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- You Just Won't Believe This Reckless Cop and How This Story Ended
- Buick Reattas Assemble Again in California for 2nd Annual Rally
- Chris Harris Finds the Meaning Behind the New VW Golf GTI
- Scoop: Porsche Goes Ballistic with New 991 GT2, the Fastest 911 Ever
- Check Out This Featurette for the Upcoming "Rush" Movie
- The Ultimate Barn Find: Chevrolet Dealership Is Unearthed Decades After It Was Locked Up
- NCE Decapitates Acura TL Sedan, Proposes to do the Same to AM Rapide and Hyundai Equus
- A Black Alfa Romeo 4C on a Track with Dramatic Background Music May Frighten You…
- Prior Design's New Porsche Cayenne Widebody Kit for €8,900
- WaterCar Panther Amphibious Car with Honda V6 Enters Production
- Elderly Lady Fogs Out of Luck and Crashes [NSFW]
- Audi Introduces 2014MY A4 SE Technik with Equipment and Engine Upgrades in the UK
- Fresh Details About the Upcoming Gran Turismo 6 – Demo Out Next Week! [w/Video]
- Mark Webber Leaves F1 to Join Porsche’s Le Mans Team from 2014
- First Videos of Heico Sportiv's Volvo V40 T5 HPC with 345-Horses, Should They Build It?
- Kia Reportedly Planning Additional GT-Badged Performance Models
- Priceless in Australia: Crazy Old Bastard Shot Me for Doing Burnouts! [NSFW]
- Carisma Says it Has Crafted the Most Luxurious Land Rover Defender Interior Ever
- Smart Builds the ForTwo BoConcept, Prices It from €14,490 in Germany
- New 2014 Ford F-150 Tremor Combines 365HP V6 Turbo with Short-Wheelbase Body
- Battery-Powered Fiat 500e Reportedly Sold Out for 2013
- New President, New Car: Czech Republic’s Milos Zeman Is the First to Get the 2014 Skoda Superb
| You Just Won't Believe This Reckless Cop and How This Story Ended Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:28 PM PDT  If watching this police car camera footage and more importantly, learning what took place after the incident ended, doesn't make you angry, then you're probably walking around with a glowing ring over your head… Off-duty Baton Rouge (Louisiana) police officer David Stewart was driving his patrol car on April 30, 2012, just outside his jurisdiction, when he noticed a Ford F-150 truck driving erratically and nearly twice the 45 mph (72km/h) speed limit. Stewart decided to take action and signaled the truck to pull over. The Ford driver continued to disregard the cop for a few miles, but in the end, he decided to pull over. Read more »       |
| Buick Reattas Assemble Again in California for 2nd Annual Rally Posted: 27 Jun 2013 04:08 PM PDT  The funny thing with cars that you may have dismissed for any number of reasons when they were parked spanking-new in dealership lots, and which could range from their design to their engineering and cost, is that there's always the possibility you may find them interesting enough to collect after few decades have passed by. The even bigger irony is that sometimes, it's precisely those quirky characteristics and features, which would have once deterred you to buy one new, that make you want one as a used collectors model… Read more »   |
| Chris Harris Finds the Meaning Behind the New VW Golf GTI Posted: 27 Jun 2013 03:34 PM PDT  I don't really understand why some people used to call the old Mk V and Mk VI VW Golf GTIs boring, when in actual fact, with 200 – 210 hp, they are anything but that, and neither is the latest one, which is the lightest and most powerful one in years. If you want a boring GTI, then look no further than the Mk IV, which only had a laughable 148hp (150PS) when it first came out, and was virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the range – it didn't even have a proper visible exhaust tip, hiding its pipe behind the rear bumper. Read more »   |
| Scoop: Porsche Goes Ballistic with New 991 GT2, the Fastest 911 Ever Posted: 27 Jun 2013 03:06 PM PDT  If you ever wondered why Porsche fans called the 911 GT2 series the "widow maker", just consider this: the GT2 series is essentially a 911 Turbo without the all-wheel drive system that allows the latter to behave in a more cooperative and civilized manner, with even more power and less weight. Do we need to say more? With the presentation of the new 991 Turbo and Turbo S having taken place last month, we have an idea of what to expect when the next generation of the GT2 hits Porsche dealerships next year. Read more »   |
| Check Out This Featurette for the Upcoming "Rush" Movie Posted: 27 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT  After having seen our fair share of mediocre and bad car- and motorsports-related films, we were wondering whether the genre was getting a star any time soon. Then "Rush" came along, promising a well-documented dramatization of the 1976 Formula 1 championship, and more specifically, the personal battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, who raced for Ferrari and McLaren respectively. Read more »    |
| The Ultimate Barn Find: Chevrolet Dealership Is Unearthed Decades After It Was Locked Up Posted: 27 Jun 2013 02:34 PM PDT  This has to be one of the most improbable barn find in years: a former Chevrolet dealership from Nebraska that had been locked for decades has been opened so that employees of an auction company could assess the inventory. Their surprise couldn't have been greater: among the 500 vehicles that formed Lambrecht Chevrolet's inventory were 50 "brand new" cars, such as a 1956 Chevrolet Cameo pickup truck with only 1 mile on the odometer, a 1964 Chevrolet Impala with 4 miles, a 1978 Corvette with 4 miles, a 1960s Chevrolet Corvair with 17 miles and many more.
