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When a self-driving car boots up and takes in the world around it, its vision is nothing like what a human driver finds familiar. Instead, a self-driving car uses data collection via radar, cameras, and lidar to "see" the world around it. How can humans begin to understand what the machine sees? Make the human a self-driving car, of course. That's exactly what Moove Lab and Meso Digital Interiors did with a new project. The two companies created a cart of sorts, but it features all the equipment a self-driving car on the road today utilizes. With only the data collection as "sight," the test...
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NYPD shows off its vintage patrol cars
It’s been years since the New York City Police Department painted its cars with the classic black and green livery, but the memory is still alive among a few. The NYPD museum, housed for now on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor, hosted a car show last week featuring many of the old...
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Lamborghini has shown us parts of the Urus
Lamborghini's set to unveil its new Urus SUV on December 4 on its home turf Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, but it seems the Italian automaker is too excited to keep a secret. Straight out of Sant'Agata comes this new video showing off Lamborghini's production automation—and in it we get...
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This Ford dealer’s Shelby-enhanced F-150 offers up 750 horsepower
Those with a serious thirst for power no longer need to turn to aftermarket shops since there’s a growing trend where dealers are actually offering new vehicles pre-fitted with top-shelf mods, sometimes with warranties intact. Ohio’s Lebanon Ford kicked off the trend with its...
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Nissan GT-R Nismo update, Polestar future, next Land Rover Defender: Today’s Car News
Nissan looks like it’s about to introduce some updates for its GT-R Nismo flagship. One of the cars was spotted at the Nürburgring sporting a few modifications on its body. Polestar’s first model is the Polestar 1 high-performance coupe. The car won’t be alone for long...
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Polestar 1 was originally a flagship Volvo coupe
Former Volvo tuner Polestar on Tuesday unveiled its first car, the aptly named Polestar 1, but if you’re thinking you've seen the design before, it’s because you have. Yes, the Polestar 1 is just a slightly massaged version of Volvo’s Concept Coupe which was presented at the 2013...
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Organizers of the annual Race Of Champions have made a bold decision to hold the next race in Saudi Arabia, a country known for numerous human rights abuses. Women aren’t even allowed to drive in the country, though the asinine ban is finally set to be lifted in 2018. ROC organizers go so far as to mention the lifting of the ban as one of the motivations for holding the next race in Saudi Arabia. “With women able to drive in Saudi Arabia from 2018, we feel this is an auspicious moment to be bringing a motorsport event to [Saudi Arabia],” ROC President Fredrik Johnsson said...
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New Land Rover Defender won’t have retro design
There’s probably no greater challenge for a designer than redesigning an icon. And they don’t get more iconic than the Land Rover Defender, a vehicle whose design hasn’t changed much in close to seven decades. Land Rover was forced to end production of the Defender last year, with...
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Polestars to be made in China, rival Teslas
Volvo in-house tuner Polestar has been morphed into a standalone brand for high-performance electrified cars and on Tuesday we saw its first model, aptly named the Polestar 1, unveiled to the world in Shanghai. The Chinese metropolis is a fitting location for the debut of Polestar’s first car...
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2018 Nissan GT-R Nismo spy shots
Nissan’s ever-evolving GT-R looks set to receive more updates for the 2018 model year. A GT-R, specifically the GT-R Nismo model, was recently spotted running laps at the Nürburgring. On initial inspection it appears to be a bog-standard GT-R Nismo, but if you look a little closer...
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New Porsche 718 Boxster GTS, Cayman GTS are here; are surprisingly reasonable
Follow us on this one Porsche fanatics. On Tuesday, Porsche announced the 2018 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS and 2018 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS models complete with a handful of upgrades, including a slightly more powerful 2.5-liter turbocharged flat-4 that makes 365 horsepower. The Boxster GTS starts at...
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Katech 416 is a short-block V-8, long on 600-plus-horsepower
Most car enthusiasts are well aware that a project car comes with a whole lot of baggage, namely in picking and sourcing appropriate parts. The engine is especially important, and depending on the individual's goals, making a lot of horsepower can get really expensive, really quickly. Enter Katech...
