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Nissan’s latest vehicle destined to join the pantheon of 148 different Nissans that have appeared in the Gran Turismo video game series over the years is the Concept 2020 Vision. Originally designed for the virtual world, the striking concept has now leapt into the real world as a star attraction at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed currently taking place in the U.K. Nissan was so pleased with the initial sketch work for the Concept 2020 Vision that it asked its advanced engineering team to help mold the final shape as well as create a life-sized model. The model is the only physical...
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Honda Hopes To Shed Dreary Image With New Civic Type R: VideoThere are plenty of cars that we can enjoy here in the United States. Of course, there is a long list of vehicles that remain forbidden fruit for those who love automobiles. Be it insanely high-powered German wagons or low-volume, barely legal road-going race cars, there are vehicles that other...
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Land Rover Releases Second Teaser Video For Its ‘Fastest And Most Agile’ Range Rover SportLand Rover has announced that it is bringing the fastest, most agile and most responsive SUV it’s ever built to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed this week. And to build up excitement the British automaker has released some videos offering a taste of the vehicle’s menacing exhaust...
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Official details on the one-off Ferrari F12 TRSFerrari [NYSE:RACE] has chosen to limit the number of cars it builds each year to just 7,000 units but to increase revenues the company is offering more personalization options, ranging from unique trim elements in the cabin right up to unique, coachbuilt cars. The latter option is offered through...
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World's Longest Car Jump Attempt Ends In Fierce Crash: New VideoFrench daredevil driver, skier, and rally racer Guerlain Chicherit's Guinness World Record jump attempt was promoted all around the world earlier this year. Chicherit was aiming to surpass Tanner Foust's 332-foot record with a 360-foot jump in a modified MINI Countryman rally car. The jump, which...
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A Glimpse Inside Bloodhound SSC's Cockpit: VideoIt's rather pleasing to note that the cockpit of Boodhound SSC—the Land Speed Record attempt vehicle aiming to hit 1,000 mph—is exactly as high-tech and spaceship-like as you'd expect, given its mission. All too often the innards of boundary-defining machines are disappointingly drab...
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It’s a very, very rare thing to be let out on the Circuit de la Sarthe during the 24 Hours of Le Mans race week unless you’re a racing driver—but then, that’s rare enough, too. Motor Authority was fortunate enough to have that opportunity, in an Audi A8 L TDI. What’s that? An A8 L TDI is hardly an ideal vehicle for a track drive, especially one as daunting and difficult as the home of the greatest endurance race in the world? Yes, that’s true--we'd have much preferred to be out there in the new R8 LMX. But when you get the opportunity, you take it. As the...
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Toyota Takes Pole For 2014 24 Hours Of Le Mans: VideoQualifying for the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans is now over, with the first row composed of a Toyota TS040 Hybrid and a Porsche 919 Hybrid from the LMP1 category. Toyota driver Kazuki Nakajima set a new Le Mans qualifying lap record to put the #7 Toyota TS040 Hybrid in pole position for the race, with...
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BMW i8 Hits The Dyno After Rolling Off The Assembly Line: VideosThe BMW i8 is being hailed as a new kind of car. Whether you’re into the green-meets-mean theme or not, however, it’s undeniably an interesting and impressive convergence of technology and design. But how is it made? MUST SEE: Volkswagen Anti-Texting Ad Is Brilliantly Simple, Incredibly...
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Meet the first Porsche 911 TurboIt was at the 1973 Frankfurt auto show that Porsche first showed a concept of a turbocharged 911 that would go on to spawn the original 911 Turbo presented at the 1974 Paris auto show and put into production the following year. However, what many may not know is that 1975 wasn’t the first...
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McLaren F1 Owners Spend Two Loud & Lovely Days Together: VideoWhen you own a McLaren F1, you enter a small club. Just 106 examples were produced, and all became immediate prized possessions the moment they left the Woking assembly line. If you own and drive a McLaren F1, it's highly unlikely that you'll come across another example while out tooling around...
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More Transformers 4 Cars Revealed In New Television Spots: VideoThe fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise, Transformers: Age of Extinction, is now just a few weeks out from its June 27 theatrical debut, and in the lead up four new television spots have been released. Each of them are about 40 seconds in length and blend previously seen footage...
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So you want to get to better know the inner workings of a V-8 engine, and, perhaps, how a sequential gearbox works? Well, you could always build your own. Out of Legos. MUST SEE: Angry Supercar Hater Throws Rocks At Lamborghini Aventador: Video That’s exactly what Huib van der Hart has done, and both creations are amazing—all the more so when joined together. In the video above, the pneumatic Lego V-8 runs at high rpm, revving through its range with ease and precision. In the video below, the engine runs at constant speed, illustrating the various gears of van der Hart’s...
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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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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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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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Volvo Kicks Off Marketing Campaign For New XC90 With World’s Lamest TeaserVolvo’s XC90 SUV is arguably the Swedish automaker’s most important model yet the current one has been with us since its debut at the Detroit Auto Show all the way back in 2002. The good news is that an all-new model is just around the corner and is expected to bring with it a stylish...
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2015 Dodge Challenger SRT mega gallery and videoThe 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT has finally landed, and with it has come the much-hyped Hellcat model, the first supercharged vehicle from Dodge, and its most powerful eight-cylinder. We still don’t have all the specs on the 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat, but we do know it will come with a...
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So you've developed a flashy new plug-in hybrid sports car, and now you need to advertise it. Self-deprecating is a no-no, as people may not take the new technology seriously. Artful weirdness has its place, but that's not appropriate either. And while the car is fast, footage of it screaming along the road doesn't really send out the right message. DON'T MISS: For Sale: Batmobile Tumbler Cart Time to bring out the smooth direction of the Hollywood pros—something BMW has done with its series of commercials for the 2015 i8 plug-in hybrid. Behind each of the spots, called Attitude, Power...
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Open-Wheeled Race Car Blasts Down Dutch Highway: VideoIs driving an open-wheeled race car on public roads a good idea? No. It’s an awesome idea. DON'T MISS: Mercedes-Benz 300SL Wrecked After Mille Miglia Crash: Video Oh, sure, it’s totally unsafe. But it’s still awesome. Watch as Jos Verstappen blasts down a highway in the...
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Genty Updates Design And Specs For Akylone Supercar: VideoBack in 2011 we brought you the first details on a French startup by the name of Genty, which was working on a new supercar called the Akylone that would have the performance to match the latest crop of hypercars like the McLaren P1 and Ferrari LaFerrari. Not much has been heard from Genty since...
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Big Block Smart Car Pulls Wheelies, Sounds Like The ApocalypseThe Smart ForTwo is the butt of many jokes, often for good reason. Recently, it's even become the target of some malicious practical jokers in San Francisco. This is one Smart car that's not taking any guff, however. ALSO SEE: Audi 200 Turbo Tears Up A Snow-Covered Mountain: Video Okay, so it's a...
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2015 Hyundai Genesis Safety Systems Tested With A Trusting Rhys MillenDriving a car you can't see out of is not recommended. But put stunt driver Rhys Millen behind the wheel and give him the latest safety systems, and it's certainly feasible. ALSO SEE: 2015 BMW i8 Production Mega Gallery That's what Hyundai has done to demonstrate the latest high-tech safety...
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Watch The IIHS Crash Test The 2015 Subaru WRX: VideoSubaru’s all-new 2015 WRX and its more extreme STI variant are fun behind the wheel, but they’re incredibly safe as well. The cars have just been rated Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) after the institute’s latest round of crash testing, meaning...
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