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| NCE Decapitates Acura TL Sedan, Proposes to do the Same to AM Rapide and Hyundai Equus Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:13 PM PDT  To be frank, I never understood the allure or the reasoning, for that matter, behind the aftermarket conversion of four-door sedans to convertibles, but I guess each to his own taste. While we're on the subject of taste (or the lack thereof…), the drop-top specialists over at Newport Convertible Engineering (NEC) from Placentia, California, have sharpened their scalpels on the roof of an Acura TL sedan turning it into a four-door cabriolet with a center roll-bar to keep things in place. The gold stripes running down the middle are the cherry icing to this strangely flavored cake. Read more »   |
| A Black Alfa Romeo 4C on a Track with Dramatic Background Music May Frighten You… Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT  It's no secret that no matter how much an automotive designer wants to take credit for his or her creation, there's only so much that can be called genuine creativity. Most of the better shapes we see are inspired by nature, usually by muscular predatory animals, which have clearly defined flanks, perfectly resembling the shape of a feline crouched down, ready to pounce – somewhat of a cliché in the industry. The idea is: the more extreme the flanks, the more coke bottle-like it all gets, and the more we begin to hear names, most of which are Italian (and one Japanese). Read more »   |
| Prior Design's New Porsche Cayenne Widebody Kit for €8,900 Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:04 PM PDT  Adding to the many existing styling packages that are widely available for the second generation of the Porsche Cayenne, is a new widebody aerodynamic kit from German tuning brand Prior Design. The parts that come with the package are pretty much standard and include a reworked front bumper that gains extra LED lights along with a different grille piece and which connects to the swollen front wheel arches. Read more »   |
| WaterCar Panther Amphibious Car with Honda V6 Enters Production Posted: 27 Jun 2013 11:45 AM PDT  We kept the opening shot for this piece deliberately unrevealing, because this is not at all what you were imagining when picturing the world's fastest amphibious car – or so the company that makes it claims. However, the WaterCar Panther is just that, and it's also available for order, after "fourteen years, countless successes and failures, 27 patents, and untold labor hours," as we're told by the company. Read more »    |
| Elderly Lady Fogs Out of Luck and Crashes [NSFW] Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:54 AM PDT  You know it's a bad sign when a video starts with an elderly passenger asking the elderly driver on the highway "What do you see?" only to get the response "Nothing". And you can pretty much guess what's going to happen next when the same passenger advises the senior woman driver, "Well turn on your headlights and pull over" to which she replies, "I don't know how"… Read more »   |
| Audi Introduces 2014MY A4 SE Technik with Equipment and Engine Upgrades in the UK Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:23 AM PDT  Audi is looking to increase its UK sales of the A4 Sedan and Avant model with a revised 2014MY SE Technik trim grade that comes with additional equipment features and upgraded engine, but at the same time, carries a lower premium than before. Read more »    |
| Fresh Details About the Upcoming Gran Turismo 6 – Demo Out Next Week! [w/Video] Posted: 27 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT  Any new Gran Turismo game is a hot topic, even if the next one is predicted to be an improved version of the current game, as it will not be designed to run on the new PlayStation 4 console, so it will have to really push the current-gen tech to the very limit. However, nowadays it's about more than just the game itself, because we have the GT Academy, 2013 edition, which has been made an integral part of the experience you buy into with GT5 (and 6). Read more »   |
| Mark Webber Leaves F1 to Join Porsche’s Le Mans Team from 2014 Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:10 AM PDT  Mark Webber has signed a contract with Porsche for "several years" to drive the German carmaker's new LMP1 sports prototype at the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the sports car World Endurance Championship (WEC). The Australian will leave the Infiniti Red Bull Racing at the end of this season. Read more »    |
