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Jaguar to build Project 7
Jaguar’s SVO skunkworks is officially up and running, and as statements of intent go, the nutty Project 7 will do nicely for starters. How does a 0-100kph time of 3.9 seconds, an 300kph top speed,...
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F-Type Coupe now in Mzansi
Jaguar’s F-Type coupe is an 80%-ter. Can you remember that yearning to be one too, all those years ago at school? Back then 80% was the crucial A-grade tipping point, an academic Rubicon rewarded with...
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Sweet lord, it’s a 527kW SRT
At the New York Auto Show in April, Dodge unveiled the Challenger SRT ‘Hellcat’. Once we’d stopped giggling over how excellent the name was, we realised there were no exact power figures, only that...
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First drive: Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
What’s this? This is the new 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, complete with that all-new pyrotechnic 527kW supercharged V8. This is not just the most powerful Challenger ever made, it’s also now the...
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The Lexus IS-F is dead
Lexus has confirmed that the last ever IS-F sports saloon has rolled off the production line in Japan, signalling the end of its short, but sideways life. A moment of silence, then, if you permit....
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Meet Ginetta’s LMP3 racer
Lawrence Tomlinson is the boss of Brit sports car firm Ginetta. He is also a man, and like any good, rational man, he likes a good, rational V8. Like the one in the pictures above. It’s the first...
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This is the 527kW SRT Charger Hellcat
Last month, we drove the 527kW SRT Hellcat, the most potent production muscle car in history. A machine whose glorious daftness of power output is only matched by the glorious daftness of its name....
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Meet the monster 980Nm Lumina
A tuning company has released a supercharger package for the already brutish HSV Commodore – which is somewhat of a Lumina - and, quite frankly, it’s absolute madness. Walkinshaw Performance is no...
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Epic Ford Ranger return
During the first week of January this year, Chris Visser had reason to be the most depressed man in motorsport. The South African off-road racing competitor had just crashed out of the event his...
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Le Mans homage Dutch supercar
Dutch performance cars. Rare, immaculately built yet somehow always destined for financial ill. The Dutch, though, did not become a great trading nation by being easily disheartened. Despite the...
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Radical’s most extreme track car yet
This is the new Radical SR8 RSX. It has no roof, no windscreen, and it hails from Peterborough. But hold on. The SR8 RSX is in fact Radical’s most powerful, aerodynamically advanced machine ever. In...
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Good day two for Hilux
After two days of the 2015 Dakar there are – wait for the pun – two South African built Hilux V8s in the top three. Yesterday’s punishing 518km stage, from Villa Carlos Paz to San Juan, was the 2015...
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De Villiers chasing down Nasser
Stage three of the 2015 Dakar was one both heartening and filled with headache for the Toyota South Africa team. Giniel De Villiers was bested to the stage win by Mini’s Orlando Terranova by only...
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Hilux V8s better than expected at altitude
As the Dakar moves into the higher Andean altitude zone, expectations for performance from the South African Toyota Hilux team had been grim. The 5-litre naturally-aspirated V8 engine suffers in this...
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Poulter’s Dakar short circuits
Much like the ocean and high-Alpine terrain, the Dakar is a neutral, but punishing force of nature. The distance, testing terrain and sheer day-to-day mechanical wear generates that uniquely...
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Giniel robbed by Dakar chopper
Stage 8 of the 2015 Dakar did not make for happy preparatory reading. With a departure point at 4500m, the 510km special stage had all the makings of a retirement special with vehicle wrecking...
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Hilux V8 storms through Dakar field
Overtaking on route is not something easily done at the Dakar. Don’t be held captive by the fantasy of that slick, beautifully edited, highlights package you watch each evening. All that epic, open,...
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Hilux hangs on to 2nd, loses 3rd
With only two days to go and a lead of 29 minutes, if would appear that Mini’s Nasser Al-Attiyah will become the first Qatari winner of a Dakar rally raid. The recklessly entertaining Mini driver has...
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Dakar 2015: how it happened
In the end, it was not to be. Despite chasing with intent for much of the 9000km that routed Dakar 2015 through Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, Giniel de Villiers finished second to overall winner...
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It’s Land Rover’s Flying Huntsman
There is something quite wrong with the Land Rover Defender pictured above. Something unusual about its proportions. Fundamentally you recognise it as a Defender 90 with aftermarket rims and some...
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