Supercars
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American businessman Hezy Shaked is the new owner of the one-off Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo concept car that was unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show in order to preview the design of the Chiron. Shaked, the founder of fashion retailer Tillys, recently took delivery of the car which now joins a collection that also includes the first Bugatti Chiron and Lamborghini Centenario Roadster in the United States, as well as a Ferrari LaFerrari and McLaren P1. The Los Angeles resident is also the owner of the red and black Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse known as Hellbug. It’s the car...
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Koenigsegg Agera RS sets 277.9 MPH top speed recordSweden’s Koenigsegg has claimed the production car land speed record with its Agera RS hypercar. Factory driver Niklas Lilja was the man behind the wheel. He on Saturday drove the customer-owned machine to a new record of 277.9 mph on a closed 12-mile section of Highway 160 just outside of...
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Lamborghini collaborates with MIT, teases hybrid supercar futureLamborghini has something to show us, and it's no small deal when it describes the debut as the "supersport of the future." In three days, the marque will reveal a new supercar that could foreshadow cutting-edge plug-in hybrid technology. However, Lamborghini didn't carry out the project on its...
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Lamborghini was started because Ferraris were too unreliableIt's one of the greatest rivalries of the automotive industry: Ferrari vs. Lamborghini. Actually, it's not just a rivalry, Lamborghini was a direct result of Ferrari. According to the story, retold by Donut Media, company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini didn't just want to build a better sports car...
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Hennessey Venom F5 revealed with over 1,600 HP, aims for 301 MPH top speedWake up Bugatti and Koenigsegg because Hennessey Performance Engineering sounded an alarm. On Wednesday at the 2017 SEMA show, the performance company out of Sealy, Texas revealed the Venom F5 hypercar with over 1,600 horsepower and a strong desire to reach a 301 mph top speed. Production is due to...
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Aston Martin salutes second-gen Vanquish with Ultimate editionA new generation of the Aston Martin Vanquish is waiting in the wings, so to send the current second-generation model out on a high note, Aston Martin has rolled out the extra exclusive Vanquish S Ultimate. The car is limited to just 175 units worldwide and will start delivery next spring. It can...
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The Acura NSX is no slouch with 547 horsepower arriving from a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 engine and supplementary hybrid system, but tuning firm Science of Speed cranked things up a notch with their latest custom build. The company, known for its focus on the NSX itself, presented its 610-horsepower Acura NSX at the 2017 SEMA show with supplemental aerodynamic upgrades and race-ready interior components. The 37 additional horses comes from high-performance downpipes and a lightweight stainless steel exhaust system, which also reduces the NSX's weight by 16 pounds. The company also...
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Here's how Koenigsegg destroyed Bugatti's 0-248-0 mph world recordThe name of the game here is power-to-weight ratio. That's how you can have one car out perform another. As you climb to higher and higher speeds, you're going to need more and more power. That's why a car like the Bugatti Chiron packs a W-16 engine producing 1,480 horsepower. It needs that...
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Lamborghini has already built 9,000 HuracánsWhen Lamborghini was cranking out the Gallardo, it had a major hit on its hands. Over the course of ten years, the Italian supercar marque produced over 14,000 examples. That's 1,400 Gallardos churned out on average each year between 2003 and 2013. Now with the Gallardo's successor, the...
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Johnny Bohmer looks to break 300 mph in his Ford GTMassively modified yet still street-driven cars are a wild element in the world of high-horsepower straight-line road rockets. These cars have horsepower figures measured out with four digits thanks to strengthened engine components, reworked ECUs, and typically a pair of massive turbochargers. One...
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Make any office cool with this 1:4 scale Bugatti Chiron engineAllow me a moment to speak to the Bugatti Chiron owners currently reading this. I hope you're enjoying your hypercar. You've made a delightful choice in deciding to add this amazing piece of automotive technology to your already outstanding garage. Amalgam has a lovely scale version of the very...
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SCG reveals McLaren F1-style central driving position for new supercarSince our initial post on Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus’ new supercar came out a week ago, company founder James Glickenhaus has dropped new details including a teaser sketch showing a potential cabin design where the driver’s seat is mounted in the center, à la the McLaren F1...
