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This week Google unveiled its first car, a prototype autonomous vehicle devoid of a steering wheel and brakes yet capable of transporting passengers at speeds of up to 25 mph. Like most fully autonomous cars, Google’s prototype can only travel on pre-set routes but the plan is to eventually have the cars take its occupants to any given location around town. Google has received a lot of attention for its autonomous car development, likely because of its size and progress in the area as well as the fact that it's one of the key players outside the auto industry working on the technology...
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Ford Introducing Adaptive Steering: VideoFord already offers electronic power steering, which helps to conserve fuel by using an electric motor to assist the steering instead of a hydraulic system drawing energy from the engine. Now Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] is enhancing its steering system with a new feature called Adaptive Steering...
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Ur-Dashcam: Ride Along With A 1920s Fire Chief Through New York City MayhemIf you’ve ever wondered what it was like to drive to a fire through the streets of New York City in the 1920s, wonder no more. This video shows what it was like—and it’s one of the earliest dashcam videos anywhere. MUST SEE: First LaFerrari Replicas Already In Production: Video...
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Hear The Mercedes-AMG GT Start Up And Rev: VideoMercedes-AMG recently started the official teaser campaign for its upcoming GT sports car by launching a new microsite that is to be continuously updated with new info leading up to the car’s final reveal this fall. Today we have the next installment of the teaser campaign: a series of videos...
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Hatchbacks Driven In Anger Is Our New Favorite Racing Series: VideoMotorsport exists in a massively wide range of styles. Some prefer the sweet science of Formula 1, while others like the dusty, dirty circle tracks that exist scattered around the Southern U.S. No matter what type of car or course you like, there exists something for everyone. Today, however, I've...
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Porsche Tells Us Just How Efficient Its 919 Hybrid Le Mans Prototype Is: VideoAs the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race draws ever closer—now just three weekends away—Porsche has revealed even more details of its 919 Hybrid endurance racer. Not only is the car aiming for success at the famous French endurance race, but Porsche sees it as a test-bed for future...
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Building cars for Gran Turismo 6 has become almost as popular with carmakers as building actual cars. The latest to join the fray is a futuristic concept of the venerable Volkswagen Golf GTI, called the GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo. Yes, there's a comma in the name. And no, we still don’t know why. VW presented the GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo at the 2014 Wörthersee Tour taking place in Austria, an event popular with GTI fans. The two-seater convertible is powered by a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 that produces 503 horsepower and a mighty 413 pound-feet of torque, the...
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Audi A3 clubsport quattro Concept Mega Gallery And VideoThe Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG better watch out, because Audi is hinting at a new performance version of its A3 sedan that may just upset our 2014 Best Car To Buy winner. That hint has come in the form of the stunning A3 clubsport quattro concept car, which made its official debut this week at the...
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Maserati MC12 GT1 Race Car Sounds Off: VideoThe Maserati MC12 GT1 is one of the most successful cars in endurance racing, having been driven to multiple victories in the original FIA GT series and the short-lived FIA GT1 World Championship. Powered by a 6.0-liter V-12 engine limited to 540 horsepower, the Maserati race car was capable of...
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Steve McQueen's Jaguar XKSS roars into Jay Leno's garageIt's hard to say which car is the coolest in the world, but Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar XKSS certainly makes our shortlist. MUST SEE: McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson: Video Update This singular Jag currently resides in Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum, but Jay Leno...
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Hennessey Takes His HPE650 C7 Corvette To The Dyno, Then Down The Strip: VideoIt's no secret that John Hennessey likes to drive fast. There are many cars to choose from to achieve this, yet none of them seem to fit the bill. So Hennessey turns to his HPE Design team to create truly wicked versions of already fairly wicked machines. MUST SEE: Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6...
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Google Unveils Its First Self-Driving Car Prototype: VideosCute as a button and spelling doom for the enthusiast; no, it’s not the Rabbit of Caerbannog. It’s Google’s first in-house-designed self-driving car prototype, built from the ground up to deliver a seamless driving experience. But you won’t be doing the driving. Still a...
