Sports Cars
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Jaguar Land Rover has just established a new personalization department called Special Vehicles Operations (SVO), which will not only be responsible for coming up with new color and trim options but also to develop high-performance vehicles. The latter will wear the new SVR badge and will initially consist of the stunning F-Type Project 7 and soon-to-be-launched Range Rover Sport SVR. But many more SVR products are planned, and these will likely be based on the existing F-Type and XF models as well as the upcoming XE and possibly even the Discovery Sport. One of these is tipped to be a...
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2015 MINI John Cooper Works Countryman And Paceman Revealed
We’ve already seen the regular versions of the updated 2015 MINI Cooper Countryman and 2015 Cooper Paceman, and now we have details for the high-performance John Cooper Works variants. MUST SEE: Stolen Tesla Police Chase Ends In Massive, Fiery Wreck, Splits Model S In Half: Video They feature...
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BMW i8 Full Pricing, Options Revealed
BMW announced the list price of its i8 plug-in hybrid sports car some time ago, but now we know how much it will actually cost to get behind the wheel once various options and trim lines are taken into account. At its very least, that's $135,700, plus a standard BMW $950 destination fee—but...
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2015 Porsche Boxster & Cayman Updates: Minor, But Meaningful
In addition to the all-new Boxster and Cayman GTS trim, the 2015 model year brings a handful of equipment updates. Individually, each is fairly minor, but taken together, it makes for a substantially upgraded package—at least on some variants. New individual options available for 2015 include...
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Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge Prototype Makes Dynamic Debut At Goodwood: Video
Infiniti took its Q50 Eau Rouge prototype to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend, and we have video of the car during its run up Goodwood’s famous hill climb. Unfortunately, Infiniti chose to edit out the sound of the car, which is a shame since the car actually sounds quite...
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2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata To Debut On September 3, 2014: Video
The next MX-5 will go back to its roots.
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The big luxury automakers have been engaged in a power war for decades now. Jaguar gave its 1990s XJR 370 horsepower so BMW made a 400-horse M5. Merc and Audi went better than that so BMW made a 500-hp M5. Since then we've seen forays well into the 500s and more, and now the same battle is happening in the world of four-cylinder motors. Mercedes-Benz kicked off the latest craze with the A45 and CLA45 AMG—all two liters and 355 horsepower of it. It's the world's most powerful four-cylinder production engine, but it didn't take long for Volkswagen to respond, with rumors of a production...
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BMW Won’t Build An M4 Gran Coupe
A senior executive at BMW’s M division has quashed rumors that the German automaker may launch an M version of the stylish 4-Series Gran Coupe. BMW does sell an M6 Gran Coupe and considered adding a smaller M4 Gran Coupe to the lineup at one point, but has chosen to forgo it. “That is a...
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Nissan Vice President Andy Palmer Brings Out His Inner Car Guy At Goodwood: Video
Not all companies can boast car guys at the top management levels, but Nissan vice president Andy Palmer seems to count himself among that crowd in Nissan's latest Goodwood Festival of Speed video. That may be strange to hear, given Palmer's apparent distaste for the Toyota 86, Scion FR-S and...
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Local Motors Announces Street/Track Car Project: Video
A new street/track car is coming, and it’s coming from the team that brought us the awesomeness that is the Rally Fighter. Focusing their powers of open-source construction and outside-the-box thinking, the Local Motors crew will move from the dirt to the pavement with a modular car designed...
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Jaguar Land Rover Adopting SVR Badge For Performance Models
Jaguar will soon phase out its R-S badge used on its performance cars like the XFR-S and XKR-S, and replace it with a new SVR badge. Sister company Land Rover will also use the SVR badge for new performance models it’s planning, the first of which will be a Range Rover Sport SVR, previewed in...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Wagon Spy Shots
We’ve just driven the regular versions of the all-new 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and found them to be absolutely brilliant, but the model we’re most concerned with is yet to be launched. We’re talking about the model born out of the fire and brimstone of the AMG hot house in...
