Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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The big luxury automakers have been engaged in a power war for decades now. Jaguar gave its 1990s XJR 370 horsepower so BMW made a 400-horse M5. Merc and Audi went better than that so BMW made a...
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Nissan Vice President Andy Palmer Brings Out His Inner Car Guy At Goodwood: VideoNot all companies can boast car guys at the top management levels, but Nissan vice president Andy Palmer seems to count himself among that crowd in Nissan's latest Goodwood Festival of Speed video. That may be strange to hear, given Palmer's apparent distaste for the Toyota 86, Scion FR-S and...
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HondaJet Aircraft Takes Its Maiden FlightHonda is as much known for its engines as it is vehicles, and it seems to matter little what those engines actually go in. Sporty little Civic? No problem. Crazy six-cylinder, 250cc 1960s Grand Prix bike? Yep. Ride-on lawn mower? That too. Honda also does aircraft, and its first one, the HondaJet...
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1954 Ferrari 375-Plus sells for $18.3 million at GoodwoodRare is the classic car auction where 1950s Ferraris [NYSE:RACE] don't hit seven-figure sums these days, but an eight-figure number still has the impact to raise eyebrows. The latest to do so is a 1954 Ferrari 375-Plus, selling for $18.3 million at a Bonhams auction held at the recent Goodwood...
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FIA And Gran Turismo To Launch Digital Championship?The lines between the real and the virtual are becoming ever blurred in motor sport, particularly since gamer-turned-racers like Lucas Ordóñez and Jann Mardenborough made their marks on the sport. Both drivers, along with several others, won Sony, Polyphony Digital and Nissan's Gran...
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MG Shows Off MG3 Trophy Hot Hatch ConceptIt's probably fair to say that the last few decades haven't been great for the MG brand. Perhaps with cars like the MG3 Trophy Concept the once-famous British sports car brand has a brighter future ahead of it. The MG3 Trophy is quite appropriate for the brand's more recent history, in fact, since...
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Ferrari likes to keep its fans happy. Mostly that involves simply being Ferrari, producing and racing cars and selling all manner of merchandise, but occasionally it means releasing a special video...
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Mercedes E-Class Drives 1,223 Miles On A Single Tank: VideoWhat's the furthest you've ever driven on a single tank of gas? 300 miles? 400? 500 even? With modest fuel tank sizes and so-so economy, most cars sold in the U.S. won't go a great deal further than this. Some of the special diesel models sold in Europe will though, and a model that's certainly...
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Jaguar Project 7 Production, 2014 Ferrari 458 Spider Driven, #GiveAShift: The Week In ReverseJaguar confirms production of its F-Type based Project 7, we drive the 2014 Ferrari 458 Spider, and we're asking you to #GiveAShift--it's the week in reverse, right here at Motor Authority. Ferrari has revealed all the details on its latest specially-built, limited-run model--the F12 TRS. It's an...
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Steve McQueen's 'Le Mans' movie Porsche 917 up for saleThe 1971 movie Le Mans is essential viewing for anyone with gasoline in their veins. It's a turgid, plot-less nightmare for everyone else, but if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that Steve McQueen, the Tag Heuer Monaco watch he wears, and the Porsche 917 he drives are all effortlessly...
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Detroit Electric Announces Further Details, U.K. ProductionThe reborn Detroit Electric is becoming a truly global automaker—at least in terms of its conception and production. The firm still lists its headquarters in Motor City itself, but now has a European base in the Netherlands and has announced that production will take place in Leamington Spa...
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Lamborghini Huracán Stars In Forza Horizon 2: VideoBefore the days of licensed vehicles, racing video games used to display some kind of generic action scene on the box art. Nowadays, the world's automakers clamor for spots on the cover of games like Gran Turismo and Forza, the latter of which has a new star car: Lamborghini's Huracán LP...
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Picture the Ariel Atom in your head. Not difficult, is it? The car's skeletal structure is its defining feature, and that work of engineering art unsurprisingly finds its way onto the company's new...
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Lexus Picks 'Solar Flare' As Crowdsourced RC F ColorOrder a 2015 Lexus RC F in bright metallic orange, and at least five random individuals on the streets of the U.K. will be happy--as that color is known as Solar Flare, and those five people helped name it from hundreds of other suggestions. The Lexus U.K. Facebook page posed the question earlier...
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Daihatsu Copen Sports Car Revealed In All Its (Tiny) GloryJapan's strict kei car regulations, designed to get around some of the country's inherent automotive issues--lack of space, lack of parking, expensive gas--typically breed small, upright boxes where space is maximized and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ALSO SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best...
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Overfinch Tunes The Latest Range Rover SportYou can barely move for customized Range Rovers in trendy city districts these days, but Overfinch was tuning the British SUVs long before it was fashionable to do so. The company has now turned its attention to the automaker's latest product, the Range Rover Sport. DON'T MISS: #GiveAShift: The 7...
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Drifter Ken Gushi To Pilot Scion FR-S At Pikes PeakScion is turning to someone familiar with both the car and course as it mounts a challenge on this year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, drift star Ken Gushi. MUST SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manuals Transmissions You Can Drive Gushi won last year's Exhibition Auto Class at Pikes Peak...
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Special BMW M4 Coupe And M5 30 Jahre Edition Headed To GoodwoodThe Goodwood Festival of Speed gets bigger and better every year, and there's no better sign of this than how many automakers use the show to launch special versions of their hottest performance models. This year it's the turn of BMW, which is marking the show with the debut of a 30th anniversary...
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Poor Infiniti. It can slap its badge on as many race-winning Formula One cars as it likes and get a multiple F1 champion to sign off a V-8-powered SUV, but it's still not blessed with a particularly...
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GM's Design Chief Stars Alongside Its Cars In Transformers 4 MovieAside from vehicles turning into robots and obligatory Michael Bay lens flare, the Transformers movie franchise is perhaps best known for each installment being a two-hour long advertisement for General Motors vehicles. Okay, maybe that's a bit unfair. But Bumblebee, the movie's chief non-human...
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2015 Ford Mustang Offers Glovebox Knee Airbag, Seven Others: VideoPeople crashing their brand-new muscle cars is as much a universal constant as the arrow of time and the speed of light. At least when the inevitable happens, and photos of said crash end up all over the internet, the owner will take solace that their new 2015 Ford Mustang is the safest the company...
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Carice Sports Car Is Like A Tiny Electric Porsche 356Do you ever wonder whether cars are getting too aggressive these days? From sports cars to sedans, everything needs to look angry, with headlight and grille designs seemingly styled to shovel up other vehicles and deposit them in a ditch at the side of the road. CHECK OUT: Official Details On The...
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Detroit Electric Sports Car Is Still Here, Now TestingIt's easy to be cynical of startup companies. They enter the industry, guns blazing, trying to convince us all that their product will change how we look at cars, or internet shopping, or toasters, and most then quickly vanish never to be seen again. You'd be forgiven for thinking Detroit Electric...
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BMW M4 Laps The 'Ring In Under 8 MinutesBMW's new M4 coupe has become the latest car to score a sub-8 minute lap at the infamous Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany. At the hands of Horst von Saurmer from German magazine Sport Auto, a production M4 lapped the 12.93-mile circuit in a time of 7:52. CHECK OUT: $4.2 Million Ferrari F12...
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