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A class action lawsuit filed in Federal court in Manhattan accuses Ford and Roush of building twice as many limited-edition Stage 3 BlackJack Mustangs as it said it would. That has resulted in devaluation of the car, which demanded a $59,000 premium over a standard Mustang, according to the suit...

Michael Schumacher's spokeswoman has confirmed the retired seven time world champion was involved in a road accident in England. A car dealer in Kent, a county in southeast England, told the Mirror newspaper that he was struck as a pedestrian on Sunday by a modest Fiat Ducato van - which had the...

A group of performance car nuts who also happen to be some of the richest people in North America are backing a new private race track located 90 miles northwest of Manhattan, New York. Among the group is James Glickenhaus, the owner of the $4 million Ferrari P4/5 (pictured), comedian and actor...

Billed as the first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of the world famous pickup truck, the HEVT (Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies, Inc.) F-150 makes significant improvements in fuel mileage while maintaining the utility of its Ford chassis. The truck is intended as an exhibition...

Gemballa is famous for building highly modified Porsches, many of which are based on the discontinued Carrera GT supercar. The tuner company has even introduced a number of variations on the theme, with prices starting at about €225,000 ($348,000) - on top of the price of your own Carrera GT...

Luxury laptop designer 'Ego' has teamed up with Bentley to come up with a Bentley-themed laptop planned for sale. The laptop is in a similar shape to other Ego designed laptops, but the handle is said to be modeled on the Bentley's chunky door handle. The leather upholstery in the car is...

In June of last year we reported about a new three-seater amphibious vehicle being developed in the UK called the Gibbs Aquada (pictured). The vehicle has been in the works for more ten years and has so far run up a bill of more than $100 million to develop, but soon its creators will finally be...

Even as the company changed hands from Ford to Tata Motors, Jaguar dealers delivered on their promise of top-notch customer service, topping J.D. Power's Customer Service Index Study rankings - for the second year in a row. The new XF's debut no doubt helped it secure a high finish in the recent...

Despite having announced the start of production in March, only a few of Tesla's Roadsters have been delivered to customers due to rough patches in the assembly process. An update on the company's website this weekend confirms the 'logjam' has been broken and cars should start issuing forth at a...

Cars like Honda's Civic Hybrid and Toyota's Prius have long been known to use harder-than-normal tires as part of the overall package to improve fuel efficiency. Now U.S. carmakers, especially those in Detroit, are looking to the simple technology to improve fuel economy performance of a wide range...

Just last week we brought you renderings of Luso Motors' LM23 track-day special kit car. The company has followed that up with a design study for a GT, and it comes in three flavors: convertible, shooting-brake and speedster. Like the LM23 the car is being designed as a lightweight sports car...

The upcoming CAFE standards are making carmakers nervous, with most of the major players speaking out about the huge cost and difficult technical challenges they face. High-tech plug-in hybrids like GM's Volt and Toyota's recently confirmed car have been the central hope for getting fleet averages...

Jaguar will this weekend be celebrating 60 years of the iconic XK nameplate as a collection of models from the 1950s to present day take to the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Some of the classic models that will feature at the festival include the brand new XKR-S, two XK 120s, the historic...

One of the key identifying factors of the individual drivers in their cars, race helmets develop and evolve over a driver's career to reflect sponsorships, personality and nationality, among other things. For fans of McLaren-Mercedes F1 team, and especially those backing Lewis Hamilton, the team's...

Boris Johnson, London’s mayor and the replacement to Ken Livingstone, has scrapped the plan to triple the city's controversial congestion charge on heavier-emissions vehicles. Widespread public and corporate opposition and an estimated £123 million cost have posed strong arguments against...

Founded in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani, the Italian design firm Italdesign has been involved with some of the most iconic designs of the past four decades, including the Audi 80, Lancia Delta, Saab 9000 Turbo and the Fiat Panda. The Quaranta concept shown at this year's Geneva...

In a potentially groundbreaking move, TAG Heuer is founding a competition this year to determine the 'best driver in the world.' A jury of ex-drivers, team principles race promoters and journalists decide the results and determine the best driver across five of the most popular race series in the...

Rating vehicles on a scale of 1 to 10, the new labels will take into account the particulate and greenhouse gas emissions and assign a corresponding score, to be displayed on the window. The higher the number, the better, with the cleanest vehicles on the road rating a 10. The state will also...

The latest word from J.D. Power and Associates' series of surveys shows U.S. new car buyers aren't as satisfied with their purchases, not because the cars are in any way worse, but because fuel prices are higher. The average score for new car satisfaction fell two points on the 1,000 point scale to...

Taking into account everything from city design to engine technology, the California Air Resources Board has set a goal for reducing the state's airborne pollution to 10% below current levels by 2020. The broad sweep of the plan makes it the most comprehensive of any state in the U.S. A...