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Given the fact that automakers worldwide are faced with ever-tightening fuel economy and emission regulations, upsizing a new engine hardly seems like a prudent thing to do. Rolls-Royce, however, hasn’t earned its sterling reputation by being prudent; it’s earned it by being exceptional. Rolls-Royce is reportedly unhappy that both its point-of-entry Ghost and range-topping Phantom models use V-12 engines. A 9.0-liter V-16 was shown in the 2004 100EX concept, but the plus-sized engine never made it to production. As Car Magazine tells us, Rolls-Royce may be working on a plan to...
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Cadillac's XTS Sedan Looks To Bring Luxury To Livery
Unlike limousines, which are generally designed to coddle occupants in over-the-top luxury, livery cars are meant to get passengers to and from airports or business meetings in reasonable comfort. Sure, livery cars are a step down from limos, but they’re a big step up from the other...
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Ford Announces Its Final Mustang Customizer Winner
Ford’s “Mustang Customizer” contest allowed fans to build the Mustang of their dreams on a dedicated website, then go head to head against others on Facebook to rack up points. The more points you earned, the more entries you received into a contest that could deliver your dream...
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Hamilton Smashes Vettel's 'Top Gear' Lap Time: Video
In 2007, F1 star Lewis Hamilton drove what can only be described as a “remarkable” lap around the Top Gear test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome. In wet conditions, with oil from a broken gearbox coating Gambon corner, Hamilton cranked out a lap of 1:44.7 behind the wheel of a Suzuki Liana...
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Porsche 911 GT3 Spy Shots, Danica On Pole, 2014 Chevy SS: Car News Headlines
Porsche is gearing up for the launch of the latest generation of its 911 GT3 at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show next month, and the final prototypes are about to be signed off for production any moment now. We caught one of them wearing no camouflage whatsoever, revealing the new look of one of our...
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Half A Million BMWs Affected By Wide-Ranging Recall
BMW has issued a wide-ranging recall on several of its model lines, ranging from the 1-Series to the Z4 sports car. In total, there are 504,545 vehicles affected by the latest recall in the U.S. alone. The recall affects: - 2007-2012 BMW 1-Series Coupes and 1-Series Convertibles built from December...
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Struggling extended-range electric automaker Fisker had a difficult year in 2012. Shortly after its Karma sedan hit the market, it was plagued by a series of recalls for battery, software and cooling issues. Fisker lost access to previously-committed Department of Energy loans for failing to meet project milestones, and then it lost some 300 Karmas when Superstorm Sandy hit a vehicle storage facility at Port Newark, New Jersey. Its insurer has since denied payment on the claim, and lawyers must now decide who’s right and who’s wrong. As if these incidents weren’t enough...
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Danica Patrick Earns Daytona Pole For Stewart-Haas Racing
Danica Patrick seems to have nearly as many detractors as she does fans. Those against the Stewart-Haas driver are quick to point out that during her entire IndyCar career, Patrick managed just one win, at Motegi, Japan, in 2008. On the other hand, her fans will remind you that she’s the...
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MINI Nails The Perfect (Unassisted) Backflip: Video
MINI and its stunt driver Guerlain Chicherit have done the impossible: executing the perfect “unassisted” backflip. Using a heavily modified MINI Cooper Countryman, Chicherit, a French rally driver and avid skier, completed the stunt recently at a resort in Tignes, France. The stunt...
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Ford Starts Production Of FPV Muscle Sedans
With all of the excitement surrounding the launch of the new 2014 Chevrolet SS, a performance variant of the Australian Holden Commodore, it’s easy to forget that Holden’s arch rival Down Under, Ford, also has some formidable performance sedans of its own. Unfortunately, the Blue Oval...
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Ferrari Rated World's Most Powerful Brand
According to the results of a latest study, Ferrari is the world’s most powerful brand, outperforming much larger automakers such as BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. The Prancing Horse also managed to outpace giants such as Apple and Coca Cola when it came to brand power, although it...
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Citroen’s Air Hybrid Concept To Feature At Geneva Motor Show
Remember the Hybrid Air drivetrain concept from French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen? Well, the revolutionary technology, which is essentially a hybrid drive system that instead of using electric motors to support an internal combustion engine, uses compressed air, will be appearing at the 2013...
