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  • Porsche sent 19 918 Spyders over the Alps

    If you had a Porsche 918 Spyder, where would you want to take it? What if you had 18 friends that also owned 918 Spyders? It might be time to hit the Alps, which is what Porsche and 19 918 Spyder owners recently did. The route was 1,500 kilometers and the $20 million strong convoy had five days to go from one end of an Alpine pass to the other. Porsche wrangled up two percent of all the 918 Spyders ever built. The plan was to set off on an incredible road trip with an astounding collection of vehicles. Even if that collection consists of only one model from Porsche, it's still amazing to see...

  • Armormax Armored Tesla Model S
    This bulletproof Tesla's claim has just one hole in it

    Utah-based Armormax is in the business of transforming everyday machines into rolling vaults for clients. They take normal cars and add various levels of armor. The latest build is a Tesla Model S P100D that's been pieced together for a client in the Middle East. Armormax claims it's the fastest...

  • Bugatti EB 110 becomes SP-110 Edonis Fenice
    Remaining 15 Bugatti EB110 chassis receive new lease on life as SP-110 Edonis

    It's a blast from the past with a modern twist. The creation above began life as a Bugatti EB110 supercar and was later transformed into the SP-110 Edonis Fenice. Yes, underneath the rather intriguing bodywork is an original Bugatti EB110 carbon fiber monocoque, and there are plans for a small run...

  • Jean-Marc Gales
    Lotus CEO nabbed for speeding, gets off with driving suspension

    Lotus CEO Jean-Marc Gales likely will take it a tad slower on the A11 near his company's Norwich headquarters in England. The executive was caught going 102 mph in a 70 mph zone while driving a new Lotus car. The Telegraph reported on Gales' run-in with the law Monday and said Gales persuaded the...

  • Teaser for Volvo Trucks electric urban delivery vehicle
    Volvo Trucks plans electric delivery vehicle for 2019

    Not to be left out of the push for electric and electrified commercial vehicles, Volvo Trucks announced Tuesday that it will begin selling electric trucks in Europe in 2019. The company sees its electric trucks as a way to not only reduce pollution but also alleviate traffic congestion and improve...

  • Why do electric cars typically have just one gear?
    Why do electric cars usually have only 1 gear?

    You won't jump into a modern electric car and row through a number of gears as you race down the road, which begs the question: why is it that electric cars usually have only one gear? It's but another topic for Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained to cover for us, so throw on your learning caps...

  • Mini Electric concept, 2017 Frankfurt auto show

    Land Rover's Range Rover is about to receive the coupe treatment. We're not talking about a coupe-like model here but a proper 2-door. It will be a limited-edition model expected to cost well north of $200k. The first prototypes for the electric version of the Mini Hardtop have been spied. The new car is due next year and is only the first of 12 battery-powered cars coming from the BMW Group by 2025. A more hardcore version of the BMW M2 is in the works. The first photo of an undisguised version has surfaced and reveals the subtle visual tweaks we can expect on the car. You'll find these...

  • 2018/2019 Mahindra Racing M5Electro Formula E race car in Pininfarina's wind tunnel
    Pininfarina enters Formula E as sponsor of Mahindra Racing

    Pininfarina on Tuesday announced it is entering the Formula E Championship as a sponsor of Mahindra Racing. In a statement, the Italian design house said its decades of experience crafting cars will help Mahindra Racing in developing its Formula E race cars, starting with the M5Electro being...

  • 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE
    Camaro chief says he'd like to see a sub-7:00 'Ring time

    Last June, a 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE managed to lap Germany's Nürburgring Nordschleife in a time of only 7:16.04. It's a time only a handful of rear-wheel-drive cars have beaten, and coming as no surprise they're all a lot more expensive than the Chevy. But the 640-horsepower ZL1 1LE...

  • PSA Peugeot Citroën logo
    Maker of Opel and Peugeot cars picks Atlanta for US headquarters

    France's PSA Group, the maker of Citroën, DS, Peugeot, and now also Opel cars, has a mission to sell cars in the United States, though the automaker, which is Europe's second biggest by volume, isn't rushing things. It has a decade-long plan split up into three phases, and right now we're only...

  • GM liquid tire chains for 1969
    GM once offered "liquid tire chains" to enhance winter driving performance

    Tire chains can be a driver's best friend when it comes to handling snowy and icy conditions, but decades ago, General Motors offered something quite novel—even if we don't know if it actually worked as intended. What GM called "liquid tire chains" was an option across the entire 1969...

  • Land Rover Range Rover SV Coupe
    Limited-edition Land Rover Range Rover SV Coupe to sacrifice utility for style

    If BMW and Mercedes-Benz can do it, why can't Land Rover? The British SUV maker will add style and subtract utility from its legendary Range Rover with the Range Rover SV Coupe debuting in March at the 2018 Geneva auto show. Land Rover on Tuesday revealed a teaser image of the interior of the...

