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Audi: Doberhuahua

For its Super Bowl 2014 commercial, Audi created a fictitious breed of weird looking dogs to poke fun at vehicles which trade off performance and style for practicality or economy. We’re not sure they succeeded at convincing us…

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Wazuma V8F: a Quad Bike Powered by a Ferrari V8

The Lazareth Wazuma V8F Matt Edition is an extreme quad bike with a Ferrari 3.0 V8 engine and a BMW M3 gearbox. We don’t have speed specs for it, but that’s a 250hp engine pushing just over 1,430…

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1949 Cisitalia 202 Gran Sport Berlinetta for Sale

Only about 170 Cisitalia 202 cars were built, but the car is notable because it is typically regarded as first production Gran Tourer. Designed by Pinin Farina, the car was extremely successful running long-distance endurance races like the…

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Rimac Concept_One, The Electric Supercar

Mate Rimac is a 25-year-old Croatian engineer who may have created the world’s fastest electric car: the Rimac Concept_One. First seen at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2011, Rimac has continued improving the vehicle since its debut and…

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Google Maps the Top Gear Test Track, Slowly

We recently featured a virtual tour of the secret Top Gear test track done via a 360-degree camera and The Stig in a Mercedes SLS AMG Black. Well, it turns out Google turned up at the track with…

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Audi SQ5 Quattro Goes Skiing in the Alps

Audi sent an SQ5 quattro to the Alps along with filmmaker David Tindale and freeskier Roy Kittler to see what sort of action video they could create on the slopes. With the help of a drone camera from…

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Win a Ride in the Wienermobile for a Day

Hot dog! Oscar Mayer has announced a Twitter contest in which the winner will get the chance to ride in the 2014 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile for a day. Simply tweet why you should be selected to ride in…

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Electric Car Vending Machines Headed to China

As many of you are probably aware, China faces significant challenges with air pollution and an expanding population. And with only a small percentage of the population currently owning cars, one can only imagine traffic and pollution getting…

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Lamborghini Urus SUV Expected in 2017

Bloomberg is reporting that we’ll see the Lamborghini Urus SUV on the road in 2017. Lamborghini Chief Executive Officer Stephan Winkelmann said that “the expectation” is to introduce the SUV in that year. The Urus isn’t Lambo’s first…

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Carroll Shelby Pitches the 1967 Shelby Mustang GT

With Shelby American celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Shelby Cobra, it’s fun to look back at the early days of Carroll Shelby’s other iconic vehicle: the Shelby Mustang. In this advertisement from 1967, Carroll Shelby pitches the …

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Lamborghini Veneno: The Delivery

Unlike most of America, Kris Singh’s investments have paid off enough for him to afford a $4.1 million hypercar. At least he’s been kind enough to invite us – or more precisely, the guys from the DuPont Registry…

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Celebrating Aston Martin’s 100th Anniversary

Aston Martin first started building cars in 1914 when founders Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford began putting together cars to race along nearby Aston Hill. Since then, Aston Martin has been known for building some of the most…

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Garage D 2014 Nissan GT-R DT1200R

For those days when your sad little 545 horsepower Nissan GT-R isn’t enough, there’s always Garage D’s tuner package which manages to crank Godzilla’s muscle up to a whopping 1,200 horses. The GT-R DT1200R isn’t about body work…

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