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McLaren has recently unveiled a new 600 hp ’super sports’ car, featuring technology borrowed from its Formula 1 experience. This vehicle has been engineered to be as environmentally friendly as possible, boasting the lowest carbon output per hp of any car currently available.

This is a new venture into the super car market, and the company is building a new production line to turn out up to 4,000 of them a year. The BBC’s Richard Scott has been given an exclusive first look at the car.

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The 2009 Nissan 370Z

If you want to start thinking about a car to look at in time for the year-end clearances, keep this one in mind. This is almost a retro-style car – if you remember the 70’s, or you’ve at least heard of them, you’ll recognize the styling cues.

It has a 3.7 liter engine, makes 332 horsepower and 270 pound-feet of torque…comes with your choice of a 7 speed automatic or 6 speed manual and gets a ‘kind of respectable’ 26 mpg on the highway. It was priced at around $30,000 new so you might be able to get a nice price now.

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The Fisker Karma Hybrid Sports Car

Fisker Automotive, Inc., the new American manufacturer of premium ‘green’ cars, unveiled its first production car — the 2010 Fisker Karma Plug-In Hybrid.

With a starting price of $87,900.00, one thousand orders for the 100 mile-per-gallon luxury plug-in hybrid sports car have been received since the prototype debuted at the 2008 NAIAS.

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The Tesla ‘Electric Roadster’

“Google founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin dumped millions of dollars into the new Tesla Roadster, an all-electric sports car that looks like a Lotus and drives like a Maserati. Watch as we take the first one for a test drive around Silicon Valley. It’s eco-friendly and fast! And for just $100,000, you, too, can have one of your very own!”

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The All-New 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Andreas Preuninger, Porsche’s ‘Manager of High Performance Cars’, plays host for this look at the updated 2010 Porsche GT3 RS, taking his new sports car for a quick ride on the Autobahn to show off its potential. Due to unexpectedly heavy traffic, he couldn’t get the car past 292kph…

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The SLR Stirling Moss – Pure Excitement and Driving Pleasure!

Mercedes-Benz and McLaren have introduced the crown jewel in their highly successful SLR series with an uncompromising, spectacular new car. There is no roof or windshield to separate the driver and passenger from the world around them; they get to fully enjoy undiluted high-speed excitement while experiencing all the attributes of a vintage speedster…

The new SLR Stirling Moss is enhanced by the latest technology and design, which recreates the SLR legend in the most contemporary fashion. With 650 hp, the SLR Stirling Moss’ supercharged V8 accelerates it from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 3.5 seconds, and reaches a top speed of 210 mph – no other ‘topless’ production car is so open and so fast.

This capability makes this high-performance sports car a worthy holder of the name of Stirling Moss, the British racing legend and Mille Miglia record-holder who drove the legendary Mercedes-Benz SLR racer to multiple victories in 1955. The exclusive SLR Stirling Moss will be limited to 75 units and priced at 750,000 euros.

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