Car News
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This year marks significant anniversaries for a number of automotive brands and vehicles. Luxury sports car builder Aston Martin turns 100, while Ford celebrates the 150th birthday of its founder, Henry Ford. Lamborghini turns 50 this year, while the Corvette celebrates its 60th birthday by launching an all-new generation. Even Porsche’s iconic 911 has a milestone birthday this year, as it turns 50 sporting the same basic shape it debuted in 1963. Race car and road car constructor McLaren also turns 50 this year, and it will officially celebrate its anniversary on September 2, 2013. The...
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2014 Lexus IS Video Preview
Lexus finally unveiled the new 2014 IS at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show, and it wasn't kidding when it said its styling was going to get aggressive. The new IS sports Lexus' new design language with the boldest interpretation of the brand's new "spindle grille" that we've seen yet. The headlights...
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2013 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction Recap
If you spent last weekend glued to Speed, watching the Barrett-Jackson Auction live from Scottsdale, Arizona, you probably came away with the same confused outlook we did. While some cars sold for impressive amounts, like the $1.1 million paid for the first production 2014 Corvette Stingray, or the...
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2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class Video Preview
Four body styles, plus some wicked AMG love, mean the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class is freshly revamped and ready to take on the luxury sedan competition. The E Class Sedan and Wagon both made their way onto the web before the holidays, while the Coupe and Cabriolet saw their debuts at the 2013...
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2014 Infiniti Q50 Video Preview
A new name, a fresh new look, and hopes to take on--and beat--the best of the luxury car segment: The 2014 Infiniti Q50 aims high. From our initial vantage point, it hits the mark, too. The exterior, while speaking the language of the mid-size luxury sedan fluently, nevertheless manages to look...
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Acura NSX Concept Video Preview
Acura is slow-roasting the next-generation NSX to perfection, and if this latest concept is any indication, the wait just might be worth it. While the exterior of this latest concept isn't dramatically different from the previous concept car, there are a few key differences. The lines have been...
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The Detroit Auto Show's press days are over, but it's now open to the public, so many of you are getting your first in-the-metal look at the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. Here's our up-close look at the car, offering a look at what's new, what's hot, and what makes the new Stingray a contender on the global sports car scene. Of course, you'd expect any relatively new Corvette to hold its own on track, but the Stingray aims to bolster that track creed while mixing in a much-needed dose of refinement and interior technology. At first glance, it looks like Chevy has succeeded in taking the...
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2015 Land Rover LR2 Spied, First 2014 Corvette Sold, Compact Cadillac Crossover: Today's Car News
The 2015 Land Rover LR2 continues its mock-up parade in front of the spy photographers' lenses this morning, showing an Evoque-based exterior on a longer wheelbase chassis. What will the final LR2 look like? Follow our spy shots to find out. The first 2014 Chevrolet Corvette sold at auction for...
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2014 Chrysler 200 To Debut New Design Direction From Brand
The current Chrysler 200 sedan and convertible may be the best automotive example of the time-honored cliche, “we did the best we could with what we had to work with.” Though the Chrysler 200’s sheet metal, interior and chassis may be updated, underneath, the car is remarkably...
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Watch The Hennessey Venom GT Breaking A World Record (Or Two): Video
A few weeks back, we brought you word that a Hennessey Venom GT driven by John Kiewicz had set a new Guinness World Record as the fastest two-seat production car from 0-300 km/h (186 mph), taking just 13.63 seconds to reach this velocity. If you wondered what such a feat would look like from inside...
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Shelby GT500 Cobra Tribute Car Only Musters $200k At Auction
A one-off Mustang built as a tribute to the late Carroll Shelby only managed to sell for $200,000 at auction.
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Sergio Marchionne Reaffirms Alfa Romeo’s 2013 U.S. Return
Originally due for its official return on these shores in 2012, Alfa Romeo begrudgingly postponed its arrival another year. The reason was due to a significant redesign of one of the brand’s core models, the 159-replacing Giulia mid-size sedan, at the behest of Sergio Marchionne, the boss of...
