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    The Cars and Coffee in Irvine, California has become somewhat legendary and has inspired similar events around the country. Anyone can bring their car, so the variety is awesome. You’ve probably seems pics of the various Italian supercars and 60s muscle cars that often attend these Irvine shows, but David Mavro just put […] More »

This Gallardo GT3 was making its way around the Slovakia Ring recently when it crested a hill at a good amount speed and found the nose suddenly heading toward the sky. With a bit of luck and calm nerves, the driver was able to land the car and pilot it past some water barriers in […] More »

Chris Harris has it pretty good. I mean, he gets to fly around the world and drive cool cars all the time. But the opportunity to do the Mille Miglia in a Jaguar C-Type? That seems like a once in a lifetime type thing. Yes, it looks fairly exhausting and grueling and deafening but… Wow! […] More »

Vossen Wheels just put their flagship company show car on eBay with a Buy It Now of $1,290,000. It includes a $20,000 Novitec and Capristo carbon fiber body kit and 21×9 and 22×12 Vossen Precision Series Forged Wheels that they claim are worth over $1,000,000. I wonder if they would sell the car without the […] More »

“Every twenty years we like to take the engine out and just check everything over,” says Jay Leno as he stands in front of the engine of his McLaren F1. The 627 horsepower naturally aspirated V12 is an impressive setup–the whole drivetrain, including the transmission, weighs less than 500 pounds. He shows us the ultra […] More »

This has been a bad week for wrecks at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. We showed you three wrecks on Friday. This time it’s Ayrton Senna’s old 1986 Lotus 98T, which stacked into some hay bales. Luckily no one was hurt and it looks pretty fixable. Video after the jump and you can read more about this […] More »

This Mercedes-Benz W196 Race sold today at the Goodwood Festival of Speed auction for a staggering $29.6 million, making it the most expensive car to ever be publicly auctioned. That pretty much blows away the previous record holder, a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa that sold at Pebble Beach in 2011 for a mere  $16.4 million. […] More »