International Car News

Remember a few months back when Mitsubishi unveiled its G4 Concept at the Shanghai Motor Show? Well now, we have the production version of that and it comes in the form of the Mirage sedan. The Mitsubishi Mirage sedan, or Attrage as it's known as in Thailand, will ...    Read more

If you were at the top of the executive food chain back when the now-defunct Saab was still making vehicles, then your week didn't get off on the right foot. Former Saab CEO Jan-Aake Jonsson, Chief Financial Officer Karl-Gustav Lindstroem, and former general counsel Kristina Geers were all arrested in ...    Read more

Remember Land Rover's plans to introduce a new Defender in the next few years? Unfortunately for fans of the iconic nameplate, this has been put on hold, along with the opening of Land Rover's latest engine plant in India. The original plan was to offer a lightweight Defender model but ...    Read more

The Honda Aircraft Company, a division of Honda Motors, announced new achievements and milestones during the development of the HondaJet during the 2013 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE). The program has flown through 3,300 test points for stability, control, performance, landing gear, flight controls, and more. Michimasa Fujino, president ...    Read more

Thanks to the partnership between McLaren and Honda for Formula 1 and the success of McLaren's road car division, there are rumors that the next McLaren road car set to be slotted below the 12C to fight the Porsche 911 will be powered by a Honda-developed engine. This speculation isn't that ...    Read more

"Next year." Those two words during a dinnertime conversation are all you need to know when it comes to the Kia Quoris full-size luxury sedan going on sale in the U.S. Speaking with an official from Kia Motors at last week's launch ...    Read more

When Fiat took over Chrysler back in 2009, there were rumblings that the Italian automaker would bring the Pentastar back to Turin. Now, as Italy's economic turmoil rages on, it appears that Fiat is kicking around the idea of ditching its home of more than 100 years in Lingotto--and its ...    Read more

From 1964 to 2008, Honda participated in Formula 1 competition through multiple avenues including racing, building cars, and supplying engines. Today, Honda announced that it will be rejoining Formula 1 in the form of an engine builder for McLaren. When Honda was last involved in F1 competition, it created a ...    Read more

Two French fellows who look like they just fell out of a Matrix sequel are going to be taking what some would consider a "hella dope" 2013 Nissan 370Z Nismo bedecked in camouflage on a 3,000-mile tour of Europe for the Gumball 3000 rally. Adorned with the number ...    Read more

Like Acura and the second-coming of the NSX, fellow Japanese automaker Infiniti has plans to roll out a flagship sports car that will rely on a hybrid powertrain. This unnamed sports car is expected to feature technology previously seen in the Emerg-e and Essence concepts. Infiniti hasn't confirmed anything yet, ...    Read more

Despite Mazda being a small mainstream automaker and Infiniti being a luxury brand owned by a juggernaut of a company in Nissan-Renault, the two have a remarkable amount in common--namely, regaining a sense of identity and picking up lost market share or gaining new ground. Both Infiniti and Mazda are in ...    Read more

For the 2014 model year, BMW is bringing back the 3 Series Sports Wagon, but it wouldn't have been possible without Max Reisböck, an engineer for the automaker, who many years ago set the wheels in motion. Going ...    Read more

I've ridden in a Porsche 911 Turbo S once, a 2012 model with 530 horsepower. It accelerated so quickly from 0 to about 80 mph that I could feel the blood being sucked from one end of my head to the other. It was the only time I've ever been ...    Read more

Today, Honda announced that it will be investing $470 million into a new transmission facility in Celaya, near Guanajuato, Mexico. This new transmission facility will be built next to another new production facility that's slated to begin building the Honda Fit in the spring of 2014. This new transmission facility ...    Read more

We're starting to wonder what sort of person approved the $529 million Department of Energy loan Fisker Automotive that ended last month at the time when the federal government had to ...    Read more

What's black and orange and fast all over? The 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport, duh. You may remember hearing Bugatti's name in the news recently, as the Guinness Book of World Records decided to take the title of "fastest production car" away based strictly on a technicality. In ...    Read more

Japan's reigning supercar is about to get a whole lot faster, if that's somehow possible, and we know how much it'll cost you to get the latest model. For starters, the 2014 Nissan GT-R will set you back $100,590 while the Black Edition trim goes for a cool $110,300, and ...    Read more

We're not exactly sure where this picture of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class came from--other than a French car site--but we do know that it's pretty spot-on with what we've seen so far and looks to be a legitimate picture of the upcoming flagship sedan. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class ...    Read more

British off-road legend Land Rover is celebrating its 65th anniversary today, and to mark the occasion, it will be launching a limited-edition Defender, the "LXV." Only 65 of these special edition Defenders will be with a hard top and will include the usual 2.2-liter diesel engine and six-speed manual transmission. ...    Read more

Believe it or not, Mercedes-Benz actually makes vehicles that excel in a harsh working environment. No, we're not talking about the GL-Class or even the SLS (although it would be wildly entertaining to see an SLS AMG try to outrun a Sidewinder missile). We're thinking more along the lines of ...    Read more

The final full week of April 2013 has come to a close, but before it goes away forever, you'll want to check out all of this week's important happenings in the automotive world. The week began with news from Germany as BMW is pondering the possibility of a 1 Series ...    Read more

What happens when an all-new 2014 Jaguar F-Type, Damian Lewis, and Jordi Molla come together, and not necessarily on their own terms? You get a lot of misunderstandings, high speed car chases, and some errant bullets. All of which are to be expected. Nevertheless, as one commenter so aptly puts ...    Read more

China is still an emerging market when it comes to new cars, yet it has become one of the most pivotal when it comes to automakers going out of their way to meet the needs of the buying public. That's because a decade ago, China was selling a few million ...    Read more

A $400,000 Lamborghini makes about as much sense as Snoop Dogg--er, Snoop Lion--teaching a college horticulture course. Which means it makes plenty enough sense. For the Italian automaker's 50th anniversary, it has introduced the Lamborghini Aventador LP 720-4 50 Anniversario, a blindingly yellow, panic-inducing supercar. The first ...    Read more

In a complete surprise move to most of the automotive industry-following public, General Motors introduced a Buick Riviera concept coupe for the Shanghai Motor Show that follows up on the 2007 concept of the same name. Designed by General Motors in ...    Read more