Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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The annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is where you'll find some of the most beautiful and exclusive cars on the planet, so the award for Best in Show is coveted indeed.
This year, that honor...
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Customize Your Dream 2013 Ford Mustang With Downloadable AppA downloadable app for customizing your dream Mustang is now available for the 2013 model.
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Forza Motorsport 4 August Playseat Car PackAnother month, another selection of automotive wonderment just begging to be downloaded by Forza Motorsport 4 racing gamers. The August Playseat car pack arrives on August 7, containing the usual mix of classics, rally cars, modern coupes and race cars. You can watch the trailer above to see some...
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Car Crashing Just Got A Lot More Fun... In VideogamesWe've all done it. You buy a new driving game, then win a few races, drive a few of the cars on a few of the circuits, and play around with a few settings. Then, you pick a car, pick a track and spend an entire race crashing into other cars, walls and anything else you can find to revel in the...
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BMW Updates ConnectedDrive Infotainment Tech For 2012BMW has revealed its list of improvements to its ConnectedDrive infotainment technology, set to debut in a variety of BMW and MINI models from this month. Already some of the most advanced in-car entertainment and information technology on the market, ConnectedDrive now features some entirely new...
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2013 Lexus GS 450h: First DriveWith a stylish new look and improved performance, there's not much to criticize on the new 2013 Lexus GS 450h.
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Very few people get to design cars for a living, and even fewer of those will pen the next supercar.
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2013 Opel Astra Sedan RevealedFollowing last month's spy shots, Europe's Opel Astra range is set to expand this fall with the 2013 Opel Astra Sedan. The new sedan joins the five-door hatchback, Sports Tourer station wagon and GTC coupe in the Astra range, before a convertible version also joins the ranks later this year. While...
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Scion FR-S Race Car Wins Class Victory At Nürburgring 24 HoursToyota is celebrating a triple victory at the 40th ADAC Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race, with wins for the new GT 86 sports car, known here as the Scion FR-S, in two classes the highlight of the automaker's campaign this year. A GT 86 run by GAZOO Racing won the SP3 class and finished 46th...
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2012 Tesla Model S Delivery Date Announced: June 22Palo Alto-based electric car company Tesla has announced the first examples of its upcoming 2012 Tesla Model S will reach customers on June 22. Tesla revealed a few weeks back that the first cars would arrive in June, and the electric sedan would deliver up to 350 miles of range at average speeds...
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Mitsubishi Unveils Pikes Peak Challenger: i-MiEV EvolutionThis year's Pikes Peak "Race to the Clouds" could well be a turning point for electric vehicles in motorsport. As well as the converted electric BMW M3, and mountain master "Monster" Tajima gunning for the overall record in an electric prototype, Mitsubishi has announced it's to run two electric...
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Magna Touchskin Tech: Turns Your Interior Into One Big iPodOnce the preserve of control panels on the Starship Enterprise, touch technology is now central to some of the most popular gadgets, including smartphones and satellite-navigation systems. It'll soon take over much of our car interiors too, says electronics firm Magna. The company has been working...
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The only certainty of electric car technology is that nobody is really certain of our future path.
Dozens of different battery technologies are under development all around the world to fix the...
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Forza Motorsport 4 May Top Gear Car PackIf you're a gamer and into racing titles, you'll know the rivalry between Forza Motorsport 4 on the Xbox 360 and Gran Turismo 5 on the PS3 is as intense as that between Ford and GM. Gran Turismo has always had the realism and car diversity, Forza the greater fun factor and better online play. With...
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Lexus Craftsmanship--Precision During Production: VideoThey say that the little things make all the difference. If that's the case, then the attention paid to the smallest details is probably why Lexus has the reputation it does for quality and reliability. As the video above shows, each component of each car is painstakingly inspected throughout...
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Bertone Builds Working Nuccio Concept For Beijing Auto ShowFirst unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, Bertone's striking Nuccio concept car will now be presented in updated form at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show taking place next week. While the Geneva car was simply a full-scale model, the one in China will be able to move under its own power--and it has...
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Try Before You Buy With Lexus Infotainment Emulator AppThey're in your home, in your phone and they've been in your car for several years now--we're talking about computers. High-tech on-board infotainment systems are certainly useful, but not always easy to fathom. That's why Lexus is letting customers try before they buy--by releasing the Enform...
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Design A Supercar Body, Win $3,500Supercars are utterly defined by two things. One is the engine. Be it the Bugatti Veyron's thousand horsepower, quad-turbocharged W16, or the screaming V12 of a Pagani Zonda, the engine is fifty percent of everything that matters about a supercar. The second, and the other fifty percent, is the...
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Canadian teen pop idol Justin Bieber is ludicrously popular.
He's sold millions of records, and has almost 20 million followers on Twitter. This would normally be great news for any carmaker whose... -
Scuderi Files Patent For 'Split-Cycle' EngineReal revolutions in engine technology are rare. By and large, the internal combustion engine has remained much the same for well over a century, with just general, incremental improvements in all areas separating today's engines from those in the very first automobiles. Scuderi's patented...
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Wooden Mercedes 300SL Replica: Break Out The Furniture PolishAs manufacturing becomes ever more automated, it's much easier to appreciate the work of traditional craftsmen, slaving over blocks of wood for hours on end and producing works of art entirely by hand. It certainly makes us appreciate the work that went into this teak, full-scale 1955 Mercedes-Benz...
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German Police Seize Vintage Mercedes From Classic Car ShowWe can't imagine quite what it's like to have almost $3.8 million of vintage 1937 Mercedes-Benz seized by foreign police, but Dutch car collector Frans van Haren can--because that's exactly what happened to him. After buying the 1937 Mercedes 500 K Roadster at RM Auctions for $3.767 million, Frans...
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How Forza 4 Recorded Its Loudest Car, The Mazda 787B: VideoThe Mazda 787B race car was an instantaneous legend. Driven to victory in the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hour race, it remains both the only Japanese car ever to win the race, and the only rotary-engined winner too. Perhaps even more than its shape, the defining characteristic of the 787B is its piercing...
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Google's Autonomous Car Driven Blind: VideoWe've talked about autonomous vehicles a lot in the past year or so, and as gearheads it's hard not to get wrapped up in the more negative aspects of the technology. If you love driving, the prospect of cars that drive themselves is a grim one. Driving is a skill you work hard to acquire, and...
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