News Flash: The 2012 Audi R18 Looks Like This

2012 Audi R18 Ultra (left) and 2012 Audi R18 e-tron quattro (right)So Peugeot's pulled out of prototype racing after losing an argument with the organisers over the amount of energy hybrid LMP cars can accumulate, and Toyota of all people have now stepped up to try to fill their shoes by making a petrol-electric hybrid. Audi has spotted this and countered with a diesel-electric hybrid, like an old train, only much faster and cooler. Its full name...

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Ferrari F620GT Is Actually Called 'F12berlinetta' And Looks Like THIS

2012 Ferrari F12 BerlinettaSo we've seen spy paintings, a teaser shot, and then a wooden display model was leaked out a few days ago, but now Ferrari is the one showing us what their own V12 GT looks like, and telling us what it's called... which isn't a great name. You see, it's called the F12berlinetta, which is all one word, thus ranking it highly among the List Of Annoying Deliberate Grammar Errors with the Volkswagen Up! and the GTbyCITROËN....

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Repost: Justice Has Been Served

I know Audi quattro rally cars used to go sideways, but that's taking the pissI could re-write this, but there's no real need. Just enjoy an arsehole getting what they deserve for parking like a douche. Also, there's a SAAB in the background - that'll become important later......Usually, when an insensitive driver double-parks on the road blocking the way to other vehicles, all it takes is a call to the police to get things sorted out. But there...

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Video Sunday - Super Trofeo Dorifto

Uploaded: 18/10/11Running Time: 2:17Views When Posted: 99,419What you're about to watch is not a Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 SuperTrofeo drifting around a small town. What you are about to see is a remote controlled Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo being drifted around a waxed concrete floor dressed up as a small town, like a freakin' boss. The sustained angles and perfect lines would be mightily impressive in a real car, Gallardo or not, but can you drive an R/C car like this? Me neither...

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Infiniti Emerg-E Concept Out-Poses The Acura NSX Concept

2012 Infiniti Emerg-E ConceptSource: CarscoopWell Acura, it's game over already. After Honda's posh brand unveiled its hybrid supercar concept at the Detroit show in January, Nissan's posh brand will unveil their own hybrid supercar concept at the Geneva show, which will be about 35 times sexier and more hybrid-er, as these leaked images from Carscoop prove. It's called the Emerg-E, which is appropriate seeing as it has emerged seemingly from nowhere...

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Video Saturday - Niko Bellic Eat Your Heart Out

Uploaded: 6/9/10Running Time: 6:38Views When Posted: 9,242,062If you've ever played Grand Theft Auto, this scene of a man on a bike weaving through traffic at preposterous speeds will seem familiar to you. The only difference is, this guy is not Niko Bellic, he's a real live human bean. He is also very brave and ever so slightly stupid, because if you've ever played GTA then you know how this idea usually ends - catching on the corner of a car and flying 50 feet to your death, or jumping up and hitting the bottom of a bridge or tunnel, before flying...

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No, Wait, THIS Is What The Ferrari F620 Looks Like [UPDATED]

2012 Ferrari F620 GTIf you scroll down a bit, you'll see the first teaser image of Ferrari's replacement for the F599 GTB Fiorano. That teaser has just been rendered completely irrelevant, as a reader at GT Spirit has sent in an uncovered photo of it getting ready to head to Geneva for the upcoming motor show in five days. They reckon the "most powerful Ferrari ever made" could have as much as 740bhp, 30 more than I had previously thought,...

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Mercedes W03 Is More Than Just An Ugly Face

2012 Mercedes-AMG W03Mercedes GP are the last front-line Formula 1 team to unveil their new 2012 challenger (leaving Marussia and HRT to cobble something together), even having to take last year's car to the Jerez test a couple of weeks ago "to get tyre data". Well, now the W03 is finally ready, and apparently it's late because the best has been saved until last. The best tech, perhaps, but not the best nose - I think that's the biggest step I've...

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The New Ferrari F620 Looks Like This

2012 Ferrari F620I have showed you spy paintings of the new Ferrari V12 GT before, but now here's the first photograph of it. I just wish they turned more lights on before they took it...We now know it'll be called the F620 and that it'll have a 7-speed DCT and 700bhp (710PS), making it the most powerful Ferrari ever made......until the F70 arrives.Ferrari F70 artist's renderingThe F70 will feature a 7.3-litre V12 (1000cc bigger) producing a staggering...

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Lyonheart K Is The "Growler E 2011" Without A Hairy Name

What a difference a year makesJust over a year ago, way back when SBV8 was a baby, I showed you the first renderings and details of designer Bo Zolland's Jaguar E-Type revival, called the Growler E 2011. While the name "Growler" refers to the Jaguar badge that depicts an angry cat's face, TopGear decided it was named after the colloquial term for when a lady decides to keep her lower regions... as nature intended. So now, closer to production and...

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Video Sunday - Nouse of Senna eXtracted

Uploaded: 13/2/12Running Time: 8:51Views When Posted: 36,339383Nouse of Senna eXtracted is not what those magical three letters adorning Honda's supercar actually stand for - that would be New Sports eXperimental - but both versions are accurate, as the legendary F1 champion and now posthumous star of a double-BAFTA-winning film helped make this car what it is to drive, although you probably don't need me to tell you that. Anything you might want to know about how the Honda NSX is to be in is covered in this beautifully-shot film by "Hungarian...

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Once You See It, You'll Shit Bricks

What you see here, in case you somehow didn't get it from the image, is a 1978 Porsche 935/78 "Moby Dick" racing car recreated as accurately as possible in Lego. Complete with Martini Racing colours. I've seen some cool stuff made out of Lego, but this is definitely up there...A real 935/78Malte Dorowski is the person responsible for this awesome creation, mimicking a car that was seriously fast in an era of resolutely untamed racing cars. Powered...

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Video Saturday - Turn It Up Lauda

Uploaded: 17/7/08Running Time: 2:11Views When Posted: 42,674Here is a glorious piece of old footage of the short-lived BMW Procar series. This is not to be confused with the Procar series using F1-powered silhouettes, as epic as that would've been with enough interest, but BMW M1s in full Group 4 GT-racer trim blasting around the Monaco Grand prix track. I would say more, but you've just clicked hurriedly on the play button, so I'll wait......welcome back to reading. So it wasn't a full race, but it may well be the only footage of it on YouTube,...

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Kia K9 Probably Won't Fire Lasers

Recently, Kia have released/leaked sketches of its upcoming flagship saloon, dubbed 'K9' for whatever reason, and while I can't tell you anything about it - because no-one else can, seeing as these pics are all we've got - I can at least speculate over their, er, styling inspiration:Why would you copy this?(Thoughts on this thought and more after the jump)Now, I've said before that Korean joint company Hyundai/Kia have had a habit of copying European...

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