Supercars
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James Glickenhaus's one-off Ferrari P4/5 Competizione race car gets ready to do wheel-to-wheel battle for a full run of the clock in these five videos.
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2012 Chevrolet Corvette Price, Options Sheet Revealed
Prices are going up for the 2012 Corvette, according to a dealer inventory sheet revealed today.
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2012 Porsche 911 Spy Video
Easily one of the most anticipated cars of the year, the brand new 2012 Porsche 911 is set to be unveiled in front of audiences at this September’s 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. However, you don’t have to wait until then to get a feel for how the new car will look on the road, or at the...
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2011 Audi R8 Le Mans Safety Car: First Look
Given Audi's racing connections and past dominance at Le Mans, including this year's R18 race car, it only makes sense that the R8 has been chosen as the safety car for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which takes place this weekend, June 11-12 at the Circuit de la Sarthe. The R8 safety car receives the...
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Pagani Zonda F Clubsport Roadster ‘Final Edition’ Up For Sale
The Pagani brand first burst onto the supercar scene during the late ‘90s and immediately tore apart the establishment with its wild-looking creations capable of out-handling the best from rivals Ferrari and Lamborghini. One of the brand’s first--in what turned out to be a long line...
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Toyota Supra Drifts Just Feet From Bugatti Veyron At Gumball 3000: Video
This year’s Gumball 3000 rally has certainly lived up to the event’s notorious reputation of millionaires getting reckless with million dollar machines. We recently saw one of the rally participants make a water crossing in his Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV but that pales in...
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Sometimes stupid questions get stupid answers. In response to numerous requests for early looks at the next-generation of the Dodge Viper, the DriveSRT Facebook page gives us... a motorhome. Yes, it's a Viper SRT 10 three-axle camper van, and yes, it's still sporting the old Viper front-end. No, it's not a very good photo. DriveSRT's statement: "Like many of you, Twitter user @DaveOrrSales asked for a taste of what's to come at SRT. We dodged death to sneak you this top-secret photo. That's all you get, crew." In other words, we'll all have to wait to see the Viper like everyone else, and the...
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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster Online Configurator Goes Live
It won’t be on sale until fall but you can configure the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster to your exact specifications right now via a new online configurator on the AMG website that’s just gone live. This isn’t a complete configurator as it only allows you to adjust a few...
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Lotus To Build Own Engines With Scrapped Elan Budget: Report
The 2013 Lotus Elan, revealed at the 2010 Paris Auto Show, won't be seeing production for fear of it stepping on the toes of the all-new Esprit, but there's good news to come from its demise: Lotus will use the funds from that project to build its own engines. Lotus, in its former pre-Bahar guise...
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Roger Federer Test-Drives The 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster: Video
The new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster isn’t set to go on sale until this fall but Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer was lucky enough to sample one already, even taking it for a test-drive on public roads in what appears to be a scenic desert landscape. Given his sponsorship deal with...
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Lexus Celebrates Style In London This Summer
Lexus will be out in force at social events this summer in key cities across Europe, inviting the general public to get up close and personal with its latest offerings. London in particular will be getting special treatment, with the 2012 Lexus LFA supercar expected to be the highlight of the...
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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster Hits The Road: Video
Here’s yet another video of the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster, this time with the car hitting a race track though never at full tilt. As mentioned in our previous report, the 563 horsepower SLS AMG Roadster is set to go on sale this fall. That gorgeous brown metallic paint finish...
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Owning a car like the Aston Martin V12 Vantage is a dream for most auto enthusiasts, but for a lucky few, it is a reality. While we certainly wish we were among those lucky few who can actually afford the $179,995 asking price for the sultry two-door, we’ll have to suffice with this latest video clip from the visual geniuses at Gentleman Scholar, a multimedia production studio based in Los Angeles, California. The idea behind the video was to capture the ‘Power’, ‘Beauty’ and ‘Soul’ of the car. We think they’ve done it perfectly. As you may have...
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Lotus CEO Contemplates Sale, Partnership For Brand
Whether you're a fan of Lotus' transformation under the leadership of Dany Bahar or not, it's happening, and it may soon take a much more drastic path. According to reports from a roundtable last week, Bahar is considering a partnership with a larger car maker or possibly spinning the brand off...
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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster In Detail: Video
The all-new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster broke cover this past weekend, ahead of its official world debut this September at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, and now we have a new video of the elegant luxury convertible explaining its every detail. The video includes a demonstration of the...
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Aston Martin V12 Zagato Makes Race Debut At The Nurburgring
We just can’t get enough of the sultry Aston Martin V12 Zagato and we hope you can’t either as we now have a new gallery of the coachbuilt coupe at its official race debut this past weekend at the 53rd ADAC ACAS H&R-Cup leg of the VLN series at Germany’s notorious Nurburgring...
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Porsche Celebrates 10 Years In China With Special Edition 911 Turbo S
Porsche is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch in China and possibly one of the best business decisions the automaker has ever made. Since the opening of Porsche Center Beijing Central in 2001, China has grown to become the second largest market for Porsche worldwide, achieving stunning...
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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster Preview
It’s not set for an official world debut until September’s 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show but the convertible version of the latest Mercedes-Benz gullwing supercar, the brand new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster, has been revealed in full for the first time. The car has been one of the...
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The fantastic festival of carbon fiber that is the James Glickenhaus Ferrari P4/5 Competizione was built as a one-off project for endurance racing, with its first major event to be the 24 Hours of Nurburgring next month. But now it looks like it could be exiting the racing sector because of a rules issue. So what's the issue? The P4/5 race team says they need movable aerodynamic elements to be competitive in the class. It has plenty of downforce, the team says, but that downforce limits the top speed of the car through drag. Unfortunately, movable aero, like in F1, is specifically disallowed...
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Jaguar Details Design Of C-X75 Plug-In Hybrid Supercar Concept
The C-X75: It was one of the most amazing concepts of 2010, easily argued as the greatest of all. Jaguar managed to effectively sneak-attack an industrious automotive media force and come out with the best in show of the 2010 Paris Motor Show. With the show's sparkly paint, bright lights and...
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NASCAR Star Kyle Busch Busted For Doing 128 MPH In Lexus LFA
NASCAR star Kyle Busch, currently third in the Sprint Cup standings, was pulled over on a road near his home in Mooresville, North Carolina yesterday for speeding in a bright yellow 2012 Lexus LFA not unlike the one pictured above. Busch was driving with his wife Samantha in the car at a speed of...
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Race-Spec Aston Martin V12 Zagato Previewed
Fresh off its debut last weekend at the 2011 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, the stunning Aston Martin V12 Zagato is preparing for its racing debut at the Nurburgring later this week. More accurately, Aston Martin is busying preparing the concept for the track. And while it's not quite ready to...
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2012 Lexus LFA: A Lost Decade, A Sales Dud?
[Updated information on page 2] There's no denying the Lexus LFA is far and away the greatest combination of engineering feats achieved by Toyota outside of its Formula 1 ventures. In fact, it uses many of the lessons learned in the sport. But for all of its technological prowess, was the LFA a...
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Lamborghini’s Third Model Will Be An ‘Everyday’ Car
Perhaps the strongest indication yet that Lamborghini is planning to put its striking Estoque sedan concept from the 2008 Paris Auto Show into production has come by way of clear statements from the automaker’s CEO that a third Lamborghini model is in the works and that it will be an...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran