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Semi-official Holden tuner HSV has built its name on the back of V-8-powered rear-wheel-drive muscle cars. The company takes the stock Holden Commodore and performs various upgrades, with some of its models even sporting the 580-horsepower supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 borrowed from the...

Garage Italia Customs, the vehicle customizing business started last year by Fiat heir Lapo Elkann, has teamed up with BMW to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the automaker’s official presence in Italy. The result of the partnership is this psychedelic i8 plug-in hybrid sports car, which...

One lucky enthusiast now has a very special Porsche among his or her collection. This is the only Porsche 911 GT1 race car to be converted for street use, and it was just sold at an RM Sotheby's auction in Monaco for €2.77 million (approximately $3.14 million). Handling the conversion was...

Remember Zolland Design’s retro conversion for the latest Porsche 911? The Swedish design skunk works now has a new, much more ambitious conversion, this time for the fifth-generation Mercedes-Benz SL-Class. The conversion turns the car into a classic-styled model resembling the hugely...

A Ford dealership in Lebanon, Ohio may just be offering the deal of the century. Lebanon Ford is currently offering new Mustang GTs equipped with a 727-horsepower Roush Phase 2 supercharger upgrade all for just $39,997. DON'T MISS: 2018 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 prototype crashes on the ‘Ring...

Prices for older Porsche 911s have risen along with those of numerous other classics as more and more purchases are made with a view for investment rather than purely interest or collectability. This has seen new businesses that focus on making modern 911s resemble the classics flourish. One of the...

A convertible version of the 2016 Lexus LX 570 has shown up at a dealership in Dubai. According to its listing on UAE Sale, the vehicle is priced at approximately $353,000 and has zero miles on its odometer. ALSO SEE: Pagani Huayra BC lands in U.S., sounds mean It’s not clear what company...

You should make this into your ring tone. Like, right now. Listening to a Dodge Viper ACR with a straight-pipe exhaust rev its big V-10 engine is probably the reason you're a car enthusiast. We're not entirely sure of the back story on this video, but that doesn't really matter when there's a...

Every year, Volkswagen unveils a barrage of concept cars at the Wörthersee GTI love-fest in Austria. Since 2008, that's included at least one car built by a group of apprentices. This year, two groups of trainees turned up with a modified GTI and Golf R Variant wagon. The GTI is called...

Gumball 3000 regulars Team Galag has brought out possibly its best vehicle yet for this year’s rally, currently underway in Europe. Having previously brought us a custom car based on a Nissan GT-R as well as a pretty convincing Tumbler Batmobile replica, the Saudi Arabian duo have now come up...

If the already luxurious (not to mention ostentatious) Cadillac Escalade isn't quite enough, California coachbuilder Lexani Motorcars has a new option: The piano-inspired Escalade Sky Captain. Decked out in black and white inside, with hints of 24 carat gold trim, the Sky Captain is designed to...

Smart used this week’s 2016 Beijing Auto Show to roll out some Brabus-enhanced versions of its ForTwo and ForFour minicars. We’re not talking about the simple appearance packages we saw earlier in the year—this time there’s more power plus some chassis mods. Before you get...

What happens when you combine one of the humblest small cars of the 1980s with one of the era's most powerful engines? You get the Ford Shogun, an outlandish custom that could have only been born out of the excess of the early 1990s. Not only that, but the Shogun is part of Jay Leno's private...

One of the ultimate icons of 1980s, the Porsche 959 stands out as much for its technological advancements as it does for its excess. What's more than a 959? A one-off 959 convertible, like the white one that has recently hit the market in a small northern Italian town near Venice. A listing on...

Aston Martin may no moving on from the DB9, but a Russian coachbuilder hopes to reinvent the two-door as an even more exclusive coupe. Cardi, a Moscow design firm, says its Concept 442, which was first reported on by Abto24, could breathe new life into used DB9s. ALSO SEE: Aston Martin-inspired...

Hennessey Performance Engineering boss John Hennessey is a big fan of the Chevrolet SS. In fact he has a 2014 example in his personal collection. And his company has a series of upgrades for the sleeper sedan that lifts output well beyond the stock 415 horsepower. ALSO SEE: 1,451-horsepower...

A dealership in South Dakota, of all places, is giving you a chance to feel the wind in your face while tapping all 707 horsepower of the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat's 6.4-liter V-8 engine. Dodge doesn't actually offer a factory Challenger convertible, but the one for sale at Iverson Dodge in...

Singer is the reason you play the Powerball. These are the folks who take a Porsche 911 and "reimagine" it into something more. Porsches modified by Singer have a habit of being more tailored, more bespoke, more special—and far more expensive. Singer Vehicle Design is based in California and...

Everything your physics teacher ever taught you about the way a car can move on pavement should be thrown out the window thanks to Vaughn Gittin, Jr. and his latest, 900-horsepower (it could be more) Ford Mustang RTR. The drift master's Mustang RTR is so new that Ford Performance hasn't even...

Modified Porsches really don't get much cooler than a factory driver's 911 customized for rally use. This white 1985 911 belongs to Patrick Long, who is sort of the guru of all things Porsche these days. But Long's expertise isn't limited to pavement, as this highly-modified coupe illustrates. ALSO...