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Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] Focus RS has landed and no doubt many owners will be keen to install some mods.
Famous Ford tuner Mountune has already announced some factory-backed upgrades...
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Chevy Corvette ZR1 spy shots, Mercedes-AMG GLC43 Coupe, SCG003 kit car: Car News HeadlinesMotor Authority reader Martin Desormeaux has sent in some spy shots of a new Chevrolet Corvette model thought to be a ZR1. Chevy is thought to be reviving the nameplate at the 2017 Detroit auto show, and the car it will be attached to may end up as the last Corvette with an engine mounted in front...
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Ford rolls out F-150 Dallas Cowboys editionFord Motor Company [NYSE:F] has been the official vehicle provider for the Dallas Cowboys for over two decades. To highlight this partnership, Ford will build a limited number of Dallas Cowboy edition F-150 pickup trucks for the 2017 model year. ALSO SEE: We now know what the Hellcat-powered Jeep...
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Street-legal SCG003 to be sold as kit car, come with 800-hp V-8It was at the 2015 Geneva auto show that American car aficionado James Glickenhaus unveiled the SCG003, his own, built-from-scratch car designed for motorsport but capable of taking to public roads with very little modification. The SCG003, which is designed in line with GT3 regulations, has...
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Porsche Macan Turbo gets power-boosting Performance PackagePorsche’s Macan is currently the performance leader in the compact SUV segment. Whether you’re driving the base 4-cylinder model or the range-topping twin-turbocharged V-6 Turbo, we bet there’ll be a huge grin on your face. However, with fellow German firms BMW and Mercedes-Benz...
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Ferrari decides to build 1 more LaFerrari, for a good causeFerrari [NYSE:RACE] on Wednesday announced plans to build a 500th example of its LaFerrari flagship to help raise funds for those affected by the devastating earthquake that struck central Italy on August 24. The 500th LaFerrari represents one more than the originally planned run of 499 cars. It...
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Jeep is currently conducting public road trials of prototypes for its new compact crossover SUV that will replace both the Compass and Patriot.
The new SUV will be positioned between the subcompact...
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These cars made big bucks in MontereyMonterey Car Week is a hotbed for classic cars, many of which are there to go under the hammer. The bidding at this year’s event, which took place in mid-August, was a little more subdued than in recent years, perhaps finally signaling a cooling of the collector car market. Total sales came...
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Nikola One electric truck to come with hydrogen fuel cell range-extenderAmerican electric truck startup Nikola made headlines in June when it announced it had received as many as 7,000 pre-orders for an extended-range electric semi truck claimed to have 2,000 horsepower on tap and a 1,200-mile range. Nikola originally said the truck’s range-extender would be a...
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Pininfarina supercar, Mercedes-AMG hypercar, Savage Rivale Roadyacht GTS: Today’s Car NewsPininfarinia’s new owner Mahindra plans to turn the Italian design house into a car brand. And the first Pininfarinia-badged car is expected to be a track-only supercar based on the H2 Speed concept car unveiled at the 2016 Geneva auto show. More details have emerged on Mercedes-AMG’s...
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Video takes us up close to Transformers 5 vehiclesA new video has surfaced that takes us up close to a handful of the vehicles being used for filming of the fifth installment of the Transformers movie franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight. The video, which comes to us from YouTube channel Seibertron, was recorded on a set located near Detroit...
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Report: Mercedes-AMG hypercar to pack F1 engineIn July we heard rumors that Mercedes-AMG planned to enter the hypercar war with a new model to mark its 50th anniversary in 2017. Citing a source within the Mercedes AMG Formula One team, Evo on Tuesday reported that the car is coming—complete with an engine derived from the unit fitted to...
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Audi’s A3 range receives some updates for the 2017 model year including revised styling and new technology in the cabin.
The last of the updated A3 models to be announced is the A3 e-tron...
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2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R storms the NürburgringNumerous prototypes for the Mercedes-AMG GT R were flung around the Nürburgring as part of the car’s development program, though these were all heavily camouflaged. Fortunately, AMG is still fine tuning the GT R at the ‘Ring ahead of the start of production, but since the car has...
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Toyota 86 with GT-R engine, MV Agusta F4Z by Zagato, Chiron scale model: Car News HeadlinesA tuning firm in Australia has shoehorned the engine of a Nissan GT-R into a Toyota 86. Not content with a standard GT-R engine, the mad tuners used a stroked 4.1-liter example capable of delivering upwards of 1,000 horsepower. MV Agusta recently commissioned Zagato to design a custom motorcycle on...
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This Bugatti Chiron you probably can affordDisappointed you don’t own 84 cars, 3 jets and a yacht like the average Bugatti customer? Well, take some solace in knowing that there’s a Bugatti Chiron that you probably can afford. The only problem is you can’t actually drive this one. Italy’s MR Collection Models has...
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This is what the rear of the Bumblebee Camaro from Transformers 5 looks likeThe Chevrolet Camaro is reprising its role as the vehicle mode for Bumblebee in the upcoming fifth installment of the Transformers movie franchise, known as Transformers: The Last Knight and set to land in theaters June 23, 2017. Director Michael Bay has already given us a look at the vehicle. It's...
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This is the motorcycle Zagato designed for MV AgustaWe’re used to seeing Zagato churn out stunning concepts, though these typically feature four wheels. The latest creation from the Italian design house features just two, however. Zagato has partnered with fellow Italian firm MV Agusta to design a concept motorcycle, revealed today ahead of...
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At March’s 2016 Geneva auto show, a Chinese firm by the name of Techrules rolled out a supercar concept driven by an extended-range electric powertrain where the range-extender was a jet...
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Porsche planning coupe-like SUV based on Cayenne?Porsche will launch a new generation of its Cayenne in 2017, a prototype for which is shown above, and shortly after we may see a sleek, coupe-like version targeting high-end versions of the BMW X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe. Talk of the vehicle dates back several years but flared up recently when...
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Lexus LC race car, Caterham C120 sports car, Kode57 supercar: Today’s Car NewsThe Lexus LC isn’t even on sale yet but it’s already spawned a motorsport variant. The new LC race car has been designed for Japanese touring car series Super GT and will be going up against similar race cars based on the Acura NSX and Nissan GT-R when it starts running next year. Up...
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Roborace organizer unveils ‘DevBot’ autonomous race car prototypeThe organizers of Roborace, the world’s first race for autonomous cars, has revealed one of their early stage prototypes. It’s called the DevBot, and unlike the cars that will be competing in Roborace, known as Robocars, it has a seat and steering wheel. Part of the development of the...
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Citroën hints at next C5 with Cxperience sedan conceptCitroën, part of French auto giant PSA Group, has revealed a radical sedan concept it plans to formerly unveil in late September at the 2016 Paris auto show. The concept is called the Cxperience and gives a glimpse of some of the design elements we can expect on the next-generation C5. It can...
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This is Caterham’s canned Cayman rivalNot long ago, the backers of Caterham planned to turn the niche British sports car brand into a full-line automaker selling sedans and SUVs as well as sports cars. The first of Caterham’s more mainstream models was to be a small sports car based on a new platform developed with Renault...
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