  • 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS

    There are many abbreviations in the world of the automobile. You may think you know what most of them stand for, but others may leave you scratching your head. One of those is likely to be PDK, the name given to the automatic gearbox used by Porsche. And there's a reason you don't see the full name of this gearbox written out in most articles covering anything Porsche: Those three letters stand for Porsche Doppelkupplungs getriebe. That's a bit of a mouthful, but it's pretty easy to remember once you read it through a few times. The first part is easy, because it's simply Porsche. That second...

  • Elon Musk
    Elon Musk to stay another decade at Tesla, has strange compensation scheme

    Tesla's face and shining star won't be leaving any time soon. Elon Musk, the carmaker's co-founder, has agreed to remain CEO for another 10 years. With the announcement, The New York Times reported on Tuesday on Musk's somewhat bewildering new compensation plan. Long story short, it's all or...

  • 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class
    How Mercedes made the 2019 G-Class: cue up the original, make it better

    Some vehicles keep designers up at night when a redesign is due. The Mercedes-Benz G-Class is one of those vehicles. Change too much, and loyalists will balk. Change too little, and it could go unnoticed. How did Mercedes-Benz designers ensure the iconic G-Class was still a G at the end of the day?...

  • 1948 Tucker 48, photo by Andy Reid
    Auction action heats up in Arizona

    Bonhams, RM Sotheby’s, Silver Auctions Arizona and Russo and Steele opened their 2018 Scottsdale and Phoenix sales Thursday, joining Barrett-Jackson’s on-going auction action. Gooding & Company expands the offerings as it starts its two-day sale today. Hagerty, the insurance and...

  • 2016 Ford Focus RS at Gingerman Raceway, October 2016
    Ford has a fix for failing Focus RS head gaskets

    Ford Focus RS owners can let out a collective sigh of relief. The company has announced a fix for the car's failing head gasket woes. Some owners may be in for new cylinder heads, depending on the severity of their problem. Ford had acknowledged an engine issue in its hottest hatch in recent weeks...

  • 2019 Ferrari 488 GTO via fca_alberta instagram
    Here's our first look at the Ferrari 488 GTO supercar

    Ferrari apparently just held a private unveiling of a hard-core version of its 488 GTB, and as you might have guessed, thanks to the Internet, it's hard to keep a secret. Blurry cellphone photos of the new supercar were quickly posted to more than one Instagram account by several people who seem to...

  • 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air “Sanity”

    Ralph Holguin is the owner of RMD Garage, which is a Long Beach-based custom car shop. It's a shop that is the focus of a show on Velocity, but today we're focusing on one of the vehicles from the shop. The car is nicknamed Sanity, and it's a beautifully restored and modified 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air. When Chevy was building the 1962 Bel Air, it offered a few body style configurations. One was called the Sport Coupe. A handful of those were given roofs used on the earlier 1961 model year Bel Air, and it gave the vehicles a distinctive style. The term Bubble Top was applied to these '62 Bel...

  • 2019 BMW Z4 spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2019 BMW Z4 spy shots and video

    It was in 2011 that we first caught wind of BMW and Toyota’s plans to jointly develop a “mid-size sports car platform” to spawn replacements for their respective Z4 and Supra models. Today we have new spy shots plus video of a prototype for the BMW model, previously thought to be...

  • Prototype for Tesla Semi electric semi-trailer truck
    See the Tesla Semi silently cruising along a suburban street

    In case you were haboring any concerns that the electric semi-trailer truck unveiled by Tesla last November was nothing but a cardboard mockup powered by hamsters, have no fear as a prototype has just been spotted silently cruising down a suburban street. What's perhaps most remarkable is how quiet...

  • 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe spy shots -  Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    AMG GT sedan spied, Ginetta G60 LMP1 revealed, Tesla talked down: Car News Headlines

    Mercedes-AMG will add a standalone sedan to its arsenal of fast cars this summer. A prototype has been spotted and reveals a number of new clues about the final design. British firm Ginetta is the first to reveal a new race car for the LMP1 class of the revamped 2018/2019 World Endurance...

  • Brudeli 625L
    Yamaha buys patent for tilting 3-wheeler

    Yamaha clearly sees the market for 3-wheeled vehicles gaining traction. Last month Norwegian company Brudeli announced Yamaha had purchased patents for its 3-wheel tilting vehicle suspension. Brudeli, a lesser known company, actually invented a novel setup for 3-wheeled vehicles. Instead of two...

  • 2018 BMW X2, 2018 Detroit auto show
    BMW wants to reclaim luxury top spot from Mercedes by 2020

    Mercedes-Benz has been the best-selling luxury car brand in the world for the past two years running, but for the decade prior it's been BMW at the top. BMW isn't at all happy about the current situation and has a plan to reclaim the top spot within the next two years. “In 2020 we will be the...

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