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2015 Formula One British Grand Prix Preview
The 2015 Formula One World Championship continues this weekend with round nine, the British Grand Prix, which once again takes place at the Silverstone Circuit in England. A number of today’s F1 teams are also based in England, so the British Grand Prix is the home event for many participants. ALSO SEE: Dodge Celebrates Its…
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2016 Mercedes A-Class Debuts, Mercedes-AMG A45 Now With 376 HP: Video
Even in this era of engine downsizing and ever-present fuel economy and emissions regulations, the power wars are alive and well. Audi fired the last shot in the hot hatch arena when it lobbed its RS 3 on the market with a 362-horsepower rating, and now Mercedes-AMG has retaliated with an updated version of its…
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With Reveal Of New Giulia Sedan, Alfa Romeo Gets Serious About Brand Renaissance
Alfa Romeo is serious about putting its brand back on the map. This week at the official Alfa Romeo Museum in Milan, Italy, the automaker revealed the Giulia in high-performance Quadrifoglio trim—the first car in an eight-product assault scheduled for the next three years. The Giulia is a small four-door sedan aimed at the BMW…
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1989 Mazda 767B Le Mans Racer Crashes At 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Mazda’s motorsport heritage is being honored at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, currently taking place on the grounds of Goodwood House in the south of England, and tragically one of the automaker’s legendary race cars has suffered a crash at the event. The car is a four-rotor prototype racer that competed in the 1989…
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GM Confirms New Vehicle For Orion Plant, Most Likely Cadillac Compact Crossover
General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] has confirmed it will invest $245 million in its Orion Assembly plant located just outside of Detroit to support the launch of an all-new vehicle program that will be “unlike anything in the plant’s 32-year history.” Understandably, one would naturally assume GM is hinting at production of the…
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2017 Jaguar F-Pace Spy Shots
These are the latest spy shots of Jaguar’s upcoming SUV based on the C-X17 concept first shown at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. Previously thought to be an XQ or Q-Type, Jaguar has since confirmed that it’s first-ever high-riding model will be called an F-Pace. While the name might be a bit of an odd…
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2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe: First Drive
The 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class Coupe is a strange beast if you try to read too much into its form factor. But as we found this past week, it makes a lot more sense if you take it quite literally by its badge. Let’s face it, the term ‘coupe’ has been diluted to the point of…
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E3 ‘Need For Speed’ Trailers Promise Fantastic Graphics, Gameplay: Video
The teaser for the next installment of Electronic Arts’ long-running Need for Speed franchise left us wanting to see more. And now we have. In the days surrounding last week’s E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles—which also saw news regarding rival title Forza Motorsport 6—Electronic Arts released a full trailer, and it’s…
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Pod Racers Wanted: SpaceX Announces Hyperloop Competition
Hawthorne, California is hardly Tatooine—but if entrepreneur and Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk gets his way, both will boast pod racing. Plenty of details are still to come, but SpaceX, which is also headed by Musk, has announced a competition to challenge universities and independent teams to design pods for the Hyperloop concept…
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2015 24 Hours Of Le Mans, In Photos
The 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has come and gone, and with it, we have a new (old) overall victor: Porsche. Displacing the dominant Audi Sport Racing team in the world’s greatest endurance race for the first time since its return to Le Mans racing last year, Porsche not only took…