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Ferrari has issued an official recall for all of its 458 Italia cars made this year, following reports of a number of the luxury cars catching fire.

Ferrari said its engineers had flown around the world to investigate five reports of “thermal incidents”.

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The world’s most expensive golf buggy, featuring a refrigerator built into the dashboard, is worth an astonishing £40,000.

The Garia Luxury Golf Car is assembled in the same factory as the Porshe Boxster and Cayman, while the aluminium profiles in the frame are made by the same manufacturer as those of Aston Martins, Jaguars and Volvos.

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Aston Martin is hard at work creating a special supercar that will be produced in a very limited quantity.

The luxury carmarker has enlisted the help of Star Electric Cars France (a company which builds electric golf-carts) to produce the Aston Martin Super Sport Limited Edition. The new model will be limited to only eight units, each priced at an eye-popping €7.5 million.

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It boasts a 6.75-litre turbo-charged V8 engine producing 650 lb-ft of torque, is one of only 322 copies ever made, and boxer Mike Tyson bought it just a month before infamously biting off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear.

This Bentley Continental T is now up for sale on luxury marketplace JamesList.com.

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The world’s most expensive car, a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic that sold for more than US$30 million earlier this year, has gone on public display.

The luxury car is going on display at the the Mullin Automotive Museum in California.

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Being one of the world’s most expensive cars, the McLaren F1 is not the kind of car you’d want to see smudged, let alone crashed.

But a 61-year-old businessman from New York managed to do the unthinkable and out-braked himself in southern Germany over the weekend while behind the wheel of McLaren’s legendary supercar.

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The Sultan of Brunei is famous for being a bit of a revhead.

According to Guinness World Records, the Sultan’s private car collection includes more than 600 Rolls-Royces, more than 450 Ferraris, and 134 Koenigseggs, making it the largest collection of that marque in the world.

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The greenest Chevrolet ever made, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, will also be one of the most expensive.

The 2011 Volt, the first mass-market electric vehicle from General Motors Co. (GM), will carry a starting price tag of US$41,000 when it is launched in the US later this year, General Motors announced on Tuesday.

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A car enthusiast in the UK is offering the world’s most expensive car wash service, charging up to £7,200 per vehicle.

Gurcharn Sahota, 30, takes up to 250 hours to clean each vehicle with an array of 100 cleaning fluids and wax that costs £8,200 per tub.

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Ferrari has officially unveiled its new 458 Challenge racing prototype at Ferrari’s Annual Dealer Meeting, held at the firm’s base in Maranello, Italy.

The model is based on the 458 Italia, but introduces a number of important modifications to adapt it for competition use.

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