Category: Latest News
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5 things you should never do with a dual-clutch transmission
Dual-clutch gearboxes are becoming increasingly common, and today’s versions of these fast-shifting automatic gearboxes are far better than they were just a few years ago when they first hit the consumer market. Our friend Jason Fenske at Engineering Explained takes a look at these transmissions in this simple, highly informative video, and he…
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Chevy celebrates Camaro’s 50th anniversary with rare video footage
Chevrolet has released a pair of new videos celebrating 50 years of Camaros with rare footage of all six generations of the pony car in action. The video above features complete commercials and promotional videos, while the shorter video below is a compilation with snippets from ads throughout the car’s history. To say that 2016…
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Goodwood’s glorious Festival of Speed: photo galleries
Quick, name an event in which cars 110 years apart compete against each other to race up a hill. Stumped? Welcome to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, a unique, surreal, one-of-a-kind event in which cars of every size, type, and variety compete run up a 1.1-mile hill as fast as possible. And last weekend, we…
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2017 Porsche Panamera preview
Porsche has released information on the second-generation of its flagship sedan (it’s actually a hatchback), and the 2017 Porsche Panamera is a better looking car than the first generation. The new Panamera is an evolution of the last car, not a revolution, but the lumpy look of the roof–there to provide plenty of headroom–is smoothed…
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Jay Leno crashes in the Hemi Under Glass
Since he was a kid, Jay Leno has appreciated the Hurst Hemi Under Glass Plymouth Barracuda. With a Hemi engine moved to the back under the rear glass, the car had a considerable rear weight bias that turned it into a prominent wheelstander. The car wowed the crowds at dragstrips more than it actually raced,…
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The $187,400 McLaren 570S is Ferrari’s rude wake-up call: first drive review
Say you just sold your first mobile app, or your company just got acquired by some search-engine giant. What’s a car-crazed geek to do? Real estate? Retirement plan? We’d do something totally logical like this–the 570S, the first car in McLaren’s more attainable Sports Series. Logical.
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2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R, 2017 Ford GT, McLaren P1 LM: This Week’s Top Photos
Yesterday saw the covers come off one of the most anticipated cars of the year: the 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R. It’s the hardcore, track-focused version of AMG’s sexy sports car, and it comes with a supercar rivaling 577 horsepower on tap. We’ve even heard the car is faster around a track than the more powerful…
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2017 Porsche Panamera leaked
Porsche is due to unveil its new Panamera sedan on June 28 but photos have already leaked onto the Internet. The leaked shots, sourced from Motor1, reveal a very handsome look for the second-generation Panamera and provide us with a few details of the interior. From previous spy shots and video we knew the design…
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Honda Civic coupe attacks crowd-sourced stunt track
What happens when you open up ideas for a new stunt track to the world? Well, you get a bunch of goofy suggestions. Honda did just that to promote its Civic coupe and produced a video to prove it. In this video, stunt driver Matt Powers takes the wheel of a series of Civics to…