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Lucid electric car, Mercedes-AMG S63 facelift, Cadillac Daytona Prototype: Car News Headlines Viknesh VijayenthiranElectric car startup Lucid has revealed a prototype for its first model, a high-performance luxury sedan to take on the Tesla [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S. Along with the prototype reveal, Lucid confirmed the...
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2018 Mercedes-AMG S63 spy shotsMercedes-Benz is in the process of updating its S-Class range, including those models from the AMG performance skunk works. Our latest spy shots show a prototype for the updated version of AMG’s S63 super sedan, which in current form has been on sale since the 2014 model year. The visual...
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BMW’s latest Art Car is the John Baldessari M6 GT3It was in 1975 that French racer and art lover Hervé Poulain in collaboration with BMW’s motorsport boss at the time, Jochen Neerpasch, asked artist Alexander Calder to design the livery for a race car. The result was a colorful BMW 3.0 CSL, which in 1975 raced at the 24 Hours of Le...
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German Grand Prix dropped from 2017 Formula One calendarDespite the popularity of Formula One in Germany, plus the fact that a German driver and team just claimed the 2016 title, the German Grand Prix will be absent from the calendar in 2017. The race was to be held at the Hockenheimring but the promoter pulled out due to financial reasons. It’s...
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Lucid reveals electric car prototype, announces Arizona productionJust as Faraday Future struggles to get its plant off the ground, another Chinese-backed electric car startup based in the United States has chosen a location for its own plant. The company is Lucid, formerly known as Atieva, and on Tuesday it announced plans to build a $700 million plant in Casa...
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Subaru-powered Porsche 356 visits Jay Leno’s GarageBefore you pull your hair out over the thought of someone ruining a Porsche 356 by swapping in a Subaru engine, note that this is a replica we’re talking about. The car belongs to Tom Murtaugh, and it’s a replica of a 1957 356 Speedster. He’s an enthusiast who’s always...
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Recent trademark filings reveal that BMW has protected the names of a range of potential M cars wearing the CS designation. The names range from “M1 CS” through to “M8 CS.”
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Bentley Bentayga video review, BMW 2-Series facelift, Mazzanti Evantra 771: Today’s Car NewsIf money is no object, then Bentley’s Bentayga is definitely the way to go when in the market for a new SUV. It can be tailored in almost every way, including having a clock that costs fix figures installed in the dash. BMW is working on a mid-cycle update for the 2-Series. A prototype has...
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Fiat heir Lapo Elkann arrested after alleged fake kidnappingLapo Elkann, Fiat heir and brother to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] Chairman John Elkann, is often in the spotlight, though not always for positive reasons. The latest instance is due to the arrest of the 39-year-old in New York City on Saturday over what’s alleged to be a fake...
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Mazzanti Evantra gets 771 performance pack in time for 2016 Bologna auto showThe Mazzanti Evantra is a mid-engine supercar from Italy, which in Millecavalli form has the honor of being the most powerful production car to come out of the country that illustrious brands Ferrari [NYSE:RACE], Lamborghini and Pagani also call home. With 1,000 horsepower on tap, the Evantra...
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Audi Quattro division renamed Audi SportAudi Quattro is a subsidiary of Audi formed in 1983 originally tasked with designing and developing high-performance cars for the automaker. Since then it’s been expanded to handle other projects including customer racing and personalization work via Audi Exclusive. Confusingly, Audi uses the...
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2018 BMW 2-Series spy shotsThe 2-Series coupe is one of our favorite cars in the BMW lineup. In fact, the high-performance M2 variant was just voted Motor Authority’s Best Car to Buy 2017. It’s mostly because the car reminds us of BMWs of old, where rear-wheel drive, inline-6s and manual transmissions ruled. Yes...
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Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] on Tuesday unveiled a redesigned Fiesta.
The car is expected in the United States in late 2017, as a 2018 model, and represents the seventh generation of Ford’s...
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Watch the Rezvani Beast Alpha’s 'sidewinder' doors in actionCalifornian sports car startup Rezvani in November unveiled a new model called the Beast Alpha whose hallmark feature is a new type of door design called “sidewinder” doors. The name is derived from the fact the doors remain parallel to the body as they are moved outwards. Each of the...
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Watch Pagani's new factory come to lifeIt was all the way back in 2008 that Pagani approved plans for the construction of a new plant near its original facility in San Cesario sul Panaro, Italy. The construction is now complete and this video takes you through the whole process, revealing in detail the showroom located at the front and...
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Faraday Future electric car likely delayedThere are serious doubts concerning Faraday Future’s plan to bring a volume electric car to production in the coming years after the company’s Chinese backer LeEco in November admitted to a cash crunch and work on its plant in Nevada in October came to a stop allegedly for unpaid bills...
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UK’s Anthony Reid to race Polish firm Arrinera’s Hussarya GTThe long road to getting Polish supercar startup Arrinera’s Hussarya into production is approaching its end. The company first burst onto the scene in 2011 when it unveiled an initial concept for what would ultimately become the Hussarya. After an intensive development program that included...
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4 automakers join forces for 350-kilowatt fast-charging networkAs they gear up to launch a new generation of volume electric cars, the major automakers are following Tesla’s [NSDQ:TSLA] lead of rolling out charging infrastructure to help eliminate range anxiety for owners. But instead of going it alone with individual standards, as Tesla has done with...
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BMW has already unveiled its new 5-Series sedan but work on the Sports Wagon (a Touring in other markets) is still underway.
The reveal isn’t far as the latest prototypes are wearing barely...
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Toyota mulls Gazoo name for go-fast divisionA senior Toyota executive has revealed to Autocar that the company is considering using the name of its motorsport division, Gazoo Racing, on high-performance road cars. Koei Saga, who heads both Gazoo and Toyota’s powertrain division, told the British publication that it is his intention to...
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2018 Kia GT (Stinger) leakedKia’s rear-wheel-drive sports sedan based on the GT concept car that we first saw at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show has been outed. We've already spied prototypes but now a leaked shot courtesy of the Kia-World blog reveals what’s likely to be a pre-production model. While there are clear...
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Power Wheels Ford Mustang has traction and stability controlJust in time for the holiday season, Fisher-Price has a new Power Wheels Mustang based on the sixth-generation version of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] icon. There’s no hulking V-8 under the hood as the car is battery-powered. But that’s where the similarities with Power Wheels of old...
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2017 BMW 5-Series gets M Performance goodiesA redesigned BMW 5-Series is being introduced for the 2017 model year. It goes on sale next spring, initially in 530i and 540i guises. Sportier variants including an M550i M Performance model and an M5 sledgehammer are in the pipeline, but buyers that can’t wait can still inject their cars...
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Volkswagen Arteon is name of CC successorVolkswagen’s CC is about to spawn a successor and along with the new design will be a new name: Arteon. Arteon is a combination of “art” and “eon” and follows the naming practice introduced with the Phideon sedan on sale in China. The Arteon plugs the gap between the...
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