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Win Your Local Track Day With This Race-Ready V-10 Formula 1 Car
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
This 1998 Benetton has had its 700-horsepower 4.0-liter V-10 freshly rebuilt. You can own it. Tired all of those high-horsepower Corvettes and GT3 Cup cars constantly passing you at your local track day
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This BMW 525i Wagon Is Hiding an 8-Series V-12 Under the Hood
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
Yes, it even has a manual. The perfect vintage sleeper? Maybe. BMW never built a V-12 5-series, which is a shame. But that hasn't stopped enthusiasts from doing swaps of their own. This E34-generation
The 25 Best Japanese Sports Cars Ever Made
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
Japan has brought the world some of the best cars on earth. Here are some of the greatest. Over the years, Japanese manufacturers have graced us with dozens of wonderful driver's cars. Here are a few the
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The B10 V8's Sound Is Alpina's Greatest Achievement
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
It's a gem of an exhaust note. Alpina sure knows how to tune BMWs. It's been doing it for decades, with some seriously impressive results. This V8-powered B10 is a great example. The German company made
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The Goggomobil Dart Is the Bug-Faced Micro Sports Car You Didn't Know You Needed
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
Just look at this thing. How could you not want to drive it? If you need a touch of obscurity in your life, we think this will do the trick. It's called a Goggomobil Dart, an Australian-developed microcar
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The Original NSX Makes a Wonderful VTEC Roar
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
Think all V6s sound bad? Listen to this one. If you don't think V-6s sound good, you've probably never heard the original NSX at full-tilt. This one has had its mufflers removed, and sounds magnificent.
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Icon's LS7-Powered 1950 Buick Roadmaster Convertible Is for Sale on eBay
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
Here's your chance to own one of Jonathan Ward's masterpieces without having to spend years on a waitlist. Icon 4x4 is famous for building some of the wildest custom cars around. In fact, people are so
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Dirt Rally 2.0 Isn't Easy, and That's What Makes It Fun
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
The newest Dirt racing game is more of a dedicated simulator than a fun time-waster. But if you're willing to put up with the steep learning curve, you'll enjoy it. I’ve played plenty of traditional driving
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The 14 Best Off-Roaders You Can Buy for Less Than $20,000
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Here's Alec Baldwin as John DeLorean
Road & Track - Chris Perkins
Framing John DeLorean will be available June 7th on demand. John DeLorean, father of the Pontiac GTO and the DeLorean DMC-12, had a fascinating life story that's ready to be made into a feature film...or
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PSA: It's Spring. Put Your Top Down.
Road & Track - Zach Bowman
It's convertible weather. Rejoice. It's March 20th, the first day of Spring, which means it's officially permissible to put the top down on your convertible. Listen, I get it. Not everyone is the sort
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Cram a Turbo V-8 in a Geo Tracker and You Too Can Run Nines
Road & Track - Chris Perkins
A 6.0-liter GM V-8 and a big turbo let this tiny truckster run 9.8-second quarter-mile times. And now, one of the more absurd cars we've seen for sale on Craigslist. It's a 1993 Geo Tracker that's had
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Here's Your Chance to Buy a Brand-New 2008 Dodge Challenger
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This Challenger was kept in storage for 11 years, and it's never been registered. It has just nine miles on the odometer. Some people buy cars to drive them. Others, like the owner of this 2008 Dodge SRT8,
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The US Government Is Auctioning a Bunch of Not-Street-Legal JDM Cars
Road & Track - Chris Perkins
You can buy an R34 Skyline GT-R from the Feds, but they won't let you register it. In Oklahoma, a collection of 29 cars seized by US Marshals are going up for auction after their owner, Kong Meng Vang,
The SLS AMG Black Series Is Still the Coolest Mercedes Supercar
