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Only 35 2020 BMW M5 Edition 35 Years Cars will Come Stateside

BMW is celebrating 35 years of the M5 with a special edition car. Each of them will have BMW Individual Frozen Dark Grey II metallic paint on them with a special pigment that gives a silk matte surface finish.

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2020 Toyota GR Supra Review: The True Everyday Sports Car

I’ll start off by saying that I never drove an original Supra. So unlike the diehards out there, I don’t have something to compare the 2020 Toyota Supra to, except the numerous other sports cars I’ve driven over recent years.

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Acura Reportedly Offering Massive Discount to Lure NSX Buyers

The new Acura NSX isn’t selling in high numbers at all. The car moved only 170 units in all of 2018 after selling only 518 units in all of 2017. Now, Motor Trend is reporting that IntelliChoice dug up something interesting on the supercar.

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2020 McLaren GT is a Continent-crossing Luxury Supercar

Supercar and racing specialists McLaren have officially announced the McLaren GT, and the car is a true grand tourer in every sense of the word. While most McLarens aren’t designed for carrying anything but you and the lucky passenger inside, the McLaren GT is made to be usable on road trips.

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Mazda Dealer Surprises Miata Customer with New Seats

André Frève has a 1992 Miata that he has taken to the same dealership in Canada for service since they opened in 1993. Recently, the man took his Miata in for service, and to reward him for his loyalty to the guys at Longueuil Mazda provided him with some service that was truly above and beyond.

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Gruppe5 Motorsports BMW 2002 Will Have You Seeing Red

A company out of Indiana called Gruppe5 Motorsports wants to build the craziest BMW 2002 cars ever. The cars start with an original 1968 to 1975 BMW 2002′ steel structure, and get upgraded with an alloy roll cage and bonded carbon fiber body panels.

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Ferrari Guts Maserati: No More Engines After 2022

Ferrari has been supplying engines to Maserati for years now, ever since the two were under the same FCA ownership. But a few years back, Ferrari was spun off into its own company. During a recent earnings call, Ferrari announced that it would no longer supply engines to Maserati after 2021 or 2022.

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Concepts from Future Past: 1986 Italdesign Machimoto

One of the more unusual concept cars to emerge from the vaunted Italdesign Giugiaro was the Machimoto, an economy vehicle designed to sit somewhere between car and motorcycle. Based on the VW Golf platform, the car had an open top and a unique flexible seating system.

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Bentley Continental GT Bavaria Edition is a One-off Beauty

Few cars say “I have money” as well as a Bentley does. If you want to say you have lots and lots of money, what you need is a one-of-a-kind Bentley hand-built by Mulliner. The Continental GT Convertible Bavaria Edition by Mulliner should do the trick just fine.

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Dodge Durango SRT “Hot Pursuit” Defends One Lap of America Crown

One Lap of America is a racing event for that has been going on for 36 years, challenging car owners and builders to make a car that can perform on the track and drive on the highways as the cars must be driven on public roads between track venues.

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Despite Price, 1000hp Hellephant Sells Out Quick

Late last month we talked about the insane 1000hp 426 Hemi Hellephant MOPAR crate engine that had a giant blower on it. It’s basically the supercharged SRT Hellcat engine all hopped up on industrial strength catnip.

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2019 BMW M5 Competition Review: Too Much Is Never Enough

If you look up the word overkill in the dictionary, it should have a picture of the BMW M5 Competition as an illustration of the term. Everything about BMW’s fastest and most powerful sedan is absolutely ridiculous… in the best way possible.

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Fixing the Pontiac Aztek

The much-derided Pontial Aztek sits atop many lists for being the ugliest car ever produced. And while it might have had some redeeming qualities, its exterior design most certainly was not one of them. But with a little nip here and a tuck there, could the Aztek have been a much better looking vehicle?

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Rental Car Company Has 600hp Shelby Mustangs in Their Fleet

With so many of cars on the road today being front-wheel or all-wheel drive, if you put someone into a high-performance car with rear wheel drive and let them go, things can go very wrong, very fast.

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The Ax Falls on the Nissan 370Z Roadster

The Nissan 370Z isn’t a very common sight on the roads today for a lot of reasons. The two-seater is getting pretty long in the tooth, and down on performance compared to its peers in the segment.

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