| First Videos of Heico Sportiv's Volvo V40 T5 HPC with 345-Horses, Should They Build It? Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:45 AM PDT  The hot hatch segment has come a very, very long way since Volkswagen wrote the first page in the segment with the original Golf GTI powered by a 108hp (110PS) 1.6-liter engine in the summer of 1976. Nowadays, we're seeing hatches with close to 50 percent more power than a Ferrari 308 GT4 from the mid-1970s… Volvo has tried to venture in the category with a number of proposals over the years, but it never really hit the mark, something that Heico Sportiv is aiming to achieve with its latest concept that may very well enter production. Read more »   |
| Kia Reportedly Planning Additional GT-Badged Performance Models Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:13 AM PDT  The Pro_Cee'd GT, the first production Kia to bear the new two-letter performance badge, isn't even really out yet, and the Korean automaker is already reportedly planning to launch additional models which would get similar treatment with the same badge. The information comes from AutoExpress, which had a chance to speak to "a source from within the company," at the Pro_Cee'd GT UK launch. Read more »    |
| Priceless in Australia: Crazy Old Bastard Shot Me for Doing Burnouts! [NSFW] Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:44 AM PDT  We're not going to lie and say we don't like watching or doing burnouts ourselves, but truth to be said, there's a place and a time for these things, and constantly annoying your neighbors by leaving loads of rubber outside their house, isn't something we advised you to do, because you may end up in the same situation as this young Australian named Shane Tenhaguis. A long running dispute between the 23-year old father from Marrakai in Northern Australia and an unnamed 61-year old neighbor over the former's love for burnouts in his Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore turned violet when the latter had enough and came out with a gun and began firing shots at the young man and his cars! Read more »   |
| Carisma Says it Has Crafted the Most Luxurious Land Rover Defender Interior Ever Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:09 AM PDT  You probably remember the Mercedes-Benz Viano that Carisma Auto transformed into a very luxurious van. Now, for its latest conversion, the company chose a car that normally doesn't have anything that could be described as luxurious – we're talking about the rugged Land Rover Defender. As the UK-based aftermarket specialist usually operates, the exterior of the Defender remained untouched – which is why we don't get to see it in the gallery (either that, or the owner wanted his or her 4x4 to remain anonymous). Read more »   |
| Smart Builds the ForTwo BoConcept, Prices It from €14,490 in Germany Posted: 27 Jun 2013 06:45 AM PDT  Remember the Smart ForTwo BoConcept study? Well, Daimler has decided there is a market for a ForTwo designed by Danish urban interior design specialist BoConcept and will build a limited edition model that can now be ordered as a coupe and cabrio and will arrive in European at dealerships this November. Read more »    |
| New 2014 Ford F-150 Tremor Combines 365HP V6 Turbo with Short-Wheelbase Body Posted: 27 Jun 2013 06:15 AM PDT  Ford is reviving a name from the past for its all-new 2014 F-150 Tremor that introduces the Taurus SHO's more powerful 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 into the pickup truck's range. The "Tremor" moniker was used in a 1998 Explorer Concept SUV fitted with a V8 engine and made its appearance on a special edition version of the Ranger truck in the 2000s. On the F-150, Tremor translates into a sportier edition of Ford's highly-popular truck series highlighted by the use of the 3.5-liter turbocharged V6 with 365 horsepower at 5,000 rpm and 420 lb.-ft. (567Nm) of torque at 2,500 rpm, on the regular two-door cab model with the short-wheelbase. Read more »   |
| Battery-Powered Fiat 500e Reportedly Sold Out for 2013 Posted: 27 Jun 2013 05:33 AM PDT  It seems that EV buyers from California see the sense made by the battery-powered Fiat 500e, which is exclusively sold in the sunny West Side state, because according to a report from Wards Auto, they have sold out the production run for the remainder of the year. However, it isn't specified exactly how many that means – can't be a lot, since it's only been available since April. Read more »    |
| New President, New Car: Czech Republic’s Milos Zeman Is the First to Get the 2014 Skoda Superb Posted: 27 Jun 2013 04:48 AM PDT  Miloš Zeman, the Czech Republic's new president since March 2013, is the first to drive (or more likely, be driven in) the recently refreshed Skoda Superb. The Czech carmaker has offered the president a brand new Superb, which is the most luxurious and powerful car produced in the Czech Republic. Read more »    |
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