Supercars
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Halo cars aren't designed to be best sellers. They're vital vanity projects--succinct statements of all a car company wants to be, and what it can do. They can be culture-shifters. Witness the Audi R8, the BMW i8. When it made its debut 25 years ago, the Acura NSX was the brand's first halo car. It defined the outer reaches of what Acura might become. That it also redefined the supercar was incidental. With its transverse V-6 engine, sonorous VTEC soundtrack, and its aluminum body, it was an exotic rendered in almost Lotus-like simplicity. We're a generation past that pristine original, and...
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Prepare to drool as Pennzoil is back with another high-speed driving video
Last time we saw a bright yellow Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat storming through a deserted city landscape. Now there’s a Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] 488 GTB doing the same and it, too, is dressed in yellow. That can mean only one thing: the folks at Pennzoil have put together another of their awesome...
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Building a car out of titanium certainly isn’t easy
Icona, a design firm with Italian roots but headquartered in Shanghai, last year impressed us with a supercar concept whose body was made entirely of titanium. The concept is called the Vulcano and it showcases the talent and capabilities of Icona’s design team. That means you won’t be...
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1 of 3 Lamborghini Venenos hits the market for $11 million
Missed out on the chance to buy a Lamborghini Veneno coupe when they first hit the market? Well, don't feel too bad as Lamborghini only built three (plus an unsold pre-production version). And they weren't exactly sitting on dealer lots waiting for buyers to snap them up. They were instead offered...
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First-gen Dodge Viper pops up on Lego Ideas
It's a good day, with plenty of sunshine. Yesterday, all your automotive troubles seemed so far away. Today, though, you have car stuff big and small to get excited about. Case in point is this first-generation Dodge Viper that we've found on the Lego Ideas page. All it needs is the love of 10,000...
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Only road-legal Porsche 911 GT1 Evo race car up for auction
You're looking at the one and only road-legal example of Porsche's 911 GT1 Evolution race car. And you can buy it, if you're the lucky top bidder at RM Sotheby's upcoming auction in Monaco. What's that, you say? Yes, Porsche did build a road-going version of the GT1 called the Strassenversion, and...
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Croatian firm Rimac first presented the Concept_One at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. Even back then the company, which at the time few knew about, was confident that its electric supercar would enter production, complete with a promised four-motor, 1,088-horsepower output and 82-kilowatt-hour battery. At the 2016 Geneva Motor Show last week, we were finally treated with the reveal of the production version, which we’re glad to report looks virtually identical to the original concept from five years ago while also matching all the juicy specs. Rimac has previously stated that the price...
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See the Bugatti Chiron in more colors thanks to configurator
Bugatti’s new Chiron has been generating a lot of buzz since its debut at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. However, so far Bugatti has only shown the car in two colors. These include a solid navy blue and a two-tone configuration featuring two lighter shades of blue. Now you can view the Chiron in...
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How the Lamborghini Centenario LP 770-4 differs from the Aventador LP 750-4 SuperVeloce
Last week at the Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini introduced a new special edition car. Meant to celebrate the 100th birthday of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, the Centenario LP 770-4 is essentially a special body on the ultra-high-performance $400,000 Aventador LP 750-4 SuperVeloce. Basing...
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No plans for Koenigsegg SUV but expect a sedan
Talk of a Koenigsegg sedan dates back quite a few years but the company’s CEO and founder Christian von Koenigsegg has finally confirmed that such a car is in the works. Speaking with Top Gear the magazine, von Koenigsegg said work on a sedan has already commenced though we may have to wait...
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Ferrari LaFerrari Spider allegedly shown to customers
Ferrari’s [NYSE:RACE] LaFerrari flagship is being built in an exclusive run of just 499 cars but there could be more if new rumors of a convertible version turn out to be accurate. Rumors of an open-top LaFerrari originally surfaced about a year after the reveal of the coupe at 2013’s...
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Two grannies, one Lamborghini
Would you do a double-take if you saw two elderly women cruising down the street in a souped-up Lamborghini Murcielago? We'd probably do a triple-take, just to figure out what's going on. That's what happened in this video put out by the funny crew at Donut Media (via duPont Registry), which is...
