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Official details for the all-new 2014 Mazda 3 sedan have finally hit the Web, revealing the stylish compact from virtually every angle. As expected, the redesigned sedan shares its styling with the 2014 Mazda 3 hatchback revealed last month, except for its trunk section, which adopts a traditional notchback design. Mazda’s Kodo design theme is said to be slipperier on the sedan, with the four-door Mazda 3 variant generating a drag coefficient of just 0.26 versus the 0.28 of the five-door hatch. The sedan is expected to be the more popular Mazda 3 variant here in the U.S., so it’s...
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2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport first drive reviewMilitary intelligence and jumbo shrimp are the classic oxymorons that keep garden-variety morons like me awake at night. Toss in a third mindbender--"sporty SUV"--and the WTF factor does a damn fine job of counteracting jet lag. We drove headlong into all three in the course of our first drive of...
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2014 Maserati Quattroporte Build VideoWith its stylish new shape and finely turned-out interior, the 2014 Maserati Quattroporte puts its own twist on the sporty/luxurious four-door. Here, we see a bit of how it all comes together. The video shows many of the stages of construction, including some detail work on the Bowers & Wilkins...
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Self-Driving Electric Shuttle Demoed At Circuit Of The Americas: VideoThe Induct Navia isn't a household name, and it's not likely to become one, but you might just find it, or something like it, at your next big race or sports event. The Navia, by Induct Technology, is a driverless electric shuttle unveiled earlier this year. A touchscreen onboard allows the...
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Pitbull Promotes Dodge Dart In New Ads: VideoIn an attempt to target ‘millennials,’ those born from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Dodge has called on popular musician and rapper Pitbull to help promote its 2013 Dart. Pitbull, whose real name is Armando Pérez, is featured in a series of television commercials for the...
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Does The 2014 Range Rover Sport Make Jaguar-Land Rover Three For Three?The Jaguar-Land Rover group is in the process of a new product onslaught. With the new 2013 Range Rover, 2014 Jaguar F-Type, and now the 2014 Range Rover Sport, there's no shortage of new metal being introduced. But are all these new vehicles winners? The new 2013 Range Rover was the first of these...
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HSV, official tuner to Holden in Australia, has released its first television advertisement for its new flagship, the 2013 GTS sedan. The car sits atop the latest Gen-F range of high-powered sedans, utes and wagons and comes to the market with a supercharged LSA V-8 engine delivering 580 horsepower and 545 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels via a six-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmission. The ad, which was first picked up by the guys at Autoblog, plays the familiar theme of escaping the mundane and gets the message across rather bluntly. There’s nothing blunt about the...
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Toddler Buys Austin-Healey Sprite On eBay, Keeps It: VideoWe often say the love of cars is something in our blood. For one Portland, Oregon toddler, it may be in the genes. At just 14 months old, Sorella Stoute bought a 1962 Austin-Healey Sprite on eBay. Unfortunately, it's not exactly a sterling example, its doors painted "Frankensprite." Fortunately...
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Pikes Peak Purity: Jeff Zwart And His Porsche 911There's been a lot of hype around Sebastien Loeb's record run, but here we have something that needs no hype, no music, no adornment. It's just pure, beautifully shot footage of Jeff Zwart's 2013 Pikes Peak hill climb run in his Porsche 911. That 911 is no run-of-the-mill road car, either. It's a...
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Bentley Continental GT3 Racer To Run Goodwood Hill: VideoThe Bentley Continental GT3 race car is already planned to make its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. But it won't just be there on display--it will be running up the hill. Tee time for the Conti GT3 is 1:25 p.m. local time Friday July 12 at Goodwood, just over three hours after its 10:15...
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Grand Theft Auto V Gameplay Trailer: Video"Breakin' the law, breakin' the law." -- Judas Priest When you just wanna blow stuff up, fly choppers into fountains, and hoon a parking garage so hard you fly right off the top of it, there are only two places to go: the loony bin, or Grand Theft Auto. OK, so there are many more ways to get highly...
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Jaguar Project 7 To Debut At Goodwood Festival Of Speed: VideoThe promised special concept based on the Jaguar F-Type is called Project 7. It will debut at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed--and it's not the F-Type coupe. Reduced to a single-seater with a D-Type-style fairing and carbon fiber aerodynamic work the Project 7 sprints to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds...
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The team at Drive has put together dozens of truly entertaining, genuinely interesting, and often informative videos. But this may be one of their best: an incredibly hands-on tour and behind-the-scenes look at the Morgan Motor Company's operations. There's everything from aluminum chassis details to the finer arts of bending and bonding wood for automotive use. It's a unique look at a boutique carmaker's antique-meets-modern methods. And somewhere along the way, the sheer love of carmaking comes through.
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Caterham F1 Driver Rossi Laps The 'Ring With Will Buxton: VideoPutting your life into the hands of someone else on a race track is a bit scary even after the first dozen times. Doing it on the Nordschleife must be terrifying, even if the driver is Caterham F1 reserve driver Alexander Rossi. The fact that the lap is to be run in a Caterham 485S does nothing to...
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Red Bull Fined €30,000 For Loose Wheel Injuring Cameraman At German GP: VideoThe Grand Prix of Germany this weekend was somewhat less eventful than recent races on the F1 calendar, but for one Formula One Management (FOM) cameraman, it was nearly fatal. An incident occurring during the first round of pit stops during Sunday's Grand Prix at the Nürburgring saw Red Bull...
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Range Rover Sport Takes On Spitfire In Wonderfully British Battle: VideoA car-versus-car race can be exciting enough. Make it a car-versus-plane race and you're moving in the right direction. Now, if the car is actually the new Range Rover Sport and the plane is a vintage Spitfire you have a recipe for a wonderful match worthy of our viewing time. That's precisely what...
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Meet The Original Pagani Test Mule, The Zonda 'Nonno': VideoThe Pagani Zonda has been around since 1999, with the very first variant, the Zonda C12, having made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show that same year. The first couple of cars Pagani built weren’t customer cars but prototype versions used for development and testing. One was used for crash...
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Volvo Previews 2016 XC90 Safety Tech: VideoVolvo is hard at work developing its next-generation XC90 SUV, which the automaker promises to launch at the end of 2014. While there’s still a significant gap until the new SUV’s launch, Volvo is providing numerous details to keep audiences primed. Today, the automaker has revealed...
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Fresh from its dominating run at the recent Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, where it ran a time of just 8:13.878, totally obliterating the previous record of 9:46.181, Peugeot’s highly-modified 208 T16 rally car is now on its way to the grounds of Goodwood House in the U.K. for the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed. Its star driver Sébastien Loeb won’t be in tow but the car will be driven up the famous Goodwood hill climb during the festival days nonetheless. It will also be joined by Peugeot’s RCZ R sports car and striking Onyx supercar concept. The special 208...
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2014 BMW 1-Series GT Spy VideoUPDATE: This vehicle has been revealed as the 2014 BMW 2-Series Active Tourer. Click here for full details. BMW is just months away from revealing its first front-wheel-drive model, which for all intents and purposes is likely to be labeled a 1-Series Gran Turismo. The car will be available in a...
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2013 Subaru BRZ & Isle Of Man Redux: Still Got ItWe drove the 2013 Subaru BRZ on the Isle of Man TT course again, and remembered why it pushes out buttons so well.
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Top Ferrari Tuner Novitec Turns Its Attention To LamborghiniGerman tuner Novitec, an expert at drawing maximum performance out of Ferraris and Maseratis through its respective Novitec Rosso and Novitec Tridente divisions, has now turned its attention towards the Lamborghini marque. The tuning of the Raging Bulls at Novitec will be handled by the...
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New Tech Allows Ford To Build Prototype Parts In Hours Instead Of Months: VideoWhen developing new cars, the typical method is to first build a handful of prototypes and then extensively test them. Unfortunately, the process of building all the parts required to make the prototypes, usually through stamping of sheet metal, can often be just as difficult as that of building...
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2015 Jaguar F-Type Coupe Spy VideoThe coupe version of the stunning new Jaguar F-Type convertible sports car is seen here testing at the Nürburgring and on some of the German race track’s surrounding roads. The car is expected to debut next summer, most likely as a 2015 model. The particular prototype you see here is for...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran