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Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Ford Performance unveiled a special Mustang earlier this year. It's called the Eagle Squadron Mustang, and it went under the hammer during July's The Gathering (formerly the Gathering of Eagles), a charity evening in Oshkosh, Wisconsin supporting the Experimental Aircraft Association. One fan, Brayton Williams, placed the winning bid of $420,000 to claim the car as his own. Ford made the announcement on Saturday at the 2018 Woodward Dream Cruise, where the automaker handed the keys over to Williams so he could take the car down the famous Woodward strip. This year marked...
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The story of the last 2 factory-built Bugatti race carsEveryone loves supercars, but some supercars receive more attention than others. One super machine that often slips through the cracks of memory and time is the Bugatti EB110. Just 139 were produced over a span of five years. Of that run, just two were turned into factory-built racing machines. One...
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Porsche 718 Cayman rally car concept makes debutPorsche's rally cars of the 1980s are the stuff of legends. We're talking cars like the 911 SC RS and 959 Group B heroes. While Porsche has focused more on the race track than the dirt track in recent years, you'll still find modern Porsches at rally races around the globe. These are typically...
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Classic Recreations will show its Shelby Mustangs in Monterey for first timeClassic Recreations has been churning out continuation versions of some of America's most cherished muscle cars for some time now. What the company hasn't done yet, however, is show its wares in front of the crowds that attend Monterey Car Week. That changes this year as Classic Recreations will be...
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2019 Opel Astra spy shots and videoOpel engineers are out testing a prototype for a facelifted version of the Astra compact hatchback. The facelifted Astra is expected on sale in markets where Opel operates sometime next year. The tweaks constitute a mid-cycle update for the current Astra which made its debut at the 2015 Frankfurt...
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2019 Hyundai i30 Fastback N spy shots and videoHyundai's newest Elantra GT has a sporty liftback variant sold overseas, and it's about to get the N performance treatment. The standard version of the car is called the i30 Fastback. The latest spy shots and video show a prototype for what's shaping up to be a new i30 Fastback N, a car that will...
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Land Rover Range Rover fans can now ease their guilt of driving big SUVs around town thanks to the addition of a plug-in hybrid option, badged P400e, for both the Range Rover and smaller Range Rover Sport for the 2019 model year. The 2019 Range Rover Sport P400e starts at $79,295, and the 2019 Range Rover P400e at $96,145. That places them close to the entry point for each model line; the 2019 Range Rover Sport starts at $67,745, and the 2019 Range Rover at $89,855. All prices mentioned include destination. The powertrain is common to both and consists of a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 and...
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Monterey Car Week will see Brabham BT62 make US debutOne of the most successful race teams in the history of Formula 1 is leaping into the world of supercars. The new Brabham Automotive is a spinoff of the Brabham race team which boasts no less than four Drivers' and two Constructors' championships, and its first product is the BT62, a track-only...
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2020 Hyundai Sonata spy shots and videoHyundai is close to finalizing a redesigned Sonata with styling inspired by the handsome Le Fil Rouge concept car (shown below) unveiled in March at the Geneva auto show. A prototype for the new mid-size sedan has been spotted at the Nürburgring and looks to be wearing its final skin. A few...
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Hennessey's 10,000th car is an 808-horsepower Ford MustangThe folks at Hennessey Performance Engineering based in Sealy, Texas have been building fast cars since 1991. They've now unveiled their 10,000th build: the 2019 Hennessey Heritage Edition Ford Mustang. It features Hennessey's HPE800 upgrade designed for the current Mustang GT, but this special...
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2019 Volkswagen T-Cross spy shots and videoAlmost a year on from the reveal of the compact T-Roc, another member of Volkswagen’s expanded SUV family has been spotted. The latest prototype is for a new subcompact SUV that VW previewed at the 2016 Geneva auto show with the T-Cross Breeze concept (shown below). The production model keeps...
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Toyota's Project Portal fuel cell semi progresses to beta stageToyota isn't giving up on its support of fuel cells and is instead working on applying the technology in both passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The automaker already has a fuel cell car on sale in the form of the Mirai and has hinted at more offerings, including from its upmarket brand Lexus...
