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At last week’s 2012 Paris Auto Show Bentley unveiled a race car concept based on its luxury-oriented Continental GT. Simply labeled the Continental GT3, the one-off concept is confirmation of... -
Jay Leno Drives One-Off Lexus LFA Spyder: VideoThough we’ve seen a convertible version of the Lexus LFA supercar before, Toyota has never officially admitted the car existed, apart from a concept version. That was until now, as Jay Leno was fortunate enough to drive one on the latest episode of his online series Jay Leno’s Garage...
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Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix PreviewThis weekend it’s round 15 of the 2012 Formula One season and this means it's Japanese Grand Prix time. Teams are currently warming up on the Suzuka circuit where conditions have been good. The 3.6-mile circuit is notorious for its figure of eight layout, which features nearly every possible...
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Renault-Nissan And Daimler Announce Further CooperationIndustry giants Renault-Nissan and Daimler are already tied in various product alliances, which include the sharing of everything from whole vehicle platforms to manufacturing facilities. At last week’s 2012 Paris Auto Show, the heads of both companies, Carlos Ghosn of Renault-Nissan and...
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Ferrari-Developed Engines Tipped For Future Alfa RomeosFerrari already builds the various V-8 engines currently used by Maserati, and previously it built the 4.5-liter unit that powered the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. In the future, we’re likely to see Ferrari’s expertise at engine building expanded even further, with reports recently...
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Jay Leno Heads To Japan To Talk Z Cars With Shiro Nakamura: VideoJay Leno has flown to Japan to film the latest installment of his online series Jay Leno’s Garage. In the new episode he visits Nissan’s headquarters where he gets to sample one of his most beloved cars, the original Datsun 240Z, or Fairlady as it’s known in its domestic market...
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In August of this year Dutch firm Spyker filed a $3 billion lawsuit against General Motors in a U.S. District Court in Michigan, alleging the American auto giant had deliberately forced Spyker-owned... -
Toyota Slashes Nürburgring Electric Car Lap Record To 7:22Toyota has set a new Nürburgring lap record for an electric car using its TMG EV P002 prototype racer. The final time came in at 7:22.329, which is a full 25 seconds faster than the time set by Toyota’s first EV prototype, which set the previous electric car record for the 12.92-mile...
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Nissan GT-R Gets Airborne Then Crashes: VideoWarning: This video contains some NSFW language. A nice cruise on some back roads quickly turns into a disaster for one unfortunate Nissan GT-R driver. As this video from YouTube user Alex Shin shows, an impatient driver of a silver GT-R proceeding in what appears to be a procession of sports cars...
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HSV Launches 25th Anniversary Edition Of Flagship GTSFollowing the introduction of its updated 2012 model range, HSV, official tuner to Holden, has now revealed its latest version of its GTS flagship based on the Holden Commodore sedan. Like the rest of the 2012 HSV range, the latest GTS is being introduced to celebrate the tuning firm’s 25th...
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Koenigsegg Agera R Goes On Sale In U.S.The Koenigsegg Agera R, the holder of six production car records, has finally been launched on the American market. The Swedish supercar made its official North American debut at the recent Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance where the founder of Koenigsegg, Christian von Koenigsegg, was able to...
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Hennessey Revives 'Venom 1000' Package For 2013 SRT ViperJohn Hennessey is returning to the performance package and car that helped put his name on the map, albeit some of that fame came for not entirely positive reasons. The car, of course, is the Viper, which is now branded an SRT, while the performance package is Hennessey’s Venom 1000 upgrade...
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McLaren’s new P1 was undoubtedly the highlight of last week’s Paris Auto Show, its otherworldly design, scintillating expected performance and teasing nature--this is still only a...
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BMW To Offer Three-Cylinder Engines In U.S.At the Paris Auto Show last week BMW unveiled a radical new concept that previewed the future technologies the automaker plans to introduce across its model range, from the base MINI Cooper right up to the i8 plug-in hybrid sports car. One of those technologies was a new three-cylinder engine that...
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Renault To Partner With Caterham On Alpine Revival, Not Lotus: ReportDespite previous claims Renault-Nissan was in talks with Lotus to develop a sports car to spearhead the revival of the Renault Alpine performance marque, a new model thought to also spawn a production version of the Emerg-E concept car for Infiniti, it now appears fellow British performance brand...
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Volvo Paves Way For Car-To-Car Communications With Signing Of MoUVolvo is paving the way for the implementation of Car-2-Car and Car-2-Object communication systems in its own vehicles with the signing today of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with fellow members of the CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium being run in Europe. The consortium’s goal is to...
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21-Year Old Crashes Friend's Lamborghini GallardoA 21-year-old man driving a Lamborghini Gallardo in Sydney, Australia that he had borrowed from a friend, unfortunately met with an accident involving a taxi traveling in the same direction. Upon impact, both the silver Lamborghini and the taxi ran off the road, with both cars then colliding into a...
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BMW Hits The Slopes With X1 Powder Ride Special EditionBMW will launch a special edition X1 aimed at winter sport fans that comes complete with a set of skis developed by K2.
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The first of the major international auto shows following the summer break, the 2012 Paris Auto Show, is now over, and the Motor Authority team was out in force at the event to bring you all the... -
Audi Crosslane Concept Live Photos: 2012 Paris Auto ShowOne of the surprises of this week’s 2012 Paris Auto Show was Audi’s Crosslane concept, a compact crossover coupe built around an advanced ‘multi-material’ spaceframe platform and tipped to preview a new Q2 model from the automaker. These live photos show an aggressive new...
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Smart ForStars Concept Live Photos: 2012 Paris Auto ShowSmart has previewed the styling of its next-generation ForTwo with its ForStars concept car unveiled this week at the 2012 Paris Auto Show. The new concept is the follow-up to the Smart For-Us pickup concept unveiled earlier this year in Detroit, and shows that Smart’s designers are looking...
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2013 Land Rover Range Rover Live Photos: 2012 Paris Auto ShowThe fourth generation of Land Rover’s iconic Range Rover has finally made its world debut, and here are our first live shots of the vehicle direct from its appearance at the 2012 Paris Auto Show. The new luxury SUV has already made a sneak U.S. debut, where it was announced that sales will...
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McLaren Signs Perez For 2013, Hamilton Heads To Mercedes-AMGIt’s official. A major shakeup will be occurring in the world of Formula One in 2013, with McLaren announcing today that Sergio Perez will replace its championship winning driver Lewis Hamilton from next year onwards. Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, will start racing with Mercedes-AMG where...
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Citroen Committed To WRC, Considering WTCC Entry With Sebastien LoebDespite fears Citroen may pull out of the World Rally Championship next year due to financial constraints, the French automaker has confirmed it's committed to the sport and will be racing at the start of the 2013 season next January. Citroen, which won the championship last year, thanks to the...
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