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  • "Top Gear" season 25 trailer

    For all of you still tuning into "Top Gear," the wait for the new season is nearly over. Season 25 of the famed motoring program will soldier on with plenty of supercars and shenanigans between the show's current trio: Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid. The trailer for the new season isn't short on fast cars or genuine laughs. We said it before, but we believe the show has finally found its stride following growing pains after the original trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May parted ways with the BBC. Of course, the three found a new home with Amazon Prime for "The...

  • 1913 Bugatti Type 22 visits Jay Leno's Garage
    Oldest driveable Bugatti stops by Jay Leno's Garage

    The oldest driveable Bugatti in the world is the star of the latest episode of “Jay Leno's Garage,” and this time the car isn't a member of the Leno fleet. It belongs to Alan Travis, a lover of pre-war—we're talking pre-WW1 here—cars, who Leno met during a recent Cars and...

  • 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB barn find
    Tag along on $4 million barn find that unearths 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/2, 427 Cobra

    It's almost impossible to think that owners would leave their valuable cars behind or simply forget about them. But, as they say, life happens. That's the case with this $4 million barn find that Hagerty's series "Barn Find Hunter" and its host Tom Cotter stumbled upon. Sitting in a North Carolina...

  • Hackrod La Bandita made from 3D printed parts
    Startup wants to 3D-print your car design

    As kids, it was the dream of many auto enthusiasts to design a car just for ourselves. Well, there's a startup company for that. Called Hackrod, the new company wants its customers to do the designing while modern technology engineers it and 3D printers bring it to life. The company envisions...

  • Ford Ranger Raptor prototype
    2019 Ford Ranger Raptor teased in new video

    Ford has a new Ranger on its hands, and in some markets the mid-size pickup truck will have a high-performance variant bearing the Raptor name. The Ranger Raptor is coming soon. The vehicle is expected to debut on February 7 in Bangkok, Thailand, and Ford's Thai division has just released a new...

  • 2020 Audi TT Roadster facelift spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2020 Audi TT Roadster spy shots

    Audi engineers have been spotted testing prototypes for a facelifted version of the TT Roadster. Prototypes for the coupe were spotted a year ago. The TT is into its third generation with the current model, which was introduced for 2016. We’re expecting the facelifted version to arrive in...

  • McLaren 570S MSO X

    McLaren's personalization department MSO has produced a run of bespoke 570S sports cars. Unveiled on Thursday, the cars draw their inspiration from the racing version of the 570S, the 570S GT4, though they're all fully street legal. Just 10 examples are destined for production and each will wear a distinct color scheme echoing famous liveries that donned McLaren's F1 GTR endurance racers of the 1990s. Called the 570S MSO X, the collection was commissioned by McLaren Newport Beach and each of the 10 cars has already been sold. They were developed to give the 570S the look of a race car coupled...

  • 2018 Lexus LS 500 F Sport In "Black Panther" Super Bowl ad
    Lexus Super Bowl 52 spot stars 2018 LS 500 and "Black Panther" cast

    Lexus will return to the Super Bowl on February 4 with a brand new advertisement featuring the 2018 LS 500 F Sport and plenty of help from the "Black Panther" cast. It's no coincidence T'Challa, better known as the Black Panther, will help highlight the new LS 500. The protagonist in the latest...

  • Team O'Neil explains racing brakes
    Team O'Neil explains racing brakes

    If you want to go fast, you'll need to upgrade your engine. If you want to go even faster, you'd better upgrade your brakes.The ability to drive a race vehicle to its appropriate limits is helped or hampered by the stopping hardware behind the wheels and tires. There are many different types of...

  • 2018 BMW M8 GTE race car
    BMW M8 race car revealed

    BMW previewed the racing version of its yet-to-be-revealed 8-Series coupe during last September’s 2017 Frankfurt auto show, and now after a torturous development program the completed car has been revealed. The version shown is the M8 GTE, BMW’s entry for the World Endurance...

  • This is the proper way to pull off a perfect handbrake turn
    This is the proper way to pull off a perfect handbrake turn

    When you're a youngster just learning how to drive a car, you might be inclined to initiate a bit of vehicular shenanigans. The handbrake is a good place to start for such antics. Little did you know that the building blocks for rally racing were forming in your brain. The handbrake is a powerful...

  • Porsche sent 19 918 Spyders over the Alps
    Witness 19 Porsche 918 Spyders attack the alps

    If you had a Porsche 918 Spyder, where would you want to take it? What if you had 18 friends that also owned 918 Spyders? It might be time to hit the Alps, which is what Porsche and 19 918 Spyder owners recently did. The route was 1,500 kilometers and the $20 million strong convoy had five days to...

