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It’s been a year since the Mexican sports car startup VŪHL launched its first model, the 05 track car, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. And now the founders of the company, brothers Iker and...
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2014 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix Preview: VideoReturning as a leg of the Formula One World Championship for the first time since 2003, the Austrian Grand Prix is one of the sport's classics. The first race was held back in 1964 but the original track, essentially a converted airfield, proved unpopular and so F1 wouldn’t return until 1970...
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Holden Tipped To Drop Commodore Name For Next Large CarGeneral Motors’ Australian unit Holden announced last year that it will end production in Australia in 2017. At the time, Holden bosses said the cherished Commodore name, which has only ever been used for rear-wheel-drive sedans built in Australia, will be retained for a future...
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Ford Bids Farewell To Its GT-Badged Falcons With The FPV GT F: VideoFord’s Australian division is working on a major update for its Falcon rear-wheel-drive sedan before production ceases for good in 2016, but the updated Falcon will no longer wear the famous GT badge that has signified hot Falcons since the original XR Falcon GT launched in 1967. At present...
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Range Rover Sport R-S, Cuda Convertible Sale, Electric Harley-Davidson: Today’s Car NewsLand Rover is bringing its fastest and most agile SUV ever built to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed next week. The vehicle is expected to be the Range Rover Sport R-S model that we’ve been spying in prototype form for the past year. In the muscle car world, the Plymouth Hemi Cuda is a...
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2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat In The Works?Dodge gave us an early look at its redesigned 2015 Charger muscle sedan back at the 2014 New York Auto Show, but the automaker is yet to reveal the high-performance SRT version of the car. During the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles five-year strategy announcement just a month ago, we learned that a new...
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McLaren has announced a global premiere for the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed taking place this month and has released this teaser image to whet our appetite. The global premiere will be a new...
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Porsche Remains The Top Brand In 2014 J.D. Power Initial Quality StudyIn a year that saw the average number of problems experienced by new car buyers increase, Porsche remains on top and actually managed to improve its score. Yes, the results for 2014’s J.D. Power Initial Quality Study are in, and it’s Porsche on top for the second year in a row, followed...
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Audi’s Electrically-Driven Turbo To Debut In Next-Gen Q7 TDIAudi recently presented an RS 5 TDI concept car powered by a diesel engine equipped with an electrically-driven turbocharger. The engine features a twin-turbocharger setup where the smaller of the two turbos uses an electric motor to spool up its compressor at lower revs (up to 70,000 rpm in a few...
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Is India’s Mahindra About To Purchase A Stake In Saab?There seems to be no end to Saab’s woes, even with new owner NEVS running the show. A month ago, NEVS said a cash shortage had forced it to stop production of the Saab 9-3 sedan and that it was in negotiations with other firms over the potential sale of a stake in Saab to help raise funds...
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2015 Mercedes CLS, 2015 Ford Edge, Tesla Model X: Car News HeadlinesMercedes-Benz has revealed an updated version of its CLS-Class, which will be introduced for the 2015 model year. In addition to new styling, the car gets a new nine-speed automatic transmission, more powerful engines and an improved interface. A prototype for Ford’s next-generation Edge...
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Ferrari LaFerrari Spider in the works?At the launch of the LaFerrari at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] said it would build just 499 examples of the flagship supercar. But on top of this the automaker will build a handful of track-only ‘experimental’ cars as part of the XX program, and we may also see an...
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Aston Martin is working on a new platform to underpin its next generation of sports cars, starting with a new DB9 in 2016. A new Vantage is expected in 2018 and should be followed a year later by a... -
2015 Ford Edge Spy ShotsFord is in the final stages of development of its next-generation Edge crossover, a prototype for which has just been spotted. Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] previewed the new Edge with a thinly-veiled concept version at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show, and it looks like the concept’s lines have...
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Rolls-Royce Wraith Destroyed When Truck Carrying It Catches FireA poor Rolls-Royce Wraith was the victim of a fire that engulfed a truck carrying it plus a handful of other exotics on a highway in China recently. The fire must have been quite intense and raging for some time as there’s not much left of the Wraith apart from its burnt shell. CHECK OUT...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class and CLS63 AMG revealedThe four-door coupe segment is rapidly growing, but the progenitor of the niche, the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class, is still powering along. Currently in its second generation, the CLS has just undergone a mid-cycle update, bringing new styling, a revamped interior and plenty of tech upgrades to the...
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Audi R8 LMX Lights Up At Le Mans: Mega Gallery And VideoAudi's new R8 LMX supercar was shown for the first time in public at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans this past weekend. The car was shown prior to the race, and on hand to present it was Audi racing driver Tom Kristensen who would later go on to come second overall along with Lucas di Grassi and Marc...
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2016 Jaguar XE Spy VideoJaguar’s new small sedan to rival the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class will be known as the XE, and a prototype has been spotted at the Nürburgring. As our spy video confirms, the new XE is shaping up to be a very capable sport sedan, with the prototype making short work of the...
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Volvo is rapidly expanding its operations in China, including establishing new manufacturing facilities and co-developing vehicle platforms and new models with Chinese parent company Geely. Simply...
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2015 Ford S-Max Spy ShotsThe second-generation of Ford’s S-Max has been spotted once again in prototype form, revealing several new details about the upcoming mid-size MPV. The U.S. market never received the current S-Max, which can be seen testing alongside the new one in some of the shots, but there’s a...
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Bentley Continental GT3-R Races Into 2014 Goodwood Festival Of SpeedA hardcore version of Bentley’s Continental GT has been hinted at since 2011 but the possibility of the luxury cruiser being turned into a track weapon never really seemed plausible until a racing version of the car was revealed last year. Now, the Continental GT race car has spawned a...
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2015 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Revealed In Scale Model Form?Porsche was meant to reveal its new 911 GT3 RS this summer but decided to delay its arrival following the discovery of a fault with the 3.8-liter flat-six engine in the 911 GT3 that the 911 GT3 RS was to share, albeit in uprated form. The German automaker is yet to announce when we might finally...
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Tushek TS 600 Supercar Makes Video DebutAfter showing the Tushek TS 600 supercar for the first time at the 2014 Top Marques Monaco, the company behind the car, Tushek & Spigel, has now released the first promo video, giving us a taste of the engine note and road presence. MUST SEE: Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo Revealed...
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Mercedes to debut MULTIBEAM LED headlight technology on 2015 CLSMercedes-Benz is working on an updated version of its CLS-Class for the 2015 model year and has confirmed today that the car will feature the automaker’s new MULTIBEAM LED headlights. The technology is similar to Audi’s Matrix LED headlights in that it uses multiple LEDs to enable...
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