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Spain’s foremost supercar builder Spania GTA to unveil new Spano R model

Producing 1,200 horsepower from a 8.3-liter V10, this banal looking Spanish supercar should set the hearts of the world’s super rich alight with a less than 2.9-second 0-62 time.
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Volkswagen’s XL1 goes from legend to reality, reportedly gets 261 MPG

Volkswagen defies most automotive logic and builds a 261-MPG production coupe powered by a lightweight diesel plug-in hybrid system.
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VW gives a glimpse of its all-new, oil-burnin’ GTD hot hatch ahead of Geneva

You might not have heard about the Volkswagen GTD yet but soon you will as it is coming to the US later this year.
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Koenigsegg’s ‘Valve Free’ system plays with compressed air engine technology to improve power and efficiency

Koenigsegg, like Peugeot, is playing with compressed air engine technology to improve power, efficiency, and emissions.
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Eco-friendly or not, a V6-powered Range Rover feels a bit sacrilegious

Land Rover, just months after putting the brand new Range Rover on sale, adds a new supercharged V6 engine option for 2014.
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Nissan brings high-tech safety systems to its entry-level ‘Note’

Nissan will unveil a 65-MPG compact car in Geneva next month that’s loaded with safety technology usually saved for luxury sedans.
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Who needs a turbocharger when you can have a V16 Rolls Royce roadster?

Rolls Royce, unlike its competitor Bentley, isn’t interested in turbochargers.
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Don’t laugh: Volvo’s Pedestrian Airbag just might safe your life

With pedestrian collisions comprising around 25-percent of traffic fatalities, Volvo’s silly looking Pedestrian Airbag just might safe scores of lives around the globe.
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Alfa Romeo unveils ‘Gloria’ design concept ahead of Geneva Auto Show

Eager to hype itself before its return to the United States, Alfa Romeo has students from the European Design Institute render a new sports sedan concept.
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Oxford University’s ‘RobotCar’ is vehicle autonomy on a budget

Specially built autonomous vehicles from Google and Audi, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, though exciting, made autonomous cars seem like a distant transportation dream.
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Koenigsegg releases teaser image ahead of the Geneva Auto Show

Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg could very well have just released a close-up image of the next fastest production car in the world.
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BMW and Daimler join forces to design – of all things – an urban EV

The ultra-lightweight EV is called the Visio.M and in spite of its high-performance carbon fiber underpinnings, it only produces 20 horsepower.
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Bugatti’s top saleswoman earns ‘$15-million Woman’ title after selling 11 Veyrons in one year

One UK-based saleswoman has outsold all other Bugatti salespersons by completing 11 Veyron sales in one year.
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Already found love on Valentine’s Day? Now find parking with free ‘ParkMe’ app

If you’re going out on a Valentines Day date tonight, you’ll surely have to find a parking spot.
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Mercedes-Benz AMG goes overboard, builds world’s fastest electric powerboat

The power obsessed wizards and AMG have gone overboard this time and built the world’s fastest and most powerful powerboat.
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McLaren’s Middle East tour sees new photos of the P1 supercar on the Bahrain International Circuit

If we didn’t love looking at and learning about the McLaren P1 so much, we’d think McLaren a rather sadistic bunch.
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Amazon’s Cloud Player gently streams music into Ford SYNC AppLink vehicles

Do you know anyone who uses the Amazon Cloud Player? Because we don’t. Should you, however, know one of these illusive creatures, you can tell them that their music collection will now be easily accessed through the Ford SYNC system in AppLink-equipped vehicles.
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The not-so-amazing race: Will Chevy or Honda be first to offer Siri Eyes Free system?

Chevy owners, not Honda owners, will be first on the block to enjoy Siri onboard their new cars. With Siri Eyes Free, users will be able to call upon the iPhone-based helper to make calls, activate the radio, compose texts, and much more.
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Mitsubishi’s new EV concept has a date with Geneva

Mitsubishi has been in the EV game a long time. In spite the slow sales of its current EV, the i-MiEV, the Japanese automaker is still cranking away with new and improved EV technologies.
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Unlucky driver earns title of ‘first to crash the 2014 Corvette Stingray’

We see supercars on fire all the time, it would seem. But those cars have usually been on sale for quite sometime and found their way into the hands of reckless lunatics.
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Upcoming P1 supercar is proof of McLaren’s carbon fiber fetish

As it releases bits and pieces of the new P1 super car, McLaren seems to have a bit of a preoccupation with carbon fiber.
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Is Toyota ready to cast off its boring hybrid shackles and give birth to a new Supra?

Rumors abound surrounding the potential new Toyota Supra. Reportedly powered by a four-cylinder hybrid system, the 2017 Supra could produce as much as 400 horsepower and share underpinnings with the future BMW Z4.
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Snowy ‘spy shots’ capture GM’s 2014 Cadillac ELR plug-in hybrid

There’s a strange new fad sweeping, well, a few automakers: self-released spy photos. Few things are more annoying that disingenuous spy photos except spy photos of a car that has already been unveiled.
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Maserati pinning hopes on BMW-battling Ghibli model to increase annual sales

We always wondered if the folks at Maserati’s marketing department were having a laugh with its names. Now we know they are.
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Turkish designer creates solar charging tent for electric vehicles

It’s called the V-Tent and it could very well bolster EV futures.
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray: The ‘Vette Chevy should have built a decade ago

Beloved by both the elderly and the senile alike, the Corvette has always been America’s most iconic sports car for 50 years.
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Volvo unveils new mobile vehicle connectivity app – but not in the US

Volvo announced this morning that it has released its smartphone connectivity app called “Volvo On Call.”
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Porsche celebrates 50 years of motoring magnificence with the 911

When Porsche unveiled the 911, it couldn’t possibly have known it would be changing the face of sports cars forever, but that’s exactly what it did.
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Subaru teases VIZIV crossover concept vehicle ahead of Geneva Auto Show

Subaru has teased its latest concept vehicle, the VIZIV, ahead of the Geneva Auto Show unveiling.
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Start lathering up your bald spot, the Corvette Stingray Convertible is coming

In a surprising move, Chevrolet announced it will unveil the 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible in – of all places – Geneva.
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Chicago Auto Show: Kia unveils Cross GT Concept

It might have a powerful, fuel-efficient, drivetrain, all-wheel drive and a luxurious cabin but Kia had us at first glance thanks to the brown paint.
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BMW renders a 42-wheel mega car, proving it might be the coolest car company in the world

When the uncle of four-year-old Eli submitted a concept to Jalopnik for a 42-wheel, 19-engine mega car BMW, no one expected BMW to take up the case. But that’s exactly what it did.
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Nissan and Bose buzzing over new LEAF-bound, energy-efficient BEES sound system

Nissan has defied the inherent serenity of the EV driving experience by hiring Bose to create a high performing, lightweight, and energy-efficient new sound system specifically for the LEAF.
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EV infrastructure company, BetterPlace, drops out of North America and Australia

Losing money hand over foot, BetterPlace, the company that aimed to offer EV recharging infrastructure as well as battery swapping, has given up on the US and Australia, focusing instead on Denmark and Israel.
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