Toyota Hot Hatch Concept Morphing into Coupe

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Published Aug. 5, 2010 at 3:08 a.m.
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Toyota Hot Hatch Concept Morphing into Coupe ... Celica it Ain't, But Lightweight, Aygo-Based Hatch Could Get Green Light ... When Toyota's CEO Akio Toyoda wrote in a recent blog that he and his company "would pick up where Hiromu Naruse left off," we believe he meant it. Naruse was Toyota's chief test driver and spiritual head of the Gazoo Racing tuning house who was tragically killed in June in an accident in Germany while test driving a Lexus LFA near the Nurburgring ... Photo Gallery:

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Spycam: New Suzuki Swift Surfaces at the 'Ring

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Published May 6, 2010 at 3:05 a.m.
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Spycam: New Suzuki Swift Surfaces at the 'Ring ... Updated Interior, 1.4-Liter Turbo Variant Expected ... The new Suzuki Swift is back in the headlines, having just surfaced at the Nurburgring in heavy camouflage. According to one insider, the all-new hatch will for the most part keep its popular current body shape, but gain a totally revised interior.inline_mediumwraptextright0029013898/future/spied_vehicles/hatchbacks/1004_suzuki_swift_spycamspied-new-suzuki-swift-front.jpgtrue ... Photo

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Spycam: Audi A7 at the 'Ring

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Published April 27, 2010 at 4:04 p.m.
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Spycam: Audi A7 at the 'Ring ... Audi's Four-Door Coupe Puts On Its Production Face ... When the Audi Sportback Concept sauntered into the Detroit spotlights last year, the four-ring brand told us that the "concept" was very close to what would become the production A7, a car we hear will debut late this summer at the Moscow Motor Show in August. A few months short of its rumored date with destiny, though, we've caught it working out at the

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Toyota FT-86 Mule Surfaces at the 'Ring

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Published Oct. 14, 2009 at 5:10 a.m.
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Toyota FT-86 Mule Surfaces at the 'Ring ... Subaru STI Version of Coupe Also in Pipeline ... It's still a week before the unveiling of Toyota's much-anticipated FT-86 concept, and guess what just turned up at the Nurburgring in Germany? The FT-86 test mule. It seems Toyota's R&D team could not wait to get the mule on the road for some shakedown laps. And that's okay by

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Porsche Boxster Speedster [Spied again]

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Published Sept. 22, 2009 at 3:30 p.m.

After a ten month hiatus, our spy photographers have once again caught up with Porsche’s forthcoming Boxster Speedster. Final testing has apparently begun on the latest Boxster variant, with the Speedster now undergoing Nurburgring tuning ... Although the last Speedster trimline came on the 911 line, this latest prototype is concealing the Speedster’s classic [ ... ] ...

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Lotus Unveils Evora Type 124 Endurance Racecar

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Published Sept. 11, 2009 at 5:05 p.m.
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With all the hype and ballyhoo over Nurburgring times for production cars like the 2010 Nissan GT-R , 2010 Corvette ZR-1, and 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo, it's easy to forget that actual races are run there too. But Lotus , a brand born of racing, is always close to the pulse of motorsport, and today it has revealed its Evora Type 124 Endurance ...

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Spy Shots: 2012 Porsche Boxster

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Published Aug. 27, 2009 at 6:04 a.m.
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Late last year Porsche unveiled its updated Boxster and Cayman range but there are still several other models based on the same Boxster/Cayman platform in the works. One of these is a high-performance RS model , recently seen testing at Germany's Nurburgring, and another is a long-rumored chopped 'Speedster' model ... However, development ...

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Spycam: 2010 Porsche Cayenne

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Published Aug. 12, 2009 at 11:08 a.m.
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Spycam: 2010 Porsche Cayenne ... Second-Generation Porsche Ute Spotted Running the 'Ring ... Porsche has been hard at work developing the latest iteration of its money-making Cayenne SUV and the new version has been spotted by our spy photographers once again -- this time testing at the Nurburgring wearing barely any camouflage.inline_mediumwraptextright29399532/future/spied_vehicles/suvs/112_0908_2010_porsche_cayenne_spied2010-porsche-cayenne-front.jpgTrue ... Photo Gallery: 2010 Porsche

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Texas tuner building turbocharged Camaro to topple Nissan’s GT-R Nurburgring lap time

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Published Aug. 7, 2009 at 3:02 a.m.
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A performance vehicle tuner based in Texas is stirring up some controversy, with claims that the now renowned Nissan GT-R supercar "wasn't running street tires at the 'Ring". On top of this, the turning firm, East Texas Muscle Cars, is going further by declaring that it will be developing a new street-legal turbocharged 2010 Chevrolet Camaro that will be able to beat the GT-R's Nurburgring time, and on street tires at that.The goal is a lofty one for East Texas Muscle Cars as the Nissan GT-R's

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2011 Porsche Cayenne spied almost sans-camo!

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Published July 29, 2009 at 2:50 p.m.

Porsche’s upcoming 2011 Cayenne SUV has once again been spotted undergoing testing in Germany and this time our spies managed to catch the new model with an inch or two less camouflage, almost fully exposing the heavily-revised 2011 Cayenne that’s just a year away from showrooms ... The exterior follows in Porsche’s philosophy of [ ... ] ...

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