Supercars
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Germany's Sport Auto has tested the new Lamborghini Aventador for its top speed and its lap time around Hockenheim.
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Audi R8 Crashes In Florida, Owner Posts Photos On Forum
The owner of this sad looking Audi R8 was simply driving down a road yesterday in Tampa, Florida on the way to dinner when the driver of a pickup truck allegedly ran through a stop sign and crashed into him causing the damage you see here. Fortunately there were no major injuries for any of the...
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Stillborn Supercar: 1934 Auto Union Type 52
In love and cars, it's bittersweet to wonder what might have been. Add nearly 80 years to an element of mystery, and you'll get something like the Auto Union Type 52. If ever the words "ancestral supercar" belonged together, this is it. Recent features on Jalopnik and IEDEI got us thinking about...
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The 24 Best Car Pictures Of 2011
We've always disliked the word "snapshot." A picture isn't an instant in time. It's the tail end of a lot of talent and preparation, a good measure of luck, and a little bit of magic. It can raise pulses and change minds. It even can turn some awkward-looking rides from the real world into mythic...
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Mercedes-Benz Prepping SLS AMG Black Series Roadster?
When AMG unleashed the Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series back in 2008, engineers decided to do away with the regular SL’s heavy retractable hard-top and replace it instead with a simple fixed roof composed from lightweight carbon fiber. Black Series cars being the most focused and hardcore...
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Savage Rivale: Netherlands' Roadyacht GTS comes to life
Savage Rivale is an ambitious startup based in the Netherlands and working hard on not just a new car, but a whole new segment. That segment, albeit a niche one, is the four-door convertible supercar segment, a void which in the very near future will be filled by the striking Savage Rivale...
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Ferraris, flames, and foolage #FTL
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Czech Police Clamp Down Bugatti Veyron: Video
It appears no one is above the law when it comes to parking, at least in the Czech Republic, as the owner of this Bugatti Veyron found out recently. The video above shows local police applying a wheel clamp to the million dollar exotic, which was left illegally parked on a downtown Prague street...
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Bugatti Presents Veyron Super Sport Edition Merveilleux To ‘Simon’
Bugatti has built another special edition Veyron supercar, this time based on the already limited Veyron Super Sport model. Only one example of the car, dubbed the Edition Merveilleux, will be built, and it was recently delivered to its buyer in China, a 40-year old man known only as...
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Koenigsegg CCX Crashes In Long Island
As we’ve seen in the past, the 802-horsepower Koenigsegg CCX isn’t the easiest car to drive. In fact, it’s safe to say that keeping the car, and all its 806 horsepower and 678 pound-feet of torque, safely on the road is something the average driver is unlikely to be capable of...
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Got What It Takes To Work At McLaren?
Having just opened the doors of its brand new Production Center in Woking, England, McLaren is now geared for the launch of several new models and is on track to quadruple production from the 1,000 cars it's building now within the next couple of years. The only thing it needs now is a committed...
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Lamborghini Reventon Comes Alive: Video
Usually the supercar is the artwork, but in this video, the Lamborghini Reventon is nothing more than a canvas.
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The 2013 SRT Viper has been revealed. Click here for all the official details. As we twist in the wind over the 2013 SRT Viper's debut venue--it could be Detroit, but New York is looking more likely--the SRT brand has announced it is re-opening the Viper's Conner Avenue production facility, and along the way confirmed it won't be a Dodge, but an SRT. The name change makes perfect sense given SRT's repositioning as a standalone brand, and is in that sense completely unsurprising. At the same time, it gives us hope that the Viper, while already documented to include more safety-oriented driver...
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Music Mogul Jermaine Dupri Sued Over Repossessed Lamborghini
A Georgia-based finance company looking to collect the $79,095 balance outstanding for a Lamborghini Murcielago repossessed from Jermaine Dupri.
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Late Model Racecraft Claims World's Fastest Corvette ZR1 Title: Video
Having already built a Corvette with more than 1,500 horsepower under the hood and top speed bragging rights of 231 mph, Late Model Racecraft has gone out and posted a video of one of its modified Corvette ZR1 supercars running the quarter mile at 9.68 seconds at 147 mph. This, says Late Model...
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Was Last Week The Worst Week In History For Ferrari Fans?
While supercar crashes are nothing new, last week was a particularly bad week for Ferrari fans across the globe. We reported the destruction of 11 Ferraris in a mere five days. Now let's take a look back at the carnage. Please, hold the tears until the end. First on our Ferrari destruction world...
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Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 Roadster To Debut In Geneva: Report
Lamborghini is said to be showing its production-ready Aventador LP700-4 Roadster at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show
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Lotus Esprit V-8 Engine Development: Video
The new Lotus is building a new V-8 engine, in part to power its upcoming Lotus Esprit, due in 2013. Reported to generate up to 570 horsepower, the new Lotus V-8 is being built from scratch, completely in-house, a move which Lotus characterizes as big and brave decision. The motivation is to be...
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Acura will be making waves at next month’s 2012 Detroit Auto Show with three new concept vehicles previewing models destined for production in the very near future. One of these will be the highly anticipated successor to the Acura NSX supercar, which despite still being a concept has already been confirmed for production by Honda CEO Takanobu Ito. The new version is expected to be styled along the lines of the pure concept built by Acura for the upcoming movie The Avengers. It is also expected to feature a hybrid-based SH-AWD (Super Handling All-Wheel Drive) system consisting of a V-6...
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2013 Nissan GT-R Track Pack Detailed, No U.S. Launch Planned
Nissan will begin offering a Track Pack performance option on 2013 GT-R models.
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Not Again: Ferrari F430 Burns On Houston Highway
Hopefully the last in what may eventuate as one of the worst weeks in history for Ferrari owners, this black Ferrari F430, possibly a hardcore Scuderia model, suddenly caught fire while it was being driven down a stretch of road in Houston, Texas, earlier this week. A passerby managed to capture...
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Hertz UK Offering Supercar Rental
Can’t afford a supercar? Don’t sweat it as there are numerous companies around the world aimed at getting you behind the steering wheel of mega-dollar machinery for relatively little money. Here in the U.S. groups like Gotham Dream Cars offer up Lamborghinis and Ferraris for daily...
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Italy’s latest supercar is the F&M Mugello
From the creator of the V-12 powered Vulca S and the deliciously retro Antas V8 comes a brand new supercar, the F&M Mugello, which has been teased here today ahead of a global launch pegged for early next year. The Mugello hails from the atelier of Italian coachbuilder Faralli & Mazzanti...
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Another Ferrari Crashes, This Time A 458 Italia
This has certainly been a very bad week for Ferraris all around the globe. On Monday we reported on a crash that took place in Japan and involved no less than eight Ferraris, most of which are likely to be written off. And then just yesterday we reported on a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano that burned to...
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