Joel Feder, Senior Producer
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Stepping out of the Archer Hotel in Napa Valley’s morning light, it’s hard to remember the lineup of gleaming white and black cars aren’t German. They are South Korean Kias, and...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk settles with SEC, fined $40M and will step down as chairmanTesla and its CEO Elon Musk settled a lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Saturday that will result in a $40 million fine and a new chairman of Tesla's board of directors. The lawsuit was filed after Musk claimed "funding secured" in tweet as he floated the idea of taking the...
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Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, Hennessey Venom F5, SEC sues Elon Musk: The Week In ReverseWe took a spin in the 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe; Hennessey revealed a goal of 311 mph for the Venom F5; and Mercedes-AMG named its hypecar. It's the week in reverse, right here at 'Motor Authority.' We slid behind the wheel of the 2019 Mercedes-AMG 4-Door Coupe and found it sets a new bar...
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Hennessey F5 Venom: Forget 300 mph, aiming for 311 mph; challengers welcomeThe race to 300 mph is officially on. Hennessey Performance Engineering plans to begin testing an F5 Venom prototype in 2019, with high-speed validation testing by the end of that year. "We believe our car is capable of going well beyond 300 mph," CEO John Hennessey said. What will enable the F5...
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2019 BMW Z4 power details revealed: More turbos, more power, no manualBMW released powertrain and performance specifications for the 2019 BMW Z4 on Tuesday, nearly a month after revealing the new two-seat roadster at Pebble Beach. Base Z4s, dubbed the Z4 sDrive30i Roadster, will be powered by a 2.0-liter turbo-4 with 255 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque. The...
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DOJ wants to know if Tesla CEO Elon Musk broke the law in going-private tweets
On August 7 Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted about taking the automaker private. While it may have seemed to slip out of the news, the tweet had not slipped the minds of federal agencies. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) now has an open investigation into...
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Mani Kulasooriya just wanted to build a capable off-road truck that wasn’t too flamboyant.
He failed miserably.
His one-of-a-kind 2006 Mercedes-Benz G500 pickup truck can’t turn a wheel...
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The real bandit, Burt Reynolds, dead at 82Actor Burt Reynolds died Thursday at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack in Florida, according to CNN. Best known in the automotive world for his role in the 1977 movie "Smokey and the Bandit," Reynolds was an instant icon associated with a black Pontiac Trans Am with a gold decal on its...
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Volkswagen was reportedly Tesla's backer to go privateVolkswagen may have offered to come to Elon Musk's rescue but the Tesla CEO turned down funding from the German automaker and others to take his company private, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Elon Musk started a circus Aug. 7 when he tweeted about taking Tesla...
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Elon Musk decides to keep Tesla public, board agrees
After a 17-day roller coaster, Tesla [NASDAQ: TSLA] CEO Elon Musk announced Friday via a blog post on the automaker's website that Tesla will remain a publicly traded company. The announcement comes more than two weeks after Musk tweeted his idea of taking Tesla private at $420 per share and said...
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2019 Acura NSX: New color, new options, new tireIt took Acura 15 years to bring back the NSX nameplate in 2017, but the Japanese automaker is giving the hybrid supercar an update after just two years. On Thursday Acura revealed the revised 2019 NSX at Monterey Car Week. It will take a keen eye to discern the 2019 NSX from earlier...
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Unique Mercedes Gullwing worth $1.9M stolen from outside Nürburgring hotelA unique custom 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing coupe was stolen a few days ago from outside a hotel near the famed Nürburgring race track in Germany. Police told British newspaper the Sunday Times that the car was stolen from outside the Dorint Hotel sometime between 1:30 and 10 a.m. on August...
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Elon Musk and Tesla continued to make headlines; we got our first taste of the 2019 Audi RS5 Sportback; and the 2020 Cadillac CT4 was spied. It's the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority.
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SEC subpoenas, board surprised, investor lawsuits: Tesla woes mounting?
A reported subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission may add to the long list of growing worries for Tesla and its embattled CEO Elon Musk that now includes potential investor lawsuits, federal inquiries, and reports that the automaker's board of directors may not have been fully briefed...
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Elon Musk says talks with Saudis led him to tweet "funding secured"
Tesla [NYSE: TSLA] CEO Elon Musk provided insight Monday behind his "funding secured" comment made last week when he floated the idea of taking the automaker private. Musk released a statement on Tesla's blog and wrote the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia approached him multiple times in the...
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Ferrari's profit, Chevrolet Corvette C8.R, Musk taking Tesla private: The Week In ReverseA new report revealed Ferrari's profit margin per car; the mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette C8.R was spotted; and Elon Musk floated the idea of taking Tesla private. It's the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. Tesla's CEO Elon Musk floated the idea of taking Tesla private on Twitter...
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Report: SEC inquired about Elon Musk's tweet regarding taking TSLA private
The Internet and financial industry weren't the only ones to take notice Tuesday when Tesla CEO [NYSE: TSLA] Elon Musk took to Twitter floating the idea of taking the automaker private. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that SEC investigators could be looking into a variety of violations...
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Elon Musk isn't kidding, Tesla board confirms TSLA could go private
Elon Musk disrupted multiple industries on Tuesday when the Tesla CEO [NASDAQ: TSLA] took to Twitter to float the idea of taking the Silicon Valley automaker private. Musk mused Tesla could be bought back at $420 per share. On Wednesday morning, multiple members of Tesla's board of directors signed...
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Update: 3:53 pm EST: Tesla stock is now trading again. It opened today at $341.99 and is up 10.61 percent at $378.26 currently.
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Update 3:44 pm EST: Tesla...
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Hennessey's Demon, Milan Red, $5.5M worth of cars crushed: The Week In ReverseHennessey unleashed its 1,035-horsepower Dodge Demon; an Austrian startup wants to take on the world with a new supercar; and $5.5 million worth of cars were crushed in the Philippines. It's the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. For those who feel the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon's 840...
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New website connects professional racing coaches with enthusiastsWant to rent a house in Michigan for the weekend? No problem, go to AirBnB and in a few clicks can have you in a lovely cottage on a lake. Looking to find a professional racing coach to sit right-seat during a track day or to help with launch timing at the dragstrip? A new website called...
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Lamborghini Aventador SVJ, Sergio Marchionne, Yenko/SC Corvette: The Week In ReverseLamborghini set a new Nürburgring record; former FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne died; and Specialty Vehicle Engineering unveiled a powerful Corvette. It's the Week in Reverse, right here at 'Motor Authority.' Lamborghini bested the Porsche 911 GT2 RS's street-legal production car lap record at the...
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The Keen Project Safari 911 first drive review: a time machine for any adventureChad was running late, and we were already pressed for time. This entire plan was rushed and slapped together via a phone call and a few text messages over the weekend. The Keen Project Safari 911 build No. 2 by former race car driver Lehman Keen was in Minneapolis for a short time to celebrate...
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Interview: Lehman Keen, the man behind The Keen Project Safari 911Lehman Keen is best known for building Safari Porsche 911s, but before that he was a professional race car driver with a childhood that revolved around Porsches. Naturally, his racing career mostly centered on Porsches, and at one point he worked for Hurley Haywood. Like everything in life, there...
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