British sports car builder and chassis tuning legend Lotus yesterday celebrated its 60th birthday, and to mark the occasion treated itself to yet another special edition model. Called the diamond anniversary Lotus Europa, this customised version of the Elise-based sports coupe flaunts enough bling to turn your average rap star green with envy. On [...]

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Mercedes-Benz has announced the Australian release of its entry-level two-door - the CLC. The previous generation of Benz’s most affordable two-door, the Sports Coupe, clocked up in excess of 320,000 sales across the globe since its release in 2001. Seventy percent of those sales were made by first time Mercedes-Benz buyers, forty percent of whom later [...]

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In the next few years, we are going to see some truly amazing machinery emerge from the Land of the Rising Sun - the Nissan GT-R and GT-R V-spec, the Lexus LF-A, and the Acura NSX.

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Unbelievably, it has been 40 years since Mazda introduced their first rotary engined vehicle. Launched in 1967, the Mazda Cosmo Sport (110S overseas) was the first to feature the high revving and highly strung little Wankel. The original rotaries made great power but had a prodigious thirst for oil and petrol. Mazda however, stayed the [...]

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The open speed limits on Germany’s Autobahns have been under attack in recent times with the latest claim being that the introduction of a maximum speed limit (130kmh) would reduce emissions, slow global warming and stem the soon to rise seas. Oddly, a voice of reason has emanated from non-other than Toyota of Germany. Markus [...]

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We’ve seen the spy photos and only recently the official renderings- we’ve even seen the actual production car…but this time its official. Hyundai have taken the wraps off their much anticipated Concept Genesis Coupe at the LA Motor Show and to be honest much like the pictures we showed you last week its more of [...]

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In the lead-up to the 2007 Los Angeles International Motor Show, Hyundai have released a couple of teaser images of their upcoming Genesis Coupe based on their BH rear-wheel drive platform. Not due to be seen on the street until sometime after the release of the Genesis sedan we can logically expect the Coupe to [...]

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With all of the fuss surrounding the Frankfurt Motor Show it is easy to forget that we have the Australian International Motor Show firing up on October 11. Hot off the press is the news that Maserati will be featuring its stunning new Pininfarina-styled GranTurismo four-seat sports coupe in Sydney this year.

The GranTurismo features the [...]

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The world’s largest motor show is due to begin on the 13th of September in Frankfurt, Germany. If you’re a CarUpdate regular you will be aware that the last couple of months have seen manufacturers announcing various new models and concepts that will be debuting to the public, for the first time ever at the [...]

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There has been much recent speculation concerning the upcoming Hyundai RWD Coupe/Tiburon. We don’t know what it will be called but we do know that it is RWD (Hyundai have confirmed this) and that it will borrow the Genesis sedans RWD platform.

The image you see above is believed to be an “official” rendering of the [...]

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UPDATE 11/05/07 - It may not come as a shock that the auction sale for John Schneider’s Dukes of Hazzard Charger appears to have fallen through…

“As the week has progressed, it appears more and more evident that the winning bidder from my ‘Bo’s General Lee’ auction has no intention of coming up with the promised [...]

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Updated Styling, Interior Refinements and New Luxury Options

Woodcliff Lake, NJ – June 26th, 2007…Featuring highly attractive modifications to their characteristic design, an interior further refined in many details and boasting new color highlights, as well as innovations in drive technology and driver assistance and safety systems, the new BMW 6 Series Coupe and the BMW [...]

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