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Grey's Anatomy star and avid racer Patrick Dempsey will be returning to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013 after last racing in the endurance classic in 2009 at the wheel of a Ferrari F430 GT. This time around Dempsey will be racing with Porsche, using a 911 GT3 RSR race car fielded by his own team, Dempsey Racing, in collaboration with Italy’s Del Piero Racing and Germany’s Proton Competition in the GTE-Am. Dempsey’s was one of 56 entries chosen by Le Mans organizer ACO from an overall field of 71 entries. “It's a dream come true,” Dempsey tweeted after hearing the...
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Can You Guess What Pagani Is Teasing In Its New Video?
Supercar manufacturer Pagani has released a new teaser video that asks viewers to put together the clues presented in the short clip and decipher what the company is planning. The clip starts off showing the beautiful landscape surrounding Pagani’s factory in the Emilia-Romagna region of...
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Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco Wins 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray
It turns out the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray had a starring role at Super Bowl XLVII after all, with the game’s MVP, quarterback Joe Flacco, winning one for his impressive performance in the Ravens victory over the 49ers. With General Motors choosing not to advertise at the Super...
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First Fast And Furious 6 Trailer Airs During Super Bowl: Video
This summer, get ready to watch the newest installment of the popular Fast and the Furious series, Fast And Furious 6, the first official trailer for which aired during Super Bowl XLVII yesterday. The first clip sees all the big stars feature, as well as plenty of the cars, some of which are likely...
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Red Bull Racing RB9 2013 Formula One Car Makes Debut: Video
At a special gala event held at Red Bull Racing’s headquarters in Milton Keynes, England, the team’s new race car for the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship was unveiled. On hand to pull the covers were the team’s drivers, Sebastian Vettel, now a triple world champion, and...
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Chevrolet Airs First Ad For 2014 Corvette Stingray: Video
It won’t be on sale until the third quarter of the year, but the first television ad for the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has just aired, revealing car in motion for the first time, and at a race track, no less. Titled Enemy Of The Same, the ad is likely to be the first in a series of...
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Welcome to the latest installment of This Week’s Top Photos. We have a number of supercars to show you as well as some very unique vehicles including a BMW Isetta minicar with a V-8 hanging out the back, and a Tumbler Batmobile commissioned by a couple of crazy lads from Saudi Arabia. To start us off, we have another car out of the Middle East, the W Motors Lykan. Admittedly, when we first heard about W Motors and its ambitious plans to build a supercar, almost a year ago now, we were a little skeptical, but the company has proven its doubters wrong and the world now has a new supercar...
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Luxury Car Sales In January: Cadillac Rising Fast, Audi Continues Record Pace
The overall U.S. automotive industry's sales tally for January is looking rather good: sales are up almost across the board, and total sales figures are well above last year's. An increase, year-on-year, of 8 percent puts the total seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) at 12.9 million retail...
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The SRT Viper Returns To The 24 Hours Of Le Mans In 2013
For three consecutive years, from 1998 through 2000, Dodge Vipers took both first and second place in the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It’s fitting, then, that the new SRT Viper GTS-R will compete in this year’s running of the famed endurance race. SRT Motorsports has been...
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Daimler Buys Into China's BAIC
The relationship between Mercedes’ parent Daimler and China’s Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) isn’t a new one. Beijing Benz Automotive Company (BBAC) has been building Mercedes-Benz passenger cars since 2006, while another Beijing subsidiary began producing Auman-branded Mercedes...
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Mustangs Across America Announces 50th Anniversary Drive Dates
Ford’s beloved pony car, the Mustang, turns 50 years old in April of 2014. To honor the event, Mustangs Across America is planning a seven-day trip that will take participants from Los Angeles, California to Charlotte, North Carolina, arriving in time for the Mustang Club of America’s...
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Bruce McLaren Narrates The Story of McLaren: Video
On June 2, 1970, Bruce McLaren was killed in a crash at England’s Goodwood circuit, testing his new M8D Can-Am race car. The car’s rear bodywork came loose at speed, creating a spin-inducing loss of downforce that even Bruce McLaren couldn’t correct. His M8D left the track and...
