Viknesh Vijayenthiran, Editor
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Alfa Romeo Giulia, Dodge Challenger Drag Pak, Chevy Camaro Convertible: This Week’s Top Photos Viknesh VijayenthiranAlfa Romeo’s new Giulia small sedan is causing quite the storm, especially because the small sports sedan has so far only been shown in its high-performance Quadrifoglio trim. The car features...
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2015 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak Revealed, Now Available With Supercharged V-8It was last summer that Dodge showed off a prototype of its new drag racer based on its latest Challenger muscle car, the 2015 Challenger Drag Pak, and now the final version has made its debut. The big news is that a supercharged engine is being offered for the first time, in this case a...
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Lotus 3-Eleven debuts at 2015 Goodwood Festival of SpeedLotus has developed a hardcore, track-focused machine along the lines of its previous 2-Eleven launched in 2007. The new track car is called the 3-Eleven to signify its relation to the original Eleven racer of the 1950s as well as the previous Elise-based car, and this time around it is based on...
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Audi Joins Moon MissionThere’s a high-stakes X Prize competition running, and this one’s to the moon—literally. We’re taking, of course, about the Google Lunar X Prize, which has been running since 2007 and pits teams against each other in a race to launch, land, and operate a rover on the...
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A Look Back At The 2015 Kitzbühel Alpine Rally: VideoEach year, for close to three decades, the Kitzbühel Alpine Rally has been taking place in Austria and sees some of Europe’s most notable classic cars come out for some sun, a little driving and some getting acquainted with a new generation of fans. The Volkswagen Group, one of the...
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MINI Confirms Five Core Models, Announces Radical Car Sharing ProgramCoinciding with this week’s unveiling of its new, much more premium second-generation Clubman, MINI made a few additional significant announcements. One of these was confirmation of the oft-mentioned move to a lineup consisting of five core models, which will allow MINI to focus on building...
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Cadillac managed to do a pretty good job of keeping its upcoming SRX replacement under wraps, but now the vehicle has been spotted completely undisguised on the streets of New York City. This photo...
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Alfa Romeo Reopens Its Official Museum To The PublicAlfa Romeo helped kick off the launch of its new Giulia sports sedan by also reopening its official museum, located in Milan, Italy, to the public. The museum closed in 2009 following the decommissioning of an adjacent plant and a relocation of the brand’s headquarters. However, as part of...
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Jason Statham Confirms Role In Fast And Furious 8British actor Jason Statham has let slip that he will be returning to help film an eighth installment for the Fast and the Furious franchise. In case you haven’t watched the last one, Furious 7, Statham plays the role of Deckard Shaw, the bad guy who conveniently remains alive at the end of...
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Acura NSX Serves As Official Pace Car For 2015 Pikes Peak Hill ClimbThis weekend is the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in Colorado, and one of the more standout cars racing to the 14,110-foot summit will be this Acura NSX supercar. It’s serving as the official pace car for this year’s event, and it’s just one of four Acura models that will be present. The...
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Alfa Romeo Giulia, Nissan Juke-R 2.0, Shelby GT350R-C Racer: Car News HeadlinesAlfa Romeo’s new Giulia sedan is causing quite the storm, especially because the small sports sedan has so far only been shown in its high-performance Quadrifoglio trim. The car features a twin-turbocharged V-6 engine developed by Ferrari and produces a class-leading 510 horsepower. If you...
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2016 Ford Focus RS Coming With 345 Horsepower: VideoThe Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has made big promises to blow your enthusiast face off as of late. The Blue Oval is certainly delivering too, with the arrival of a new GT supercar, a new Raptor performance pickup, and the Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R duo. There's one machine noticeably absent...
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The Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] latest Mustang Shelby GT350R is following in the footsteps of its predecessors by going racing, in this case in the remainder of the 2015 season of the IMSA...
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Nissan Reveals New, More Powerful Version Of GT-R-Powered Juke-R CrossoverIf indeed Nissan execs were displeased by the construction of the original Juke-R four years ago, they have a funny way of showing it. That’s because the Japanese automaker has unveiled a new version at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed currently underway in the U.K., where the vehicle will...
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McLaren Celebrating Its Motorsports Legends, Rolls Out Alain Prost-Inspired P1The 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed gets underway today in the U.K., and one of the stars of the show will be this unique McLaren P1 prepared by the MSO personalization department. Its special livery was inspired by motorsport legend Alain Prost, in particular the Frenchman’s patriotic livery...
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2016 Chevrolet Cruze Revealed: Live Photos And VideoChevrolet’s second-generation Cruze compact sedan designed for the U.S. market has been revealed (the Chinese-market version was shown last year), and it brings a raft of new changes that make it quite the technological leap over its predecessor, a car that managed to sell more than 3.5...
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2016 MINI Clubman Is Bigger, More PremiumMINI’s new Clubman is finally here, and as hinted at by last year’s Clubman concept the second-generation model is both bigger than the one it replaces and much more premium. The move makes sense as there’s now the Hardtop 4 occupying the spot where the former Clubman sat...
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Aston Martin Ups Power In DB9 With New GT TrimA successor to the Aston Martin DB9 is in the works but before its arrival the DB9 is benefitting from what’s likely to be its last round of updates. The big news is the addition of a new GT trim level which sees the DB9 receive the highest output in the nameplate’s history: 540...
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Alfa Romeo Giulia, 2016 Camaro Convertible, 2017 Jaguar F-Pace: Today’s Car News Viknesh VijayenthiranAlfa Romeo’s long-awaited rival to the likes of the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class is finally here, and we can confirm that the car is called a Giulia. It goes on sale in Europe later...
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2016 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Preview: Live Photos & Video
Only a month after blowing us away with its all-new, sixth-generation 2016 Camaro, Chevrolet has now taken the wraps off the car’s convertible variant which like the coupe will be introduced for the 2016 model year. The new Camaro Convertible sticks with a conventional folding soft-top but...
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2017 Jaguar F-Pace Spy ShotsThese are the latest spy shots of Jaguar’s upcoming SUV based on the C-X17 concept first shown at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. Previously thought to be an XQ or Q-Type, Jaguar has since confirmed that it’s first-ever high-riding model will be called an F-Pace. While the name might be a...
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Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Faces The 599 GTO At The Drag Strip: VideoWhen the 599 GTO was launched back in 2010, it seemed like Ferrari had set itself an almost impossibly high bar for any successor. After all, the car’s V-12 was tuned to deliver 661 horsepower, and its six-speed automated manual gearbox was one of the fastest in the business, helping the 599...
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New Video Outlines The Best That BMW Individual Has To OfferVehicle personalization has never been more popular, especially when it comes to the ultra-luxury marques such as Rolls-Royce and Ferrari where almost every product rolling off the line has been individually customized in some way. But you don’t have to be a one-percenter to have your vehicle...
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Tesla Model 3 To Be Revealed In 2016, Enter Production In 2017With Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] having missed some promised deadlines for the launch of its Model X SUV—it’s now due this fall—many industry watchers have become wary of the automaker’s promise that the crucial Model 3 mainstream electric sedan will arrive by 2016. The issue...
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