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Ferrari has just turned up the wild factor on its already extreme FXX K. The Italian firm has developed one of its evolution packages for the LaFerrari-based track car. The package will be made available as an upgrade kit for existing FXX K owners but will also be sold on a limited number of new FXX Ks to be built. In upgraded form, the car goes by the designation FXX K Evo. This past weekend’s 2017 Finali Mondiali at the Mugello circuit in Italy provided the backdrop to the world premiere of the car. Each year, Ferrari holds the Finali Mondiali to mark the end of the motorsport season...
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Zagato pays homage to the Iso Rivolta with supercar conceptItalian design house Zagato used this week’s 2017 Tokyo Motor Show to unveil its concept developed for the Vision Gran Turismo project, a challenge put out by the makers of the “Gran Turismo” video game in 2013 to automakers and design firms to see who could come up with the best...
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SCG working on a $400,000 supercar with a gated 6-speedAmerican sports car manufacturer and motorsport team Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus stunned the world in 2015 when it unveiled the SCG003, a car that can swap between road and race versions and thus encapsulating to the utmost degree the hallowed concept of a racecar for the road. No wonder it won so...
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V-12-powered Apollo Intensa Emozione supercar revealedSupercar startup Apollo has finally unveiled its Intensa Emozione, the name being Italian for “intense emotion.” The car was presented late on Tuesday at a special event in Italy where Apollo confirmed that just 10 examples will be sold, each at a price approaching $2.71 million. Apollo...
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Latest Hennessey Venom F5 teaser shows off carbon fiber cabinHennessey is in the business of outfitting numerous production cars with an array of go-fast parts, but the cherry atop the Texas performance company's business is the Venom. First introduced in 2010 and based on a Lotus, the Venom GT was faster than a Bugatti Veyron, weighed less, and clocked a...
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Apollo reveals carbon fiber chassis of IE supercarApollo is just a day out from the reveal of its track-focused supercar, the Intensa Emozione, and to build the excitement the Chinese-backed, Italian-based firm has revealed the car’s monocoque chassis. The chassis is made entirely from carbon fiber and looks good enough to sit in an art...
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Only this week we saw McLaren confirm plans for a new member for its flagship Ultimate Series range, and now we have the first spy shots of what’s likely a test mule. The test mule hides the new mechanicals within the makeshift body of a 675LT but still gives away some clues. Compared to the 675LT, the test mule’s front has been made wider and now sports an extended splitter. New hood vents can also be seen up front. There’s no mistaking the air scoop mounted to the roof, and moving further rearward you’ll notice a new vent at the trailing edge of the rear windshield...
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McLaren P15 debuts early 2018, will be brand’s most extreme road car yetMcLaren is working on a new addition to its flagship Ultimate Series range, and Wednesday we received the first details from the company along with a teaser shot of the car’s exhaust tips. The new car, code-named the P15, is a separate model to the upcoming F1 successor, itself code-named the...
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Hennessey Venom F5 coming Nov. 1; might hit 300 mph, destroy Chiron?Just over three years ago Hennessey Performance Engineering announced to the world it was beginning work on a world-beating hypercar called the Venom F5. On Thursday, the Texas-based performance shop told the world the wait is nearly over: the F5 will be unveiled at SEMA on November 1. Set to use a...
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There's a brand-new, never-registered McLaren F1 for saleIf you’re looking for an example of extreme restraint, you won’t find a better example than the person that took delivery of a McLaren F1…and then never drove it. That’s right. Someone bought one of the 106 F1s to be built and decided to park it. In fact, the car has never...
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It's McLaren P1 GTR and Ferrari FXX K track timeWhen two hypercars take to the track to stretch their legs, it's time to put down everything and strap in for the ride. Today, it's the McLaren P1 GTR and the Ferrari FXX K, which arrived at Monza for a few hot laps. The video shows the two hypercars during different sessions, so it's not an actual...
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Learn how Lamborghini helped engineer the Dodge Viper's V-10The Dodge Viper has once again departed the automotive landscape, but it won't be forgotten anytime soon. Why? Because it represented one of the purest sports cars a Detroit automaker ever built—and actually built in Detroit, Michigan, at that. Donut Media is back to help us get up to speed...
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