Video Find: Dodge Viper ACR-X Sets Blistering 7:03.058 Nurburgring Lap

Those Dodge boys are at it again. Months after pulling a 2010 Dodge Viper ACR from a Texas dealership and throwing it out on the Nurburgring to remind the Lexus LFA who’s boss, SRT has decided to give the track-only Viper ACR-X a turn ’round the ‘ring. The result? An impressive 7:03.058 Nurburgring Nordschleife lap [...]

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Lamborghini Predicts Slower Growth of Chinese Supercar Market

China’s car market has been nothing short of explosive during the past few years. Unfortunately, what goes up must usually come down and that’s exactly how Lamborghini is forecasting China’s supercar market for 2012. Lamborghini’s Asia Pacific general manager Christian Mastro points to a number of factors for the lack of demand, namely China’s slowing [...]

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Video Find: Ken Block Shows Us Ford Fiesta H.F.H.V.’s “Naughty Stuff”

There’s nothing cooler than getting up-close-and-personal with a race car and Ken Block knows that well. As a follow up to his 2012 schedule and livery announcement with comedian Nick Swardson, Block and his Monster World Rally Team have released a follow-up car porn video featuring the “naughty stuff” from Block’s Ford Fiesta H.F.H.V. and [...]

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Toyota FT-BH Concept: Now With Stair-Shaped Lighting

These official photos don’t show all that much of the new Toyota FT-Bh concept, but they do provide a little more information of the concept — which will debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show in March — than previous teaser sketches did. A B-segment hybrid Toyota isn’t a new idea (in fact, Toyota recently [...]

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Thread of the Day: Is Any Car Brand Truly Reliable?

Whether the manufacturers like it or not, all car brands have certain reputations attached to them. We’ve all heard that European cars are unreliable and costly to fix, whereas certain Japanese makes are all but bullet-proof in the minds of some brand-loyal car shoppers. But is there any truth to these notions? Forum user Superman15857 [...]

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