Nelson Ireson, Senior Editor
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How is the 2014 Jaguar F-Type behind the wheel? We'd love to tell you--but we can't, just yet. We will soon.
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2015 Audi A8, Veyron Reclaims Speed Title, Future Of Performance: Today's Car NewsThe 2015 Audi A8 has been spied in testing, revealing almost exactly what you'd expect--very minimal updates to the current A8's sleek and subtle form. The best updates may not be visual, however, but electronic. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has reclaimed its title as fastest production car in...
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New Car Show Debuts Tomorrow: Fast Lane On The Travel ChannelGenuinely interesting car shows that don't cater to the lowest common denominator are hard to come by. Sure, we love ridiculous horsepower supercar powerslides and clapped-out junker antics as much as the next guy (or gal) but we also love cars for the places they can take you. A new show on The...
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Audi To Offer $15 Per Month T-Mobile In-Car Data PlanAs cars get ever more connected, sharing your already-strangled data account with the family--or just adding a new drain on it for yourself--can be troublesome. Having a separate data plan just for the car can be expensive. Audi is aiming to change that. With a new $15 per month plan via T-Mobile...
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Jaguar Considering Expanding XKR-S GT Production: ReportUnveiled just a couple of weeks ago at the 2013 New York Auto Show, the Jaguar XKR-S GT is the brand's ultimate interpretation of track-tuned, street-legal XK awesomeness. And it looks like it may be more in demand than Jaguar expected. Originally, the company had planned to build just 30 examples...
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Porsche Teases Return To Le Mans With Trip Down Memory Lane: VideoPorsche will return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP1 prototype category next year, the first time it rejoins the top tier of the race since its 1998 win with the 911 GT1-98. Of course, Porsche 911s have been found in the GT division in the interim, but the return to the LMP1 category means the...
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Tying the present to the past is sometimes easy, sometimes not. With cars there's often a direct lineage to follow. In the case of the 2014 Jaguar F-Type, tracing its roots is a bit more indirect.
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Bugatti Speed Title Stripped, Acura Concept Teased, 65 Years Of Jaguar: Today's Car NewsThe ongoing fight for the fastest production car in the world has taken a twist: the Veyron Super Sport has been stripped of its Guinness record. Why? Because the production car's top speed is limited to 258--to hit the 267.8 mph mark, it had to be modified, disqualifying it from the production car...
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How Would You Configure The 2014 Range Rover Sport?After seeing the pre-show unveiling of the 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport (with a brief appearance by Daniel Craig), and then getting a bit more intimate with it, we're pretty keen on the new Sport. It's lighter, more modern-looking, and still exceptionally well-finished, inside and out. The new...
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Aston Martin Rapide S Technical Overview: VideoTake a closer look at what makes the Rapide S tick.
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Fisker Automotive: The Final Flameout?This morning, Fisker laid off all of its communications staff and most of the rest of its labor force. Far from the beginning of the end, the news today comes as the final flameout for a company that has been reduced to smoldering wreckage for some time now. That's meant both figuratively and...
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65 Years Of Jaguar's Sports Cars: 30 Days Of F-TypeJaguar's sports car heritage is deep, but there have been intermissions. From the very founding of the company, sporty cars were a priority, despite the a desire by William Lyons to parley the brand's sporting success into a broader line of vehicles for greater market reach and profit. Along the...
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The BMW Concept X4 was finally revealed last night, and while we will need some time to get used to the idea, the success of the X6 has us thinking we will, eventually, get used to it.
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BMW Concept X4: Dividing By ZeroAs BMW's model proliferation continues, with a renaming scheme impending, we have to wonder: where will it end? Not here, apparently. The latest addition to the BMW fold is a concept, but it appears to be a concept in name only. The BMW Concept X4 brings to the X3 size class an X6-like Sports...
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Nissan GT-R Proves Its Snow Capabilities...Against An Infiniti FX And A 370Z?In the world of supercars, there are battles and then there are "battles." This is one of the latter. In this rather dry and yet superficial look at the Nissan GT-R's snow-driving capabilities, Nissan sets up one heck of a straw man--or snow man, as it were. Testing slalom, acceleration, and...
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2014 Jaguar F-Type Mega Gallery: 30 Days Of F-TypeDay two of our 30 Days of the 2014 Jaguar F-Type starts where everyone should: ogling the little roadster. The second image in the gallery above was submitted especially for Motor Authority by Jaguar Land Rover North America's vice president of communications, Stuart Schorr. The F-Type almost...
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2014 Aston Martin Vanquish Drives Goodwood Hill In The Hands Of Lord March: VideoThere are few people with a driveway as cool as that of Lord March, or, as he's officially styled, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara--otherwise known as the owner of Goodwood estate. Every year he gathers some of the best cars from racing history for show and go activities at...
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BMW X4 Leaked, Detroit Electric SP:01, 30 Days Of F-Type: Car News HeadlinesBMW's latest remainder from its ongoing long division of models has leaked to the web: the X4 Concept. Calling it a Sport Activity Coupe like the X6, the new X4 looks to be a concept in name only--we expect to see a production version by the end of the year. Detroit Electric's SP:01 roadster has...
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Get ready for a month of in-depth, media-rich coverage of one of the hottest new sports cars to hit the streets this year: the 2014 Jaguar F-Type.
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible Video: New York Auto ShowWe've seen the 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray Convertible before, but this time, it's in America and it's a beautiful blue-on-brown. The interior of the car on display at the 2013 New York Auto Show was the real standout feature, despite the beautiful dark blue metallic paint. With deep browns over...
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Hennessey Venom GT Hits 265.7 MPH, Claims World's Fastest Title: VideoThe battle for the title of "world's fastest production car" is as fierce as it is bizarre. Populated by extremely rare, hyper-expensive, hand-built cars, the group of contenders is as unrealistic as the speeds they reach. But there's a new king of this particular hill, as evidenced by video of the...
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2014 Porsche Panamera, Jaguar XS Spied, Tesla Fibs About Model S: Today's Car NewsThe 2014 Porsche Panamera has hit the web, and it's not just the crazy-fast luxury sedan you knew before. Now it's also a plug-in hybrid capable of 75 mpg, 22 miles of all-electric range, and more. A development mule for the 2016 Jaguar XS has been spied in testing, giving us our first look at what...
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Tesla Model S For $500 Per Month? No. Just No.Contrary to Tesla's ambitious claims, you can't really buy a Model S for $500 per month.
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Subaru WRX Concept Video Preview: New York Auto ShowThe next-gen Subaru WRX will be leaving its past close twinning to the Impreza model in the dust for its next generation, but it will still share some of its underpinnings with the more pedestrian Subie. Best of all, while this WRX Concept isn't quite the real deal, it does reflect the core teem of...
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