Supercars
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The Chicago Auto Show continues today, but there hasn't been a whole lot to get excited about. Fortunately, there are lots of other things happening around the web. Aston Martin's V12 Zagato finally reaches its production version, though it still looks a whole lot like the concept--which is a very good thing. The 2014 BMW i3 has been spied again, looking more production-ready and quite capable in the snow. Does a luxury compact range-extended electric car sound like a winning formula to you? Chevrolet's Euro branch has unveiled the Cruze Wagon ahead of its official debut at the Geneva Motor...
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Production Aston Martin V12 Zagato Debuts
We knew the stunning Aston Martin V12 Zagato race car that tackled the grueling Nurburgring 24 Hours race last year was destined to spawn a production version, and now Aston Martin has revealed the car ahead of its debut this weekend at the Kuwait Concours d’ Elegance. The V12 Zagato is the...
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Honda Honors The NSX, Past And Future: Video
A new video from Honda honors the original NSX sport coupe, while teasing its 2015 replacement.
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2013 ATS, Next-Gen Audi R8, Fisker Stops Nina: Car News Headlines
Fisker, the startup company behind the Karma hybrid luxury sedan and the upcoming Nina electric car, has been forced to stop work on its new plant because of failure to meet milestones required by the Department of Energy in its loan contract. The 2013 Cadillac ATS continues to impress with a new...
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Next Audi R8 To Keep Normally-Aspirated V-8 And V-10 Engines
Despite being unveiled as far back as 2006, the Audi R8 is still a highly sought after performance machine and one of the best super-sports cars on the planet. Understandably, Audi won’t want to muck around too much with the award-winning formula so for the next-generation of the car...
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Bugatti Veyron Doing 220-Plus MPH Runs On Public Road: Video
It’s a sad fact that a vast majority of supercar owners will never take their million-dollar machinery to the extremes they were designed for. In fact, it’s quite common for many of these beauties to be locked away in garages, only to be driven a few hundred miles each year. While we...
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Earlier this morning we reported news of a man that crashed a Lamborghini Gallardo he hired on the way to his wedding. Now we have the first details about a man from Houston, Texas, who crashed a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 after owning the car for just one week. According to police, the man was driving out of a nightclub parking lot in the city's Uptown Park area late last night when he lost control of the car and crashed into a pair of pedestrians and some parked cars. His excuse for the crash was that he had just bought the 691-horsepower supercar and was still unfamiliar with it...
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Groom Crashes Lamborghini Gallardo Hire Car
Your wedding can be one of the most stressful days of your life but imagine the added pressure of having to tell everyone about the hired Lamborghini you just crashed. That’s exactly what one resident of Sydney, Australia, had to endure after he crashed a hired Lamborghini Gallardo on the way...
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The Vision Of McLaren Automotive: Video
Last year wasn’t just the launch year for the MP4-12C supercar, but for a new car company, with its past and future rooted in motorsport and with technological innovation, manufacturing skill, and British heritage at its core. That new company is McLaren Automotive, the retail offshoot of the...
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Ferrari FF Goes Slalom In The Italian Dolomites: Video
Two Ferrari drivers go head to head in a slalom ski...FF..race.
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Golden Retriever Rides Shotgun In A Bugatti Veyron
They say that a dog is man’s best friend, but we wonder just how many people out there would leave their pet dog unattended in a car that stickers for about $2 million. We now know of at least one individual that would. Pictured above is a Bugatti Veyron parked curbside on a street in West...
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2012 Audi R8 GT Spyder Priced From $211,200
With just 333 units to be built worldwide, and only 50 of those bound for the U.S., the hand-built Audi R8 GT Spyder isn't just a high-performance roadster, it's an extremely exclusive one. It's priced to match, too, starting from $210,000 plus a $1,200 delivery fee. If you've forgotten what the R8...
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The McLaren MP4-12C gets boosted to 800-hp by Hennessey Performance.
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Jaguar Celebrates The XJ220’s 20th Birthday
The XJ220 supercar is one of the most iconic Jaguars ever produced, and to this day remains the British automaker’s fastest production car. It also once held the world record for the fastest production car with a top speed of 213 mph, before being toppled by the equally-iconic McLaren F1. And...
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Acura NSX Super Bowl Spot: Getting The First One
The next Acura NSX is still little more than a plastic buck, just beyond the twinkle-in-a-designer's-eye stage of development, but known car aficionado Jerry Seinfeld is already fighting some random rich dude for the rights to buy the first one. The spot tracks Seinfeld's ludicrous attempts to get...
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Lamborghini Rules Out Turbocharging, For Now
While many of its rivals go the turbocharging route in order to boost performance without any detriment to fuel efficiency, Lamborghini has decided to go against doing the same with its models, at least until the end of this decade. The information was revealed by Lamborghini CEO Stephan...
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Ferrari 458 Italia Disintegrates After Fatal Crash In Italy
Yesterday afternoon a black Ferrari 458 Italia crashed near the coastal town of Taranto, in Southern Italy, killing three people--including the driver--and injuring nine others. The Ferrari driver is said to have lost control at high speed on Interstate 172 before his car veered off the road and...
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Bugatti Orders Two More Years Worth Of Veyron Transmissions
Bugatti has ordered two more years worth of transmissions from Ricardo, the British engineering and motorsports firm that supplies the supercar manufacturer with advanced dual-clutch transmissions for all versions of the Veyron. This raises the all-important question: Where will the transmissions...
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Patent filings have revealed that Porsche is developing a tri-turbo system for its next 911 Turbo.
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Supercar Manufacturer SSC Drops Shelby Name From Title
To avoid confusion and help it stand apart in the increasingly competitive business of selling supercars, Shelby Supercars, or SSC for short, has agreed to drop the Shelby name from its official title and instead go with SSC only. SSC, as many readers may already know, was founded by a man who just...
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DriveSRT To Tease The 2013 Dodge Viper
If the Drive SRT Facebook page gets 10,000 "Likes" before February 1, the folks at SRT promise to give us a look at the new Viper.
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Pagani Zonda F Crashes In Hong Kong
This has been a very bad week for supercars all around the globe. Only yesterday we brought you news of a Lamborghini Gallardo that caught fire in Portland, Oregon, as well as a Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SV that crashed in Indonesia. And of course on Monday there was that Ferrari F430 that...
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Exclusive: Lamborghini Gallardo Catches Fire At Portland Auto Show
The Portland International Auto Show isn't exactly known as a hotbed of industry activity or product reveals. Nonetheless, there is often some attractive hardware on display, including, this year, at least one privately-owned Lamborghini Gallardo. Unfortunately, that Gallardo won't be making the...
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Chris Harris' Ode To His Hibernating Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0: Video
If you live where winter means putting away the sports car for a few months, you'll understand how much Chris Harris is missing his Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0.
Kurt Ernst