Inside Koenigsegg Marathon

2010/11 Koenigsegg AgeraThe Drive Channel on YouTube just keeps on giving. First Chris Harris's reviews and now Inside Koenigsegg, an 8-part series whose title explains its purpose and which has proven to be a fascinating insight into how the Swedish hypercar maker thinks and operates. The series has now finished, but unlike with TV, you can still watch all the episodes whenever you want... for free! Here's the quick introduction from founder and...

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Alfa Romeo 4C Update: Exactly 250bhp/tonne

2013 Alfa Romeo 4CSo as you've no doubt noticed, the Alfa Romeo 4C Concept is no longer a Concept. But what we were missing was an interior shot and the final key performance stats: Power and weight. Well, we have both now. The 1750cc Turbo engine from the Giulietta Quadrifoglio Verde (or Cloverleaf) is producing 240bhp. Because they promised a weight/power ratio of 4kg/bhp (equal to 250bhp/tonne), that means an also-official kerbweight of just 960kg...

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Why Don't We Have Full-On Rear View Cameras Yet?

The Future! Probably.Whether supposed purists like it or not, so much of the modern car is digital. The throttle and more recently the steering are by wire now, there's a big screen in most cars with all the Infotainment gubbins loaded onto it, and some come with creature comforts like rain-sensing wipers, dark-sensing headlights, automatic climate control and radar cruise control that slows down for you if you're too busy tweeting #YOLO to your...

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Alfa Romeo 4C: Witness The Fitness

2013 Alfa Romeo 4C (Production version)This gorgeous shape may seem familiar to you. In fact, you're probably sighing and thinking that I'm nearly two years late to that party by showing you pictures of the Alfa Romeo 4C Concept from the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. Well, swap that sigh for a gasp, because this, despite looking 99% identical to the show-stopping concept, this is the production 4C, so called to reference the legendary 6C and 8C racing...

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Enzo Farmyard Hoonage Is So Wrong It's Wonderfully Right

11/2/13, 1:59, 302 views (when posted)I've posted a video on here before about a Rolls-Royce being driven inappropriately, and how watching it was strangely satisfying, as if the glorious but pretentious Roller and its driver had finally let their metaphorical hair down. Well, imagine that sort of thing on a farm, and then replace the stately limousine with a Ferrari Enzo. Prepare your body for the most glorious 2 minutes of its life as a one-of-399 king of supercars is hooned by its bored owner While it cost upwards of £450,000 when new in 2004,...

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So My Childhood Family Wagon Has Been Scrapped

Nissan Serena (not ours. This is a JDM version, yo. It's got a spoiler and curtains, but ours had an extra door)On Jalopnik's off-topic forum, one commenter posed the question, "What car did you hate as a child?". Immediately, the answer popped into my head, except that, in retrospect, I don't hate it anymore. I started to wonder if it was still out there somewhere, so I did that text evaluation thing and, as it turns out, it was scrapped nearly...

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Remember The Green Cross Code

5/2/13, 12:27, 111818 views (when posted)Hollywood teaches us many things, such as that if you're rich and pretty, everything works out, or that ridiculous coincidences are in fact either fate or God. It teaches us that horror monsters are racist and that if you're a muscly man with a gun, you become nigh-on indestructible. This video, however, highlights an important lesson from both TV and film: DON'T JUST STAND IN THE SODDING ROAD.I mean, seriously,...

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Stillborn SAAB 9-3 Reminds Us All To Feel Saad

2012/13 SAAB 9-3It feels like it was quite a while since SAAB Automobile died off and their museum collection was under threat of being separated off into the hidden garages of the world. Since then, the museum was saved, but SAAB wasn't. They auctioned off the last 68 cars they produced, some of which were examples of the 9-5 SportCombi that never made it to production - they were either pre-production or ready to be sent to dealers and/or journalists,...

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Marussia MR02 and Caterham CT03 Launch, People Struggle To Care

2013 Caterham CT032013 Marussia MR02So, with HRT gone for good and Williams being "that team" to not have a new car ready yet (last year it was Mercedes who had to run an old-spec car at Jerez), here are the last two F1 cars to launch for now, the Caterham and the Marussia. Due to the extreme amount of money needed to do anything at all in Formula 1, these two teams, formerly three, haven't really been able to break into the middle of the pack beyond...

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Toro Rosso STR8 Narrowly Avoids Another F1 Naming Scandal

2013 Scuderia Toro Rosso STR8In 2011, Ferrari wanted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian independence by naming their F1 car the F150. Unfortunately, that didn't go down well with Ford, who have had their own F150 seemingly forever, so they sued them for potentially causing confusion between the two, what with a big pickup looking exactly like a Formula 1 car and all. Toro Rosso, Red Bull's Ferrari-powered B-Team, should thank the Italian...

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Mercedes GP Gives Up On Online Launch, Drives W04 Instead

2013 Mercedes-AMG F1 W04After watching one side of the Superbowl last night, you're probably more comfortable seeing a Mercedes F1 car at an angle as if it's on a NASCAR oval for no apparent reason. So here you go: the new F1 W04. See how easy launching a new car is when you don't use Twitter?This car has been eagerly anticipated, partly because we didn't really get to see it on Saturday when their online launch plan crashed their website harder...

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Off With Their Heads

Oh, by the way, there's going to be a convertible version of the ToyoScio'baru GT86-RSRZ. It'll be previewed at the Geneva Motor Show next month as the Toyota FT-86 Open Concept.Just thought you should kn...

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Red Bull RB9: Purple Haze

2013 Red Bull RB9First of all, there are no official pictures from the launch of the reigning World Constructor's Champion's new car, so I tried opening this post with their official reveal video, but not only will it not embed, YouTube Downloader can't download it. So please click this link to open it in another tab.  All I can do is show you horribly over-exposed cameraphone shots from the launch, as the press was strictly told no photography,...

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Sauber C32: 1 Shade Of Grey

2013 Sauber C32, painted grey in tribute to its first ever F1 car in 1993.Sauber had an awesome year in 2012. Their car was surprisingly quick after testing and Sergio Perez went from zero to hero in only the second round when he weathered the Sepang storm of the Malaysian Grand Prix to finish second behind an almost-as-surprising Fernando Alonso in his supposedly awful F2012. The Mexican went on to score podiums at Canada and Monza as...

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