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Zenvo, the other Scandinavian supercar marque, first burst onto the scene back in 2009 with its ST1. The car boasted a supercharged and turbocharged V-8 delivering in excess of 1,100 horsepower, plus an aggressive look that makes a GT-R appear tame in comparison. However, some notable teething issues has held the company back while rivals like Koenigsegg and Pagani have flourished. Nevertheless, Zenvo hasn’t given up and at this week’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show the Danish firm unveiled a new model, the TS1. The TS1 is not a completely new car. Instead, it’s an extensive update...
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Bugatti Chiron to have eight-year lifespan, sell at a profit
The Bugatti Veyron is famous for breaking records, but there’s another record the car broke that Bugatti’s management team probably wished wasn’t so well-known: the huge loss the cars generated with every sale. Bugatti’s Volkswagen Group parent doesn’t release...
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Koenigsegg Agera Final presented at 2016 Geneva Motor Show: Live photos
The new Regera supercar wasn’t the only major announcement from Sweden’s Koenigsegg at this week’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show. The company also rolled out the Agera Final, which will be built in an exclusive series of just three cars and marks the end of the Agera line. If you recall...
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A close look at the Bugatti Chiron’s monster W-16 engine
Bugatti’s Chiron is a pure masterpiece where every inch has been meticulously designed and engineered to ensure the car can safely and reliably travel well above takeoff speeds for commercial jets. Bugatti isn’t saying how fast the Chiron will go, though the company does state that the...
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Arash AF8 Cassini debuts at 2016 Geneva Motor Show: Live photos
British supercar marque Arash had two models up on display at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. One was an updated version of Arash's AF10 flagship, complete with a hybrid drivetrain. The drivetrain is said to pack a supercharged V-8 and four electric motors for a combined output of more than 2,000...
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Lamborghini tips hat to Italian Air Force with Huracán LP 610-4 Avio
Lamborghini took to the stage at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show this week with a new, limited edition version of its Aventador known as the Centenario. However, the Huracán also got the special edition treatment in the form of the LP 610-4 Avio. Boasting aeronautical styling cues, the LP 610-4...
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Alongside the striking Arrow supercar on Apollo’s stand at this week’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show was another, somewhat more familiar model. The car is the N, essentially an updated version of the former Gumpert Apollo. The latter N symbolizes the Nürburgring, the race track Apollo plans to use to hone all of its future cars. The specifications of the N match those of Gumpert’s most recent Apollo, the Apollo Enraged. Power comes from a twin-turbocharged 4.2-liter V-8, rated at 690 horsepower and 649 pound-feet of torque. Drive is to the rear wheels only, via a 7-speed...
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Marchionne: Electric Ferrari would be 'obscene'
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] CEO Sergio Marchionne, also Chairman of Ferrari [NYSE:RACE], isn't the biggest fan of electric cars, but he's particularly unenthusiastic about an all-electric Ferrari. "With Ferrari, it's almost an obscene concept," Marchionne said at this week's 2016 Geneva...
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McLaren's next hypercar could be electric
As part of its Track22 six-year business plan, McLaren says it is investigating making a battery electric vehicle its next hypercar, or in McLaren speak, Ultimate Series car. Moving forward, the McLaren lineup will include the lowest priced Sports Series cars like the 570S and 570GT (as well as the...
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McLaren lays out future plans, says half its cars will be hybrids
It’s hard to imagine but the current iteration of McLaren’s road car division, McLaren Automotive, has only been up and running for about six years. In that time, the company has managed to launch a new factory, a motorsport division and a three-tier model lineup that includes some of...
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Apollo arrives in Geneva with 986-hp Arrow supercar
Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur at one point was the maker of the fastest road car in the world. The car was the Apollo Sport, which in 2009 set the fastest lap time for a production car at the Nürburgring. Even today the time of 7:11.57 remains one of the fastest set at the Green Hell...
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Spyker C8 Preliator bows with Audi V-8, 525 hp
Living up to the Spyker motto, Nulla tenaci invia est via, Latin for “For the tenacious, no road is impassable,” CEO and founder Victor R. Muller hasn’t given up on his dream to run a successful sports car company despite some major setbacks. The list is a long one and includes...
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