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Volkswagen, in only its second outing in the World Rally Championship, has managed to take home a win.
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2014 Cadillac CTS Set For 2013 New York Auto Show: ReportUpdate: The 2014 Cadillac CTS has been revealed. Click here for all the details, photos and video. The completely redesigned 2014 Cadillac CTS will reportedly make its world debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show in late March. The car is then expected to hit showrooms this fall, followed by the...
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VF Holden Commodore V8 Supercars race car revealedJust one day after General Motors’ Australian subsidiary, Holden, unveiled its handsomely-styled VF Commodore, teams campaigning the car in the 2013 V8 Supercars touring car series unveiled their various versions. Featured here is the car from Holden’s official factory team, the Holden...
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Helicopter Crashes While Racing A Corvette ZR1 On Top Gear: VideoDramatic footage caught while filming an episode of Top Gear Korea, the South Korean adaption of the popular British television show, was released by the BBC over the weekend. The footage shows a crash that occurred during a stunt being filmed for the show’s latest season. The stunt involved...
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Do These Design Bucks Reveal The Look Of the 2014 Chevy SS?UPDATE: The 2014 Chevrolet SS has been revealed. Click here for all the details. Holden’s new VF Commodore, the Australian sedan that will form the basis of the upcoming 2014 Chevrolet SS, was revealed overnight, though so far we’ve only been treated with the upmarket Calais V model...
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VF Holden Commodore revealed, previews 2014 Chevy SSThe long-awaited VF Holden Commodore rear-wheel-drive sedan has been revealed, previewing the look of the 2014 Chevrolet SS that’s set for its own debut this coming week. So far only the upmarket Calais V model has been revealed, though the shape of the car, the lights and most of the...
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With the 2013 Chicago Auto Show taking place this week, we sure you've already guessed that we have plenty of photos to bring you for the latest installment of This Week’s Top Photos.
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Volkswagen Brings Back The Beetle GSR At Chicago Auto Show: Live PhotosThe Gelb-Schwarzer Renner is back, making its debut as a 2014 model at the Chicago Auto Show. For the uninitiated, the tag, which is German for “Yellow Black Racer” and often shortened to GSR, was attached to a special Volkswagen Beetle launched in 1972, which proved so popular it sold...
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Video Tour Of The Lamborghini Factory And MuseumLamborghini’s factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese is a very special place, not only because it’s where some of the world’s best supercars are born but because it’s also where dreams come true. Half a century ago it was where one man, Ferruccio Lamborghini, dreamt of building a...
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Forbidden Fruit: Toyota GT 86 TRDToyota has enlisted the help of its official in-house tuner TRD to spruce up its GT 86 sports car, the global version of our Scion FR-S. We think the Japanese tuning firm has done an impressive job and hopefully these upgrades hint at some of the possibilities that will eventually be offered on the...
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Menacing Camaro Concept Built To Celebrate Upcoming 'Turbo' MovieOne of the star surprises at this week’s 2013 Chicago Auto Show was this menacing concept car based on the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 muscle car. Though labeled the Turbo Camaro Coupe, the new concept doesn’t preview a new turbocharged Camaro from Chevrolet but instead celebrates the upcoming...
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Nissan Gives Update On Leaf Nismo RC Electric Racer: VideoThe use of pure electric cars in motorsport is coming. In fact, the FIA already has a sanctioned event, the Formula E Championship, which starts next year. So, whether you’re a fan of electric cars or not, you’ll increasingly see them making headlines on performance sites like this one...
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From the same team building its very own Tumbler Batmobile for this year’s Gumball 3000 rally, comes this new teaser image for a custom supercar the team is also working on for the rally.
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Holden Confirms Next-Gen Commodore, U.S. Arrival A PossibilityHolden boss Mike Devereux has confirmed that a next-generation Commodore will be launched once the latest model, the VF, to be revealed on Sunday and sold in the U.S. as the 2014 Chevrolet SS, ends production in 2016. There were fears that Holden, the Australian subsidiary of General Motors Company...
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Volkswagen Golf R Cabrio Revealed Ahead Of 2013 Geneva Motor ShowVolkswagen’s new MkVII Golf has already gone on sale overseas, and soon a new generation of the high-performance Golf R will be joining it. However, Volkswagen still has one more variant of its outgoing MkVI Golf to launch, and that’s the Golf R Cabriolet, which as its name suggest is...
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Porsche Announces 50th Anniversary Celebrations For The 911There are a lot of automotive anniversaries taking place in 2013, the most notable being the 100th anniversary of Aston Martin and the 50th anniversary of Lamborghini. However, this year Porsche’s iconic 911 sports car also turns 50. Yes, it was in 1963 at the Frankfurt Auto Show that Porsche...
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Michael Schumacher To Help Develop Mercedes-Benz Road Cars?Having recently stepped down from Formula One racing, Michael Schumacher is reportedly set to play a role in the development of road cars for his former employer. Schumacher was replaced at the Mercedes AMG F1 team late last year by Lewis Hamilton, but according to comments from team principal Ross...
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Is The Volkswagen Group Considering Adding A 13th Brand?The Volkswagen Group is currently the third largest automaker in the world, outmatched only by General Motors and Toyota in overall sales, though that could easily change in the next year or two given the German auto giant’s recent performance. Within the group, there are 12 individual...
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BMW will be taking its fleet of i-branded electrified concepts to the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in early March, including the i8 Spyder plug-in hybrid sports car, the original i3 electric car and the... -
2014 Chevy SS To Debut On Feb 16, Holden Version On Feb 10UPDATE: The 2014 Chevrolet SS has been revealed. Click here for all the details. At the announcement of its new 2014 SS performance sedan last May, Chevrolet confirmed the covers would first come off the car during the week of the Daytona 500. The reveal of the car is meant to coincide with the...
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McLaren Confirms Production P1 For Geneva, Reveals New Race ModeMcLaren has confirmed the production version of its P1 supercar, a prototype of which was first shown in Paris last year, will be revealed to the public at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show on March 5. Although it’s been rumored that McLaren would show its production P1 in Geneva, this is the first...
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2013 Subaru WRX And STI Special Editions Priced From $28,795Last year’s Subaru WRX and WRX STI Special Editions have just been priced, with the most affordable model only costing $500 more than the price of the standard model on which it's based. Pricing on the 2013 Subaru WRX Special Edition will set you back just $28,795, which is only $500 more...
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Ford Fiesta ST Heads To Global RallyCross ChampionshipFord will be using Thursday’s 2013 Chicago Auto Show to announce an expanded lineup for this year’s Global RallyCross Championship, where the automaker will also debut the new Fiesta ST Global RallyCross race car that it hopes will continue to see it victorious in the new season. The...
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Meet Cigarette Racing’s Huntress, The 42-Foot Boat Inspired By Mercedes' G63 AMGCustom boat builder and racer Cigarette Racing, based in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is set to debut a new version of its signature performance boats, the 42-foot Huntress. Why are we reporting on a boat? Because, like its previous 46-foot Rider XP and 50-foot Marauder, the design of Cigarette...
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