Viknesh Vijayenthiran, Editor
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A bright orange Lamborghini Gallardo has bit the dust on the rainy streets of a Sydney, Australia hotspot over the weekend. A member of FerrariChat.com has posted up images of the aftermath, which...
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Dodge Redesigns Logo To Promote Youthfulness, PerformanceChrysler’s decision last year to separate its Dodge car and truck models into the respective Dodge Car and new Dodge Ram brands meant that the two separate divisions henceforth could focus more directly on their best attributes. By splitting the Dodge Ram brand off, it allowed that division to...
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New Sports Car, 3-Series Rival And Chinese Plant In The Pipeline For JaguarJaguar's XF and new 2010 XJ sedans have made waves in the sport-luxury seas, bringing a newer, fresher face to what was once a bit of a stodgy lineup. Now it looks like Jaguar may be planning even more boat-rocking, with several new models in the pipeline including a sports car, a BMW 3-Series...
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Rendered: 2012 Volkswagen Passat WagonVolkswagen's next-generation Passat is expected to up the stakes against Germany’s luxury automakers, with the car’s designers hoping it will be mentioned in the same breath as the BMW 3-Series, Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi A4. Previous spy shots have revealed a longer wheelbase will be...
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McLaren Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of F1 SupercarMcLaren Automotive, the road car division of the McLaren motorsport group, is on the verge of launching its first all-new model in decades: the MP4-12C. It’s hard to believe that the company’s last model is now more than 20 years old. That’s right, the legendary McLaren F1 supercar has just...
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Spy Shots: 2011 Volkswagen JettaSales of the new 2010 Volkswagen Golf (MkVI) is picking up pace all around the country and considering the car’s solid feel, classy styling and German engineering, it’s easy to understand why. Oh, did we mention that it’s also available with a dual clutch transmission and a frugal turbodiesel...
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Automakers are finally catching on to the fact that there’s a lot of money to be made in the aftermarket business. Traditionally, the domain of tuning firms like Brabus, Mines and Hennessey,...
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Infiniti Performance Line (IPL) Trademarks Registered In U.S.Lexus has its “F-Sport” line of factory backed modifications and then there’s the “BMW Performance” range, and soon Infiniti will have its own range of performance accessories to help the automaker capture a piece of the lucrative aftermarket pie. The upmarket Nissan division has filed...
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New Zealand’s F1-Inspired Hulme CanAm Supercar Goes On SaleCaparo has shown how close you can get to the reality of driving a road-legal F1 car with its T1, and now New Zealand’s Hulme has revealed that development of its equally extreme CanAm Supercar has been completed. Hulme’s race car built for the road made its first public shake down test...
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Spy Shots: 2012 Hyundai AccentWith the new 2011 Hyundai Sonata already hitting the streets, and the next-generation Elantra just around the corner, attention now turns to Hyundai’s entry-level Accent, spied here in prototype form while testing in Germany. The all-new 2012 Hyundai Accent is due to arrive by the middle of next...
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Texas To Play Host To US GP In 2012America’s very own F1 team, the much-hyped USF1, may be out of the picture but that doesn’t mean motorsport’s top echelon won’t have a place here in the U.S. Indianapolis hosted its last US GP back in 2007, and North America eventually slipped off the calendar altogether with the demise of...
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Video: Building The 2011 Audi R8 SpyderAvailable with a screaming 5.2-liter V-10 engine with 525 horsepower and 391 pound-feet of torque on tap, the all-new 2011 Audi R8 Spyder is easily one of the most desirable drop-tops on the planet, so it’s only natural that meticulous care will be taken when building it. Production of the...
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We've brought you fun and entertaining videos from Jay Leno's Garage before, including smoky burnouts with the Corvette ZR1, the Porsche GT2 and even the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. So it goes...
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2007 And 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago Recalled For Potential Fuel LeakA replacement for the Lamborghini Murcielago is just around the corner, in fact near-complete prototypes for the new car can be seen here, but that doesn’t mean nobody is looking at the aging Murcie anymore. On sale since 2001, it wasn’t until now that a potential safety flaw was detected and a...
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Official: Volkswagen Buys 90.1 Percent Stake In Italdesign GiugiaroItaldesign-Giugiaro, based in Turin, is one of the most legendary automotive design houses in Italy and the company behind such icons as the original Volkswagen Golf, Audi 80, Lancia Delta and even the Hyundai Pony. The design house has had close links with Volkswagen since its founding back in...
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Radical Sportscars Builds 1,000th CarLow-volume British carmaker Radical is known for its potent track machines, such as the SR8 roadster, which can lap the Nurburgring in under seven minutes. Despite the recent global economic crisis, business has been booming because of the high-performance but low-budget nature of its cars, and now...
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2011 Audi A1 Flips On Halfpipe During Promo StuntIn the past Audi has driven cars up slippery ski ramps to demonstrate the prowess of its engineering skills, and for its latest A1 “premium compact” the stunt driving keeps coming. This time around Audi decided to take the new A1 on a skateboard halfpipe in Brussels to show off the car’s...
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Designer Envisages Audi A9 Four-Door Coupe FlagshipFour-door coupes seem to be all the rage these days. With Mercedes-Benz preparing a new generation of its CLS and the Aston Martin Rapide and Porsche Panamera winning praise all around the world, we now have a look at a potential design for an Audi four-door that looks much more sports car than...
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Despite Japan being one of the biggest automobile markets in the world, both for production and consumption, there were fears that the country’s prestigious Tokyo Motor Show could be canceled last...
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2011 BMW X3 Gets TeasedThe 2011 BMW X3 is expected to debut late next year as a 2011 model.
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2011 Ford Flex Titanium PreviewDespite the arrival of the new car-based 2011 Ford Explorer next year, Ford remains committed to its relatively new Flex ‘wagon-meets-crossover’. Both models are similar in size, are likely to share the same powertrains and will almost certainly be priced around the same, but both have a secure...
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Report: Porsche Taking 918 Spyder Hybrid Supercar To 2011 Nurburgring 24 HoursPorsche is serious about the development of its hybrid technology, which for now is limited to its new Cayenne SUV and 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car. One day, however, we could be seeing the ‘green’ technology filter across more models within the German sports car company’s lineup. Before that...
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Hennessey Rolls Out 1,000 Horsepower Chevrolet Camaro KitThought Hennessey’s LS9-packing 700 horsepower HPE700 was as extreme as Camaro tuning got? Think again because the Texan tuner is at it again and now offering mega 1,000 horsepower upgrades for the Chevy pony car. Called the HPE1000, the heart of Hennessey's latest kit is a 7.0-liter LSX V-8...
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Toyota To Invest In Tesla, Jointly Develop Electric VehiclesElectric vehicles are popularly perceived as the front-runner of the alternate fuel competition, but successfully developing EVs has proven to be a difficult and expensive task. To help share the burden and the expertise necessary to get an electric car to market, Japanese auto giant Toyota and...
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