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With its striking yellow paint scheme and neon green accents, this Ford Shelby GT350 isn't your average pony car. That's because it was inspired by one of the best-known fighter aircraft ever to take to the skies. Nicknamed Ole Yeller, the special Shelby GT350 is sort of a road-going version of an especially legendary P-51D Mustang fighter plane, which still holds the record for coast-to-coast travel for a propeller-driven aircraft (5 hours, 20 minutes, set in 1985—if you're counting). A regular flyer even today, the winged Ole Yeller is based in the Legacy Flight Museum in Rexburg...
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Mecum to auction '61 Lincoln Continental loaned to Jackie Kennedy by Ford
Flash back to 1961 and imagine the most glamorous First Lady ever to take up residence in the White House: Jacqueline Kennedy. To capitalize on her elegance and popularity, executives at Ford Motor Company loaned Jackie a gleaming white 1961 Continental four-door convertible for tooling around...
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Australian enthusiast builds Batman garage under mansion
A wealthy Australian man has built something that is a lot more impressive than your childhood bedroom's Batman posters and model cars. It's a "Bat Garage" replica of Bruce Wayne's parking structure from the Hollywood flick "The Dark Knight." As detailed by Molecule and originally pointed out by...
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Aston Martin dealer honors Spitfire's 80th birthday with special V12 Vantage S
An Aston Martin dealer in the United Kingdom is celebrating the 80th birthday of the legendary Spitfire aircraft with a special, aeronautics-inspired version of the V12 Vantage S. The Supermarine Spitfire was one of the most effective fighter aircraft during World War II. Designed by R.J. Mitchell...
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Subaru prices updated 2017 BRZ from $26,315
Subaru's revised 2017 BRZ will sticker from $26,315 when it hits dealers soon, a modest $125 increase over last year for the entry-level Premium trim level. That figure is for a model with a 6-speed manual transmission. From there, the lineup climbs to $28,465 for a Limited with the manual, $29,565...
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2018 Porsche Cayenne, Paul Walker's Cars, Ford Focus RS: The Week in Reverse
We spied the 2018 Porsche Cayenne; the dispute over Paul Walker's cars came to a close; and the new Ford Focus RS has landed in the U.S. market. It's the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. Porsche is preparing the new 2018 Cayenne and our spy photographers caught a prototype testing on...
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Italian design house Italdesign Giugiaro is in the midst of a major transition. The company, famous for penning cars like the original Volkswagen Golf and even the DeLorean DMC-12, in July 2015 saw the Volkswagen Group take full control as the Giugiaro family finally cut ties with the company it founded back in 1968. New management has stepped in to run Italdesign since, with former Lamborghini design boss Filippo Perini heading the company’s creative side. Serving as CEO, meanwhile, is Joerg Astalosch, who was previously a senior exec at VW’s truck unit MAN. Speaking with...
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New Nissan body-on-frame SUV, LaFerrari for sale, Mercedes-AMG E63 spied: Today’s Car News
Nissan has been spotted testing a new body-on-frame SUV. Not much is known about the vehicle although we can confirm it is based on the platform of the NP300 Navara pickup truck sold overseas. One of just three Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] LaFerraris finished in Nero DS Opaco is going under the hammer. The...
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Ferrari LaFerrari to be auctioned at Monterey
Mecum Auctions will offer up for sale one of its largest collections of rare, sports, and super cars next month in Monterey, California. The auction house has confirmed that one of the lots will be a Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] LaFerrari, meaning all three examples of the hybrid hypercar trio will be...
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BMW-powered Bristol Project Pinnacle sports car coming soon
There’s been a lot of interest in recent years surrounding the return of TVR, but that's not the only niche British sports car marque making a comeback. Another is Bristol Cars, the maker of the Viper V-10-powered Fighter which sadly bowed out of the market in 2011. Bristol is currently...
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2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 spy video
You’re in for a real treat today. YouTuber Automotive Mike has managed to spot a prototype for the new Mercedes-AMG E63, and it’s wearing the least bit of camouflage of any of the prototypes for the new super sedan we’ve seen. The front bumper design with its myriad of intakes is...
