Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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At $59,995, the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is one of the performance bargains of our era. For the price of an optioned-up six-cylinder sedan from one of the established luxury marques, Dodge...
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Nissan's Crowd-Sourced Project Titan Revealed: VideoCrowd-sourcing is the new buzzword in the auto industry. In the age of social media, it's a way of letting thousands of people interact with large and otherwise impenetrable companies, and perhaps influence the design of a few models to a far greater degree than any focus group of days past. MUST...
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Gold-Plated Aston Martin DB5 Model Set For Charity AuctionThe price of Aston Martin DB5s has long left the reach of mere mortals, but if you don't mind not being able to drive it this DB5 up for auction soon could be a worthy alternative. The third-scale replica of James Bond's iconic DB5 is up for auction with Christie's and as its color suggests, honors...
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Hybrid Air Tech Edges Closer To Production Reality With Peugeot 208 ConceptThe number of drivetrains available to car buyers has never been so diverse. Gasoline, diesel, natural gas, electric and all manner of hybrid vehicles are available right now—and French automaker Peugeot intends to add to the latter with its innovative 'Hybrid Air' technology. Peugeot...
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2016 Volvo XC90 First Edition Sells Out In Two DaysVolvo, a maker of some hugely competent cars and with Polestar badges on the trunk, some rather brisk and wholly desirable ones. But not, you'd think, the sort of cars to trigger a sales rush. That isn't the case with the 2016 Volvo XC90, whose First Edition, limited to 1,927 individually-numbered...
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Peugeot Reveals 308 GT Hot Hatchback, Diesel GT Wagon TooMost people associate the acronym GTI with Volkswagen, but French automaker Peugeot has a long and possibly even more illustrious history with those three letters than even VW. GTI has graced the rump of some of the best-ever hot hatchbacks (and even a few sedans, in the 1980s) and more recently...
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Once the preserve of race cars, you can now get carbon fiber on everything from dashboard trim to key fobs. But its light weight gives it far more potential than decorative objects, as Carbon...
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Limited Run Of Ian Callum's Jaguar Mark 2 To Be Built After AllWe've lost count of the number of times automakers have claimed they wouldn't build a car and then built it anyway after seeing the potential market. The same clearly happens in the realm of bespoke classic car conversions, as Classic Motor Cars Limited (CMC) has announced it will produce a limited...
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Maserati MC12 Has Still Got It, Noisily Laps VIR: VideoYou'd think that the kind of hypercars making their debuts over the last few years would have rendered cars like Maserati's MC12 dull and old-fashioned, but the latest video from Maserati (via AutoEmotionenTV) shows that couldn't be further from the truth. If anything, the race-prepared MC12 GT1...
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Audi Opens Driving Experience Center In GermanyIn the past, a driver buying a high-performance car would be handed the keys and then off on their merry way, to experience for themselves the performance of their vehicle... with occasionally destructive results. Now, it's not uncommon for companies like Porsche and BMW to offer driving...
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Arnie's Custom Unimog Goes Up For SaleSome people just don't look right in regular cars. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of those people. The man who made a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy look small in Terminator 2: Judgement Day has counted a HumVee, a Unimog and even a tank among his personal vehicles, all of which seem strangely appropriate...
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Flower Power Helps Horsepower With Dandelion-Based TiresDandelions are something of a garden pest, their yellow petals springing up everywhere you don't want them. As you might have noticed when snipping off their heads or digging out their roots though, the common garden weed secretes a milky white fluid—one which Dutch biologist Ingrid van der...
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Automakers are often at their best when trying something new and breaking free of industry norms, but Infiniti's drive-by-wire steering system, optional on the Q50S sedan, is very much not one of...
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Corvette Museum Filling Sinkhole, Three Damaged Corvettes To Be RestoredFor car fans, it wasn't an easy sight to see: Several of the world's rarest Corvettes, resting in a crumpled heap at the bottom of a large sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Now, the future is looking brighter for three of those Corvettes, which General Motors...
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Huracán Takes On A Jet, Is Now A Proper Lambo: VideoThe internet is great for all sorts of things, but is a wonderful resource if you happen to love watching races between Lamborghini supercars, and fighter jets. In its latest battle, the Gallardo-replacing Lamborghini Huracán takes on a Sukhoi Su-27 'Flanker', an enormous twin-engine Russian...
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'Unleashed' T-Shirt Line Celebrates Start Of 2015 Ford Mustang ProductionIt's official: Production of the 2015 Ford Mustang is now underway, and units will soon be making their way not just onto the North American market but countries worldwide. While the best way to celebrate and show your support for the new Mustang is to actually buy one, not everyone has the...
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Ian Callum's Jaguar Mark 2 Finally Revealed: Video
Ian Callum has been responsible for some of the most beautiful cars on the roads over the last few decades, but the Jaguar and former Aston Martin designer has a healthy appreciation for the brand's back-catalogs, too. For Callum, as with many Jaguar fans, the Mark 2 of 1959 to 1967 is a particular...
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Brabus Business Lounge Concept Debuts At Moscow Auto ShowVans aren't the most glamorous means of transportation, but there are exceptions to every rule. German Mercedes-Benz tuning firm Brabus has used this week's 2014 Moscow Auto Show to launch its latest project, the Brabus Business Lounge concept. Based on the Mercedes Sprinter van, the Business...
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We're now less than a week away from the official reveal of the all-new 2016 Mazda MX-5, which takes place a quarter of a century after the very first model made its debut in 1989. The rumor mill is...
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Toyota Boss Akio Toyoda Takes ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: VideoIt's not easy to look dignified as someone pours a bucket of ice and water over your head, but Toyota president Akio Toyoda manages better than most. Toyoda's dunking is all in the name of the globally-recognized 'Ice Bucket Challenge' for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, known by its acronym ALS and...
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Jay Leno Drives Iconic '32 Ford Roadster In Latest VideoIf someone mentions the term "hot rod", the image that forms in your head probably isn't dissimilar from the '32 Ford Highboy Roadster you see here. Jay Leno drives said roadster in his latest video and as the car's restorer Bruce Meyer explains, it pretty much matches that image of the perfect hot...
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Toyota surprises with Land Cruiser 70 re-releaseIf you want to buy a classic vehicle re-manufactured brand new by the original automaker, you currently have two options. One is to spend well over a million dollars on one of the six brand-new Jaguar E-Type lightweight coupes being built. The other is to buy a brand new 1980s-era Toyota Land...
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New Corvette Already Popular, Hugely Outsells Previous ModelWhen an automaker launches a new car, particularly one as iconic as the Chevrolet Corvette, it takes a risk. Will people actually buy it? Will customers be turned off by the new styling? Or has the market simply moved on to something new? If General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] had any concerns...
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Pioneering Volvo PV444 Turns 70Drivers of a certain age will most likely associate Volvo with its boxy wagons of the 1980s and 1990s. But its earlier cars were anything but boxy, and one that used curves to great effect was the PV444 of 1944. Launched on September 1 of that year, the PV444 celebrates its 70th anniversary next...
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