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Ten Cars That Kicked off Major Design Trends
These are the cars that popularized some of the most important trends in car design.
- Alex Lloyd
Behold The Bugatti Chiron: 1,500-HP, 0-125 Mph in 6.5 Seconds, $2.6 Million
The much awaited replacement to the Bugatti Veyron, a long-time record holder of the “world’s fastest car,” is here: This is the Bugatti Chiron, revealed today in anticipation of the Geneva motor show.
- Alex Lloyd
2017 Ferrari GTC4Lusso: The New Ferrari Family Car
This is the GTC4Lusso—in other words, the new version of the Ferrari FF, the four-seat, all-wheel-drive, everyday Ferrari, as close as the Italian automaker may ever come to an SUV.
Lamborghini's Hong Kong dealer has two $4.5 million Veneno Roadsters in stock
Let me ask you a question: What's better than one $4.5-million, 740-horsepower Lamborghini Veneno Roadster? The answer is two, of course. See also: End of an era: Land Rover Defender production stops today If the car's looks, power and price tag weren't staggering enough, realizing that only nine of the hypercars were ever built and this sight becomes even more impressive. Image: Lamborghini Hong Kong I call it not a sports car or supercar but rather a hypercar for good reason. The 6.5-liter V12 engine will rocket the Veneno to 60 mph from a standstill in 2.9 seconds on the way to its 220-mile-per-hour top speed. And occupants get to experience all the sonorous splendor of that powerful V12, too, as the Roadster offers no roof. Now, I don't mean that they can remove the roof, etc. Instead, the Roadster simply has no roof at all. Understandably, you will want to check the weather report before you leave the house in it. Image: Lamborghini Hong Kong While certainly rare, the Veneno Roadster is virtually commonplace compared to the Veneno Coupe of which Lamborghini only built two. Likely, you'll never see those two parked side by side in a dealership window. But I am hoping we will anyway. So, if you happen to be in Hong Kong, rush over and check these beauties out for yourself. And tweet me a pic or two, won't you? Image: Lamborghini Hong Kong <em></em>
- Alex Lloyd
Testing The New Porsche 911 Turbo In South Africa: Beautiful, Brutal
Racer Alex Lloyd puts Porsche's all-new 911 Turbo through its paces on a South African track—and explores the beautiful yet dangerous city surrounding it.
Video Shows Inner Workings Of Koenigsegg’s Camless Engine
A subsidiary of Swedish supercar marque Koenigsegg has been working on a new type of valve system for engines that does away completely with the camshaft, hence the descriptor “camless” is often used. That subsidiary is FreeValve (previously Cargine), which has published a video that shows the inner workings of its revolutionary engine.
- Yahoo Autos Contributors
5 Classics That Saw Huge Price Increases in 2015
The Dow closed out 2014 at just under 18,000 points. As of this writing, it’s above 17,000 points. Not terribly impressive. Our five cars positively smoked the Dow and are all a heck of a lot more fun to own than a few hundred shares of Google:
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This Might Be The Best Drifting Video You’ve Seen All Year
Ken Block might hold the title for pioneering insanely viral automotive drift videos, but that doesn’t mean others aren’t equally as competent. As this latest one from Monster Energy shows—featuring Vaughn Gittin Jr. in his 550 horsepower Mustang RTR and Daigo Saito’s 650 horsepower V-12 Lambo—Block may have his work cut out to top this particular drift battle. It’s not the V-12 Lamborghini versus the V-8 Mustang that intrigues, nor is it the abandoned Russian village in which the duel takes place. The key to this video is it’s production value, which is—legitimately—some of the best we’ve seen.
- Alex Lloyd
Man Who Intentionally Drove Bugatti Veyron Into Lake Sentenced To Prison
A Texas man who attempted a complicated financial scam by running a Bugatti Veyron into a lake will spend the next year behind bars.
