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Aston Martin DB11 AMR: Fasterer, louderer, expensiver

May 14, 2018May 14, 2018 Peter Andersonamr, aston, aston martin, db11, db11 amr0 comment

The Aston Martin DB11 AMR is here to rustle your jimmies in style. Replacing the current V12 at the top of the range, the AMR trades on Aston’s formidable racing heritage. Aston Martin’s stunning new DB11 now has a new top-of-the-range model – the DB11 AMR. Packed full of the goodies we’ve come to expect from Aston – V12 engine, effortless performance, heaps of trick gear – this one is lighter, faster and even more powerful. AMR DB11 The AMR bit comes from Aston Martin Racing, a brand that has…

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Wörthersee 2018: VW Golf GTI TCR Is The Fastest Ever

May 13, 2018 Peter Andersongolf, golf gti, gti, volkswagen0 comment

The Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR broke cover at the annual Wörthersee GTI festival thing and it seems it’s production ready. Volkswagen’s annual GTI Treffen, held in Worthesee, is underway and as usual, VW has dropped a concept car. Called the Golf GTI TCR, VW says the concept is the fastest GTI ever. The press release bangs on about being “near-production” but the car you see in these slick VW photos is pretty much the real thing. For serious. Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR Powered by VW’s 2.0-litre turbo four, the GTI…

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The BMW M5 Competition is Go

May 9, 2018May 10, 2018 Peter Andersonbmw, M50 comment

The dust has barely settled on the new BMW M5’s launch, but Bavaria has already delivered the M5 Competition. Unlike previous years, this isn’t a pack – the M5 Competition is a model in its own right, just like the M2 Competition. The new beastie features more power, torque across a slightly wider rev band and a host of detail changes. Engine and Transmission The M5 Competition features the same 4.4-litre V8 but with 460kW (625PS). That’s 19kW (26PS) up on the standard car. The 750Nm torque figures stays the…

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Brabham BT62 Unveiled

May 3, 2018May 3, 2018 Peter Andersonbrabham, bt620 comment

The Brabham name is back and this time it’s on a road car – the Brabham BT62. After a few false starts, experimenting with a return to racing via crowdfunding and a general struggle to make things work, this is a bolt from the blue. Over the past two months the Brabham Automotive Twitter account has been getting on with teasing the new project. We knew something was coming, but the details were scarce. Impressively so. What is it? As you know, racing cars all have codenames. Brabham was huge…

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McLaren 570S Review – The Best of British

April 25, 2018May 13, 2018 Peter Anderson570S, mclaren0 comment

The McLaren 570S is the British company’s answer to Germany and Italy’s finest. Watch and don’t forget to subscribe to The Redline on YouTube The 570S is probably the first really McLaren car of the modern iteration of the company. Based on what the company learned from the MP4-12C, it took the good stuff and piled on more from the P1 and 650S. The result is something at once hugely surprising and completely unsurprising. History The McLaren Formula One team needs little on the way of introduction. Formed by…

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BMW M2 Competition: Munich’s twin turbo tacker

April 18, 2018 Peter Andersonbmw, bmw m2, M20 comment

BMW’s M2 Competition is here and it’s probably more than we could hope for. BMW M2 Competition No sooner had BMW’s rip-snorting M2 hit the roads we wondered what it would be like if it was closer to the M4 spec. As the bigger M3/M4 reaches the end of its life, BMW faces a bit of a hole in the go-fast line-up. Whenever a new 3 launches, the variants take a while to trickle through, the Ms coming close to last. So, as the M4 and M3 CS takes the…

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2018 Lotus Elise Sprint 220

April 15, 2018December 6, 2022 Peter Andersonlotus, lotus elise0 comment

I’ve been wanting to drive a Lotus Elise pretty much my whole adult life. The Lotus Elise Story Few cars have been on sale for as long as the Lotus Elise. It’s incredibly rare for a car to remain fundamentally the same for two decades. Rarer still for it to remain competitive. But Lotus isn’t your average car company, never has been, probably never will be. Despite being owned by some pretty serious industrial giants. For a start, General Motors and Toyota shared ownership for a few months in the…

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NY 2018: Ferrari Power For Maserati Levante Trofeo

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 Peter Andersonmaserati, NY20180 comment

If you fancy a Ferrari-engined SUV but can’t wait for the real thing, you’re in luck – the Maserati Levante Trofeo is just for you. Like the F-Pace SVR, we knew it was coming but had pretty much gotten used to the idea that it would be badged GTS. Maserati – those wily devils – instead came up with the Trofeo nameplate, possibly because the GTS badge didn’t do it justice? Maserati Levante Trofeo The Maser SUV has been kicking around for a couple of years now in diesel and…

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NY 2018: Audi RS5 Sportback – Your New Fast Family Funster

March 28, 2018April 2, 2018 Peter Andersonaudi, NY2018, rs50 comment

Ingolstadt’s New York Motor Show is off with a bang in the form of the new Audi RS5 Sportback. Can’t live with a coupe? Can’t afford the hilarious, twin-turbo V8 RS7 and don’t want an RS4? Or you want to go faster than than the S4 or S5? Or S7? I mean, it’s complicated, right? As always, Audi has the answer, predictably by adding further complication. Audi’s hitherto two door RS5 now has a distinctly family feel, with another two doors and a hatchback. Rather like…er…the S5 Sportback. And A5 Sportback.…

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NY 2018: Jaguar F-Pace SVR

March 28, 2018March 5, 2020 Peter Andersonf-pace, jaguar, NY2018, SUV, svr0 comment

If you want a fast SUV, there’s a new contender – the Jaguar F-Pace SVR. Oh, we knew it was coming, but wow, here it is and it looks tough. F-Pace SVR From the minds that brought you the wonderful F-Type SVR – a firm favourite here at The Redline – comes an SVO-fettled F-Pace. The company is having a massive year, and just about all of it is pivoting around SUVs and not just Jags. We knew this was coming, but courtesy of the New York Motor Show, we’ve…