International Car News

What's worse than driving on a pothole-jarring, spine-crushing monster of a road? Waiting for the three-year repair project to be finished. Thanks, DOT! But if one grad school student subverts the Machiavellian system of advanced infrastructure construction equipment, we can literally drive over a road paver while it's doing its ...    Read more

Turning a profit in one of France's biggest automakers sounds like quite a challenge. Buying Japan's third-largest automaker and running it simultaneously as you pull it from the depths of financial peril sounds tougher. Being the translator ...    Read more

Since BMW is the official automobile sponsor of the 2012 London Olympic Games, the German automaker set out to make more of the event than simply putting its name on it. BMW wanted to make an impact, helping the athletes have better performances. It set out in search of some projects. BMW's ...    Read more

In a practice that has become all too common lately, a Chinese car website has leaked photos of the 2013 Lexus LS 460 F Sport ahead of its official unveiling. Lexus itself was scheduled to reveal the latest LS on its Facebook page next Monday and even has a countdown ...    Read more

Model year 2013 might be a dearth of new products for Korean automaker Kia, but the year after should start a landslide of new and updated cars and crossovers. The first of which will be the 2014 Kia Forte compact sedan. Eschewing the straight edges adorning the current Forte for a ...    Read more

Small people-movers are making a comeback as automakers figure out more efficient ways of packaging cars for the big of family and modest of paycheck. The latest one to follow suit looks to be the Kia Carens, or what ...    Read more

General Motors has announced that it will be producing the all-new Chevrolet Trax compact crossover, along with a new generation of full-size pick-up trucks, at its assembly facilities in Mexico. In preparation for building these vehicles, GM has invested a total of $420 million into two separate facilities. The first ...    Read more

Recently, Nissan has shuffled its car, truck, and SUV lineup from plant to plant in North America to better streamline what each one makes and cut down on costs. The Japanese automaker is continuing its plan, but now on an international level ...    Read more

Did you ever think you'd live to see the day when a $75,000 Kia would be sold in the U.S.? Perhaps something like that would only come to the U.S. when the snowcaps melted, Hell froze over, and pigs started to fly. Well, just in case you're wondering, the snow caps ...    Read more

Earlier this year, we posted a video where Nissan teases the viewer which vehicles would be heavily updated over the next 15 months. The vehicles include the Nissan Versa subcompact; the Nissan Pathfinder and Rogue crossovers/SUVs; Nissan Altima coupe/sedan; and the compact Nissan Sentra. The Nissan Pathfinder made its ...    Read more

Too tired to brew your morning coffee before leaving for work? You can now toss your counter space-robbing coffee maker aside. Thanks to Fiat and the all-new 500L, you now have the option of brewing your own cup-o'-Joe while driving to work. Don't get too excited yet, though, as this option ...    Read more

If Captain Planet were a real policeman of environmental consciousness and fighting the forces of evil and hydrocarbon emissions, he'd likely have a Nissan Leaf. And he'd probably live in Portugal, too. That's because the Portuguese police have enlisted the help of eight 2012 ...    Read more

Earlier this month, U.S. President Barack Obama announced the American government had lodge a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization that China violated several free trade agreements. Specifically, the Obama administration points to duties imposed on American auto imports into China amounting to over $3 billion. The U.S. believes ...    Read more

A man who can deservedly be labeled as "legendary," car designer Sergio Pininfarina died today at the age of 85. Over the course of his 40-year career running his namesake design studio, Pininfarina (shown above with Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo) oversaw some of the most beautiful cars ever made. ...    Read more

While people in our country were throwing around the word "socialist" about certain political officials, an actual socialist country, France, went about implementing a law that mandates drivers carry breathalyzers at all times. There are two reasons this could have happened: 1) the legal drinking age in France is 18, ...    Read more

After seeing it sitting on a show stand in Geneva, the powers that be at Infiniti thought their Emerg-E concept car would look better on the race track. So with the help of the U.K. government's Technology Strategy Board, ...    Read more

The 5-Series GT is a car that BMW fans might be inclined to forget about, but still does its job well: ferrying human beings in comfort, if not style. The 2013 BMW 550i gets a power boost of 45 horsepower from its twin-turbocharged, 4.4-liter V-8 engine, to 445 hp. It also ...    Read more

The Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a subcompact hatchback, which made its debut earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show. Based on the Concept A-Class from last year's New York Auto show, Mercedes has been trickling information on the diminutive five-door for months now, detailing its Apple iPhone-compatible infotainment ...    Read more

More details from Toyota and BMW's green car joint-venture have been made public, and there's some serious swapping happening. The deal, which was originally announced in November of last year and ...    Read more

There aren't many things worse than a Sadie Hawkins dance, and while they've gone pretty much gone by the wayside, that's exactly what Volvo is finding itself in at the moment. The Swedish automaker, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group from Ford back in 2010 for ...    Read more

We've reviewed the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG convertible/roadster, and found it an amazing vehicle: fun-to-drive, yet a comfortable cruiser even in the jammed-packed LA traffic. But the SLS AMG as a golf ball catcher? Now that's an unexpected feature for the six-figure supercar. The feature was discovered by professional golfer ...    Read more

Talk about going the extra mile. A couple from the Netherlands is embarking on a 52,816 mile journey around the world this year, passing through Africa, South America, Mexico, the United States, Canada, India, China, Mongolia, Siberia and Russia, before returning to the Netherlands again in 2014. Why are they ...    Read more

Part of the appeal the BMW M5 has always held over its rivals from Audi and Mercedes-Benz is that it has always had a manual transmission available when its rivals have often only had automatic transmissions. That may not sound like a big deal to most people, but when you ...    Read more

If you want a Porsche sports car priced below the $50,450 Boxster, buy a used one. The German automaker has ended any sort of room for speculation: It's willing to make a more affordable SUV to slot below the $49,825 Cayenne and ...    Read more

What does it mean to be an American muscle car? Is it the beefy V-8 engine? Or what about the burbling and backfiring exhaust note? Carlos Lago wrestles with this question in the latest installment of Ignition, except his test subject doesn't hail from America. It's been born and bred ...    Read more