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Following its official debut at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, McLaren’s new 12C GT Sprint has gone on sale, priced from 195,000 British pounds (approximately $315,827). That may seem a lot for what is essentially a track toy (the car isn’t homologated for any racing series), but you are getting many of the features from the fully-fledged 12C GT3 race car in a reliable yet stupidly fast package. The 12C GT Sprint is based on the road-going 12C supercar but has received extensive modifications from McLaren’s sports car racing department, McLaren GT...
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Subaru Upgrades EyeSight Safety System In Preparation For Autonomous DrivingSubaru has announced an upgraded version of its EyeSight vehicle monitoring system that enhances safety performance and further reduces the burden on the driver. The changes are an upgrade to existing EyeSight functions of avoiding collisions, reducing collision damage and reducing driver's...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2014 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Priced From $41,995Land Rover’s popular Range Rover Evoque is entering the 2014 model year with a series of important updates, including a world-first nine-speed automatic transmission. The good news is that pricing hasn’t gone up with the number of gears, as the 2014 Range Rover Evoque is still priced...
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Alfa Romeo 4C To Start At Just $54,000 In AmericaThere are a handful of cars we've really looked forward to over the past several years--the new 911 and Cayman, the new Corvette Stingray, and, a bit farther from the beaten path, the return of Alfa Romeo to the U.S. in the form of the 4C. Gorgeous styling, enticing light weight (even if it will...
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$194,850 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet Coming To LA Auto ShowThe Porsche 911 adds the next logical member of its family to the fold this fall, when the 911 Turbo Cabriolet and Turbo S Cabriolet lose their hardtops at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. The new Cabriolet models arrive in the year Porsche is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary sports...
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2014 Land Rover LR4 Priced From $50,595Going on sale this fall is an updated version of one of Land Rover’s most important models, the 2014 LR4. Fresh from its debut at the recent Frankfurt Auto Show, the 2014 LR4 has now been priced and offers great value for anyone in the market for a rugged, go-just-about-anywhere SUV with a...
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Ford’s F-150 SVT Raptor isn’t only one of the best selling pickup trucks around; it’s also one of the most popular in the tuning scene. Because of that success, Hennessey has expanded the number of upgrades it offers for the performance pickup. The Texan tuner is now offering three power levels for its tuned Raptor: 475, 600 and 800 horsepower. They all fall under Hennessey's VelociRaptor branding and are designed for Raptors equipped with the 6.2-liter V-8 engine and not the older 5.4-liter unit. The stock rating for these vehicles is 411 horsepower. The 475-horsepower...
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2014 Acura TSX Priced From $31,530The Acura TSX is soldiering on into what’s expected to be its last year on the market, so--understandably--there have been few changes for the latest model year. Pricing for the range now starts at $31,530, including $895 in destination, which gets you the four-cylinder TSX sedan equipped...
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15 Car Color Names That Are Just Keeping It Real (Or Are Maybe A Little Too Honest)Sliding Down The Socioeconomic Scale Orange Grimace Red Mist Patina Fey Whiter Shade of Sarah Palin Burt Sienna (buy this car!) Self Whiteousness Conscientious Objector Green Kind Of Blew Red Herring Brick Shithouse Canary In a Coalmine Salmon P. Chase Seepia Amber Alert
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And The Truck Buyers Have Spoken: They Love The Ford RaptorFord has a hit on its hands. No, we're not talking about the Mustang GT, the Focus ST, or even the oh-so-sweet Fiesta ST. Those are all great rides, but this time the focus is on trucks. More specifically, it's time to take a look at the Ford Raptor, because the Blue Oval brand can barely keep them...
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SRT Viper Enters 2014 Model Year With New Colors And Rain ModeThe year 2013 marked the return of the Dodge--excuse us, the SRT--Viper. Whatever its brand name may be, we're happy to live in a world in which a car can head to market with an 8.4-liter V-10 engine that produces 640 horsepower and 600 pound-feet of torque. The Viper has already earned its place...
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Mid-Engine Audi nanuk Could Be Built (And Sold) Alongside R8When news first broke about the surprise Audi nanuk quattro concept at this week’s Frankfurt Auto Show, some fingers may have been pointed for just a moment—at the close likeness of the nanuk to another concept car from earlier this year: the Giugiaro Parcour. The Parcour was one of the...
