supercars
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Awful Words That Would Make Great Names For Supercars
Naming cars is a tricky business, one that I seem to have way too many opinions about, often bad ones. And while it seems like there are hardly any rules governing the odd mishmash of alphanumerics, animal names, location names and made-up words that form most car badges, there are a few unspoken rules. Like…
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Ferrari Added 20 Horsepower To The Portofino, In Case You Needed It
Ferrari introduced the Portofino more than three years ago as its entry-level car, replacing the California. Today, Ferrari unveiled a slightly better Portofino it’s calling the Portofino M. It has 20 more horsepower, another gear in its transmission and starts at the low price of $US244,000 ($AUD333,060). Ferrari says the Portofino M will make 612…
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This Absurdly Rare 1,250 HP Electric Hypercar Was Spotted Tooling Around An LA Neighborhood Like NBD
As we’ve mentioned before, Los Angeles is a maddeningly good city for cars. When I lived there I routinely would spot such unicorns as Lancias and Tatras and Volgas and Jensens and Citroëns and Innocentis and at least one Dual Ghia, and on and on. But I never saw a RAESR Tachyon Speed. A reader…
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Guy Takes Pandemic Opportunity To Rip Through NYC Streets In A Gemballa, Immediately Crashes
It’s not clear if notorious supercar street racer @bc was at the wheel of his blue Gemballa Mirage GT, a tuned Porsche Carrera GT, if such a thing was necessary, at the time it ran wild on the virus-cleared streets of Manhattan. What is clear is the driver was completely off the rails. (Update: He…