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The picture you're looking at with the Audi was taken on flat land. The Aud R8 LMS above was riding a track with an incredible 60-degree banked corner. Now that we have your attention with that tidbit, here's your unusually present update of race cars simply too awesome to ignore. We're ...    Read more

Honda is always trying to experiment with getting humans out of their products and onto its other products. How else could you explain a company that builds cars, motorcycles, the HondaJet, and—for professionally supervised landscaping shenanigans—riding lawnmowers? This, more than anything, will explain the gestation of the UNI-CUB, ...    Read more

Buick's petite Encore mini-ute is getting a bow-tied stablemate. The unfortunately-named Chevrolet Trax (a name that seems to draw in every "rad dude" reference from the mid-90s) is Chevrolet's European answer to the Buick Encore compact crossover, spoken in a French accent—when it makes its debut at the Paris Auto Show later this ...    Read more

This isn't your 2013 BMW 1 Series. The U.S. isn't getting the hatchback, as BMW met less-than-rave reviews the last time the automaker sold a three-door in the States. However, what you are looking at, if you squint a little, is the future of the BMW 1 Series coupe, ...    Read more

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class is a nearly three-ton full-size SUV, at home transporting soldiers to and from the battlefield, or well-heeled suburban power brokers. The 2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class dropped at this year's New York Auto Show. Designed back in the Seventies, the G-Class has changed little, especially the exterior, though Mercedes ...    Read more

Numbers matter to automakers, for they not only represent how their business is—or is not—doing, but can be used as a psychological weapon that'll either help or, more often, hinder the competition. Along both lines, Toyota recently re-passed U.S. rival General Motors as numero uno in sales worldwide. Toyota sold nearly ...    Read more

Depending on your viewpoint of Saab, this is either the most heartwarming thing you'll read all day, or as sad and pitiable as a disabled puppy struggling to walk. We won't pass judgement. But perhaps in the best example of community fundraising since the Amish started charging for their barn ...    Read more

Ferrari is known around the world for the high-pitched scream of its V-8 and V-12 engines. These high-revving masterpieces are built to racecar specs, literally, as the tolerances required for them are exacting. Which makes it all the more surprising that Ferrari is recalling a small batch of its 458 and ...    Read more

For years, hydrogen has been touted as the great savior in clean fuels. In most uses, it's used in a fuel cell to create electricity to power a vehicle. The only emission from a hydrogen fuel cell: water. But when was the last time you saw a hydrogen filling station outside ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

Did you know Germany's Nurburgring isn't really a race track? It's a public toll road. That means having a few taxis running around it at triple-digit speeds was probably more inevitable than it sounded, as supercars often reach speeds in excess of 200 mph while lapping ...    Read more

Anatole "Tony" Lapine, the former design chief behind iconic Porsche vehicles like the 924, 944, and most notably, the 928, passed away at his home in Germany last week less than a month before his 82nd birthday. Lapine, seen above second to the left, over looks a new design with ...    Read more

Though small in dimensions, automaker Mini has made it a big mission to raise money for HIV and AIDS prevention in Africa and developing nations since the brand's 2001 relaunch. Sponsoring the Life Ball, which Mini says is an annual gala featuring some of the world's most prominent celebrities, the automaker ...    Read more

Fear not, electric vehicle owners and considerers: Fast-charging is about to get simplified. Thanks to the SAE, the ACEA, and most major OEMs, the CCS is about to get all AC/DC, and very soon, if demonstrations at EVS go according to plan. OK, let's back that up, in case you're not ...    Read more

Electric cars have been around for more than 100 years. But since they didn't receive much of the attention their internal combustion counterparts did, the electric car has had to play a fast game of catch-up. Minds from the best automotive and engineering companies in Germany have therefore partnered with the ...    Read more

Late last year, the world got its first glimpse of the Nissan Juke-R, a concept car version of the Juke with a 485-horsepower, turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 from a Nissan GT-R shoved into it. The idea of putting the mechanical bits from a world-class sports car into a compact crossover body ...    Read more

What's more American than a big truck that that goes really fast? A Swedish freight-hauler hybrid capable of going more than 100 mph of course!  In today's installment of Video of the Day, Volvo's Mean Green hybrid tractor-trailer truck attempts to break its own world speed record at the Bonneville ...    Read more

The People's Car Project, launched just under a year ago in China, is an online platform for users to submit vehicle and technology concepts for Volkswagen. In 11 months, over 33 million people visited the site and submitted 119,000 concept ideas surrounding both new ...    Read more

There's not much entirely new news about the 2013 Kia K9 full-size luxury sedan. It shares its platform with the Hyundai Genesis sedan, will sport a 3.3-liter V-6 with 290 horsepower as its standard engine, and will likely be the most expensive Kia this side of an Optima race car ...    Read more

Have you always wanted that new car smell? Well, if your "new car" is a 1986 Chevy Corsica with an overflowing ashtray full of Maverick Menthols and Cheetos stains on the mouse-fur headliner, you might be out of luck. But Ford of Spain is willing to bring back that lovin' feeling ...    Read more

The jokes here could write themselves: a navigation system designed for the elderly will direct them straight to Ponderosa. It will tell you to avoid open-air markets and 7-11 store windows. It will come pre-installed only on Buicks. Et cetera, et al, ad nauseaum. But you see, we are too ...    Read more

Should Mitsubishi bring back the Mirage, a compact vehicle last seen on roads stateside a decade ago? If you're unsure, you're not alone, as the execs over at Mitsubishi's American headquarters are contemplating the same thing right now. Mitsubishi has already decided it will begin selling the Mirage north of ...    Read more

When looking at South Korean car culture, the first two things you notice are that there are relatively few foreign cars on the road, and there are virtually no sports cars among them. Both points are about to change with the Chevrolet Corvette going on sale in The Land of the ...    Read more

Last year might have been the toughest on record for Japan's three major automakers, Toyota, Nissan, and Honda. A strong yen partnered with the horrific natural disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 crippled the three aforementioned automakers and all have only recently recovered. Honda was the last of ...    Read more

The old expression "never make the same mistake twice" could be dubbed Jaguar's unofficial mantra as the automaker preps a new, yet-unnamed small sedan. Jaguar has made it known that the all-new car will be just that, new, and won't imitate the X-Type, a vehicle widely regarded as a failure. "We ...    Read more