Unpainted Porsche 918 Spyder Up For Sale
A unique Porsche 918 Spyder built to an almost identical spec to the car used to set the 6:57 production car Nürburgring lap record in late 2013 is up for sale, and boy is it a stunner. The car is listed at Californian dealership CNC Motors and has just 1,856 miles on the clock. What makes this 918 Spyder just a little extra special is that it was ordered without any paint, meaning its carbon fiber panels were left completely bare.
McLaren Builds Final P1
It may have taken a little more than two years but McLaren has finally built its final P1. It was at the 2012 Paris Auto Show that McLaren first rolled out the P1, which back then will still in the concept stage. The production version followed roughly six months later at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and shortly after all 375 build slots were sold out.
- Alex Lloyd
Hear The 3,000-Horsepower Devel Sixteen’s V-16 Engine Roar To Life
The entire world mocked the Devel Sixteen and its claimed 5,000 horsepower. Sure, 3,000 horsepower on regular fuel—what Steve Morris Engines, the team tasked with building the V-16 brute, calls “Street Mode”—is a long way shy of its 5,000 horsepower target, but it still remains a bit of an engineering marvel.
- Alex Lloyd
Mexico’s First Hypercar Breaks Its 1,400-HP Cover
This is the Inferno Exotic Car, a 1,400 horsepower hyper-machine from Mexico. Sketches were revealed in September, with most brushing them off as a nice idea that will never happen. While we’re still a long way from reality, we do now have an actual vehicle that even starts—potentially showing the world that the smoke and mirrors we all presumed aren’t as apparent as once thought.
- Yahoo Autos Contributors
The Top 10 Most Expensive Cars Sold at Auction
Legendary drivers piloted GTOs to numerous wins, the cars were powered by one of Ferrari’s all-time great engines, and their Scaglietti bodies are considered one of automotive history’s prettiest designs. The last one to show up at auction was way back in 2000, so when this car showed up in Monterey last year, it grabbed headlines.
- Yahoo Autos Staff
McLaren 675LT Spider Adds To Your Top-Down Supercar Wish List
Competing in the supercar realm today requires a devotion to open-air motoring, one that often goes against the ethos of maximum speed. McLaren today unveiled the folding-roof version of its 675LT supercar—one that will be limited to 500 copies around the world—and vowed that the new convertible would lose a quick race with its hardtop brother by only a whisker. Powered by a revised version of the 666-hp 3.8-liter twin turbo V-8 in the coupe, McLaren says the 675LT will blister to 62 mph in 2.9 seconds, just 0.2 seconds behind the slightly sleeker hardtop.
- Yahoo Autos Staff
Drunk Driver Crashes $4 Million Koenigsegg Supercar
In what may set a record for the most expensive car crash in Chinese history—and rank among the most costly drunk-driving crashes worldwide–a 26-year-old man was being held by Chinese police after wrecking a rare Koenigsegg Agera R, with a value north of $4 million. According to the People’s Daily Online, the 1,140-hp Agera R ran into a sidewalk barrier just after midnight Sunday in the Yubei District of Chongqing. While the Agera R took the hit hard, it’s likely repairable given enough time and money, since it’s only one of six ever built, although any fixes will require shipping the wreckage back to Sweden. Click through for more details on the crash
- Yahoo Autos Staff
How To Cook Your Holiday Turkey Using A $490,000 Lamborghini
I admit, spending $490,000 on a Lamborghini Aventador by Oakley Design might not seem like the wisest investment for cooking your holiday turkey, especially when you can buy a superb double oven from Best Buy for around $2,000. I suspect he got his idea from the folks that grilled a sausage using a Lamborghini earlier this year.
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Meet The Rezvani Beast X: A 700 Horsepower, 1,850 lb. Killer
The Rezvani Beast remains amazingly popular among Internet commenters (who will never buy one) and music artist Chris Brown (who did buy one). Effectively a reworked Ariel Atom with a futuristic bodykit, with a somewhat accessible price tag, the Beast became dubbed “America’s newest supercar.” And now there’s a newer, more expensive one: the still-street-legal Beast X—a 700 horsepower monster.