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After making a brief cameo in the fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious film series, Fast Five, the latest version of the Nissan GT-R, the R35, has been confirmed for a prominent role in the sixth installment, Fast and Furious 6, due out on May 24, 2013. But it won’t just be any old Nissan GT-R but the highly modified version you see here. And yes, the car will also be painted that striking blue color reminiscent of the R34 GT-R’s famous Bayside Blue color scheme. Responsible for much of the tuning work was America’s own SP Engineering, though the project was the...
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X-Raid Team Drives MINI Countryman To Second Consecutive Dakar Rally Win
Following their win at last year’s race, the duo made up of Frenchmen Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret have won the Dakar Rally once more, and in dominant style. They piloted their Monster Energy X-raid Team-sponsored MINI ALL4 Racing to victory in the arduous race in a time...
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First 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray Sells For $1.1 Million
The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray with VIN ending in #0001 has sold at auction for an incredible $1.1 million, more than 20 times the expected cost of the latest ‘Vette. Of course, getting to own the very first example to be sold to the public has its premium, and all proceeds from the...
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Original TV Series Batmobile Sells For $4.2 Million At Auction
Z-Z-Z-ZWAP! The original Batmobile from the ‘60s and ‘70s Batman television series sold at auction this weekend for a staggering $4.2 million. Not bad considering the car it was based on, a one-off 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car, was bought for just $1 and transformed into the vehicle...
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GM CEO Dan Akerson’s 1958 Corvette Sells For $270k: Video
A 1958 Chevrolet Corvette owned by General Motors CEO Dan Akerson sold at auction late on Friday for $270,000. All proceeds from the sale will now go to the Habitat for Humanity charitable organization, which aims to revitalize the Morningside Commons neighborhood on Detroit’s lower east...
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Detroit’s Best, Wide-Body Shelbys, Audi RS 7: This Week’s Top Photos
With press days for the 2013 Detroit Show now over, boy do we have a lot of top photos to bring you this week. We’re sure photos of cars like the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, the BMW 4-Series Coupe concept and the updated Acura NSX concept are still fresh in your mind, but there were...
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Audi's quattro Experience is an interactive installation that lets you control a slot car through an iPad--with the aim of giving you something of the feel for Audi's motorsports legacy. In this video, entitled "Painting Coconuts," you'll see how David Beattie, a slot car track maker from Slot Mods USA, giving the behind the scenes of how the Audi quattro Experience came together. Along the way, you'll see some absolutely stunning modeling work, and a whole lot of slot car action--and even an easter egg of a jab at BMW. And who doesn't love slot cars?
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Reminder: There's A Downside To Driving Dogs
A 68-year old Cantonment, Florida, man was struck and killed by a 1995 Chevrolet van last Monday. While tragic, the event isn’t remarkable until you learn the circumstances surrounding James W. Campbell’s death. Campbell had exited the passenger side of the van to open a metal gate for...
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BMW To Campaign Z4 GTE In 2013 American Le Mans Series
Last year, BMW Team Rahal Letterman Lanigan drove a BMW M3 to a second place finish in the American Le Mans Series’ GT class, ending the season some 37 points behind the Corvette Racing but 25 points ahead of the Ferrari 458 Italia's campaigned by Extreme Speed Motorsports. In the four years...
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2013 Dodge Charger AWD Sport: Winter Road Trip Across Michigan
High Gear Media contributor Joe Nuxoll took a winter drive across Michigan in the new 2013 Dodge Charger AWD Sport.
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Ford’s Atlas Concept Previews The Future Of The Pickup Truck: Video
In Greek mythology, Atlas was burdened with carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. In the Ford product line, that task goes to its F-150 pickup, which sells in higher volumes (and likely at higher margins) than any other vehicle in its catalog. It’s fitting, then, that Ford would...
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2014 Maserati Quattroporte preview
The 2014 Maserati Quattroporte made its auto show debut in Detroit this week, giving us the opportunity to finally see the sixth generation of the Italian flagship in person. Power for this Italian business saloon is provided by either a twin-turbocharged V-6 rated at 410 horsepower and 376...
Joel Feder