Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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As the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race draws ever closer—now just three weekends away—Porsche has revealed even more details of its 919 Hybrid endurance racer. Not only is the car...
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Volvo Celebrates 60th Anniversary Of Its First Sports Car, The Sport P1900You've probably never heard of the Volvo Sport P1900 before. The beautiful P1800 coupe or the handsome Amazon have probably registered on your car-guy radar, but in 1954, Volvo produced just 68 units of the Sport P1900—a chic convertible that pointed the way for the more popular P1800 in the...
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MG Eyes New Sports Car, U.S. ReturnThe old MG car company is best known for its lightweight, open-topped sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s, but since 2006 the brand has been owned by Chinese firm SAIC. Now, SAIC has plans to return MG to its sports car heyday—and could even bring cars to the U.S., if conditions are right...
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Brabus Reveals Upgrades For Mercedes-Benz GLA-ClassIf you like Mercedes-Benz cars but find the brand's own AMG line isn't quite fast or eye-catching enough, you've probably heard of Brabus. The Bottrop-based tuner modifies Smarts to S-Classes and everything in between—and now it's turned its attention to the brand-new GLA-Class crossover...
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2015 BMW i8 Tech Highlights Revealed: VideoIf you bought a 2015 BMW i8 based on its styling alone, we'd not begrudge you for it. While BMW's i3 has gone for high-tech and futuristic styling, the i8's designers added some good, old-fashioned beauty to the plug-in hybrid sports car. MUST SEE: Pagani Huayra From The Driver's Point Of View...
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1956 Maserati 450 S named Best in Show at Villa d’EsteConcorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is one of the world's premier classic and vintage car events, and visitors can be assured that any vehicle coming away with a trophy is among the best in the world. MUST SEE: Pagani Huayra From The Driver's Point Of View: Video This year, that honor goes...
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When Mercedes-Benz showed off the G63 AMG 6x6, many declared it the ultimate iteration of the venerable "G-Wagen"--more wheels, more luxury and more power than ever before. We all forgot one thing,...
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Ryan Hunter-Reay Wins 2014 Indy 500Ryan Hunter-Reay took his second win of the 2014 IndyCar season at the weekend, emerging victorious in the 98th running of the famous Indianapolis 500. Hunter-Reay, driving the DHL Honda for Andretti Autosport, has become the first American to win the event since 2006, snatching the lead from Helio...
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BMW Individual Designs M6 For DTM RacerWe're sure there are downsides to being a professional racing driver, but it's fair to say the upsides probably cancel these out somewhat. You get paid to drive cars quickly around race tracks, for a start, but the jet-set lifestyle, adoration from fans around the world and healthy income can't be...
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2014 BMW i3's EPA-Rated MPG And Range RevealedThe 2014 BMW i3 is quite unlike any other car BMW has produced in its history, and the same can be said of its efficiency figures. Those have now been revealed for the i3's optional range-extended model, and like its all-electric brother it's one of the most-efficient cars on the roads. DON'T MISS...
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New Aeroboat Revealed With Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12If there's one thing more satisfying than a Rolls-Royce car, it's a Rolls-Royce engine. A Merlin engine, specifically, of the sort that once powered Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes and all manner of other fighter aircraft and bombers during the second World War. ALSO SEE: 2015 Audi A7 And S7 Preview...
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Lexus Aimed For Best-In-Class Dynamics When Designing The 2015 NX: VideoIt's quite common for automakers to buy examples of competitors' vehicles for benchmarking when they're developing new cars. Only a foolish company would ignore when others are onto a good thing—such as the luxury compact crossover market, populated by BMWs, Audis and Mercedes-Benzes. Lexus...
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The greatest fuel efficiency gains can be made on the least efficient vehicles. Improve a 15 mpg car by 5 mpg, and you've raised its gas mileage a third—find a similar 5 mpg improvement on a 50...
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Mercedes Auctions S63 AMG Coupe For Charity At Cannes Film FestThe annual Cannes Film Festival isn't just a place to screen the latest movies and rub shoulders with the stars, but a fabulous opportunity for advertising your latest wares. Mercedes-Benz is doing just that this year, but is doing so for charity—by auctioning an S63 AMG Coupe for the benefit...
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Non-Satellite GPS Could Soon Be A ThingThe "quantum compass" sounds like something Dr Who might use, or a 1990s special edition car name. In actuality, it's the name of a new device under development with the British military to allow GPS-style navigation in submarines without the use of satellites. The big news here is that GPS itself...
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BMW Brings In Hollywood Director For i8 Sports Car Ads: Video
So you've developed a flashy new plug-in hybrid sports car, and now you need to advertise it. Self-deprecating is a no-no, as people may not take the new technology seriously. Artful weirdness has its place, but that's not appropriate either. And while the car is fast, footage of it screaming along...
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Enzo Ferrari Biopic Close To ApprovalFew car companies are as famous as Italian sports car builder Ferrari, and few company bosses as charismatic as its founder, Enzo Anselmo Ferrari. And "il Commendatore" could soon get hits own movie biopic, following in the footsteps of Ayrton Senna, and F1 racers James Hunt and Nikki Lauda in the...
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Fisker’s New Owner: I’ll Burn As Much Cash As It Takes To SucceedIf one thing is needed more than any other to succeed in the automotive industry, it's money. A good product helps too, but money is the difference between that product reaching the audience it needs to, and disappearing without a trace. For Wanxiang Group, the Chinese concern that won the Fisker...
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The Volvo V60 Polestar, we were told before getting behind the wheel for the first time, should not be judged against traditional competitors. Instead, says Volvo, it should be judged on the smile...
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Blancfleet Makes Supercar Rental Affordable With CrowdfundingMost of us can't afford to buy the supercar of our dreams. And realistically, most of us can't afford the thousands of bucks it requires to hire one or join a supercar club with regular access to the world's fastest vehicles either. ALSO SEE: Seller Rejects Million-Dollar Offer For Ferrari 575 GTZ...
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Seller Rejects Million-Dollar Offer For Ferrari 575 GTZIf someone offered you a million bucks for your car, you'd take it, right? Well, you probably would if the car in question was your beat-up old Honda Civic and the man with the money had momentarily taken leave of his senses, but in the rarefied world of coachbuilt cars it isn't so simple. DON'T...
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New Rolls-Royce Phantom To Debut In Three Years, Offer Plug-In OptionRolls-Royce has reportedly started work on a replacement for its Phantom flagship sedan, due to appear on the roads in the next three years. It will feature a new take on Rolls-Royce's familiar design language, while offering technology not yet seen on any production Rolls-Royce--including an...
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Production VW Golf R 400 May Offer 400-Plus Horsepower: ReportYou needn't look little further than the humble Volkswagen Golf as to how far performance cars have come in recent years. Back in 1975, the most powerful Golf you could buy was the 108-horsepower GTI. By 1998, 33 years later, the Mk4 GTI had crept to just 150 horses. Fast forward another sixteen...
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Future Polestar Volvos To Offer Diesel And Hybrid OptionsVolvo's Polestar performance brand doesn't have the heritage of BMW M or Mercedes-AMG, but what it lacks in history it makes up for in style, performance and plenty of bright blue paint. It's also going to offend very few with the news it's looking to diesel and hybrid powertrains in an effort to...
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