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Toyota To Display Rally Cars At Goodwood Festival Of Speed
Despite Toyota‘s lack of results in Formula 1 racing, the Japanese automaker has had considerable success in rally racing. With their TTE performance division having significant ties to Europe, Toyota is planning to show off some of their important rally cars at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England. The Celica ST185 and the Corolla WRC will…
Turn Up Those Speakers: Ferrari 458 Challenge Cars Spied Testing At Monza (Video Inside)
For most of us, the SEGA arcade game Ferrari F355 Challenge is the closest we’ll get to the famed one-make Ferrari Challenge series, but for some lucky wealthy folks, every few years they get to change rides, with each one getting progressively better. When Ferrari released the new 458 Italia, most people suspected that a…
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World’s Most Expensive Audi A1 Sells For $525,000
BMW is well known for its long history with art cars, but Audi’s A1 art car seems to be mounting a serious challenge. Designed by Damien Hirst (famous for putting a dead shark in a tank of formaldehyde and selling it for millions), the A1 features a special “spin paint” treatment by Hirst. Although the…
Jaguar Celebrates Its 75th Birthday, Launches Commemorative XKR
Jaguar is celebrating its 75th birthday this year, and is set to launch a special edition XKR at this years Goodwood Festival of Speed to honor this milestone. North Americans, as usual, will get the shaft with a detuned version of the European special edition which gets a ride height drop of nearly half an…
Mercedes-Benz Drivers Are The Most Satisfied In Germany: J.D. Power
We tend to think of hybrid car owners as the most satisfied owners. But it turns out that the smugness radiates not from those silent environment-saving pseudo-hatchbacks, but from vehicles with the three pointed star on the good. A study undertaken by J.D. Power found that Mercedes-Benz owners were the most satisfied vehicle owners in their…
BMW M3 Frozen Gray Buyer Tries To Sell Spot In Line, Gets Burned
We all know the story of the infamous Frozen Gray BMW M3 Limited editions, the exorbitantly expensive special color M3 that costs nearly $20,000 more than a standard car while delivering very little compared to a standard car. One enterprising member of Bimmerforums managed to secure one of the 30 places made available by BMW…
Rhys Millen Debuts Final Version Of RMR Hyundai Genesis PM580 Pikes Peak
The RMR Hyundai Genesis PM580 is about as far removed from a Hyundai Genesis as you can get, but its still pretty damn cool. With a tube frame steel chassis, an active differential and a 650-horsepower 4.1L V6 – all with a curb weight of under 1,900 lbs – the PM580 is a serious machine,…
Lamborghini Builds 10,000th Gallardo
10,000 cars is a minuscule number for most car makers. It’s thought that most major car makers (think The Big 3 or Toyota) can pump out close to that many in a day. For a specialist supercar maker, 10,000 cars is a massive amount. If any supercar was going to do it, it would be the Lamborghini…
International Engine Of The Year Awards Announced
The International Engine Of The Year Awards have been announced, and the big winner this year was Volkswagen’s 1.4L TSI, a miracle of an engine that packs both a turbocharger and a supercharger to coax 178 bhp out of just 1.4L. The full list of winners is below the jump. [Source: International Engine Of The…
Kicherer Makes Their Own Mercedes-Benz SLS Black Edition
Kicherer wanted to make their own “Black Series” version of the Mercedes-Benz SLS, similar to the Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG, and they succeeded in capturing the color pallet of the lesser Benz, if not the incredible ostentatiousness of the car. With a revised exhaust and ECU putting out 620 horsepower rather than the stock 563, the SLS gets…
2011 Kia Optima Spied In The Wild
Nobody could ever accuse the previous generation Kia Optima of being interesting or fun cars. But that looks set to change when the new model debuts with bold new styling and a 274-horsepower 2.0 four-cylinder turbo engine. While previous pictures of the Optima have only been taken in studios with favorable lighting and re-touching, these…
2011 Ford Mustang V6 Gets 48.5 MPG During Closed Circuit Fuel Economy Challenge
It’s crazy to think that only five years ago, the Ford Mustang V8 put out 300 horsepower and put up 17 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway. This year’s Mustang (technically a 2011) V6 will put out 307 horsepower and deliver 19 mpg in town and 30 mpg on the highway…
Sony Releases Cool Gran Turismo Retrospective, Fans Still Anxiously Await GT5 (Video Inside)