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The AMG One might have a bunch of wild F1 hybrid tech, but nothing beats a V-8 and gullwing doors. This one's for sale. You should buy it. As nice as the AMG GT R and upcoming AMG One are, I can't help
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The 10 Best-Sounding BMWs Ever Built
Road & Track - Brian Silvestro
Inline fours. Inline sixes. V-8s. V-10s. V-12s. No matter what you're into, BMW has a great soundtrack for you. Over the years, BMW has come up with some truly fantastic-sounding cars. We think these the
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A Marcos GT Will Always Turn Heads
Road & Track - Máté Petrány
Born in 1964, this rare British wonder was designed to be superb on a race track and outrageous on the street. Marcos Engineering was founded by Jem Marsh and Frank Costin in 1959, which means the company
17 Cars We Never Expected These Companies to Build
Road & Track - Collin Woodard
Every now and then, a predictable automaker surprises us by building something truly outrageous. Sometimes an automaker will shock us all by releasing an uncharacteristically awesome machine. These are
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You'd Never Expect the Sunbeam Tiger to Sound This Good
Road & Track - Brian Silvestro
It might look like any other four-cylinder British roadster, but it's hiding a great big Ford V8 under the hood. If you've haven't heard of the Sunbeam Tiger, you'd never think it had a V-8 under the It
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The XT Coupe Was the New Face of Subaru in 1985
Road & Track - Brian Silvestro
With striking looks more akin to a supercar, the XT Coupe brought new life to the then-small, quirky Japanese brand. In the 1980s, Subaru wasn't nearly popular in the US as it is today. It offered a small
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This Early Vintage Race Had an Insane Lineup of Cars
Road & Track - Kyle Kinard
A Jaguar D-Type, Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta, and Maserati Grand Prix cars star—and that’s just a taste. If a $15 Million vintage Ferrari sat in your garage today, would you race it? If your gut reaction
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Make This Low-Mile Mercedes 190E Cosworth Your Practical Canyon-Carver
Road & Track - Brian Silvestro
Four doors, four seats, a dogleg manual, and a peach of an engine. It has everything you need. If you're looking for a daily-drivable classic, this Mercedes 190E might be a good fit for you. It's a 2.3-16
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The 19 Most Iconic Movie Cars of All Time
Road & Track - Collin Woodard
Our favorite movies have cars as the stars. Most movies have cars in them. But in our favorite movies, the cars are just as important as the people. Here are some of the most iconic movie vehicles of time.
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The Saab 96 Sounds Like a Superbike
Road & Track - Brian Silvestro
We wish more cars had two-stroke engines. The Saab 96 of the 1960s is different than most road cars in that it uses a three-cylinder two-stroke engine, something more akin to motorcycles. The high-pitched
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One-Up Everyone at Your Local Car Show With This Italdesign ZeroUno
Road & Track - Brian Silvestro
It's the last of just five built, powered by a Lamborghini V-10. Back in 2017, Italdesign revealed its first-ever internally produced car, the ZeroUno, at Geneva. Just five were built, presumably all to
16 Cars That Are Shockingly Fun When Ordered With the Right Options
Road & Track - Brian Silvestro
They might not look like much, but there's more than meets the eye here. In the Sixties, a savvy car buyer could order a one-of-a-kind muscle machine by mixing the myriad options offered from the factory.
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Lamborghini Makes a Mean-Sounding V-8 Too
Road & Track - Chris Perkins
Don't forget about the Jalpa. Lamborghini has been defined by the V-12 for all its history, though that's not the only engine configuration it's made. It's even done a few V-8s over the years, and to ears,
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This Volkswagen Passat-R Wagon Is the People's Sleeper
Road & Track - Zach Bowman
Are you brave enough for a 330 hp, front-wheel drive wagon? So, you missed out on that manual-transmission, W8 Passat wagon from last year. That's a bummer, but it's not the end of the world. The saints
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Watching the World's Fastest Electric Motorcycle Go 236 MPH is Terrifying
Road & Track - Zach Bowman
Three-hundred sixty degrees of salt-flat speed If you're looking for your daily shot of adrenaline, you found it. Eva Hakansson took her insane KillaJoule, a three-wheeled electric motorcycle, to the Salt