It's hard to believe that it's been nearly two years since the MINI Coupe and Roadster concepts (pictured below) were unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt auto show. Production is already gearing up, however, and today we have some new spy shots of the upcoming 2012 MINI Roadster in testing, this time at the Nurburgring. Previous reports had pinned a...
Custom supercars built around the C6 Chevrolet Corvette chassis are nothing new. In fact it seems like one pops up nearly every month or so, the most famous being the Bertone Mantide and the Anteros range of coupes and convertibles. However, it’s not every day that a custom Corvette-based supercar pops up in the heart of Germany. We’re...
Back in 1991, when the McLaren F1 supercar had just been born and the Persian Gulf War was still raging, Mazda was working on a new endurance racer, one with a four-rotor Wankel rotary engine. The race car was the Mazda 787B and it would eventually go on to take overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race that same year. Yes, you read that...
We’re proud to admit the Ford GT is one of our favorite supercars here at MotorAuthority. An iconic design with just enough modern touches to make it look new, the Ford GT is hard not to love and its V-8 engine just begs to be pushed hard. So hard in fact that several aftermarket tuners have pushed the engine to well beyond the 1,000...
The weekend is finally upon us and that means the 2011 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is kicking off, along with all that comes with it. Yesterday we saw a sneak peek at the new Ferrari Superamerica 45, built under the automaker’s Special Projects division and destined for a home in New York. Today we have another coachbuilt...
Let us be the first to say that the results of the latest 2011 Vehicle Satisfaction Awards, conducted by influential auto industry resource AutoPacific, came as a bit of a surprise. Lincoln, arguably the most overlooked of luxury brands, was voted the ‘Top Premium Brand’ in the awards, as voted upon by more than 68,000 new car buyers...
Earlier this week we brought you some of the first spy shots of the 2012 MINI Coupe JCW, and now we have the model it's based on: the standard Coupe. Even the Coupe spied here bears the inlet on the hood marking a turbocharged engine, however, potentially leaving the door open that this is the Coupe S, and a naturally-aspirated Coupe could follow...
Back in March of 2008, a start-up brought a new paradigm to the automotive world. That start-up was Local Motors, a Massachusetts-based venture that believed it could build innovative, environmentally responsible cars by crowd-sourcing design and building cars on demand at a series of "micro" factories. While it remains to be seen if Local Motors'...
Some Citroen C3 Picasso models can be braked to a screeching halt by the passenger. And while that might sound right if it were say, a driver's ed car, it isn't. According to BBC News, the Picasso is now under recall in the U.K., after the network reported a 'passenger brake' issue, in which a passenger could inadvertently engage brake hardware...
Two weeks seems like an eternity in the fast paced world of Formula 1, with Sebastian Vettel’s dominant win at the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix now only a distant memory. Since then we’ve heard news of an alleged glassing incident involving Force India’s Adrian Sutil and Renault co-owner Eric Lux at a nightclub in Shanghai, as well as...
Any car with the Rolls-Royce emblem on it and a rare prototype from 85 years ago--either one could serve as the quintessential centerpiece of a distinguished car collection. Roll both into one, therefore, and you have an ultimate collector's item that should make all your car-collecting pals green with envy. The 1926 Experimental Phantom 1...
Lamborghini ownership is already an exclusive club; but a Diablo GT-R is an even rarer find. Rarer still is one that has never been raced. The GT-R is a track-ready version of the Europe-only Diablo GT. Thirty of these cars were built in 1999 and 2000, with only two or three having never seen track action. Making about 600 horsepower, the GT-R has...
It's hard to believe that it's been nearly two years since the MINI Coupe and Roadster concepts (pictured below) were unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt auto show. Production is already gearing up, however, and today we have some new spy shots of the upcoming 2012 MINI Roadster in testing, this time at the Nurburgring. Previous reports had pinned a...
Custom supercars built around the C6 Chevrolet Corvette chassis are nothing new. In fact it seems like one pops up nearly every month or so, the most famous being the Bertone Mantide and the Anteros range of coupes and convertibles. However, it’s not every day that a custom Corvette-based supercar pops up in the heart of Germany. We’re...
Back in 1991, when the McLaren F1 supercar had just been born and the Persian Gulf War was still raging, Mazda was working on a new endurance racer, one with a four-rotor Wankel rotary engine. The race car was the Mazda 787B and it would eventually go on to take overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race that same year. Yes, you read that...
We’re proud to admit the Ford GT is one of our favorite supercars here at MotorAuthority. An iconic design with just enough modern touches to make it look new, the Ford GT is hard not to love and its V-8 engine just begs to be pushed hard. So hard in fact that several aftermarket tuners have pushed the engine to well beyond the 1,000...
The weekend is finally upon us and that means the 2011 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is kicking off, along with all that comes with it. Yesterday we saw a sneak peek at the new Ferrari Superamerica 45, built under the automaker’s Special Projects division and destined for a home in New York. Today we have another coachbuilt...
Let us be the first to say that the results of the latest 2011 Vehicle Satisfaction Awards, conducted by influential auto industry resource AutoPacific, came as a bit of a surprise. Lincoln, arguably the most overlooked of luxury brands, was voted the ‘Top Premium Brand’ in the awards, as voted upon by more than 68,000 new car buyers...
Earlier this week we brought you some of the first spy shots of the 2012 MINI Coupe JCW, and now we have the model it's based on: the standard Coupe. Even the Coupe spied here bears the inlet on the hood marking a turbocharged engine, however, potentially leaving the door open that this is the Coupe S, and a naturally-aspirated Coupe could follow...
Back in March of 2008, a start-up brought a new paradigm to the automotive world. That start-up was Local Motors, a Massachusetts-based venture that believed it could build innovative, environmentally responsible cars by crowd-sourcing design and building cars on demand at a series of "micro" factories. While it remains to be seen if Local Motors'...
Some Citroen C3 Picasso models can be braked to a screeching halt by the passenger. And while that might sound right if it were say, a driver's ed car, it isn't. According to BBC News, the Picasso is now under recall in the U.K., after the network reported a 'passenger brake' issue, in which a passenger could inadvertently engage brake hardware...
Two weeks seems like an eternity in the fast paced world of Formula 1, with Sebastian Vettel’s dominant win at the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix now only a distant memory. Since then we’ve heard news of an alleged glassing incident involving Force India’s Adrian Sutil and Renault co-owner Eric Lux at a nightclub in Shanghai, as well as...
Any car with the Rolls-Royce emblem on it and a rare prototype from 85 years ago--either one could serve as the quintessential centerpiece of a distinguished car collection. Roll both into one, therefore, and you have an ultimate collector's item that should make all your car-collecting pals green with envy. The 1926 Experimental Phantom 1...
Lamborghini ownership is already an exclusive club; but a Diablo GT-R is an even rarer find. Rarer still is one that has never been raced. The GT-R is a track-ready version of the Europe-only Diablo GT. Thirty of these cars were built in 1999 and 2000, with only two or three having never seen track action. Making about 600 horsepower, the GT-R has...
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