Tag: world
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Behind The Scenes With The Bentley Bentayga: Video
Bentley has released a short video that takes viewers behind the scenes at the company’s Crewe, England plant to see the development and building process of the world’s first “ultra-luxury SUV,” the 2017 Bentayga. With a twin-turbocharged W-12 engine under the hood spinning out 600 horsepower and 663 pound-feet of torque, the Bentayga is capable…
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2016 Audi R18 LMP1 World Endurance Championship Racer Revealed
This year’s World Endurance Championship has just concluded, with Porsche taking the Constructors’ Championship title and the pilots of the number 17 Porsche 919 Hybrid—Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber—taking the titles in the Drivers’ Championship. Audi, whose own drivers were just five points behind in…
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Next-Generation LS Likely To Be Basis For First Lexus Fuel Cell Car
Toyota is a key proponent of hydrogen as a next-generation fuel source and has been demonstrating this enthusiasm with the roll out of its Mirai sedan, the world’s first mass-produced car equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell stack. Toyota is planning more fuel cell cars, though, and some of these will be from the automaker’s…
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Google Exec’s Wife Hits Fiorano In Her New Ferrari FXX K: Video
We first heard about Google executive Benjamin Sloss and his admiration for the Ferrari brand in 2012 when he paid close to $1.8 million for a Ferrari 599XX Evo in a charity auction. Then, a week ago, he was back proving his generosity once again, this time by presenting his wife Christine with a LaFerrari-based…
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Gumball 3000 Aston Martin Sports New Glow-In-The-Dark Paint
There’s nothing like the Gumball 3000. The inter-continental sprint popular with the racers, rappers, rock stars, and ridiculously rich dudes is without a doubt, the most glamorous rally in the world. And given that the starting grid is stacked with hardware like the Rebellion R2K and McLaren P1s, it’s also one of the only places…
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Believe The Hype: California Will Get Hyperloop Test Track
In 2013, Elon Musk—not content to simply impact the world via his disruptive companies Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] and SpaceX—made headlines when he released the idea for mass transit system called the Hyperloop. Simply put, the concept reads like a combination of train and pneumatic tubes, and works using a combination of magnetic force…
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Ford GT Spy Shots
Caught testing in production trim—or a somewhat more naked version of production trim—for the first time, this is the Ford GT. While it’ll cost $400,000 and only sell about 250 units per year, the Ford GT has stirred something in enthusiasts everywhere. With its low-slung prototype-racer stance and promise of breathtaking…
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Mercedes Fleet Including Unimogs And G63 6×6 Starring In ‘Jurassic World’: Video
Mercedes-Benz used 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park to help launch its original M-Class SUV, and the automaker will do the same with next month’s Jurassic World, which will feature the all-new GLE Coupe, a coupe-like version of the M-Class-replacing GLE. But the GLE Coupe won’t be the only Mercedes model in the new movie…