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Porsche's latest generation of the 911, the 991, is making the rounds in both rear-drive and Carrera 4 all-wheel drive guises, and it's excellent. But what about the higher-performance versions? They're coming. This is the GT3, which is set to debut in just a couple of weeks at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. In this latest set of photos, the 991-type 911 GT3 is shown testing in the colds of Northern Europe, wearing zero camouflage. The previous round of spy photos of the upcoming car showed it next to its predecessor, a pre-facelifted 997 model (in white). The comparison highlighted the...
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2014 Chevrolet SS Live Photos And Video From Daytona Debut
Chevrolet’s new flagship sports sedan, the 2014 SS, finally made its debut this weekend at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The debut coincided with the competition debut of the car’s motorsport cousin, the Chevy SS NASCAR race car, in the NASCAR...
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Mercedes, AMG, And A Look At The Future: Hangout With Motor Authority
Earlier this week, High Gear Media editorial director Marty Padgett, social media manager Joel Feder and senior editor Nelson Ireson got together on Google+ for a Hangout on Air. The topic: our recent drives of the latest Mercedes-Benz and AMG hardware, what's in store for the brand in the near...
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2014 Chevrolet SS Debuts At Daytona International Speedway
After years of conjecture and rumor, a new, rear-wheel-drive performance sedan has finally been unveiled for the bowtie brand, and it’s called the 2014 Chevrolet SS. The new sports sedan makes its debut today at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, where it will be showcased...
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Commodore SS V In Oz, E63 AMG In Spain, McLaren P1 In Bahrain: This Week’s Top Photos
This weekend plays host to the reveal of the long-awaited 2014 Chevrolet SS, but we already have a pretty good idea as to what the new sports sedan will look like thanks to the recent reveal of its Australian cousin, the VF-series Holden Commodore SS V. Though the car is just a facelift of the...
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Alfa Romeo To Debut Gloria Concept In Geneva
Concept cars are meant to be breathtaking examples of what’s possible, not necessarily what’s practical. Sometimes, concepts are designed for a specific reason in mind, like relaunching an iconic model from years past, or re-igniting a market’s passion for a particular automaker...
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When NASCAR introduced its “Car of Tomorrow” (COT) during the 2007 Sprint Cup season, it was supposed to make racing more affordable for teams and more entertaining for fans, as the one-size-fits-all body was designed to promote close racing. While the COT did encourage wheel-to-wheel racing and close finishes, it didn’t do much to attract new fans to the sport. The featureless COT bodies didn’t come close to resembling the cars they were supposedly based on, even when festooned with stick-on grilles, headlights and trim. It was hard to maintain the “win on...
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Porsche Purchases Andial Name
If you’ve followed Porsche’s racing efforts in North America over the years, chances are good you’ve run across the Andial name. Porsche models prepared by Andial won the 24 Hours of Daytona from 1983-87, and again in 1989. If that’s not impressive enough, the first five...
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Cadillac Launches Limited Edition, Special Finish CTS Models
Borrowing a page from BMW, Cadillac is building a limited edition of its CTS-V Coupe, finished in a matte color its calling Silver Frost. Only 100 examples will be built, and Cadillac is already labeling them as “collector editions.” Like BMW’s “Frozen” matte-finish...
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George Barris' 'Asteroid' Corvette To Make Carlisle Appearance
The C2 Corvette, introduced for the 1963 model year, was already a radical and futuristic departure from the styling of the previous car. That wasn’t enough for some buyers, who wanted a personalized creation that was even more over-the-top. One such customer was speedboat racer Bob Nordskog...
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Display At Audi Plant Shows Rate Of Car Production In Real Time
Audi has come up with a novel display at one of its plants in Germany, which the automaker likes to call a pulse-rate monitor for the plant. The brand with the four rings has installed a giant digital panel at one its plants near its headquarters in the city of Ingolstadt, which shows, in real...
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Bentley Teases Its 2014 Continental Flying Spur Again: Video
A revised Continental Flying Spur has been captured in testing by our spy photographers on several occasions, as well as on video. Bentley has released a stylized sketch and the second teaser video of the car, which is expected to land in showrooms in time for the 2014 model year and no longer...
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