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Custom Rolls-Royce Spectre's hood took 160 hours to develop

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Rolls-Royce is ready to build highly personalized examples of its debut electric vehicle, the 2024 Spectre coupe, and as a taste of what's possible the automaker will present a one-off example at 2024 Monterey Car Week. Set to debut on Aug. 16 at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, one of the main events of Monterey Car Week, the Rolls-Royce.

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Apple Spent Years Secretly Developing EV Batteries With BYD

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Apple spent roughly a decade and $10 billion developing an electric vehicle only to kill off the project earlier this year. Apple thought it could customize and improve the Blade battery to boost an EV’s range and had previously been working on cells using nickel and alkaline.

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2026 Toyota GR GT3 race car spied, road version rumored

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Toyota's developing a new GT3 race car A V-8 is believed to be sitting under the long hood To recoup costs, a street-legal iteration might be in the cards Toyota's new GT3 race car being developed for a planned customer racing program has been spotted.

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De Tomaso completes first production-spec P72 supercar

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De Tomaso has built the first production-specification version of its P72 supercar The car will be used for final dynamic validation ahead of the first customer examples being built Development is being handled together with Germany's HWA There's a revival of De Tomaso currently underway, with the new iteration of the legendary Italian brand set.

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Ford Refutes Hacker Breach Of 44,000 Customer Records, As Mazda Reacts To Security Flaw

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Ford has denied a cyber security report that data from thousands of its customers has leaked online. Hackers alleged in a forum post they accessed data on 44,000 customers, including names and locations. The company investigated the report and say there was no breach of its system or leak of personal customer data.

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Ford’s Transit Custom Nugget Camper Range Gains New Active And LWB Versions

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Ford has grown the range of Transit Custom Nugget campers that it sells in Europe thanks to the launch of a new rugged variant and a long-wheelbase version. These new models have been developed alongside camper converter Westfalia, and the new Active version gives the Ford some added panache.

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Aston Martin product boss: People want big engines

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Aston Martin's DBS successor will feature a new V-12 engine because it's what its customers want, Alex Long, the automaker's head of product and marketing strategy, said in a recent interview with CarThrottle. The engine was recently confirmed by Aston Martin to be a newly developed version of the existing twin-turbocharged 5.2-liter