Luxury Cars
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With the reveal of its Continental GT3 race car concept, Bentley is showing that it’s serious about returning to the motorsports arena. Although you’d never guess it from the automaker’s current product line, Bentley has a long and successful history in motorsports, including a win at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans just one decade ago. For Bentley, living up to the brand’s former glory is only part of the reason it's now considering a motorsports return. The other, and much more practical reason, is that racing can actually improve the breed of Bentley’s...
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Jaguar's F-Type Stars With Damian Lewis In 'Desire': Video
Automakers have gone a bit over-the-top in recent years, using stylistic videos to pitch their wares. While BMW’s The Driver series was a hit with fans and critics alike, Aston Martin’s promo for the Rapide, called True Power, was just plain bizarre and off the mark. To promote its new...
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McLaren P1 Supercar Spy Shots
Intended, in a way, to fill the role of the vaunted McLaren F1, the new P1 carries a lot of enthusiast baggage on its shoulders--not to mention the brand's (re-)nascent reputation as a leader in the extreme performance road car field. Will it live up to the hype? Quite possibly. As we saw at Paris...
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TMG’s Lexus LS-Based TS-650 Super Sedan Concept Debuts
Toyota Motorsport Gmbh (TMG), the independently run motorsports partner for Toyota and Lexus, has unveiled its first concept car intended primarily for road use. The concept is the new TMG Sports 650, which is based on a Lexus LS 460 sedan and is set to make its public debut this Friday at the 2012...
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2014 Jaguar XFR-S Bows At 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show: Video
The most powerful Jaguar sedan ever is ready for a world debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and the first photos have hit the Web just before its official reveal. The Jaguar XFR-S sedan counters the efficient new V-6s added to the luxury four-door's lineup with a blistering 550-horsepower...
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Rolls-Royce Presses Onward With Global Dealership Expansion
While the economy in Europe may be struggling, there is no shortage of wealth in the Asia-Pacific region, which has now surpassed North America in the the number of high-net worth individuals. In fact, the number of households exceeding $5 million in net worth will grow at three to five percent...
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BMW is working on a new sedan based on its latest 1-Series range that will be aimed at customers in sedan-loving markets such as the U.S. and China. It will compete against the upcoming 2014 Audi A3 Sedan and 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA Class, though won’t be available until the 2015 calendar year at the earliest. And, with its rivals destined to spawn their own performance variants, an S3 Sedan for Audi and a CLA45 AMG for Mercedes, BMW’s 1-Series sedan is likely to feature an M-tuned model. Instead of creating a dedicated M model, however, the new high-performance 1-Series sedan will...
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2014 Hennessey Venom GT2 Coming With More Than 1,500 HP: Update
Did you ever wonder how much fun a stretched Lotus Elise platform would be if you shoehorned in a twin-turbo Chevy LS V-8 engine? Tuner extraordinaire John Hennessey wondered the exact same thing, and hence the Hennessey Venom GT was born. As the car heads into its third year of production...
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Audi Mulls New Supercar Based On Diesel Hybrid Le Mans Racer
Audi has hinted at the launch of a diesel-powered supercar for the good part of a decade, with things really heating up when the company unveiled its R8 V12 TDI concept car in 2008. However, plans for a diesel-powered R8 were eventually abandoned, even though Audi would continue to develop...
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Just Two Bidders Left For Aston Martin: Report
Earlier this month news broke that Kuwait’s Investment Dar was looking to offload its 64 percent stake in Aston Martin. It was reported that Investment Dar was looking to attain at least $800 million for its share of the British sports car manufacturer and was in talks with a handful of...
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Audi Working On Lightweight Version Of Next-Gen TT
Audi is believed to be working on a lightweight version of its next-generation TT sports car built along the lines of the Porsche 911 GT3 and aimed at track enthusiasts. Designers are targeting a 2,200-pound curb weight for the car, which would make it one of the lightest sports cars on the market...
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Ferrari Expert Novitec Rosso Gets Its Hands On The F12 Berlinetta
The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta has only just started deliveries in Europe, but already the people at Novitec Rosso, the German experts at tuning Ferraris and other exotics, have got their hands on the car and prepared a first round of modifications. And yes, Novitec’s engineers have managed to...
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The world’s biggest Audi dealership, a terminal in Audi speak, has opened in Dubai, helping elevate the brand’s presence in a region where luxury sales continue to soar. And on hand to kick off the celebrations at the new Dubai Audi terminal was singer Jennifer Lopez. More than just a dealership, the bold architecture of the Audi terminals, with their folded aluminum facade and curved display areas, can now be seen in almost 400 locations around the globe. The first to open was the Sydney Audi terminal, which opened its doors in 2008. Visitors to the new Dubai Audi terminal will...
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Tesla Model S Price Rise On The Horizon
The Tesla Model S electric luxury sedan has been a runaway success, with the car praised by most that have driven it and order books already registering more than 13,000 sales. To take advantage of the strong demand, Tesla is in prime position to charge a little more for the Model S and that is...
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Report: BMW M1 successor will be called the M8
Mercedes-Benz has the SLS AMG, Audi has the R8, and even Lexus has its LFA, but BMW, a brand that prides itself on building some of the best driving machines on the planet, is without a dedicated sports car. That’s all set to change in 2014 when the automaker releases its i8 plug-in hybrid...
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TMG Teases Lexus LS-Based TS-650 Prototype Ahead Of Essen Debut
TMG, an official motorsports partner of Toyota and Lexus, has released some new teaser images of a high-performance Lexus LS prototype the company plans to unveil at the 2012 Essen Motor Show taking place in Germany at the end of this month. We previously brought you photos of a scale model of the...
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2013 Volvo V60 Diesel Plug-In Hybrid Begins Production
It's often hard to get excited about hybrid cars these days. The new sheen of the technology itself has worn off, leaving behind the dull and often tarnished statistics about gas mileage and savings--neglecting, of course, the purchase price penalty. But in the case of Volvo's V60 Diesel Plug-in...
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Acura Announces The Debut Of Its New Flagship, The 2014 RLX
On Wednesday, November 28, Acura will reveal the all-new 2014 RLX sedan to a crowd of assembled journalists at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Since the reveal happens during the show’s press days, the general public will have to rely on media coverage to see the new RLX before the show opens its...
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Talk of a large, rear-wheel-drive sedan for Alfa Romeo dates back several years, with the boss of Fiat Sergio Marchionne previously dismissing the project as being a low priority in light of Alfa Romeo’s long-awaited return to the U.S. With Alfa Romeo currently offering just two models worldwide, the MiTo and Giulietta hatchbacks, and sales of the crucial Giulia front-wheel-drive sedan long overdue, Marchionne is probably right to delay any plans for a new range-topping sedan, though that didn’t stop him from commenting recently on just such a car. When asked by Automotive News...
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2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS550 Models Recalled For Hood Latch Issue
Mercedes-Benz has announced the recall of 2012 model year CLS-Class four-door-coupes built between December 1, 2011 and December 13, 2011. At issue are the bolts holding the hood’s secondary latch striker, which may not have been torqued to the proper value. As a result, the bolts can loosen...
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New Lotus Esprit Supercar Close To Completion: Report
Since taking over Lotus’ parent company Proton last January, and in effect taking control of the British sports car manufacturer, Malaysian conglomerate DRB-Hicom has set about ousting Dany Bahar and the former CEO's overly ambitious plan for a six-model lineup, injecting some funds and...
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2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class Teased In New Video
UPDATE: The 2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class has been revealed. Click here for all the details. Mercedes-Benz will introduce its facelifted E Class range at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show in January, where we will get to see the latest evolution of the automaker's design language spearheaded by current...
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Audi Confirms Four New U.S. Diesels For L.A. Auto Show
If you love glow plugs and green-handled fuel pumps, get ready to love some new Audis. The German luxury carmaker will be bringing four new diesels for the U.S. market to the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show. The Audi A6, A7, A8, and Q5 will all get TDI "clean diesel" versions next week, joining the Q7...
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BMW Turns The M6 Into A Printing Press: Video
In it’s most elemental form, a rotary printing press consists of a cylinder that’s coated with ink, rolling across a sheet of paper. Though neither economical nor practical, it’s entirely possible to turn a car into a printing press, once you engineer a solution to spray the...
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