  • Why do electric cars typically have just one gear?

    You won't jump into a modern electric car and row through a number of gears as you race down the road, which begs the question: why is it that electric cars usually have only one gear? It's but another topic for Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained to cover for us, so throw on your learning caps. Foremost, the broad answer to the question is that electric motors don't require a number of gears due to their high-revving nature. Electric motors are also efficient across the rpm range and produce mounds of torque from a low rpm. An internal-combustion engine requires multiple gears to reach a...

  • GM liquid tire chains for 1969
    GM once offered "liquid tire chains" to enhance winter driving performance

    Tire chains can be a driver's best friend when it comes to handling snowy and icy conditions, but decades ago, General Motors offered something quite novel—even if we don't know if it actually worked as intended. What GM called "liquid tire chains" was an option across the entire 1969...

  • 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS
    What does Porsche's PDK stand for?

    There are many abbreviations in the world of the automobile. You may think you know what most of them stand for, but others may leave you scratching your head. One of those is likely to be PDK, the name given to the automatic gearbox used by Porsche. And there's a reason you don't see the full name...

  • 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air “Sanity”
    Jay Leno brings a 1962 Bel Air bubble-top beauty into the garage

    Ralph Holguin is the owner of RMD Garage, which is a Long Beach-based custom car shop. It's a shop that is the focus of a show on Velocity, but today we're focusing on one of the vehicles from the shop. The car is nicknamed Sanity, and it's a beautifully restored and modified 1962 Chevrolet Bel...

  • 2019 BMW Z4 spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2019 BMW Z4 spy shots and video

    It was in 2011 that we first caught wind of BMW and Toyota’s plans to jointly develop a “mid-size sports car platform” to spawn replacements for their respective Z4 and Supra models. Today we have new spy shots plus video of a prototype for the BMW model, previously thought to be...

  • Prototype for Tesla Semi electric semi-trailer truck
    See the Tesla Semi silently cruising along a suburban street

    In case you were haboring any concerns that the electric semi-trailer truck unveiled by Tesla last November was nothing but a cardboard mockup powered by hamsters, have no fear as a prototype has just been spotted silently cruising down a suburban street. What's perhaps most remarkable is how quiet...

  • Onboard footage from 2017 Toyota Yaris GRMN at Spain's Castellolí circuit

    As much as we love cars like the Ford Focus RS and Honda Civic Type R, there's no denying they lack the lightness and chuckable feeling of hot hatches from the '80s and '90s. Something like a Peugeot 205 GTI or even the first Civic Type R. There are some modern options that come close, such as the Fiat 500 Abarth or Ford Fiesta ST, but if we had our pick we'd go with Toyota's new Yaris GRMN. French magazine L'argus (via Motor1) has a video that demonstrates how fun the little hot hatch can be. It was filmed during a recent track day at Spain's Castellolí circuit. GRMN is the...

  • 2018/2019 Ginetta G60-LT-P1 LMP1 race car
    First LMP1 racer for revamped 2018/2019 WEC season revealed

    Most readers won’t be familiar with the Ginetta name but that should change in the very near future. The British motorsport company is one of the biggest race car constructors in the world, and it also offers a line of sports cars for road use. Now Ginetta's also offering a race car for top...

  • AMMO NYC detailing academy
    Learn how to be a better car detailer in this 1 video

    Keeping up on regularly scheduled maintenance and ensuring a car runs in tip-top shape is only part of the ownership experience. If an owner plans to keep a car for the long haul, proper car care and detailing is a must. Not only will it ensure a car looks great, but it will also protect against...

  • 2019 Cadillac CT6 spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2019 Cadillac CT6 spy shots and video

    When it arrived as a 2016 model, Cadillac’s CT6 ushered in a new naming strategy for the brand and marked the first use of the lightweight, aluminum-infused Omega platform for large, rear-wheel-drive cars at General Motors. While the CT6 was never meant to be the true flagship sedan Cadillac...

  • Genovation GXE video
    Genovation's 800-horsepower electric Corvette hits the road

    Genovation debuted its electric GXE sports car at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier in the month, but now we finally have the first video of the silent beast on the road, cruising about Nevada's Valley of Fire no less. The b-roll footage—or should we say...

  • Lebanon Ford is back with a new 2018 Mustang Hellion for $50k
    Lebanon Ford is back with 800-hp 2018 Mustang Hellion for $52k

    Lebanon Ford made headlines last year when it decided to build and sell some high-horsepower Mustangs. For around $50,000, the Dayton, Ohio-area dealer would sell you a 2017 Mustang making 800 horsepower at the wheels. With a bit more cash and some extra parts, that 800 horsepower could become...

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