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Our friends over at Drive with Dave managed to get a Porsche 911 Carrera S, a Ferrari 458 and a Maserati GranTurismo together to see which one was the fastest. The video starts off well enough, with the three luxury sports cars gunning their engines, but then it takes an unexpected turn.

While the McLaren P1 is loaded with technology and huge amounts of power to make it go ’round, the BAC Mono is one of those minimal track-focused cars which gets most of its benefit from its extremely light weight and nimble steering.

We’re always hearing about the impressive top speeds of supercars, but it’s rare that you actually get to see one drive anywhere near the limit. In this clip from sport auto’s Christian Gebhardt, we get to go for a ride inside the new Lamborghini Huracán LP610-4, pushing the car to an impressive 340km/h (~211mph) along the way.

The guys at Pop Chart Labs put together this great poster that’s perfect for the automotive enthusiast. The 24″ x 36″ poster catalogs 108 classic (and a few not so classic) American cars dating from 1895 to 2015.

Admit it. Most of us exceed the posted speed limit when on the highway, if nothing but to keep up with the flow of traffic. So I suppose it only makes sense that Google would be allowing its autonomous vehicles to drive slightly faster than the speed limit too.

I’ve always wondered what could be done to improve safety in large vans and buses, which have limited protection for passengers. With their new 15-passenger edition of their Transit van, Ford has added what could be the largest automotive airbag of all time.

Our friends at Gear Patrol and Lonelyleap had the privilege of visiting Laguna Seca to attend the 2014 Ferrari Challenge. In this two-minute clip, we get a brief taste for the sights and sounds of of the race.

With its dramatically updating styling, the 2015 Dodge Charger is coming to a law enforcement agency near you. The new 2015 Charger Pursuit edition gets the same improved front-end found and dashboard from the consumer car, but also has other cop-specific features.

The Morgan 3-Wheeler is a pretty astounding machine, even if it does come with just three wheels. But with a base price of $45,000, it may not be the most practical way to spend your money.

Local Motors, a car company that makes the crazy off-road Rally Fighter and also seems really good at creating other unique vehicles like their upcoming 3D-printed car, has announced a challenge to help them design a new sports car platform.

We’d all love to drive a classic Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow on the track, racing head-to-head against other drivers. But what if you could do that while hurling turtle shells at your opponents and dropping banana peels on the track?

Lamborghini has released a teaser video showing its camouflaged Huracán LP 610-4 Super Trofeo in action tearing around a race track.The currently camouflaged racing version of the Huracán will make its full public debut on August 15, 2014 at The Quail event in Carmel, California.

The 1969 VW Flashback Bus is a one-of-a-kind Volkswagen painted by Stovepipe from The Rusty VW and restored and made drivable by Stovepipe and his friend, Groo. Stovepipe spent more than a year painting the vehicle by hand with all sorts of iconic symbols from the 1960s through the present.

Perhaps the most impressive series of cars ever to emerge from Ford, the GT40 program has a very special place in racing history, especially the GT40 Mk. II, which drove to a 1-2-3 victory in the 1966 Le Mans.  

Nissan chose to take two of the drivers in their NISMO GT Academy program and put them head-to-head on a Gymkhana-style drift course. Drivers Jann Mardenborough and Miguel Faisca hit the mirror-image tracks and see what they can do in their Nissan 370Z NISMOs.