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2018 Nissan NP300 Navara-based SUV spy shots
Those lamenting Nissan’s decision to go with car-like unibody construction for the latest Pathfinder will be happy to note the automaker is working on a new body-on-frame SUV, though whether we see it in the United States remains to be seen. The vehicle is an SUV version of Nissan’s...
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Thanks to a lucrative licensing deal with Electronic Arts, Porsches have been notably absent from the Sony Digital Entertainment-owned Gran Turismo video game franchise—but that hasn't stopped a group of automotive designers from coming up with their own Vision Gran Turismo concept bearing Porsche's shield logo. The team, which consists of five new car designers and one expert photo retoucher, designed a car inspired by the late 1960s Porsche 908 race cars that competed in the FIA's Group 6 Prototype-Sports Cars series. As a result, they've called their concept the 908/04, an obvious...
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When even your golf cart has to be a luxury ride
For those times when an EZ-Go just won't do, Mercedes-Benz has partnered with a high-end golf cart manufacturer to create what may be the most luxurious way to putt around the course ever created. The Mercedes-Benz Style Edition Garia Golf Car's name may be a mouthful, but this isn't your average...
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FCA says it will pay you to hack its vehicles
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is offering a hefty bounty to hackers willing to test the integrity of its vehicles' digital security. The automaker says it will offer up to $1,500 to hackers who successfully exploit any vulnerabilities related to the cars' increasingly complex integrated infotainment...
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Not all Ford dealers will be able to service the GT
Ford's whizz-bang technological breakthrough GT may be too complicated for the automaker to train all of its dealers to service, according to newly leaked documents. Intended only for the automaker's retailers, the documents posted to AllFordMustangs.com reveal that Ford dealers will need to meet a...
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Aston Martin CEO to personally inspect first 1,000 DB11s
Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer can add another qualification to his resume: he will be personally inspecting the first 1,000 examples of the automaker's new DB11 to leave the assembly line in Gaydon, England. The executive made the announcement on Twitter, where he also posted an image of an...
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Lamborghini factory gets personalization studio
Lamborghini’s Ad Personam personalization department has been up and running since 2006 but is only now getting a dedicated studio. Located at Lamborghini’s factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy, the new studio will enable customers to come up with highly personalized options for...
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Perhaps once his rallying days are over Norway’s Petter Solberg could start up a career in comedy. He’s certainly good at it as you’ll discover in this video. Solberg disguises himself as a senior and then calls roadside assist in his new car, in this case a Mercedes-AMG C63 Wagon. Once a mechanic shows up, Solberg, pretending there’s something odd with the rear of the car, proceeds to drive in manner that suggests he may have forgotten his meds. Along the way he drops some hilarious lines such as, “Please remove your shoes” and “Are you the owner of...
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CARB tells VW to quit blowing smoke for 3.0-liter diesel fix
Volkswagen's proposed fix for roughly 85,000 illegally polluting 3.0-liter diesel engines isn't good enough, a California Air Resources Board letter said Wednesday. The air quality regulators rejected VW's plan and said the proposals were "incomplete, substantially deficient, and fall far short of...
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2017 Porsche 911 GT3, 2017 Mazda 3, 2018 Audi RS 3: Car News Headlines
Porsche’s 911 GT3 is set to receive a mid-cycle update later in the year but images of the updated version have already surfaced. The images appeared in a digital coloring book on the website of Porsche of the Netherlands and have since been removed. Another car due to receive some updates is...
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2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class All Terrain spy shots
SUVs are all the rage right now and automakers see an opportunity for even more slicing of the niche with new softroaders. The latest to join the fray is Mercedes-Benz which is working on a softroader based on the latest-generation E-Class Wagon. Tipped to be called an E-Class All Terrain, the...
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First American takes delivery of Ford Focus RS
Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] Focus RS is finally being delivered to customers across the country, and the first to be handed the keys is Californian resident Jackson Gilmore. He’s been eagerly awaiting the car ever since he first learned of rumors that it will be sold in the United...
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Yes, this Nissan GT-R has turbos for headlights
Nissan’s GT-R is one of the most popular cars for modifying, and with good reason. But there’s such a thing as taking things too far. Case in point is this GT-R with turbochargers where the headlights would normally sit. Yes, it makes the car look downright nasty, in a good way, but it...
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