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The cat is well and truly out of the bag about Jaguar's plan to build a new "entry level" sports car. Pistonheads luckily, bumped into JLR global brand director Adrian Hallmark and design chief Ian Callum at the launch of the new four cylinder diesel XF in Munich on Monday. There, they demanded the two spill the beans about the project — and the future of sports cars. They declined. More »
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Reiter Engineering is synonymous with racing bulls, including the Murcielago R-GT and Gallardo GT3 racers, and now they're now planning to release the race-bred, carbon fibered Lamborghini Murcielago Strada to the trust fund babies. More »
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In 1969, barely six years after its founding, a young Hungarian engineering student found himself at the Lamborghini factory. Presented here for the first time are his photographs of Miuras, Espadas and huge V12’s. More »
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The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport is officially the fastest road legal production convertible. That is, if you consider a 223 MPH top-down jaunt across the French countryside road legal and you consider 150 units a "production" model. More »
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You might be asking yourself why Jalopnik is featuring an animation about sub-prime mortgages. Our answer? Because it's too cool not to and it has awesome mega-garages and yellow vintage-designed sports cars. So there. More »
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In the wake of Ron Dennis leaving Formula 1, McLaren Automotive will be spun off from McLaren Group as an independent automaker, building a new range of McLaren sports cars for 2011 launch. (h/t-John!) [McLarenAutomotive] More »
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Borrowing a Shelby Mustang or even a Corvette is great entertainment for the long weekend (or even a high school reunion). But for some, it won't cut it. Enter the exotic car luxury rental. More »
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We've mentioned already the Woodward Dream Cruise attracts all types of cars. In addition to locally-brewed sports car stars like the Chevy Corvette in every imaginable model and engine flavor, and a couple of Dodge Viper ACRs, we're also talking about rarified objects hailing from Italy, Germany and Great Britain costing more than your house. Exotic cars are definitely few and far between on Woodward, but we snapped a smattering of high-buck machinery — and some lower-buck but still just as special — idling alongside the Detroit iron this past Saturday at the 2008 running of the cruisers. More »
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OK, so maybe we should just call this our own version of "Corvette Alley" like the one the folks from Chevy had going on at the "Triangle" in Birmingham below the big picture of the Volt. True there's some other two-door fun in there, but for the most parts it was the bright chrome of the Corvettes that seemed to catch our eyes more than anything else on Woodward Avenue. As we continue our cruise-gasm today by tossing out our shots — keep refreshing our Woodward Dream Cruise tag to keep up with the hot pics of classic metal. More »
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Earlier this year, we reported on sports-car builder Morgan's work toward building a hydrogen-powered take on its famed roadsters. Now, we've got an image to match the concept. The result is the LIFECar, a one-seater based on the Morgan Aero Eight, which employs a fuel cell powering four electric motors, one at each drive wheel. Of course, half the fun of a Morgan is the possibility of being flung over the elbow-height doors and into a tree during a particularly heinous country curve. (We're pretty sure the driver of a multimillion-dollar LIFECar may not enjoy that degree of uncertainty.) Still, if the company's timeline is correct, it may have one of the first hydrogen cars in production. More »
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Yes, that Morgan, builder of cars that still use wood as a structural element. Charles Morgan is working with a research firm called Qinetiq on a high-performance, fuel cell-powered sports car, to be called the LIFEcar. Due to drop in about three years, the LIFEcar is designed to show folks that hydrogen can be more than just a performance-enhancer for nuclear weapons and fuel for iconic album cover art. Quoth Morgan: "What's really exciting about driving? Perhaps the noise has nothing to do with it. Perhaps it's possible to make a car that's completely quiet, that drives like a sports car makes you feel every bit of the road but all you hear is a whoosh." We'll take ours with the Ferrari V-12 quadraphonic soundtrack option, thanks. More »
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