Car News
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Lamborghini stunned the world at the 2010 Paris Auto Show with the unveiling of its sinister Sesto Elemento concept car. The over-the-top supercar looked like nothing else on the planet and its promised performance was nothing short of amazing. Then, just a year a later at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, we got the news we were hoping for: the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento would be produced. Unfortunately, only 20 examples will be produced, which means they’re probably sold out, and, to make matters worse, the production version will be limited to track use only. Part of the reason for the...
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Holden Starts Work On Body Shop For Next-Generation Cars
General Motors’ Australian subsidiary Holden has started work on a new body shop that will be used to build two future models, the first of which, the next-generation Cruze compact car, will enter production in 2015. The second model will enter production in 2018 when the upcoming VF...
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Lexus LFA’s Complex Carbon Fiber Production Process To Be Used For Other Models
As much as we’d like to see a direct successor for the Lexus LFA supercar, Toyota has no plans to build such a car. Despite costing an exorbitant $375,000, the LFA was a money-losing project and Toyota officials aren’t keen to repeat the process, at least for now. “At one time...
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NASCAR Returns To Irwindale Speedway In 2013
With its new operator Team 211 Entertainment in charge, California’s Irwindale Speedway is once again ready to host a full year of motorsport events. The main event in 2013 will be NASCAR Home Tracks, whose return to Irwindale Speedway was confirmed recently by NASCAR business development...
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Hyundai Partners With Apple And Google For Next-Gen Car Tech
Hyundai is heading to the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show next week to showcase the next generation of its Blue Link telematics and infotainment system. The new system is designed to incorporate the best of Apple and Google technology along with features from several other industry giants...
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Tesla Wins Minor Victory Against Massachusetts Dealers
You might think it's no big deal for a carmaker to sell its cars directly to the public, but you'd be wrong. In fact, for dealers, it's a very big deal. For Tesla, it has become a big deal in court. Dealers across the country have raised a cry against the company's direct-sales model, saying it...
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Welcome to the first ‘This Week’s Top Photos’ post of 2013. Despite being only one week into the new year, we’ve already got an exciting assortment of photos to show you. Also, we only recently posted our ‘Best Car Photos Of 2012’ list, so if you haven’t checked it out already make sure you do. January is a very busy month in the auto world. Not only does it play host to the annual Detroit Auto Show, but it’s also the month for the Tokyo Auto Salon, Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auctions and the Dakar Rally. Understandably, many of our photos this...
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Grand-Am, ALMS Merged Class Structure Previewed For 2014 Season
The merger of ALMS and Grand-Am announced in September, 2012, is moving forward, with the first joint races to be held in the 2014 season. Today, the racing organizations laid the foundation for merging the classes of each series into a single format. So far, it looks like most of the classes from...
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Lexus Autonomous Driving Technology Teaser: 2013 CES
The Consumer Electronics Show has, over the past several years, become more and more about automotive technology. This year, Lexus will be flaunting its latest, including its take on autonomous driving tech. While the company is touting the system as if it were about to reach production, one look...
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Porsche Shows What It Takes To Film A Modern Car Ad: Video
Filming a car commercial used to be a relatively easy task: all it took was the car, some pretty background scenery and a chase car, since the expectations of viewers watching on a low-resolution television set weren’t all that high. Truth be told, most car ads were filmed in studios, with no...
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Big Muscle Drives Its Host's Mopars: Videos
Big Muscle host Mike Musto knows a thing or two about cars and driving. He’s an NASA instructor, he’s run events like Bullrun and One Lap of America and he’s been a Mopar muscle car guy for longer than we’ve known him. In other words, he practices what he preaches. Musto has...
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Race2Recovery Team Ready For Start Of Dakar Rally
Eighteen months ago, a fledgling Dakar Rally team calling itself Race2Recovery consisted of a handful of team members, mostly combat-wounded British soldiers, and a single Land Rover Freelander (our LR2) race vehicle. At tomorrow’s Dakar Rally start, a much more dynamic Race2Recovery Team...
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The 2013 Detroit Auto Show is just around the corner, and we're going to see some interesting new hardware there--including the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class Coupe and Cabriolet. Steve McQueen's 1941 Chevy pickup is up for sale on eBay, and as McQueen memorabilia goes, it looks like a relative bargain. And really, why wouldn't you want to own a black-on-black straight-six WWII-era Chevy pickup, even if it weren't owned by McQueen? Shelby American lives on even in the absence of the company's founder, Carroll Shelby, and it will even be bringing two new models to the 2013 Detroit Auto Show: an...
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Steve McQueen's 1941 Chevy Pickup For Sale On Ebay
Steve McQueen died of cancer in 1980, but anything associated with the King of Cool remains in high demand. In 2011, McQueen’s 1970 Porsche 911S (seen in the movie “Le Mans”) sold for an impressive $1.375 million, and a few months later his Nomex driver’s suit from the movie...
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2013 Cadillac Escalade, Other GM SUVs Recalled For Roll-Away Issue
General Motors has issued a recall on its 2013 Cadillac Escalade, plus several other of its top-selling SUVs and pickups. The cause of the recall is due to a potential fault with the vehicles' ignition system. The recall affects 2013 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, and Escalade EXT models, as well...
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Global RallyCross Championship Eyes Expansion With New Class
The problem with racing at a professional level is this: if you want to go fast, it’s expensive; if you want to win, it can be exponentially more expensive. In fact, there are very few professional series we can name that give drivers of modest means the ability to climb the ranks without...
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BMW Tops U.S. Luxury Auto Sales In 2012
While other parts of the globe struggled in 2012, the U.S. has experienced its best year in auto sales since 2007, with close to 14.5 million light vehicle sales registering over the past 12 months, a 13 percent increase over 2011’s tally of 12.7 million sales. A significant portion of those...
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Shelby American To Present Two New Models At 2013 Detroit Auto Show
We recently brought you a story about Shelby American preparing for the reveal of a new EcoBoost-powered model at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. The story was based on comments made by Shelby American vice president of operations Gary Patterson, himself citing the company’s late founder, Carroll...
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Nissan, together with Sony, held the first GT Academy in 2008, and since then the event has gone on to become a global phenomenon with gamers-turned-drivers from all parts of the globe now competing. Nissan’s GT Academy essentially pits gamers, playing the popular racing simulator Gran Turismo on Sony’s PlayStation console, against each other in a knockout competition. To put into perspective just how difficult the competition is, more than 830,000 people entered the GT Academy Europe competition last year. For the winner, he or she goes on to compete in real-life motorsport...
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2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe & Cabriolet Preview: 2013 Detroit Auto Show
The Mayans (or at least their interpreters) were wrong, the holidays are over, the new year is upon us, and the 2013 Detroit Auto Show is just around the corner. Accordingly, Mercedes-Benz has some more of the E Class range to bring us, as a sort of belated holiday gift: the 2014 E Class Coupe and...
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Volkswagen Polo R Could Get All-Wheel Drive: Report
Volkswagen recently revealed its long-awaited Polo R, the sportiest version of the Polo subcompact sold overseas. The new car, whose official title is Polo R WRC, just like the World Rally Championship Polo race car it’s inspired by, is set to make its debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in...
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It's Impossible To Backflip A MINI, Right? Maybe Not...
So-called "extreme" sports--whether on skateboards, bicycles, or motorcycles--have made the backflip so commonplace we expect them to throw in a twist or some other flourish just to hold our interest. Not so with backflipping cars. In fact, not many have ever been done in any form. Here, MINI...
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Driving Fast Not Your Thing? Porsche Lets You Co-Pilot, Too: Video
Let’s be brutally honest with one another for a second: there’s a segment of the sports-car-buying population that has no interest whatsoever in actually driving fast; instead, they like the image that a fast and expensive sports car gives them. We’re not here to judge, and that...
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A Pair Of Classic Lincolns From 'The Godfather' Head To Auction
If you have a thing for early 1940s Lincolns, or if you’re a huge fan of The Godfather (the second-greatest film in American cinema, according to the American Film Institute), you’ll want register to bid at the upcoming Bonhams Scottsdale auction. Crossing the block will be a pair of...
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