Mercedes-Benz didn’t find much luck when it launched Maybach as a standalone brand in in the early 2000s. Poor sales of the ill-fated Maybach 57 and 62 sedans led to Mercedes axing Maybach in 2012. However, a new strategy to utilize Maybach as an ultra-luxury sub-brand of Mercedes was hatched with the arrival of the …
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SSC to re-run Tuatara land-speed record attempt, not submitting current run to Guinness
The SSC Tuatara is not the fastest production vehicle on the planet, at least not yet, officially. After much controversy, the world will get to find out what the Washington-based automaker’s Tuatara supercar can do, again. On Friday night, SSC CEO Jerod Shelby released a video on the company’s YouTube channel stating the Tuatara will …
Wild Donkervoort D8 GTO JD70 gets track-only R version
Dutch sports car marque Donkervoort unveiled the wild D8 GTO JD70 in June to celebrate the 70th birthday of its founder, Joop Donkervoort, and now the company has a version developed exclusively for track use, and yes, it’s even faster than the original. For the track-only D8 GTO JD70 R, the engineers at Donkervoort dialed …
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