Tag: videos
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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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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…
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McLaren adds track-focused 570S Sprint to Sports Series range
It’s only been a year since McLaren revealed the first of its Sports Series models, the 570S, but already the automaker’s entry-level range is close to matching the variety on offer in the pricier Super Series. Already this year we’ve been treated to the more practical 570GT and competition-ready 570 GT4 racer, and now McLaren…
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2017 Ford GT in production guise surprises at Le Mans
There’s an assortment of cars racing around the Circuit de la Sarthe in this weekend’s 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, which at the time of writing is led by Toyota and one of its TS050 Hybrid LMP1s, but one car in particular is creating plenty of excitement off the track. Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F]…
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2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 spy shots and video
Mercedes-Benz has shown us its new E-Class, but soon after the car reaches showrooms in the summer we should have had our first look at the high-performance version from Mercedes-AMG. No, we’re not talking about the new E43. We’re talking about the new E63 sledgehammer, which once again will pack a twin-turbocharged V-8. A debut…
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Lego Ford GT on display at Le Mans
Ford thinks it has all the pieces together to dominate the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, but the automaker’s racing car isn’t quite put together the same way as the 4,000-piece Lego model it is displaying on the sidelines of the grueling race in France. Rendered in 1/3 scale, the Lego version of…
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Nissan GT-R blows rear end then returns to drag strip
Heavily modified high-horsepower drag cars put a lot of abuse and strain on their parts. There’s so much energy going through many components that it’s not unusual for something to give up and call it quits. That’s what happened to the rear end on a Nissan GT-R packing a reported 2,000 horsepower under its hood.…