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The reborn Detroit Electric is becoming a truly global automaker—at least in terms of its conception and production. The firm still lists its headquarters in Motor City itself, but now has a European base in the Netherlands and has announced that production will take place in Leamington Spa in the U.K, in the heart of the country's auto industry. ALSO SEE: 2016 Chevy Camaro To Grow In Size, Offer 4-Cydliner Power: Report Production was originally slated for the Netherlands, but the Dutch center will instead handle the company's sales and marketing. At Leamington Spa, Detroit Electric...
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Corvette Museum To Keep Sinkhole Open
The National Corvette Museum will keep part of the infamous 'Vette-swallowing sinkhole open as an added attraction.
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Lexus Picks 'Solar Flare' As Crowdsourced RC F Color
Order a 2015 Lexus RC F in bright metallic orange, and at least five random individuals on the streets of the U.K. will be happy--as that color is known as Solar Flare, and those five people helped name it from hundreds of other suggestions. The Lexus U.K. Facebook page posed the question earlier...
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Daihatsu Copen Sports Car Revealed In All Its (Tiny) Glory
Japan's strict kei car regulations, designed to get around some of the country's inherent automotive issues--lack of space, lack of parking, expensive gas--typically breed small, upright boxes where space is maximized and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ALSO SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best...
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Honda Hopes To Shed Dreary Image With New Civic Type R: Video
There are plenty of cars that we can enjoy here in the United States. Of course, there is a long list of vehicles that remain forbidden fruit for those who love automobiles. Be it insanely high-powered German wagons or low-volume, barely legal road-going race cars, there are vehicles that other...
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575-Horsepower Jaguar F-Type Project 7 Revealed: Video
The first undertaking of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Vehicles Operations personalization department is the F-Type Project 7, the production version of last year’s Project 7 concept car. Yes, Jaguar has confirmed that it will build 250 examples of the stunning speedster, and will...
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Every single day, a sportscar gets overlooked. Abandoned. Rejected. It’s fast, it’s beautiful…but it has a stick shift. Automatics, CVTs, dual-clutches—they find their forever homes while thousands of stick shifts are left behind. It's sad, but it's true. Manual transmissions are on the most-endangered species list. Sales are dropping--only 7 percent of vehicles sold last year were stick--and, well, that's just sad. You've heard of our colleagues' campaign to save the manuals. Clearly, there's more work to be done--which is why we're joining the fight. We know you...
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Special BMW M4 Coupe And M5 30 Jahre Edition Headed To Goodwood
The Goodwood Festival of Speed gets bigger and better every year, and there's no better sign of this than how many automakers use the show to launch special versions of their hottest performance models. This year it's the turn of BMW, which is marking the show with the debut of a 30th anniversary...
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Toyota Supra Successor To Feature Convertible Variant?
Toyota plans to have a three-tiered sports car lineup, with the GT 86 (Scion FR-S) to sit in the middle and be flanked by a new entry-level model and a range-topping one serving as a spiritual successor to the Supra. We’ve heard that the latter, which will borrow elements from the FT-1...
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20-Year-Old Crashes BMW M4 In Germany
The first crash involving the all-new 2015 BMW M4 has occurred, with a 20-year-old male in Munich, Germany reportedly losing control of this white example before it ran off the road and crashed head-first into a tree. The accident occurred yesterday near the Sendlinger-Tor-Platz, in the heart of...
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Elemental RP1 track car set for Goodwood debut
For those who think a sports car is too soft, there's always a track car. This relatively-new niche features cars that don't conform to any racing-series rules, but are still too extreme for street driving. The latest is the Elemental RP1, which is set to make its global debut at the 2014 Goodwood...
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TMG Unlikely To Build Hotter Toyota And Lexus Road Cars
Toyota’s motorsport partner TMG is unlikely to develop high-performance road cars based on Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The motorsport skunk works, which is based in Cologne, Germany, currently builds Toyota’s Le Mans prototypes as well as customer race cars based on the Yaris and GT 86...
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