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Mercedes-Benz engineers are approaching the final stages of testing prototypes for a redesigned B-Class minivan. The car represents just one of eight body styles Mercedes plans for its new-generation compact car family, the first two members of which are the redesigned A-Class hatchback and new A-Class sedan. Others will include replacements for the CLA, CLA Shooting Brake and GLA, as well as some more new additions such as a GLB SUV and EQA electric car. The first to reach the United States will be the A-Class sedan, which goes on sale here late this year as a 2019 model and with an expected...
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Lamborghini Aventador SVJ details surfaceLamborghini's new Aventador SVJ doesn't make its debut until next month's 2018 Monterey Car Week but details on the car are already starting to surface. On Thursday we learned that the car has set the new production car lap record at the Nürburgring, with Lamborghini tester Marco Mapelli...
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Lamborghini Aventador SVJ sets 6:44.97 Nürburgring production car lap recordLamborghini's upcoming Aventador SVJ has lapped the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in a time of 6:44.97, the automaker confirmed Thursday. That's a new record for production cars, and it's over 2.0 seconds quicker than the previous record of 6:47.3 set by a Porsche 911 GT2 RS last September. Doing...
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Lamborghini: Aventador SVJ will have the best power to weight ratio and handlingLamborghini is keen to build a world-beater with the Aventador SVJ, and the automaker is already out with some bold claims despite the car having yet to debut. In two separate teaser videos, the Italian supercar marque proclaimed the Aventador SVJ will boast the best power-to-weight ratio as well...
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Waymo's self-driving cars are driving 25,000 miles a dayEach and every day, Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo self-driving car subsidiary sees its fleet of autonomous vehicles drive a combined distance of 25,000 miles—and the mileage is even higher when counting simulated miles. The company shared its latest achievement on Friday, when it also revealed that...
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Martini-liveried Porsche 911 GT2 RS pays homage to the "Moby Dick" 935/78The Porsche 935 is a motorsports legend, and the 935/78 is a special car among special cars. Known as "Moby Dick" for its white color and long tail, the 1978 version of the 935 was an instant stunner even though it never finished where Porsche expected. The legacy of the original lives on today...
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Getting behind the wheel of the Lamborghini Huracán Performante Spyder is like knowing the secret handshake for an exclusive club. You have to be able to afford the price of entry, know the strange rituals to simply operate the car, and understand the dark art of the ALA active aerodynamics system. Lamborghini has invited me into that club for a day and a half. The venue is the Solage Resort in Napa Valley, where I am given the keys to a $300,000 Lamborghini. To start the Huracán Performante Spyder, I must first put a foot on the brake pedal, flip up the red latch on the center...
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2019 Renault Mégane RS Trophy revealed with 296 horsepowerRenault's RS version of its Golf-rivaling Mégane hatchback is already one of the fastest front-wheel-drive cars in production, but a more hardcore version with extra power and fewer pounds has been revealed. The car is the Mégane RS Trophy, and it comes with a 1.8-liter turbocharged...
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Porsche hints at upgrades for 2019 Porsche MacanPorsche is putting the final touches on a mid-cycle update for its Macan and a new video out hints at some of the upgrades we can expect. The updated Macan is due later this year as a 2019 model, and according to information in Porsche's teaser video below we'll be treated with improved...
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Enjoy this 360-degree video of Roborace's autonomous run up Goodwood hill climbThe Goodwood Festival of Speed is well known for courting some of the world's finest automobiles and high-performance machines. This year, something very different was in attendance. Roborace on Thursday tackled Goodwood's famous hill climb with its self-driving electric race car, known as the...
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Q by Aston Martin drops V-8 into Cygnet city carEarlier this decade, Aston Martin rebadged a Scion iQ and sold the car complete with a wheezy 1.3-liter engine as the Cygnet. It was a cost-effective way for Aston Martin to get its average emissions down but, for obvious reasons, the car was a dud and thankfully killed off a couple of years after...
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Travis Pastrana broke Evil Knievel's records by landing three incredible jumpsTravis Patrana paid homage to Evel Knievel in the best way possible on Sunday night. The 34-year-old motocross icon, race car driver, and all-around daredevil performed three jumps in Las Vegas. Each one was modeled after a jump Knievel completed or attempted, and Pastrana went just a bit bigger on...
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