Monday, 27 February 2017

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Ferrari 488 Almost Does A Ford Mustang Leaving UK Car Meet

Posted: 27 Feb 2017 04:30 AM PST


Just when we thought the Ford Mustang was the only car prone to post-car meet crashes, a video has emerged showing a Ferrari 488 GTB channeling its inner Mustang and almost crashing.
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Bugatti Veyrons Like This Rare Grand Sport Are Still Selling For Millions

Posted: 27 Feb 2017 04:06 AM PST


If you've been waiting patiently and biding your time, hoping to grab a steal on a second-hand Bugatti Veyron, we have bad news for you. Because the thousand-horsepower hypercars are still selling for over a million dollars a pop.
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Even Volvo Issues Safety Recalls From Time To Time

Posted: 27 Feb 2017 03:27 AM PST


Volvos are known, above all else, for two things: safety and reliability. So we don't see many recalls coming from the Swedish manufacturer, but they do come around from time to time... even if they're rather small and specific in scope. Like with this one, for example.
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Koenigsegg Regera Visually Gets Back To Basics In Bare Carbon

Posted: 27 Feb 2017 02:31 AM PST


Koenigsegg's customers have been known to order up some rather outlandish color combinations. The company's own employees, too, in configuring how they'd want their own version of the new Regera. But there's something deliciously elemental about this treatment.
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Speeding Porsche Kills Four After Crashing Into Parked Car With Mother And Child Inside

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 08:15 PM PST


Four people, including a 33 year old mother and her 3 year old child, were tragically killed in Greece today when the driver of a speeding Porsche crashed into their car at a rest area on the highway.
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Peugeot Instinct Concept Is Beautiful And Smart

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 07:30 PM PST


Shortly after a single image of it leaked online, the Peugeot Instinct Concept has bowed before its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2017 next month.
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Electric Mini May Be Built In Germany Due To Brexit

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 07:21 PM PST


BMW is pondering building the upcoming all-electric Mini in Germany rather than Britain as originally intended.
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2017 Toro Rosso STR12 No Longer Looks Like A Red Bull

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 06:11 PM PST


The Toro Rosso STR12 has just debuted in Spain ahead of F1 pre-season testing and has undergone a comprehensive overhaul.
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Red Bull Racing's RB13 Looks Poised To Challenge Mercedes

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 05:01 PM PST


Red Bull Racing has finally unveiled its challenger for the 2017 Formula One World Championship, dubbed the RB13.
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BMW Says We Are At Least 10 Years Away From Level 5 Autonomous Driving

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 04:05 PM PST


Although BMW's i division is shifting its focus towards the development of advanced autonomous technologies, the German brand still thinks we're quite some time away from fully self-driving cars.
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Chevy Camaro ZL1 Sets The Pace At The Daytona 500

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 03:10 PM PST


They may bear a passing resemblance to a Toyota Camry, Ford Fusion, or Chevy SS, but NASCAR stock cars share little in common with the road-going sedans they're supposed to represent. No, if you want to see a real production car during a NASCAR race, you need to look at the front of the pack to the pace car – like this new Camaro ZL1.
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Toyota MR2 Shows Us What Snap Oversteer Looks Like

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 01:54 PM PST


Cars with both their engines and driven wheels in the back are famously prone to snap oversteer. Especially, as you can see from this video, the Toyota MR2.
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Hamilton's Dad Proposes His Own Concept For Closed-Cockpit Formula Racing

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 08:19 PM PST


Open cockpits have been an essential part of grand prix racing for decades. That's beginning to change, though, as Formula One considers options for better protecting its drivers. What you see here is one such idea.
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Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Gallardo Burns to a Crisp In Miami

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 11:58 AM PST


Exotic supercars are highly stressed machines, and have been known as a result to catch fire from time to time. Pushing them even further, then, might not be such a good idea – as one owner recently discovered... the hard way.
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Will Someone Actually Pay $1.2 Million For This Porsche 911 R?

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 07:14 PM PST


Back to basics. That was the idea behind the Porsche 911 R. But that doesn't mean it's cheap.
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Your 2017 Geneva Motor Show A-To-Z Guide

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 08:20 PM PST


Want to keep track of everything from the 2017 Geneva Motor Show? You've come to the right place.
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Haas Aims For Even Better Results This Year With New VF-17

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 09:10 AM PST


The Haas F1 Team did impressively well last year. It finished its debut season in eighth place, beating Renault, Sauber, and Manor. That's the best any new F1 team has done on its debut since the turn of the millennium. It aims to do even better this year, and this is the car with which it aims to do so.
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Busted! Valet Parker Caught Joyriding A McLaren At 4 AM

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 03:17 PM PST


Remember that scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off where the parking-lot employees take the Ferrari out for a joy ride? Well it turns out that actually happens – not just with Ferraris, but McLarens too. And not just in Chicago, but also in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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BMW Individual Spruces Up The M760Li xDrive V12

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 06:56 AM PST


As BMW's first-ever M Performance 7-Series, the M760Li xDrive is the very definition of a flagship model, easily capable of fighting for the luxury saloon segment title.
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All New Cars Sold In Norway To Be EVs By 2025

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 05:58 AM PST


The Norwegian Parliament has set an ambitious target that all new vehicles sold in the country by 2025 will be electric, hydrogen or low emission plug-in hybrids.
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V8-Powered Porsche 911 Rat Rod Will Shock You

Posted: 26 Feb 2017 08:03 PM PST


There are some cars that leave you utterly speechless due to the sheer beauty and others that leave you lost for words as to what you're actually look at. This Porsche 911 rat rod is the latter.
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