Nelson Ireson, Senior Editor
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Top Gear's Stig may or may not be the most incredible, alien-talented driver on the planet, depending on the fanboy status of who you're talking to, but the 2012 BMW M5 is a known quantity.
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2014 Quattroporte Spied, New Lambo Coming, Tesla Model X: Today's Car NewsNew and future cars reign today: Lamborghini is working on its third model, and will reveal which will get the nod in about three weeks. The 2014 Maserati Quattroporte has been spied by our photogs, in test-mule form. And the Tesla Model X is set for a debut later this year before entering...
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UAW-Ford Contract Reveals 2013 Shelby GT500 To Get 5.8-Liter Supercharged V-8The UAW and Ford reached a contract agreement today that secures 12,000 new jobs in the U.S. by 2015, brings back into the U.S. previously outsourced work, and guarantees $16 billion in investments and upgrades to U.S.-based manufacturing. It also contains a small nugget about the upcoming 2013...
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2012 Volkswagen Golf R Official Price, Specs ReleasedAs we reported late last year, the 2012 Volkswagen Golf R will be headed to the U.S., and it should arrive sometime early in 2012. Today, VW released the official U.S. pricing and specs for the car. Power, previously expected to reach as high as 266 horsepower, has settled for production in...
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Bugatti Galibier (Royale) Delayed Until 2015: ReportConceived as a Veyron-like sedan, later updated to include the trendy plug-in hybrid idea, then shelved for not being outrageous enough, the Bugatti Galibier, or Royale as it's expected to be called when it reaches production, has already lived a hard life--and it won't even be born until 2015...
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Mercedes-Benz Seals Deal To Name Louisiana SuperdomeThe New Orleans Saints will be playing in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for the next 10 years, the carmaker announced today. The brand is already the "official and exclusive" vehicle for the Saints. In addition to the NFL tie-in, the stadium naming deal means the Mercedes-Benz name will be headlining...
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Inspired by a video game and a youth spent bodging bodywork and tuning turbos, Nvidia artist Adam Pintek has decided to turn his abilities toward construction of a Ford GT90 Concept clone from...
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Clarkson Delivers Eulogy Of Fun Driving With Forza Trailer: VideoJeremy Clarkson is many things: tall, obstinate, outrageous, British, and even, occasionally, right. But if the message in the latest Forza Motorsport 4 trailer he voices is true, he is also the harbinger of the death of driving for fun. The video, showing an Aston Martin DB9 being used in a futile...
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2012 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Gets Dirty, Flaunts Features: VideoThe very idea of the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor would have been nearly inconceivable not that long ago, but over the past two years it has proven a showroom stock truck can do things that were previously the sole province of purpose-built race trucks. This video gives a quick look at the new features...
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Bentley Planning Hotter, Faster Continental GT2: ReportThe 2012 Bentley Continental GTC has just had its first round of press drives, but already word of yet another Continental variant is making the rounds. This time, it's a lighter, more powerful GT2 variant. Weighing in at 440 pounds lighter than the standard Continental GT, according to...
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AMG Performance Media Tracks Your Track Days: VideoThe SLS AMG is one of the models available with the AMG Performance Media data acquisition system.
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Tesla Model S Goes Faster, Ring Taxi Crashes, 2012 Bentley GTC: Today's Car NewsOur sister site GreenCarReports has unearthed some new information from the Tesla Model S Beta drive event, and it turns out we'll have an even quicker version of the sedan to work with. Top Gear USA overcomes the haters and gets an extended second season, and an eight-way crash on the Nurburgring...
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Drag racing is a hard thing to do on a budget; it's a sport measured in cubic dollars. But many people manage to bend that immutable rule by doing a lot of work themselves. Sometimes that goes wrong.
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Fisker Says 'Majority' Of 3,000 Karma Reservations To Be Filled This YearIf you've been on the list to own a 2012 Fisker Karma, you've probably been waiting a while--it's been on the show circuit for about three years now. The first deliveries to customers just started a few months ago, but Fisker says it will have the majority of its 3,000 reservation holders driving...
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Porsche Pajun Sedan Speculation DeepensTalk about a "Panamera Junior," or Pajun for short, has been whipping about the web all year long. The latest moves the talk into more detailed territory, but remains tentative at best. Dug up by CAR Online as part of its ongoing "scoops" on Porsche's next round of vehicles, the details say the...
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2012 Lexus LS 460, ES 350, CT 200h Get Special-Edition TreatmentWhile most of Lexus' range is a carry-over of a carry-over, to boost its appeal Lexus today announced three new special-edition models, available for the 2012 LS 460, ES 350, and CT 200h. For the LS 460 Sport Special Edition, it's an added dose of sport that's on order: upgrades include Brembo...
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2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 5, Alfa Flagship, Mercedes Perfume: Today's Car NewsBMW has gone hybrid once again, and this one looks like a lot of fun: 335 horsepower, 335 pound-feet of torque, plus some all-electric range, all wrapped in the 5-Series package. Mercedes-Benz, on the other hand, thinks you need to smell better, and U.K. traffic officials want to scan your tires...
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2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 5 PreviewThe ActiveHybrid 5 joins the BMW lineup as the third hybrid for the brand. Packing plenty of power and advanced technology, it should prove an interesting choice from green-minded luxury buyers.
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The crew at Hyundai have put their heads together with ARK Performance for the upcoming 2011 Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) show, and this is what resulted: a rally-bred... -
Ferrari 599 GTB Vs. Ferrari F40: VideoFerrari's idea of what makes a supercar has changed dramatically over the years, with the two cars in this video at the polar extremes: the raw, race-ready F40 and the refined, grand-touring 599 GTB. Despite Ferrari calling this a "fictional" race, it looks to have very much occurred in real...
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Indy 500 Winner Al Unser Jr. Arrested For Street Racing While DrunkRacing drivers, for all their other talents and skills, are often a rather dramatic bunch. Sometimes, that drama extends throughout their personal lives, as has been the case with Al Unser Jr. The latest of his escapades involves street racing his Suburban while allegedly intoxicated. Unser Jr. has...
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Spyker Sold, Nissan Reads Minds, Bentley To Le Mans: Car News HeadlinesToday's mix of news is a bit of a mish-mash, with Nissan the unlikely purveyor of nascent mind-reading technology for future cars, Bentley eyeballing a return to Le Mans LMP1 competition next year, and Spyker selling to a firm that isn't CPP. Oh, and the president of Equitorial Guinea had his...
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Saab Sister Brand Spyker Sold To U.S. Private Equity Firm, CPP Still InterestedIt wasn't so long ago that talk of Spyker buying, and thereby saving, Saab was the hot news. Since then, the Dutch supercar company has reorganized things, keeping Saab and Spyker separate, while setting the whole thing up under the umbrella of Swedish Automobile. Things haven't gone all that well...
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Maine Now Only Eastern State With 75 MPH Speed LimitIf you're a fan of driving fast (legally) on the interstate, you're generally going to prefer states west of the Mississippi--except, now, for one small part of Maine. Why? Because a section of Interstate 95 in the northeastern corner of the state today bumped up the limit from 65 mph to 75 mph...
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