra-performance grand touring machine. The Cabbeen design elements go hand-in-hand with that ethos. Obsidian Black paintwork pairs perfectly with the...
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Canepa has crafted the perfect Porsche 959When it comes to the Porsche 959, Canepa Design is the outfit that knows everything. The Scotts Valley, California-based sports and race car restorer has been helping import and modify Porsche 959s for decades. Canepa has served up its Gen I, Gen II, and recent Gen III upgrades for the 959 for...
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Isdera Commendatore GT electric gullwing revealed, limited to just 2 carsYou've probably never heard of Isdera. The company is a niche sports car manufacturer from Germany, and since its founding in the early 1980s has churned out less than a hundred cars, all of them mostly crafted by hand. One of the most famous is the original Commendatore 112i launched in the early...
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Koenigsegg Agera RS hits 242 MPH in just 1.3 milesKoenigsegg's Agera RS is now out of production but the car is still obliterating records. On Saturday, the very last Agera RS ever built, a blue example owned by Neil Miller, hit 242 mph over a set distance of 1.3 miles at a Vmax200 event near Leicester in the United Kingdom. Vmax200 is similar to...
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Lamborghini CEO confirms plug-in hybrid power for Aventador, Huracán successorsLamborghini hasn't been shy about its plans to electrify its successors to the Aventador and Huracán, currently thought to be arriving around 2020 and 2022 respectively. The automaker has little choice as electrification is seen as the only means to preserve big engines like the V-10s and...
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Brabham drops first details, photo of BT62 supercarThe new automotive division of the Brabham race team released the first specs and photos for its upcoming track-focused supercar on Thursday. Called the BT62, a naming convention that links the car with past Brabham race cars, including several Formula 1 World Championship winners, the new supercar...
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Lamborghini has once again been caught testing a more hardcore version of its Aventador. And thanks to a photo of the car's digital instrument cluster (shown below), taken by the folks at Salento V12, we know the car will be called the Aventador SVJ, an abbreviation for Super Veloce Jota. Lamborghini diehards will recognize the name from the Miura SVJ of the 1970s, an extremely limited hardcore version of the Miura based on the one-off Miura Jota prototype developed by Bob Wallace to meet the FIA's Appendix J racing regulations. Jota is the Spanish pronunciation for the letter J. 2020...
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Pininfarina PF0 hypercar will do 0-60 in under 2 seconds, debut in 2019Mahindra, the parent company of Italian design firm Pininfarina, on Friday announced the formation of Automobili Pininfarina, a new automotive brand specializing in high-end electric cars. A soft-launch for Pininfarina will happen this year with a small run—just 12 cars—of the H2 Speed...
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Aston Martin revives DBS name for Vanquish replacementAston Martin's upcoming super grand tourer to replace the Vanquish won't be called a Vanquish as previously thought. The automaker confirmed Wednesday the car will revive the DBS name when it makes its debut in June. But it will also include Superleggera this time, a name normally associated with...
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Why did McLaren name its latest supercar Senna?Ayrton Senna da Silva still looms large over the worlds of motorsport and McLaren. One need only utter the name and a flurry of thoughts related to speed, driving precision, and winning all come rushing to mind. Senna, who died in a tragic accident in 1994, spent the better part of his Formula One...
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Watch the Devel Sixteen launch in the desertLast November, Dubai-based Devel Motors shocked the world and proved many naysayers wrong when it unveiled a production version of its Sixteen hypercar. Now, we have some running video of the car somewhere in the desert with a sinister sounding idle and exhaust note. The Instagram video simply...
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Pagani looking for light weight, possible manual transmission in future electric carPagani is known for building bold and beautiful hyper exotics. Along with standout styling, they deliver tremendous aural exhilaration and driving excitement thanks to the mighty Mercedes-AMG engines set amidship. Horacio Pagani himself, however, knows that electrification is the way of the future...
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