It’s hard to believe that the Gran Turismo series has been around for nearly 13 years. The original Gran Turismo for Playstation was a watershed moment in video games, combining import car modifications (before they were cool) with the most advanced racing simulator at the time. Looking back on the original is a bit like…
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Heico Sportiv Volvo V70 T6 AWD R-Design; The Fastest Mouthful Ever
Ever want to pay $87,000 for a Volvo with a name so long you can barely pronounce? Now you can, with the Heico Sportiv Volvo V70 T6 AWD R-Design, a hopped up V70 wagon made in a limited run of 100 units and retailing for almost 90 grand. The 325 horsepower wagon will hit 60…
Toyota Test Driver Dies In LFA Crash In Germany
Hiromu Naruse, Toyota’s chief test driver and the man widely regarded as the father of the Lexus LFA, died in a car crash today on a German highway near the Nurburgring race track. According to reports, Naruse veered into an oncoming lane while piloting a prototype of the Lexus LFA Nurburgring edition and hit a…
Hyundai Sonata Turbo To Hit 60 MPH In 6.5 Seconds, Get 34 MPG, All On Regular Gas
Hyundai‘s Sonata has won high praise from many automotive journalists, Autoguide included, for its distinctive styling, refined manners and great value. But enthusiasts are still waiting on the hottest Sonata (who ever thought we’d see those words together?), the 274 horsepower Sonata turbo, set to debut later this fall. Since its debut at the New York…
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 SuperSport For Sale For The Low, Low Price Of $2.4 Million
Attention hedge-fund managers, rappers and those with family money; Bugatti’s new Veyron 16.4 SuperSport is for sale, and the French/German supercar maker wants to get you into the driver’s seat of one of their supercars for the rock-bottom price of $2.4 million. In all likelihood, the car is probably sold out, as only 30 units…
2011 Lexus IS Brochure Reveals Minor Exterior Changes
The Lexus IS is back for 2011 with a few minor tweaks that should make the car more enticing. According to a leaked Japanese-market brochure, the new models get a 15% bump in fuel efficiency, LED daytime running lights and a revised front bumper, while inside, a USB port for MP3 players is standard. F…
2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Spied
The 2011 Chevrolet Camaro was spied by some intrepid members of the Camaro5 forums. Unfortunately, the cars were out on a gloomy, rainy day and so their roofs were up, which is generally an unflattering position for any ragtop. Mechanically, not much will change between the coupe and the convertibles, with the same V6 and…
Mazda Ditches “Nagare” Styling, People With Good Taste Rejoice
Mazda‘s swoopy, sometimes controversial “Nagare” styling has been jettisoned after a few short years as the pre-eminent design language for the Hiroshima, Japan-based car company. Nagare, with its flowing lines and inelegant front-end treatments, managed to find a home on the next-generation Mazda5, the current Mazda3 and the facelifted Mazda MX-5. The Nagare styling was…
Report: Hyundai Genesis Coupe May Recieve All-New 5.0 V8 Engine
Hyundai recently debuted a new 5.0L version of their Tau V8, reportedly making 429-horsepower. The engine will do duty in the new Equus luxury sedan, and according to some, the Genesis sedan as well. But what everyone wants to know is, where’s the Genesis Coupe V8? On paper, it seems like a natural fit, turning…
Lotus Ditches Lightweight Philosophy As It Pursues Volume Manufacturing
We can already hear the cries of “sellout” from enthusiasts across the world. Lotus announced that they were abandoning their “lightweight and simple” design philosophy in favor of increasing volume and building more technologically advanced, luxurious and upmarket sports cars. Proton, the Malaysian owner of Lotus, pledged in 1996 to make Lotus profitable within 5…
2010 Ford Focus RS Le Mans Classic Editions; Because A Regular RS Isn’t Ostentatious Enough
The Ford Focus RS can be accurately described as belligerent, with its crackling exhaust, electric green paint and bulldog-esque stance. But there will inevitably be a segment that isn’t satisfied with its outrageous appearance. For 5 lucky members of that demographic, Ford has whipped up a few Focus RS hatchbacks painted in historic liveries used…
2011 BMW M3 Frozen Gray Coupe Sells Out In 12 Minutes, Proving There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute
The phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute” has never been more apt in the case of BMW’s Frozen Gray edition of the M3 coupe, which costs nearly $20,000 more than a standard M3 and comes with a unique paint job and interior combination, a dual clutch gearbox, some high performance driving lessons at BMW’s…
