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The twin-turbocharged Hennessey HPE700 Corvette Stingray boasts 708 horsepower.
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Circuit Of The Americas, LaFerrari On The 'Ring, Cabrera Spits Fire: This Week's Top Photos
Is the Audi SQ5 a bona fide performance model, or is it a great pretender? The answer, as we found out this past week in a couple hundred miles over some challenging roads in Western Colorado, is that it's a little bit of both. Like many other Italian cars, Lamborghinis are often known not only for...
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The Alfa Romeo 4C Is Even More Beautiful Than You Thought: Mega-Gallery
There's no doubt that the Alfa Romeo 4C is a technological standout in the compact sports car class, and a relative bargain even at a projected price somewhere north of $75,000. But it's also incredibly good-looking. Like, really, really good-looking. Even with the weird spider-eye headlight units...
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Porsche Black Edition Photo Contest Winners: Gallery
There's no denying the simple, elegant statement made by a sleek black sports car. Porsche took a stab at celebrating that fact by holding a photo contest for its Black Edition cars, and the results are stunning. These are the eight winning photos from the contest. The "photos" were taken through a...
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Reader Pic: When Your Segway Isn't Enough, Get Smart
This driver's urban ultra-mobility cocktail is made of one part Smart car and one part all-terrain Segway. It also has a dash of crazy, for flavor. We're not exactly sure what's going on here, except that we kind of like it and kind of hate it all at once. Perhaps that has something to do with the...
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MotorAuthority's Top 5 Photo Galleries Of 2010
With just hours left in 2010, we're all gearing up for holiday parties, dinners, or dates. But if you have some time to kill this evening, we've got the perfect distraction: our top five photo galleries of the year. These are the galleries our readers visited most, and--with one exception--it's...
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The 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon made the cut for TheCarConnection's Best Car to Buy 2011 competition, though the new Hyundai Sonata passed it for the top honors. But with an overall score of 8.5 out of 10 riding on last year's TSX sedan, we're expecting great things from the Sport Wagon in our first drive tomorrow. This week, we're getting our first shot behind the wheel of the new family hauler outside of San Francisco. Before our first drive, we're bringing you a batch of new TSX Sport Wagon photos just issued by Acura. The new wagon looks good in person--and now you can see it in two...
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New Photos: 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman
The 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman is on its way to America--and this week, it's on its way across America with the cross-country MINI Takes the States owners' rally. We showed you the Countryman earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show, and yesterday, we hopped on as a co-driver for the Countryman...
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Photo Gallery: MINI Takes the States
It's part road rally, part charity drive--and this week for nearly 3000 MINI Cooper derivatives and their dedicated owners and fans, it's a chance to let MINI rule the road. While you're tussling with Excel spreadsheets or being micromanaged into insanity, thousands of MINI maniacs are heading...
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Video: Valentino Balboni discusses Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2
The RWD Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni was just officially revealed a month ago, and now the company has released a video documenting Balboni's involvement with and influence on the car's design process, and how it reflects his 40 years of test-driving experience. At just shy of...
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Preview: Mercedes Benz SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’
The successor to the Mercedes Benz SL Gullwing (and replacement for the SLR) has been spotted in prototype form in and around Germany’s Nurburgring test circuit for several months now, but what only a select few knew is that the car is being developed completely in-house by Mercedes’...
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More details on Mercedes’ all-electric SLS gullwing
Not only is the horsepower war not over - contrary to AMG's own declaration last year - the latest reports say it has moved into a whole new range of armaments: electric vehicles. The latest development is a possible all-electric powertrain for the 2011 Mercedes Benz SLS AMG, which is expected to...
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Modern supercars have pushed the envelope of performance so far that they require all sorts of technology to keep the average driver from instantly destroying themselves and the car. Hence all-wheel drive to deliver the power, self-shifting transmissions and, of course, traction and stability control. But to the hardcore driver, all of that stuff just gets in the way. Enter the Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2. Though it's still completely unofficial, photos of a car purporting to bear that model name surfaced yesterday and now we have the first spy shots of an actual prototype testing at the...
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Ford Mustang’s glass roof option reappears for 2010, joined by GT Convertible
Just in time for summer, Ford has added its panoramic glass roof option to its restyled 2010 Mustang Coupe alongside the convertible version of the V8-powered Mustang GT, both of which are now on sale in showrooms across the country. The glass roof is made of tinted privacy glass and features a...
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2010 Mustang officially priced to start under $21,000
The 2010 Ford Mustang was revealed in full detail at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, but today Ford released official pricing on the new pony car. Featuring a completely new exterior, thoroughly updated cabin, and a refined engine lineup, the facelifted car is primed to take on the still-new Dodge...
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Pre-production Camaro assembly line photos released by GM
General Motors announced it would delay production of the new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro by a month in mid-January, but photos released today reveal cars being built on an assembly line in Oshawa, where production will eventually take place. The full-scale production run isn't expected to start until...
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Supercharged XFR is the fastest Jaguar ever at 225mph
Built to rival BMW's M5, Mercedes Benz's E63 AMG and Audi's RS6, the new Jaguar XFR looks every inch the true rival in these latest shots. Jaguar has revealed that the XFR has the performance to back up its striking looks, with the company announcing today that they recorded a top speed of...
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2010 Ford Mustang pricing leaked ahead of L.A. Auto Show debut
Click here for all the details on the 2010 Ford Mustang. With rising fuel prices and increased environmental concerns pushing customers towards smaller cars, Ford is well aware of the negative image its brawny Mustang projects on new car buyers. Due late next year for the 2010 model year, Ford will...
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The all-new Chevrolet Camaro was unveiled in July at GM's Design Center, but until now the high-performance SS variant had remained unofficial - despite numerous official photos being released. The wait for the car's official confirmation is over, however, and as expected it will feature a stomping V8 and and the already well-known exterior upgrades. New interior shots reveal the car's dramatic and shiny elements, however. Though the unveiling has yet to be officially noted on the company's website, and no official photos yet exist of the event or the car's interior, forum goers at Camaro5...