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Special Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Honors 250 GTO’s Victory In 1964 Tour de France Automobile Viknesh VijayenthiranThe men and women at Ferrari’s Tailor Made personalization department have revealed their latest creation, a special F12 Berlinetta built to honor the victory of Belgian racing team Ecurie...
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Valet Fired After Posting ‘Review’ Of Customer’s BMW M4 On YouTube: VideoWarning: This video contains some NSFW language. While the majority of valets are good and honest people, like with any industry there are always going to be a few bad apples. Case in point is the valet in the video above who was recently tasked with parking a customer’s BMW M4 but decided to...
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McLaren Teases New Track-Focused 650S SupercarThe next couple of months are going to be extremely busy for McLaren as the British automaker launches a handful of new models in quick succession. Just this week we saw the covers come off the 650S Le Mans special edition, which features unique body elements penned by McLaren F1 designer Peter...
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McLaren 650S Le Mans, 2015 Ford Shelby GT, 2017 Audi A4: This Week’s Top PhotosMcLaren will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its overall victory in the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans with a new special edition model. It’s called the 650S Le Mans, and its retro wheels, mimicking those on the original F1 GTR race car that won at Le Mans, are downright awesome. W Motors...
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Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) Selling His McLaren F1 For $12 MillionMcLaren only ever built 106 examples of its F1 supercar, and of these just 72 were designed for the road. One of these 72 road-going F1s was bought new by actor Rowan Atkinson (famous for playing Mr. Bean) back in 1997, and he’s now put it up for sale priced at a staggering £8 million...
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2016 BMW M2, 2016 Opel Astra, 2016 Cadillac CT6: Today’s Car NewsA prototype for BMW’s all-new M2 sports coupe has been spotted, this time wearing its production-spec bumpers and exhaust tips. For anyone that’s been thinking BMW lost its way with cars like the oddly-shaped Gran Turismos and the blasphemous front-driving 2-Series Active Tourer, we...
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Cadillac’s new CT6 large sedan is set to be revealed on March 31 ahead of a debut at April's New York Auto Show, and will reach showrooms by the end of the year, arriving as a 2016 model....
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2016 Porsche Boxster RS Spyder Spy ShotsPorsche’s hottest Boxster at present is the 330-horsepower GTS but soon we could see the German automaker introduce an even more potent version packing many of the upgrades developed for a track-focused Cayman GT4 also in the works. A new Boxster prototype has been spotted undergoing...
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UPDATE: Toyota RND Fun-To-Drive Concept Is Just A Gag To Mark Red Nose Day CharityUPDATE: It turns out that Toyota’s new RND concept set to be unveiled next week isn’t actually a new car but rather a red nose cap to be fitted on your car to mark Red Nose Day, a charity event run overseas where people attach red noses to their face—or car—and help raise...
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Mercedes Exec Hints At Maybach E-Class, Next-Gen A-Class In U.S.Mercedes-Benz has just launched its new Mercedes-Maybach sub-brand which is tasked with building ultra-luxurious versions of the German automaker’s already plush autos. The first model from Mercedes-Maybach is a stretched version of the S-Class but there will be more, including an extra-long...
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Lex Kerssemakers Named Volvo’s U.S. ChiefVolvo has announced that it is appointing Dutch executive Lex Kerssemakers as its new U.S. chief. The 55-year-old replaces former chief Tony Nicolosi and will have an expanded role that will also see him run things in the rest of the Americas, including crucial emerging markets in South America...
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2017 MINI Countryman, 2016 Acura RDX, W Motors Lykan Supersport: Car News HeadlinesA prototype for the next-generation MINI Countryman has been spotted. The vehicle is based on the same UKL platform found in the latest MINI Hardtop and Hardtop 4 Door models and should be on sale sometime in 2016. An updated version of the Acura RDX is coming for the 2016 model year. We’ll...
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NASCAR star Jeff Gordon has announced that 2015 will be his last full season in the sport. He broke the news to his team, Hendrick Motorsports, who he’s driven for since November 1992, at a...
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Ford GTs To Flock To Pennsylvania In June For Carlisle Ford NationalsFollowing last year’s celebration of the Mustang at the annual Carlisle Ford Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the highlight of this year’s event, which runs June 5-7, will be the Blue Oval’s GT supercar. Original GT40s, the later GT and possibly even the all-new GT that...
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W Motors Teams Up With Quimera To Develop Eco-Friendly Race CarMiddle Eastern supercar startup W Motors has just launched its first car, the $3.4 million Lykan Hypersport, and now it’s ready to accelerate development of its second model, the even more extreme Lykan Supersport. This week W Motors announced that development of the Lykan Supersport will be...
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GT-R-Powered Renault R.S. 01: From The Drawing Board To The Race TrackWhile Renault’s presence in Formula One continues to fade (it’s now just an engine supplier to a handful of teams), the French automaker through its Renaultsport performance arm remains active in other forms of motorsport. Recently, it announced the formation of a new one-make series...
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Thieves Steal Half Of Red Bull Racing’s F1 Trophies--Updated With Video Of The CrimeJanuary 22, 2015 Update: The BBC has obtained security footage showing the crime taking place. Unfortunately, none of the thieves have been identified and 40 of the trophies still remain missing. Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner described the theft as being a "pointless crime" and...
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Lotus Sees Sales Rise 54 Percent, Promises Exciting Reveal For Geneva Motor ShowStruggling sports car brand Lotus has announced that its sales performance is finally starting to turn around for the better. Sales over the past nine months came in at 1,565 cars, which is up 54 percent on the same period one year and all the more impressive when you consider that there...
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Things are just starting to settle at the Detroit Auto Show but already we have details on some of the new vehicles set to appear at the Chicago Auto Show, which this year gets underway February 12.
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Williams Is First To Reveal Its 2015 Formula One CarWilliams is the first to reveal its new car for the 2015 Formula One World Championship. The British team, which reigning world champion Mercedes AMG sees as its biggest threat going into the new season, is sticking with a Mercedes power unit and has gone with an evolutionary design for its latest...
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Buick Avenir Design Detailed: VideoBuick’s Avenir concept was one of the more impressive vehicles on show at the recent Detroit Auto Show but what’s just as impressive as the car’s stunning lines is the fact that General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] managed to keep it a secret for so long. Work on the Avenir actually...
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Mercedes-Benz C-Class spied with new tech updatesMercedes-Benz’s new C-Class is still in its first year on the market but it looks like the svelte sedan (and wagon in other markets) is already testing with some major updates. A prototype has just been spotted undergoing cold-weather testing near the Arctic Circle and features a revamped...
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2015 Honda Civic Type R Prototype Spotted In U.S.It was only a week ago that Honda confirmed plans to build a new turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with VTEC variable valve timing at a plant in Anna, Ohio, and now a prototype for the European-spec Civic Type R has been spotted in the state. The new Civic Type R, seen in this image taken...
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Toyota Edges Out VW And GM To Remain World’s Biggest Automaker In 2014Toyota has announced it sold 10.23 million vehicles in 2014, a 2.5 percent gain on the 9.98 million it sold the previous year and the first 10-million-plus annual sales figure for the Japanese giant. Importantly, Toyota’s tally, which includes sales from the Scion, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino...
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