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When Mercedes-Benz showed off the G63 AMG 6x6, the world let out a collective awed hush that developed into a wild rush of massive levels of "I want one!" Sadly, it's an expensive toy produced in extremely limited quantities. Of course, there are ways to make even the most exclusive vehicles even more out of reach. Enter Mercedes-Benz madness magnifier Brabus. This is a company that seems to live by the "Go big or go home" motto, especially when it comes to pushing their vehicles well north of the 200 miles per hour barrier. This time, however, they've gone big in an entirely different way...
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2015 Audi A3 Cabriolet Revealed, Confirmed For U.S.A stylish new Audi A3 Cabriolet (convertible) has officially made its debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. In addition to that, it's U.S.-bound and will be part of the 2015 Audi A3 lineup. Audi officials have confirmed that the A3 Cabriolet will be offered in U.S. showrooms beginning in fall...
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2013 Frankfurt Auto Show PreviewSummer is coming to a close, and those lucky to have had some time off are likely back at the office now. But with the end of summer comes the first major auto show of the new model year, the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, press days for which kick off on Tuesday, September 10. The biennial event in the...
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Lexus Previews New NX Crossover With Frankfurt Auto Show ConceptLexus’ concept car for the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show is a preview of the automaker’s new compact crossover due to go on sale next year. That compact crossover will be called the NX and a stylized version of it will be on display next week in Frankfurt in the form of the LF-NX concept...
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Bentley’s V-8 Continental Models Get Sportier ‘S’ TrimBentley is expanding its Continental range with two new sporty editions based on its GT V8 coupe and GTC V8 convertible. These V-8 models are positioned as the sportier option for drivers, thanks to the lighter weight of their V-8 engines compared to the big W-12 mills also offered in the...
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2014 Porsche 911 Turbo & Turbo S: First DriveEvil. Fantastic. Both. That doesn't describe the 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo and Turbo S, but the members-only track at Bilster Berg Drive Resort near Bad Driburg, Germany. It's the most fun we've found in a closed circuit this year. And the 911 Turbo and Turbo S make it look easy. Well, not quite easy...
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The Volvo Concept Coupe is here--online at least, more than a week before the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show opens its doors to the media. Hinted at last week in a video released by Volvo, the new Concept Coupe is billed as the first taste of Volvo's new styling direction--a direction that's taken a while to emerge after Volvo's acquisition by China's Geely in 2009. It's also the first public iteration of Volvo's new Scalable Product Architecture, a component set that should allow Volvo to develop a slew of new models to refill its product pipeline, beginning with the XC90 crossover replacement due...
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The 9 Cars (And Drivers) Guaranteed To Piss You OffWe know what you love. You love to see guys warp by in Aventadors and Corvette Stingrays and SRT Vipers because...Aventador, Stingray, Viper. It can make your day to know someone's ripping off a redline run, even if it isn't you. The opposite of that place is your dark space--where you'll find the...
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Chevrolet SS Coupe EnvisagedThe 2014 Chevrolet SS rear-wheel-drive muscle sedan is almost here and we can’t wait to hop behind the wheel. But as most readers will know, the SS is essentially a rebadged Holden Commodore SS V already on sale in Australia, albeit with a few performance tweaks thrown in. In a previous...
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11 Things You Probably Don't Know About The 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray11. The split-window made the original Sting Ray unique, but it's not on the table for the new model. In fact, Chevy mocked up a car with a split window for the 2014 Stingray, but ultimately decided not to pursue it for the same reason the original only lasted one model year. The team found it to...
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Quick Reactions Save Camaro ZL1 From Drag Strip DisasterAnd now for something (maybe not so) completely unexpected. First, how does a Camaro ZL1 on bias ply slicks lose it altogether midway down a drag strip? Our bet is a poor shift of some sort--either a 3-2 instead of a 3-4 or a really brutal upshift. So maybe that's not so inexplicable. But what...
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2014 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Revealed, Debuts In FrankfurtChevrolet’s updated Camaro range, which is being introduced for the 2014 model year, has already debuted in coupe form and has spawned a new Z/28 flagship. Now the first images of the 2014 Camaro Convertible have hit the web ahead of the car’s debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show next...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran