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After a tough go of things last week, Avus Performance is trying to spring back with a new matte black Audi A5 dubbed simply the A5 Coupe Matte Black. Though it offers a healthy boost to the pulling...
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Max Mosley: F1 could live without Ferrari
Formula One could live without the sport's most famous, successful and longest-serving team, Max Mosley insists. The FIA president's disquieting comments come after war threatened to break out between the Paris body and Maranello-based Ferrari, enraged at the introduction of budget caps. The...
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Lotus offers new ‘Purist Edition’ Elise for U.S.
Finding ways to lure customers into dealerships - and once there, secure the sale - has rarely been harder for car companies. And that's why we see so many schemes afoot to do just that. Lotus is taking a tried and true approach to the situation, however, offering lots of features for less money...
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Jaguar-Land Rover announces plans for Indian sales
India has become an increasingly important player on the global car scene, with the rise of companies like Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra. Mahindra is poised to enter the American market for the first time this year and now Tata has announced its plans to take Jaguar and Land Rover into the...
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FIA raises 2010 F1 budget cap to £40 million, lifts minimum car weight
The figure for a voluntary budget cap in formula one next year has been increased by £10 million to £40 million. Announced on Thursday, it was ratified by the World Motor Sport Council in Paris a day earlier, while at the same time the maximum number of teams was increased by 1 to 13 for 2010. As...
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Spy shots: Next-gen BMW 6-series takes to the 'Ring
BMW’s next-generation 6-series isn’t due to arrive until late 2010 at the earliest as the current model was only given its mid-cycle facelift a little over a year ago. Prototypes of the new car, however, are already testing in Europe and have been captured by spy photographers for the...
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Subaru is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Legacy (Liberty) sedan with the unveiling of the all-new fifth-generation model this year. Subaru is renowned for its love-or-loathe approach to...
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Panasonic and Mitsubishi racing to bring Blu-ray players to car scene
Mitsubishi Electronics, part of the same global conglomerate as Mitsubishi Motors, has already developed a car Blu-ray disc player, but now the race is on with rival Panasonic to bring the product to market. Panasonic has just revealed its new car Blue-ray player that integrates GPS, Bluetooth, and...
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Rubens Barrichello and Niki Lauda heading to space with Virgin Galactic
Despite the fact that F1 cars reach speeds in excess of 300km/h fairly routinely, some race car drivers are always looking for something more extreme. Take former F1 driver Niki Lauda, for example. The three-time world champion has revealed that he plans to become an astronaut. Lauda announced...
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Poll: most Americans will buy a new American car within two years
Despite the troubles in Detroit and Washington for U.S. carmakers, almost three-quarters of the buying public say they'd buy American - and over half of U.S. consumers are in the market for a new car within two years, according to a recent survey. The news is a glimpse of silver lining in the cloud...
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Jay Kay's Enzo Gets Justice: Chef To Pay For Repair, Spend 5 Months In Jail
In what appears to be a recession-fueled craze sweeping the world, yet another high-end sports car was attacked by an angry individual, this time a Ferrari Enzo supercar owned by Jamiroquai lead singer and famous Top Gear guest Jay Kay. Over the past couple of months we’ve seen reports of...
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Bugatti unveils more ‘Centenaire’ special edition Veyrons
Early last month we revealed details about Bugatti's new special edition variant of the Veyron, the 'Bleu Centenaire'. Designed to mark the company's 100th anniversary, we thought that there could not possibly be any more special editions of the Veyron on the horizon, but at this past...
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When Audi released the RS4 back in 2005, few expected it to be a true competitor to BMW’s benchmark M3 coupe but with the benefit of quattro AWD, a high-revving V8, and better weight...
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Thrilling conclusion to scorching Bahrain GP
Jenson Button extended his lead in the drivers' world championship to 12 points over his Brawn teammate Rubens Barrichello, by winning the Bahrain grand prix in sweltering conditions earlier today. After also winning in Australia and Malaysia, the 29-year-old Briton said the victory - over Red...
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PhantASMA CL 65 AMG: tuning gone wrong
We've said it many times before, but sometimes tuners just don't know when to leave well enough alone. The Mercedes Benz CL 65 AMG is a well-turned-out and highly massaged car in its factory-tuned form. Dressing it up with pseudo DTM garb and odd bits from discarded industrial window treatments...
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Geely says Rolls Royce's copy claims are baseless
China's car industry is infamous for its tendency to 'borrow' details from European carmakers, often to the point where the word 'clone' is used with some accuracy. The latest car to catch legal heat for the practice: Geely's GE, a remarkably obvious take on the Rolls Royce Phantom. But Geely...
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Chocolate-powered race car capable of reaching 145mph
As bizarre it may sound a university team in the UK has developed an eco-friendly race car designed to run on chocolate and vegetable oil. The new race car is the ecoF3 from WorldFirst, a small team from Warwick University in the UK, which envisages the car – or at least some of its...
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Ultra-rare 1967 Ferrari 330 P4 up for auction
Another ultra-rare Ferrari collectible is up for sale, this time the legendary 967 Ferrari 330 P4 (chassis number 0858) race car that’s set to star at this year’s 'Ferrari Leggenda e Passione' event in Maranello, Italy. The car being sold by RM Auctions is in fact one of just three...
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Audi has pushed back the arrival of its next-generation A3 by one year as it tackles the development of several other all-new models such as the A1 hatch and Q3 soft-roader. Originally slated to...
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Al Melling working on V10-powered Wildcat
Some of you may remember Al Melling, a top engine designer and one of the bidders for the TVR nameplate some time ago. Since then, Melling started his own sports car company, creating custom British roadsters, usually with V8 engines, under the Wildcat model name. On top of this he also released an...
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New supercar club opens for race track enthusiasts
Most people would agree that driving a Lamborghini or Porsche on today’s roads is a bit like riding a racehorse around your garden, but for many owners of such exotics this is the only way they can experience the extreme machines. A newly formed supercar club based in the UK - but open to...
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2009 Race of Champions heading to Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium
Undoubtedly one of the most unique motorsports events out there, the annual Race of Champions (ROC) event sees drivers from usually incompatible forms of motorsport take each other on in a single race format - last year we got to see rallying legend Sebastien Loeb beat out champion F1 drivers...
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Brembo teams with Italian watchmaker for carbon-ceramic special edition
Watches and cars have shared a long history together. Something about the kindred spirit of precision, style and function of both endeavors finds an overlapping fanbase. Few watches exhibit that cross-pollination better than the Meccaniche Veloci Quattro Valvole CCM - a carbon-ceramic watch built...
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Rolls-Royce revives Ghost nameplate for upcoming RR4 sedan
Rolls-Royce is currently developing a brand new model positioned below the Phantom for launch in early 2010, which is expected to double the number of vehicles built by the ultra-luxury carmaker each year. Rolls-Royce has announced the name for its new model series which until now has been known as...
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