| Red-Hot Hypercar: Up Close with the Wicked-Sounding 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari [Video] |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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We get up close with Ferrari’s new red-hot 950-hp hypercar and hear it roar. Watch the video here.
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| 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari Driven! It’s Most Definitely *THE* Ferrari |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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The night I was scheduled to leave for Maranello, Italy, to drive the LaFerrari, Car and Driver hosted a party in New York for the annual auto show. The guests of honor included three racing heroes you’d recognize from the Kodachromes: David Hobbs, Sam Posey, and Brian Redman. These gents hail from the golden age […]
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| Mazda Mulling Turbo Four for Next CX-9, Could It Also Be Next “Speed” Engine? |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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Mazda’s next CX-9 crossover is likely to forego V-6 power in favor of a turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline engine, according to an interview with Mazda’s global head of sales and marketing Masahiro Moro, published in Australia’s CarAdvice. The current CX-9 rides on a dinosaur of a platform that debuted on the first-generation Mazda 6 back in […]
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| Thx, Crossover Buyers: Lexus Mulling Three-Row Crossover Dubbed “TX” |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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Because the world simply can’t do without another three-row crossover, Lexus is considering getting in on the action with a new luxury family hauler, according to Automotive News. Likely to be named TX, the new truckster would slot in above the RX in size—or at least length—and price. Indeed, Lexus already has two three-row ‘utes, the large GX460 […]
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| Which Is Which? Real and Video-Game BMW M3s Tackle Laguna Seca in Side-by-Side Lap Video |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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If your idea of a cutting-edge racing video game includes RC Pro-Am for NES or Outrun for Sega Genesis, you may want to walk your Luddite self into the 21st century. Today, games like Forza Motorsport 5 and Gran Turismo 6 have elevated the car-racing genre to near high art. But a new challenger called […]
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| The Roar of the Masses Could Be Art: BMW Art Car Book Coming Soon! |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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Famed for his mobiles, artist Alexander Calder accepted a commission in 1975 to paint an automobile. His touched-up BMW 3.0 CSL “Batmobile” went to Le Mans and kicked off a tradition that’s included a veritable who’s-who of contemporary artists mixing with BMW cars such as Frank Stella (1976, 3.0 CSL), Andy Warhol (M1, 1979), Jenny Holzer […]
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| Watch a 1000-hp Hennessey Chevrolet Camaro Murder Death Kill Its Rear Tires |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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Set to different music and maybe narrated by Susan Sarandon, this video from Hennessey Performance Engineering of one of its modified Chevrolet Camaros could play like a fundraising commercial for needy third-world villages or puppy adoptions. Only for tires. “Every five seconds, a pair of rear tires dies from gratuitous displays of horsepower . . […]
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| 2015 Volvo V60 T5 Drive-E Tested: One for the Wagonisti |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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Station wagons used to be a Volvo strong suit, amounting to a hefty percentage of the company’s product mix. That was before the “crossover” became a household word and before SUVs in all their rich variety upstaged conventional wagons, eventually eliminating them from almost every showroom. Volvo certainly isn’t about to retreat from the crossover […]
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| High-Po Bentley Continental GT RS Spied at the ’Ring, Sports Goofy Spoiler |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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Bentley is working on a high-performance version of its Continental GT V8, the proof of which you can see in these spy photos from the Nürburgring. The car pictured is a riff on the V8 S model, and has a more aggressive front spoiler, a lower suspension, and a sorta goofy-looking fixed rear spoiler instead […]
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| Dealers Assurance Receives Category VII Designation |
Apr 29th, 2014 |
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A.M. Best Co. has increased Dealers Assurance Company’s financial size category from VI to VII. Category VII designates companies whose adjusted policyholder surplus is between $50 million and $100 million.
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