Dude, Where’s My LaFerrari? The Parking Lot at The Quail Is an Amazing Show Unto Itself
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Meanwhile, on Craigslist: Interesting Cars for Sale in the Shadows of the Pebble Beach Auctions
– Among the many highlights of the annual Pebble Beach week are the various car auctions. You know, the ones that make headlines with $30-million Ferraris and Bugattis so expensive that onlookers should be charged five bucks just for making eye contact. While those cars are undeniably great, and we know that every year at least some bargains roll across the auction blocks, what’s the everyman to do? Being everymen ourselves, we hit
Report: Apple Is Scouting Locations to Test Its Self-Driving Car
Apple has long been rumored to be working on an electric self-driving car. The tech giant has been caught poaching experts from the automotive industry, with the apparent goal of taking on fellow Silicon Valley darling Tesla. Today, those rumors were furthered by the discovery that Apple has been working to find a suitable location to test its apparent self-driving car project. – The Guardian reports that a public records
Everything, All the Time: 2015 BMW X5 M Tested
-The BMW X5 M is a perplexing vehicle. Viewed through the eyes of a purist, it is everything a sporting BMW shouldn’t be. Which is to say it’s huge, heavy, and—duh—an SUV. On the other hand, it is also very fast, an attribute that appeals very much to our primal instincts. READ MORE ›› –
2015 BMW X5 M – Instrumented Test
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Awesome to the Max: C/D’s Coolest Cars of the 1980s
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Lotus Exige 360 Cup: Another Small-Batch Lotus
-Travel 360 degrees and you will end up in the same place. Which is pretty much the story with the new Lotus Exige 360 V6 Cup, a microscopically altered version of the Lotus Exige V6 Cup. It has fractionally more power and will be produced as a limited edition of just 50. – The last bit is further evidence of Lotus’s new marketing strategy: to sell very small series of
Lotus Exige 360 Cup: Another Small-Batch Lotus
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Officially a Thing: 2016 Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SuperVeloce Roadster
– For as unsurprising as it was to see Lamborghini debut the all-new Aventador Superveloce roadster on the immaculate green lawns of the Quail Lodge at Pebble Beach weekend (rich people + money + easy production decision = expensive roadster, plus it was already confirmed), one aspect of the car did spark some surprise. This is the first topless Superveloce model the company has ever produced, and Lamborghini has been building Superveloces for
Officially a Thing: 2016 Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SuperVeloce Roadster
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