This is an awkward news item, for me.  You see, my friends read TMR (they just like to pick out my typos), and more than a few of them drive early Mazda MX-5s.  What’s awkward about that, you wonder?  Only that I’m always giving them stick for driving little haidressers cars.

So to have the internationally [...]

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Eric Bana has announced that he’s working on a documentary-style feature film that explores people’s passions for their hobbies and interests. Love the Beast will not be exclusively car-oriented, but will focus heavily on passions of the automotive kind. Given Bana’s 25-year love affair with his own Ford XB GT Coupe, the Targa contestant will feature prominently in the [...]

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The Tonight Show’s host, Jay Leno has just taken delivery of one of the first Dodge Challenger SRT-8’s, well actually number four to be precise. I’m not sure what the other guys on TMR think but for me, the new Challenger is the sexiest U.S. muscle car ever - what a damn shame they [...]

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Jay is back. A few weeks ago we saw Jay’s review of the R35 GT-R, this time around it’s the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR that’s in the spotlight; and Jay likes it.

Oft maligned the super expensive SLR has proven to be less than a hit with the punters and has been the catalyst for Mercedes-Benz [...]

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“Its like a Bugatti Veyron with less power…” Jay Leno gives us a rundown on Nissan’s new GT-R and then takes us for a spin. Jay comes away with the opinion that he could “get emotional” over this car, maybe even have a relationship with it.

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The recent Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale Arizona has seen the very first “retailable” Corvette ZR1 sell for a cool US$1,000,000 and that’s not including auction fees. If you are not concerned about owning the numero uno ZR1 then waiting for the second, third or even fourth ZR1 would save you US$900,001 and the auction fees…of [...]

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