- Alex Lloyd
Hennessey Unveils 2016 Venom GT: The World’s Fastest Car Just Got Faster
John Hennessey’s American-built Venom GT has long fought Bugatti for the title as the world’s fastest production car. Despite arguments with Guinness and technicalities aplenty (from both manufacturers) the Hennessey is the only one to crest 270 mph, achieving the feat at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center last year.
- Yahoo Autos Contributors
10 of the Most Expensive Sports Cars Ever Sold
Shares in the Italian luxury car maker Ferrari closed at $55 on it market debut this week. To mark the event, CNBC takes a look at some of the most expensive luxury sports cars ever produced. By Luke Graham, special to CNBC Maybach Exelero: $8 million The Exelero was designed as a one-off in 2004 by Maybach for Fulda Tires to test new tires. The car, which has 700 horsepower and a twin turbo V12 engine, was bought from Maybach in 2011 by rap artist Birdman (real name Bryan Williams) for $8 million.
- Alex Lloyd
Meet The Ferrari F12tdf, A 770 Horsepower Race Car For The Road
Tour de France may seem like an odd name for an Italian Ferrari. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, Ferrari dominated with its 250 GT Berlinetta, and the new F12tdf is a 770 horsepower tribute to that glorious time. The traditional F12berlinetta is known to be savage—a concoction of speed and performance only the fortunate few will experience. The F12tdf is 240 lbs. lighter than that car, boasts 40 more horsepower from its V12 engine, sports rear wheel steering, and, according to Ferrari, musters 87 percent more downforce (507 lbs. at 125 mph) thanks to larger strakes on the diffuser, a sculptured front splitter, and other various grip-improving winglets. What all that means is the F12tdf can sprint to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds, hit 125 mph in 7.9 seconds, and top out at 211 mph. The F1 DCT gearbox now shifts between 30 and 40 percent faster, depending on whether you’re shifting up or down.
- Alex Lloyd
Collector Behind Supercar Showdown Crashed Porsche 918 Into A Crowd Days Later
Last Friday, a British production team posted a video documenting the first time the big three hypercars—the McLaren P1, the Ferrari LaFerrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder—have been independently compared on a track. At the beginning of said video, a man by the name of Paul Bailey, 55, talks about lending his $3 million dollar-plus trio of machines in the name of science. But at the time the video was released, Bailey was recovering from a serious head injury in a Maltese hospital—and one of the cars in question had already gained some Internet infamy. On Sunday, Oct. 4, Bailey and his $900,000 Porsche 918 Spyder lost control during a demonstration run at the Malta motor show—held to raise funds for L-Istrina, a charity fund-raiser. His white Porsche, now literally coated in blood, was the very one used to conduct the definitive showdown a few weeks earlier—sporting the license plate, “POR 918S.” Here’s the video from the hypercar shootout, filmed Sept. 18: Here is the crash that took place in Malta just 16 days later: The Malta run took place on an airstrip at the Paqpaqli Ghall Istrina motor show, where crowds gathered along the side to watch the 211 mph missile in action.
- Alex Lloyd
DeltaWing Unveils Radical Street Legal Concept
The DeltaWing was first unveiled in February 2010. Designed by the “Doc Emmett Brown” of racing, a fascinating and wonderfully talented man named Ben Bowlby, it was heralded as the future of motorsports—a radical concept that would change everything. A few months back it even announced plans for a GT-style DW race car, set to arrive soon and compete against Corvettes and Ferraris, along with a street-legal version yielding unprecedented fuel economy meshed with the race car’s radical look.
- Alex Lloyd
Donald Trump’s Lamborghini Diablo Is Being Sold For How Much?
The Donald is a tough negotiator, and when he sold his 1997 Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster a number of years back, you can be sure the deal he crafted was favorable. Now, in an effort to capitalize on Trump mania as the Republican billionaire fights for his presidential election, the car’s current owner is placing it back on the market — with an asking price of $299,999. As TheDrive reports, with its Le Mans blue paint scheme, the Diablo VT is mostly as is was when Trump owned it, even down to the “Donald Trump Diablo 1997″ badge the businessman reportedly added himself.