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Talk of successors to Honda sports cars like the S2000 and CRX date back several years and has been encouraged by the occasional concept reveal by the Japanese automaker. However, in a speech last... -
Watch Nissan’s ZEOD RC Le Mans Car At Its Track Debut: VideoLate last week, Nissan took the covers off its ZEOD RC electric Le Mans prototype, which it plans to field as a ‘Garage 56’ experimental entry in next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Nissan revealed the car on the eve of the sixth round of the 2013 World Endurance Championship at Fuji...
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Elon Musk Promises Autobahn-Tuned Model S: VideoHere in the U.S., Tesla Model S owners are likely to rarely reach the car’s 130 mph top speed, but in Germany, where the electric sedan has just been launched, this isn’t the case, thanks to the country’s unrestricted stretches of autobahn. The CEO of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA]...
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2015 Small Buick Crossover Spy ShotsBuick is working on a new crossover designed to squeeze in between its compact Encore and larger Enclave. The vehicle is tipped to be called the Anthem and was previewed in 2011 by the Buick Envision concept. Today we have our first spy shots of a prototype for the new crossover, which we expect to...
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Ferrari Celebrates 30 Years In Hong Kong With 600 Car Gathering: VideoFerrari celebrated 30 years of selling its cars in Hong Kong with a gala event attended by chairman Luca di Montezemolo and over 2,000 guests. There was also more than 600 Ferrari cars present, spanning every era, and these were arranged to form the characteristic symbol of Hong Kong, the...
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Toro Rosso Offers Russian Teen Daniil Kvyat A Seat In 2014With Daniel Ricciardo set to replace fellow Australian Mark Webber at Red Bull Racing in 2014, his current seat at Scuderia Toro Rosso will need to be filled. The Red Bull feeder team has now confirmed that Russian teenager Daniil Kvyat will fill that seat, and race in the new season alongside...
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The launch of the R35 Nissan GT-R almost six years ago was an epic achievement for all involved with its development. After all, here was a car capable of outperforming exotic supercars costing twice...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Teased In New Video - Updated With Interior PhotosA new generation of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the W205, is expected to debut early next year, with many suggesting it will be unveiled at January’s 2014 Detroit Auto Show, but a new teaser video from Mercedes is already giving us a taste of what’s to come. Along with the video, the...
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2015 BMW 2-Series, 2015 Mercedes C-Class, VL Destino: Car News HeadlinesBMW has started the official marketing campaign for its new 2-Series, the replacement for the outgoing 1-Series Coupe. The campaign has kicked off with a teaser video that confirms BMW plans to reveal its 2-Series this Friday. Mercedes-Benz has also started a marketing campaign for one of its...
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Mercedes-Benz Shows Interior Of New V-ClassMercedes-Benz is working on a replacement for its Viano line of vans and today the first images of the vehicle have surfaced, albeit they only show the interior. The Viano isn’t sold in the U.S. but there’s speculation this new model, which will revive Mercedes’ V-Class moniker...
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McLaren Confirms Performance Figures For P1With the first P1s now on their way to their eagerly awaiting customers, McLaren is finally confirming some of the car’s performance figures. Many of the specs we already know but now they are no longer preliminary figures: they are what the 375 buyers of the P1 will actually be able to...
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Maserati Racks Up 22,500 Sales In First Nine MonthsNot long ago, Maserati was selling around 6,000 cars per year on the back of two model lines: the Quattroporte and Granturismo. Not surprisingly, many scoffed when the automaker announced in 2011 it would increase annual sales to 50,000 units and launch three additional model lines by the end of...
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Mercedes-Benz will launch a new generation of its C-Class sedan next year and once again there will be coupe, wagon and high-performance AMG variants. However, there will also be some new variants... -
McLaren Heads Back To The ‘Ring In Potential Record ChaseMcLaren chairman Ron Dennis has made some pretty bold claims for the company’s P1 supercar, including setting “a new benchmark” for supercars and posting a lap time for Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife of under seven minutes. Currently, the production car lap record...
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VL’s V-8 Fisker Karma Project On Track, Additional Bodystyle PlannedAt the Detroit Auto Show at the start of this year, industry veteran Bob Lutz presented a Fisker Karma concept powered by a Corvette V-8 engine. The car was a preview of a new luxury sedan called the Destino that Lutz and other investors planned to launch under the VL name. The last we heard...
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BMW Teases New 2-Series, Plans October 25 Reveal: VideoIt’s been exactly three years since we first learned that BMW’s 1-Series Coupe would be renamed a 2-Series for its second generation, and in just a few days we’ll be seeing the covers finally come off the new car. BMW has confirmed an October 25 reveal for its new 2-Series, which...
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BMW 4-Series Convertible, Chevy Camaro Z/28, Ford Mustang Renderings: This Week’s Top PhotosBMW’s new 4-Series Convertible is finally here and can be yours for $49,675. That’s only a slight increase on the starting price of the outgoing 3-Series Convertible, so naysayers warning of a sharp increase in pricing coinciding with the transition to a 4-Series badge must be red-faced...
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Veneno Roadster Reveal, Fisker Loan Sale, Tiny V-8 Engine: Today In Car NewsIt turns out Lamborghini’s Veneno supercar line isn’t so exclusive after all. After building four of the coupes, Lamborghini has committed to building nine Veneno Roadsters, the first of which was revealed today. After putting its loan made out to Fisker up for auction only a week ago...
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Next year will see a radical shift in engine technology for Formula One, with the regulations calling for downsized 1.6-liter V-6 engines that can be aided by turbochargers and energy recovery...
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Elon Musk Is Buyer Of James Bond Lotus Submarine, Plans To Make It ElectricNot long ago, it was revealed that the Lotus Esprit submarine from the 1977 James Bond flick The Spy Who Loved Me was sold at auction for close to a million dollars. In case you’re unfamiliar with the movie, the car was converted into a mock submarine that is made to look like it's...
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GM Integrates Russian Operations With European Unit In Boon To OpelOpel has been thrown a lifeline in the form of greater access to the growing Russian car market, with parent company General Motors integrating its Russian operations with its European unit, which is headed by Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, who also happens to be CEO of Opel. Currently, the Russian...
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Lamborghini Veneno Roadster RevealedThe first images and details for Lamborghini’s new Veneno Roadster have hit the web. The car is the convertible version of the Veneno coupe first shown at the 2013 Geneva Motor show, which was limited to just four examples in total. But unlike the coupe, Lamborghini is planning as many as...
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2015 Hyundai Genesis LeakedA photo depicting a completely undisguised version of the 2015 Hyundai Genesis sedan has hit the web, revealing the car in full ahead of its official online reveal later this year and world debut at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show in January. The full photo, first posted up on Korean website Bobaedream...
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Has Fisker’s DOE Loan Just Been Sold To Hong Kong Billionaire Richard Li?Earlier this week it was revealed that the U.S. Department of Energy had started an auction for the remaining portion of a $192 million loan awarded to electric car startup Fisker Automotive back in 2010 under the government’s advanced-technology vehicle manufacturing program. There are now...
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