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Fabled Lexus GS F to use LFA’s V10

Posted December 30th, 2009 at 08:12 am by Editor
Filed under: Auto News, Lexus

We've been hearing rumblings about a Lexus GS F for over two years, with the most recent report indicating that the maxed-out super sedan was ...

The best from Tokyo’s Motor Show

Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 04:11 am by Editor
Filed under: Auto Show, Featured

The 41st Tokyo Motor Show starts tomorrow and will run until 4 November. Not only will there be lots of car geeks, scantily clad models ...

2010 Aston Martin Vantage V12

Posted July 18th, 2009 at 12:07 pm by Editor
Filed under: Aston Martin, New Cars

As soon as the brains at Aston Martin made their exquiste DBS sports tourer - they gave it to James Bond. While this may ...

2009 Aston Martin DBS Volante First Driv...

Posted July 01st, 2009 at 03:07 pm by Editor
Filed under: Aston Martin, Reviews

James Bond's current motor of choice has gone topless. The DBS, Aston Martin's high-protein version of the DB9, has heretofore been sold only in coupe ...

Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic Concept

Posted July 02nd, 2009 at 05:07 am by Editor
Filed under: Concept Cars

The French make the most outrageous modern super car and the current winner of Le Mans. What if they came back from an exile in ...

2010 Buick LaCrosse

Posted June 20th, 2009 at 12:06 pm by Editor
Filed under: Auto Show, Concept Cars

What is it? The redesigned LaCrosse is a mid-sized four-door sedan, with either front or all-wheel drive. It will be the smaller of Buick's two ...

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Ferrari unveils new 458 Italia

Ferrari has unveiled its new 458 Italia, a mid-engined replacement for the F430. Unlike the launch of its California model, Ferrari hasn't drip-fed us the details, instead dropping them all in one release today (July 28). They take a bit of digesting too, the stunning 458 Italia exceeding ...

2010 Chevrolet Camaro gets Transformers special ed...

Sports-car fans who fantasize about being an Autobot can now make their dual fantasy a reality--with the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformers special edition. Essentially, the car turns the character Bumblebee from the movie into a road-going option package for an extra $995. Just as on the silver screen, the ...

Ford creates one-off, aviation-inspired ‘Dearbor...

Some versions of the 2010 Mustang feel fast enough to get airborne. And with that in mind, Ford tricked out one of its pony cars with an over-the-top aviation theme and will auction it for charity July 30. It's called the AV-X10, or “Dearborn Doll,” and is based on ...

$140 million offered to Wiedeking to quit Porsche

Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking could be offered a $141 million (100 million euros) payoff to quit the sports car maker to make way for a merger with Volkswagen, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported Friday. The newspaper said Wiedeking has been visited by Porsche Chairman Wolfgang Porsche in the past ...

2010 Buick LaCrosse

Less than a week after the New General Motors emerged from the scrapyard of Chapter 11, Section 363 Bankruptcy, three programs among the Cadillac and Buick divisions are back on the road. First and foremost, the program to converge the DTS and STS into a new, rear-drive flagship Cadillac ...

Audi A5 Sportback joins a growing lineup, but only...

Audi is shoehorning another model into its ever-expanding lineup--the A5 Sportback. The Sportback joins the coupe and the convertible in Audi's A5 family. This model sports four doors and a hatchback, yet sits nearly 1.5 inches lower than the A4 sedan. But before you get excited, Audi has not ...

Alfa Romeo 8C Spider shows that Alfa’s bets ...

They're mixing some strong Kool-Aid at Alfa Romeo these days, and we hope you don't mind that we took a mongo swig of it. As part of the Fiat umbrella, Alfa represents some of the best stuff enthusiasts will get from the Fiat-Chrysler partnership, and the boys from Turin ...

2010 Aston Martin Vantage V12

As soon as the brains at Aston Martin made their exquiste DBS sports tourer - they gave it to James Bond. While this may be a good way of previewing a car that had never been seen in the past, they also forgot one vital plot line: ...

2010 Ford Flex EcoBoost

Introducing a new engine a couple years after a vehicle goes on sale isn't all that unusual. But, only one year after the Ford Flex first came out, there are several updates and upgrades for the 2010 model that make this nearly the equivalent of a mid-cycle refresh ...

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

Before we reveal what it is like to hot-lap a prototype version of Mercedes-Benz's 6.2-liter V8-powered SLS around the 2.2-mile Sachsenring in eastern Germany, let us tell you one thing that puts the big rear-wheel-drive coupe into clear perspective. The SLS, planned to get its first public outing at ...

Rubens Barrichello says he is now over his anger

Rubens Barrichello says he is now over his anger that erupted at the German Grand Prix - after realising that his Brawn team did not cost him the chance of victory. The Brazilian was furious following his sixth place finish at the Nurburgring after feeling that Brawn GP's strategy ...

The Pontiac G8 may get a new life as the Chevrolet...

General Motors is studying the feasibility of reusing the rear-wheel-drive performance sedan for law enforcement and the general public, vice chairman Bob Lutz said in an online chat Monday. “The G8 has finally been discovered by a broader percentage of the buying public,” Lutz said on GM’s FastLane blog. ...

Audi – R8 – Review

On The Outside That 22-grand premium definitely doesn’t offer the Audi R8 V10 much visual differentiation from the standard car. Yes, some would say that the R8 is enough of a head-turner as it is, but parting with a further 22 large ones gets you the kind of ...

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