This weekend is the 2011 Formula 1 British Grand Prix, which once again takes place at the legendary Silverstone circuit in the UK. In the lead up to the actual race on Sunday, heated arguments have taken place over the degree of off-throttle exhaust blowing that will be allowed, with most teams having their levels restricted to 10 percent...
We know from some initial info from a month and a half ago that Danish firm HBH is building a mid-engined supercar based on the Aston V12 Vantage. The car will be the only one of its kind and, the last we heard, HBH was shopping around for a buyer to cover some of the lofty development costs. At that time, we saw the first teaser picture depicting...
Rumors of new body styles to come with the next generation of the BMW 1-Series have been brewing since at least 2009. We even brought you a rendering of what a 1-Series Gran Turismo might look like last summer (also pictured above). This summer, the rumors about the car are heating up once again. Like the 5-Series GT and the upcoming 3-Series GT...
A facelifted version of the Bentley Continental GTC has been spotted in testing recently, and now the word on the 'net is that it will see a public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show this September. It's expected to pump 567 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque from a 6.0-liter W-12 engine, and be capable of running on straight gasoline or E85...
Infiniti's tie-up with Red Bull Racing's Formula 1 program is well-known at this point, but it continues to produce interesting bits of information, and, occasionally, video. The latest is Mark Webber sliding a carload of VIPs around Rockingham International Raceway in an M37 ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Even in the...
The demise of the manual transmission has been greatly exaggerated for years now, and continues to be, even as carmakers like Porsche tack on a seventh gear and Nissan sells its SynchroRev match system. At Lamborghini, however, the manual transmission appears to be done, with automated manuals, like the new ISR pictured below, the only offerings...
The master of motorsports madness, Travis Pastrana, is set to further unleash his inner redneck this weekend, taking a break from his NASCAR Nationwide Series work to run a monster truck through its paces in Maryland. Climbing behind the wheel of the Nitro Circus monster truck, named after Pastrana's TV series and upcoming 3D movie, Pastrana will...
Saab's financial open wounds are, for now at least, bandaged, and it's set to restart full-scale production on August 9th. Helping to spearhead the brand's sales comeback, the first of the 9-4X crossovers for the 2011 model year are now arriving at dealerships across the country. The very first 9-4Xs arrived at some dealers on Saturday, with the...
Bentley recently announced that business was booming, with its sales levels across the board rising by 20 percent at the end of June when compared with the same period one year ago. While a 20 percent increase in sales is impressive, Rolls-Royce has completely obliterated that result by announcing today that its sales for the first half of the...
The Range Rover SUV is not only one of the most important models for rappers all over the world, but it’s also crucial for Land Rover as most of its other vehicles are based on the same basic design of the boxy luxury off-roader. Models like the Range Rover Sport, LR4 (Discovery) and LR2 (Freelander) all share their basic design and...
This weekend is the 2011 Formula 1 British Grand Prix, which once again takes place at the legendary Silverstone circuit in the UK. In the lead up to the actual race on Sunday, heated arguments have taken place over the degree of off-throttle exhaust blowing that will be allowed, with most teams having their levels restricted to 10 percent...
We know from some initial info from a month and a half ago that Danish firm HBH is building a mid-engined supercar based on the Aston V12 Vantage. The car will be the only one of its kind and, the last we heard, HBH was shopping around for a buyer to cover some of the lofty development costs. At that time, we saw the first teaser picture depicting...
Rumors of new body styles to come with the next generation of the BMW 1-Series have been brewing since at least 2009. We even brought you a rendering of what a 1-Series Gran Turismo might look like last summer (also pictured above). This summer, the rumors about the car are heating up once again. Like the 5-Series GT and the upcoming 3-Series GT...
A facelifted version of the Bentley Continental GTC has been spotted in testing recently, and now the word on the 'net is that it will see a public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show this September. It's expected to pump 567 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque from a 6.0-liter W-12 engine, and be capable of running on straight gasoline or E85...
Infiniti's tie-up with Red Bull Racing's Formula 1 program is well-known at this point, but it continues to produce interesting bits of information, and, occasionally, video. The latest is Mark Webber sliding a carload of VIPs around Rockingham International Raceway in an M37 ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Even in the...
The demise of the manual transmission has been greatly exaggerated for years now, and continues to be, even as carmakers like Porsche tack on a seventh gear and Nissan sells its SynchroRev match system. At Lamborghini, however, the manual transmission appears to be done, with automated manuals, like the new ISR pictured below, the only offerings...
The master of motorsports madness, Travis Pastrana, is set to further unleash his inner redneck this weekend, taking a break from his NASCAR Nationwide Series work to run a monster truck through its paces in Maryland. Climbing behind the wheel of the Nitro Circus monster truck, named after Pastrana's TV series and upcoming 3D movie, Pastrana will...
Saab's financial open wounds are, for now at least, bandaged, and it's set to restart full-scale production on August 9th. Helping to spearhead the brand's sales comeback, the first of the 9-4X crossovers for the 2011 model year are now arriving at dealerships across the country. The very first 9-4Xs arrived at some dealers on Saturday, with the...
Bentley recently announced that business was booming, with its sales levels across the board rising by 20 percent at the end of June when compared with the same period one year ago. While a 20 percent increase in sales is impressive, Rolls-Royce has completely obliterated that result by announcing today that its sales for the first half of the...
The Range Rover SUV is not only one of the most important models for rappers all over the world, but it’s also crucial for Land Rover as most of its other vehicles are based on the same basic design of the boxy luxury off-roader. Models like the Range Rover Sport, LR4 (Discovery) and LR2 (Freelander) all share their basic design and...
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