| One-Off McLaren 650S “Project Kilo” Previewed, May or May Not Have Anything to Do With Cocaine |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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It’s become somewhat of a thing for luxury- and sports-car brands to run bespoke operations to crank out extravagant one-off cars. The idea? That anything is possible with a little imagination and, as always, a big checkbook. McLaren is in on the game, too, and having already prodded its Special Operations division to assemble a unique 650S that […]
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| One-Off McLaren 650S “Project Kilo” Previewed, May or May Not Have Anything to Do With Cocaine |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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| Off Topic, But Awesome: Buy Your Own 7000-hp Experimental Navy Warship for Just $180K |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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This is the Sea Slice, an experimental Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and perhaps the coolest craft currently available to civilians. No one else in Monaco or even Lake Havasu will have one, and for a craft that cost $15 million in the late 1990s, the current price is a steal at just $180,000. Lockheed Martin (of […]
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| From the C/D Archives: Lotus Elan S2 Coupe Tested |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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Back in our old purist days, it didn’t matter whether a car was any good or not, as long as it had all the right stuff under the hood. The specifications had to read right. Double overhead camshafts—not pushrods. One carb choke per cylinder—not a big, dumb four-barrel, even if it wouldn’t start on a […]
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| 2017 Ford Fiesta RS Rendered and Detailed: A Mighty Mite That Might Just Happen |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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What It Is: On the heels of the freshly unveiled new Ford Focus RS and the welcome confirmation that it will be coming to the U.S., here’s our rendered take on the car that should be following it. Much as we love the Fiesta ST—and we do love it quite a lot, having awarded it a […]
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| Lotus Elan S2 Coupe – Archived Instrumented Test |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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| 2017 Ford Fiesta RS Rendered: A Mighty Mite that Might Just Happen |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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| Like Some Cat from Japan: Honda’s N-TRUCK/N-CAMP Is a Goldmine of Tiny Recreation |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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We love miniature things. We love things we can’t have. Given the bent of this publication, you’d be excused for thinking that our current obsession is a 1/3-scale Ferrari FXX K with a functional KERS system built from a coffee can, some rebar, and a wall wart. But it is not. Our current dork-frenzy is […]
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| Tesla Model S Now Offers “Executive” Rear Seating |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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One of the niftiest things about the Tesla Model S is its ability to carry up to seven passengers with the optional rear-facing third row of seats. But a subset of the large luxury sedan market caters to VIP back-seaters, folks who demand a roomy place to work or relax while a driver ferries them […]
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| The Ford Focus RS’s Clever AWD System Will Spread Elsewhere (And We Think We’ve Seen It Before) |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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Ford’s engineers rarely get to do things that upset the Blue Oval’s all-powerful accountants. Given that, our biggest surprise at the unveiling of the new Focus RS was the car’s extremely clever torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive system, considering the massive costs that must have gone into re-engineering the front-drive Focus to take it. And although there’s no official confirmation of […]
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