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Castrol is keen on promoting its Edge oil lineup, which utilizes a component called Titanium FST to make sure it lasts for a long time. One way to help with such promotion is the creation of a video spot that shows off the benefits of said products. Or you can go in a different direction, and have a handful of race car drivers square off in a large blacked out environment lit up with lasers. Castrol went with the latter. ALSO SEE: McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip with Rowan Atkinson The oil company is calling the video Blackout, and for good reason. It pits Ken Block, Mike Rockenfeller...
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Pagani Huayra From The Driver’s Point Of View: VideoThe closest most of us will get to driving the boutique-built Pagani Huayra hypercar will be in Gran Turismo 6. Or, possibly, right here in this video. MUST SEE: The World's Strongest Brakes Stop The 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC: Video With a camera strapped to Pagani’s chief test driver’s...
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2015 BMW i8 Tech Highlights Revealed: VideoIf you bought a 2015 BMW i8 based on its styling alone, we'd not begrudge you for it. While BMW's i3 has gone for high-tech and futuristic styling, the i8's designers added some good, old-fashioned beauty to the plug-in hybrid sports car. MUST SEE: Pagani Huayra From The Driver's Point Of View...
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Driver Escapes Moments Before Stalled Car Is Smashed By Train: VideoVideo has been released showing a dramatic scene where the female driver of an Infiniti Q60 stuck on a railroad crossing in Maitland, Florida managed to escape just moments before her car was struck by an oncoming train. The driver of the car, 28-year-old Kristen Taylor, is alleged to have stalled...
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Zagato Shows Off Bespoke Lamborghini 5-95 At Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’EsteA partnership between Lamborghini and Zagato that dates back to 1965, when the Italian design house built a pair of special 3500 GTZ models on the bones of Lamborghini’s first model, the 350 GT, has just seen a new chapter written. That chapter is the Lamborghini 5-95 Zagato, which made its...
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BMW M4 DTM Pit Stop In Thermal Technicolor Is Amazing: VideoIf you’re a fan of any kind of motorsport, you know just how impressive the furiously synchronized miracle of a pit stop is. But it’s even more impressive when recorded with a thermal imaging video camera. ALSO SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And Video As the team...
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Under the BMW Group’s tutelage, the MINI brand has grown into something that only loosely resembles its truly pint-sized past. That’s not entirely a bad thing, however, as some of the newest MINIs are also some of the best. But the MINI Superleggera Vision concept is the most un-MINI MINI we’ve ever seen—and it might just be our favorite. ALSO SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And Video Built by MINI and Touring Superleggera as a concept for the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2014, the MINI Superleggera Vision is a low-slung, vaguely...
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Nissan GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 To Tackle WEC And Le Mans In 2015: VideoThis year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans is just a month away, with Nissan set to compete with its radical ZEOD RC plug-in hybrid race car in the event’s Garage 56 experimental entry. However, the Japanese automaker recently confirmed that it plans to compete alongside the likes of Audi, Porsche...
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Citroën’s Upmarket DS Brand Gets Updated DS 3: VideoAs it aims to further diversify its model lineup, French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën recently established its DS line as a standalone brand offering an alternative to Germany’s usual suspects in the luxury arena. The first model to be launched under the DS brand was the DS 3 subcompact...
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Lewis Hamilton In His F1 Car Takes On Ken Block In A Fiesta ST Rallycross: VideoThe 2014 Global RallyCross Championship got underway in sunny Barbados over the weekend, and on hand to help kick off the new season was none other than Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton. The Mercedes AMG driver was there to participate in the coinciding Top Gear Live event and took some time out to...
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Jump A Moving MINI? Tony Hawk Says No Sweat: VideoThe Internet is awash in videos (real and fake) of people jumping (or trying to jump) moving vehicles. Many end in predictable tragedy. This one ends in triumph. Why? Because it's Tony Hawk. MUST SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And Video The premise is simple: a moving MINI...
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Designing The Lincoln MKX Concept: VideoLincoln’s lineup of late hasn’t really set hearts racing, especially when it comes to the design of the cars, but that’s starting to change with the introduction of some very stylish products such as the latest MKZ sedan and new MKC crossover. In the video above, Lincoln designers...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran