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The 2011 Mustang GT is being equated with the 2011 BMW M3 in terms of outright performance (though certainly not overall refinement) despite starting about $20,000 below the M3. The 2011 GT500 is a better comparison on price, and offers even more intense performance. Now there's a step between: the reborn 2012 Mustang 302 Boss. During the Monterey Motorsports Week, the 2012 Boss Laguna Seca special edition was revealed at its namesake track. Jay Leno, on hand for the festivities, grabbed some time with the car and Ford engineer Tom Barnes to get the details. If you're averse to reading reams...
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Video: Another 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia Goes Up In FlamesWe wish someone were making this up. Maybe then we could explain how so many examples of the still new 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia have been damaged in such a short space of time. If you haven’t been counting, the tally already stands at 10 in the past 9 months--not including one car that was...
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Video: Picking Up The Pieces From BMW's Road America CrashRacing, from grassroots to the highest pro leagues, involves a lot more work than play. It's just that most of the work is never shown to the fans. BMW has turned the tables around, and is showing us what's going into the rebuild process of the wrecked No. 92 M3 GT that hit the wall in the Kink at...
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Gymkhana 3, Part 1: Ken Block's Motorsports Missive Goes MusicalKen Block's Gymkhana series of videos has set the standard for Internet fame as far as motorsports outside the NASCAR/IndyCar set here in the U.S., and the third video in the series is set to drop today. Right now, we have part one, a music video infomercial hyping a video that needs no hype. Check...
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Video: Jay Leno's Garage Gets Personal With Porsche's 918 SpyderThe Porsche 918 Spyder is already changing the way hybrids are perceived, and raising the bar for supercars in general at the same time. Especially considering it's expected to get even more power than the 500 dinosaur-powered horses from its 3.4-liter V-8 and 218 electron-powered horses from its...
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Video: Juan Pablo Montoya Thrashes Corvette ZR1 At MilfordThe setting: GM's Milford Proving Grounds test track. The players: former F1 pilot turned NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya and a Corvette ZR1. The result: lots of fast driving, some opposite lock, and a few backhanded compliments. While Montoya does have a lot of good to say about America's...
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You might think sitting behind the wheel for a few hours is an easy way to earn a living, but you'd be wrong. Endurance racing in particular requires the ability to focus at almost superhuman levels for hours while fighting heat, g forces, the effort of driving the car, and, of course, the rest of the drivers on the track. This video details how Oliver Gavin, Corvette Racing driver, and Ken Flory, chief engineer, train to be able to take the strain on the track and behind the pit wall. It's a look inside the life of a race driver we don't often get in road racing, and well worth the three...
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Video: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, Your Guided Underhood TourIf you happen to have read our First Drive Review, you know we think the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V is way fun from behind the wheel. And if you watched the footage from behind the wheel as we took a 2011 CTS-V Coupe around Monticello Motor Club's track (ignore the driver's grimaces, please), you'll have...
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Video: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe Laps Monticello Motor ClubLast week, we told you how much fun the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe is from behind the wheel in our First Drive Review. Now, we can show you. This video was shot from inside a CTS-V Coupe we took around the very technical track at Monticello Motor Club, a racetrack that's normally only open to...
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Video: 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia Crashes One Day After Leaving FactoryIn the short time that the new 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia has been on sale we’ve already managed to see at least one crashed example and hear about two other causalities, as well as see an additional two examples go up in flames. Now, we have a video showing yet another 458 Italia suffering from the...
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Quail 2010: Bugatti on paradeIt's called a "motorsports gathering," but to the observers sipping crisp local wines and sampling the world of classic cars one continent at a time, The Quail is more than a gathering. For us here at MotorAuthority, it's an epiphany of rarely seen machines driving under their own power, an...
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Video: Tila Tequila Makes An Adult Film, Buys A LamborghiniThere are three things we know for sure: 1. Life sucks. 2. That dude from Jet Blue completely staged his exit (which is not to say it wasn't awesome, though it pales in comparison to Wendy O. Williams' jump from a moving bus). 3. Tila Tequila is the love child of Anna Nicole Smith and Imelda...
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The new 2012 BMW 6-Series Coupe and Convertible aren't due to arrive in showrooms until the end of this year at the earliest--more likely in early 2011--as the current model was only given its mid-cycle facelift a little over two years ago. Prototypes of the new car, however, are already testing in Europe and have been captured by spy photographers on several occasions testing near BMW’s headquarters in Munich or around the Nurburgring circuit. This time, however, we have a video of a trio of 2012 BMW 6-Series prototypes--both the coupe and convertible--being chased down a stretch of German...
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Video: First Trailer For Top Gear USA ReleasedWe were briefly excited last year then quickly had our hopes smashed when word of an American version of the UK's hit car-related show Top Gear was released, then quickly canceled after filming the pilot. It had been slated for NBC, then confirmed for The History Channel and today we have the first...
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2011 MINI Countryman Opens Pandora Box With ConnectedThe 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman is on its way to dealers later this year. When it arrives, it'll be one of the first MINI products to bring the world of Internet radio and Twitter into the car via a new setup dubbed MINI Connected. Earlier this year, at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, MINI laid out the...
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VIDEO: Mercury Lives On--In Hawaii Five-O RemakeHollywood doesn't call them remakes--they euphemize 'em as "reboots" these days. But with this fall's new version of the CBS classic, Hawaii Five-0 is trying to stay as authentic as possible with a raft of new Fords on screen--and at least one old one. CBS may be the only place you'll see a...
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Video: Ken Block + Chores = Chorekhana?The video below shows how Ken Block does his daily to-do list.
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Video: Has Vanilla Ice Become The Poor Man's Evel Knievel?Before we interviewed Vanilla Ice (aka Robert Van Winkle) earlier this year, we'd written the guy off as a one-hit wonder and year-round D-lister. But over the course of our chat, we changed our minds. He seemed really down to earth -- the kind of guy who'd had a moment of notoriety, milked it for...
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Fresh off its debut at the X Games this weekend, the Dirt 3 is ready to blow up your monitor with incredibly realistic snow, dirt, and gravel action. Whether you like it rally style or gymkhana, Dirt 3 has you covered. Featuring Ken Block's Ford Fiesta gymkhana/rally car, the new trailer features some truly cinematic scenes that put Dirt 3 right at the top of the video driving game heap. The trailer even hints that the gymkhana mode will be a playable aspect of the game, expanding its horizons beyond the traditional rally racing. The Dirt franchise of video games is the evolution of the Colin...
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Video: Official Pagani Zonda Nurburgring DocumentaryThis video depicts the factory's take on its mission to conquer the Nurburgring.
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Video: Mark Webber Previews Hungarian Grand Prix At BudapestIs Mark Webber Red Bull's "number two" driver? Are we going to see another battle between Webber and Sebastian Vettel at Hungary? Things are shaping up for it, with the Red Bull cars taking the two fastest spots during today's second practice. Qualifying will tell the true story of pace and place...
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Video: Jay Leno's Garage Puts 911 GT3 Through Its PacesWho doesn't love the 911 GT3? Better yet, who doesn't love to see Jay Leno put a car through its paces? Today, we can bring you a combination of both, courtesy of Jay Leno's Garage. The video follows Leno's format, with the addition of Justin Bell, race driver and son of famed racer Derek Bell...
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Video: Pagani Zonda and Bugatti Veyron Tear Up LondonThe sights in this night video aren't great, but the sound is worth every minute.
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Video: Maria Sharapova Takes The Tesla Roadster For A SpinBack in March, Tesla launched the Odyssey of Pioneers: a 22,000 mile, round-the-world tour of its all-electric Roadster, specially tricked out by Tesla's brand partner, watchmaker TAG Heuer. The fun began in Switzerland, then moved across Europe to India, China, and Japan. Now, the TAG Heuer Tesla...
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