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Perps on the run in the United Kingdom take note: police forces are stepping up their game—literally. The Lincolnshire police force is testing a new way to train officers in high-speed driving and it involves a whole lot of video games. Through a partnership with Sony's PlayStation, four officers clocked a lap time at Silverstone raceway in their standard BMW patrol cars. After a day of setting their best lap times, PlayStation then put them behind the wheel of "Gran Turismo Sport" to hone their skills on the digital version of the race track. The video game alerted the officers to any...
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1917 Mitsubishi refitted with modern Outlander plug-in hybrid powertrain
What's old is new again, at least at Mitsubishi. The three-diamond brand is celebrating its centennial this year. To mark the occasion, the brand tapped West Coast Customs to build a 1917 Model A—Mitsubishi's first car, as its name implies—with a plug-in hybrid powertrain plucked from...
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Turning Tucker’s dream into reality is families’ affair
A man who has once gotten automobiles into his blood can never give them up. . .” — Preston Tucker The Tucker has been a collector car almost since it was new. With a limited production and a fascinating story (made into a movie in 1988 by none other than Francis Ford Coppola), the...
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Would you daily that? RCR-built Ferrari 330 P4 replica
Let's get this out of the way first: Yes, we know it's a kit car. This Ferrari 330 P4 RCR is a pretty good kit though, and it looks like it would be a lot of fun to thrash thing on a good road or a racetrack. It's produced by a company called RCR, which makes some top-notch vintage race car...
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Audi A7 reveal, Ram 1500 spy shots, brand-new McLaren F1: Car News Headlines
Audi will unveil its second-generation A7 on Thursday. A teaser suggests that the current model’s shapely form, including the arresting Kammback rear, will transition onto the new model. Another upcoming vehicle in the headlines is Ram’s next-generation 1500. Our latest spy shots reveal...
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Polestar 1 is a carbon fiber-bodied 600-horsepower hybrid coupe
Volvo was among the first automakers to announce intentions to phase out the internal combustion engine and move to a purely electrified portfolio of cars. In the process, Volvo's former in-house tuning division, Polestar, parted ways to become a standalone brand. Its mission? Build electrified...
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BMW has just launched a new generation of its X3 and soon there will be a hotter version cooked up by Alpina. Alpina is a semi-official BMW tuner that’s been in the business of making Bavaria’s best go faster for over 50 years. We only get to sample Alpina’s talents in two models—the 6-Series-based B6 and 7-Series-based B7—but overseas there are many more models to choose from. One of these is the X3-based XD3 which offers an impressive combination of stump-pulling grunt, all-weather traction and decent fuel economy. A prototype for a new XD3 was recently spotted...
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2017 Tokyo Motor Show preview
The Tokyo Motor Show isn’t on the same scale as some other events on the auto show circuit, which means it tends to miss out on many of the brands that typically feature at shows in Europe and North America. However, what it lacks in international flavor it makes up in the assortment of...
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Le Mans-winner Brendon Hartley to make Formula 1 debut
Brendon Hartley is only 27 but he’s already a 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and World Endurance Championship title holder. Now the New Zealander is about to get his first taste at Formula 1. Toro Rosso has confirmed that Hartley will replace Pierre Gasly at this weekend’s United States...
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2019 Ram 1500 spy shots
Ram’s popular workhorse, the 1500, is coming in for a redesign for the 2019 model year. The next generation of the full-size pickup truck, code-named the DT, will debut in early 2018 (January's Detroit auto show most likely) and bring with it a more modern face. The cross hair grille is...
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Toyota tackles future mobility with Concept-i trio
Toyota at next week’s 2017 Tokyo Motor Show will preview a potential future for mobility with a trio of concepts. The automaker’s vision for the future is one where cars and people work together to make getting around as easy and efficient as possible. The medium that will allow this to...
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There's a brand-new, never-registered McLaren F1 for sale
If you’re looking for an example of extreme restraint, you won’t find a better example than the person that took delivery of a McLaren F1…and then never drove it. That’s right. Someone bought one of the 106 F1s to be built and decided to park it. In fact, the car has never...
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