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Mercedes-Benz has sold out the C63 AMG Black Series in the U.S., so what are you to do if you want a little more juice with your C63 AMG? Get the new Edition 507, of course. Ferrari's 2013 F1 race car, the F138, has been unveiled. The name comes from a simple formula, but the real question is whether the new car will put Ferrari at the top from the start of the season, or if the team will be playing catchup for the first few races. Toyota is teasing us with a convertible version of the GT 86, called the FT-86 Open Concept. If it's built, and if it comes to the U.S., it will probably be as a...
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Formula One Returns To The Nürburgring In 2013
When Germany’s storied Nürburgring circuit declared bankruptcy last July, the fate of the German Grand Prix at the track seemed anything but certain. With the start of the 2013 Formula 1 season just six weeks away, BBC Sport is reporting that a deal to host the race has been struck...
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Calling All Virtual Racers: Check Out Heat Online And RaceRoom Racing Experience
While games like Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport and Need For Speed are well-known, and well-loved, there’s a new breed of realistic racing simulators emerging, and they don’t even require you to leave your desk. That because these new racing simulators are offered for free and playable...
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Could A123 Systems' Buyer Wanxiang Be Fisker's Next Investor?
Earlier this week, we reported that Chinese auto parts giant Wanxiang had received approval from the U.S. government to purchase the non-military business of bankrupt lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems. That’s good news for luxury plug-in hybrid automaker Fisker, as A123 Systems was the...
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Fans Design Round Tail-Light Kit For 2014 Chevrolet Corvette
It was only a matter of time until some inventive person or company came up with a kit for the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray that swaps the car’s square-shaped lamps to something Corvette fans are a little more accustomed to: four separate round tail-lights. While the design of the new...
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Ferrari’s 2013 Formula One Car, The F138, Revealed
One of the top contenders in the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship, Ferrari, has unveiled the new race car it hopes will see it victorious in the respective Drivers’ and Constructors’ championships once more. The Scuderia almost tasted victory in 2012, with its star driver...
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The winners of the 2013 North American Car and Truck of the Year awards were recently named at the Detroit Auto Show, and in just a few weeks we’ll know the winner of the 2013 European Car of the Year awards. However, the countdown has only just begun for the 2013 World and Performance Car of the Year awards, the New York Auto Show’s annual awards event, which is now in its ninth year and increasingly becoming one the most prestigious awards in the global automotive industry. The finalists for the 2013 World Car of the Year are: Audi A3 Land Rover Range Rover Mazda Mazda6 Mazda...
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Mercedes-Benz Launches More Powerful C63 AMG “Edition 507”
Mercedes-Benz is introducing for the 2014 model year a new, more powerful version of its C63 AMG dubbed the “Edition 507.” As its name suggests, the car comes packing a 507-horsepower version of the regular C63 AMG’s 6.2-liter V-8, which, for those at home wondering, is 56...
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Toyota Teases Convertible FT-86 (FR-S/BRZ) Open Concept For Geneva
The Geneva Motor Show is just over a month away, and while we've seen a few other tantalizing previews, this convertible GT 86 concept is among the most interesting. Officially called the FT-86 Open concept, the car "previews a possible future development of the award-winning GT 86 sports coupe."...
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GM Appoints Former Volkswagen Exec To Head Troubled Opel
Last summer, General Motors’ European unit Opel made the surprise announcement that its chief, Karl-Friedrich Stracke, was being reassigned to a new role, and that its turnaround expert, Steve Girsky, would fill in as interim chief. Since then, we’ve seen Opel enter an alliance deal...
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2014 BMW M4 Engine Details Revealed Via VIN Info?
There has been no shortage of speculation over the oily bits of the next-generation mid-sized M car from BMW. With the unveiling of the 4-Series Coupe concept, the general outlines of the 2014 BMW M4's form have become clearer, but there's still a cloak around the engine. Or is there? According to...
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McLaren P1 Supercar Gets Cameo During MP4-28 Reveal: Video
When race and road car constructor McLaren rolled out its new MP4-28 Formula One car for the 2013 season, it also took the opportunity to promote its newest wares, the MP4-12C Spider and the upcoming P1 supercar. McLaren’s newest F1 driver, Sergio Perez, arrived at the race car’s...
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