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Los Angeles is looking a bit greener today. No, it's not because the city's finally solved its ongoing (lack of) water issues. Instead, the LAPD is adding a whole bunch of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to its fleet. Alongside the 128 plug-ins, the 160 electric vehicles make up the largest...

If you ever wanted to know what a Porsche ten years down the track might be like, look no further than the Mission E concept car unveiled moments ago. It’s a sleek, mid-size sedan that looks almost like an elongated 911, and Porsche boasts that the concept develops more than 600 horsepower...

Lamborghini’s new Huracán LP 610-4 burst onto the scene a year ago and immediately impressed us with its stunning looks, screaming V-10 engine and precision handling. Now the lineup is being expanded with a convertible in the form of the Huracán LP 610-4 Spyder, revealed today...

There’s an insatiable thirst for SUVs affecting the globe and the ultra-luxury segment certainly hasn’t been spared. That’s why you have the likes of Mercedes-Maybach and Rolls-Royce planning high-riding models for the first time, but Bentley has beaten them to the punch with its...

Volkswagen has unveiled its all-new, second-generation Tiguan compact crossover SUV at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show. This is the version that will be sold in most markets, but the one headed Stateside, in late 2016 or early the following year, is expected to differ slightly. Ours will offer more...

Chevrolet’s sixth-generation Camaro goes on sale this fall, and today the Bowtie brand released some final specs for the car. The quickest in the pack, the V-8-powered Camaro SS, needs just 4.0 seconds to hit 60 mph. Better yet, this variant now weighs 3,685 pounds, which is considerably...

Google’s autonomous car project now has its own CEO in the form of auto industry veteran John Krafcik. The 53-year-old has previously worked for the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] as well as Hyundai where he ran operations in the United States from 2008 to 2013. Most recently he was working for...

A redesigned Buick LaCrosse isn’t due out until next year but an undisguised version has already been spotted. The photo, and others like it posted to Chinese website Autohome (via AutoEvolution), reveals an evolutionary look for the new large sedan, albeit with influences from the latest...

Holden has unveiled what’s likely to be the last major update for its Commodore family of models before the Australian General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] subsidiary ceases production in late 2017 and finally retires the car’s rear-wheel-drive Zeta platform. There will be a next-generation...

Though we’ve already had a taste of the performance of the all-new, sixth-generation Camaro during our brief drive of a prototype, we now know exactly what it can muster as Chevrolet has confirmed key performance specs for the car. The new Camaro, which lands in showrooms this fall as a 2016...

The strong interest in classic cars in recent years, sadly often purely for investment purposes, has led to a number of popular brands launching departments that cater exclusively to owners of older models. These departments, like Ferrari Classiche, Porsche Classic or the more recent Lamborghini...

When Volkswagen released its New Beetle nearly two decades ago, optimistic American enthusiasts speculated a modern Microbus based on the automaker's Transporter series of vans sold overseas couldn't be far behind. And it looks like the long wait might be coming to an end. ALSO SEE: New Volkswagen...

Cadillac this week gave us our first official glimpse at its upcoming XT5, the successor to the SRX and the second model to adopt the automaker’s new naming strategy (the first was the CT6). The XT5 is certainly a visual improvement over the aging SRX, and we can’t wait to take it for a...

In a market in which luxury brands are seeming queuing up to change naming strategies for their vehicles—Infiniti, Mercedes-Benz, and Cadillac, for example—the 2016 Lexus RX lineup carries forward with the same familiar RX 350 and RX 450h (hybrid) badges. Truth is, it’s changed so...

Detroit cops have changed the game. Now, they stop law-abiding drivers. Nope, it's not a radical new approach to revenue generation for the cash-starved metropolis. The Motor City's finest are actually looking for teen drivers minding the rules of the road. And instead of citations, they're handing...

The 2016 Honda Civic is officially going to bow next week; but Honda apparently couldn’t wait to sneak out in public with it. Thank CivicX for these first undisguised photos of the 2016 Honda Civic. We'd call them spy pics, but there was no sleuthing required; here it is, in U.S.-spec form...

Bentley finally took the wraps off the new 2017 Bentayga SUV; Rolls-Royce quit playing around and showed us the 2016 Dawn; and Porsche revealed the 2017 911 Carrera. It's the Week in Reverse, right here on Motor Authority. After many spy shots and some spy video, Porsche has revealed the new 2017...

Legendary Mercedes-Benz tuner Brabus has finally unveiled its first take on the stunning Mercedes-AMG GT S sports car, and already, even in this initial state of tune, the car is developing a meaty 600 horsepower and 553 pound-feet of torque. That, says Brabus, is enough for 0-62 mph acceleration...

Soon, every Porsche 911 will be fitted with a turbocharged engine bar the track-focused models like the GT3 and GT3 RS. The good news is that the new turbocharged engine Porsche has developed for the Carrera and Carrera S sounds like a proper 911 powerplant. You can judge for yourself in our video...

It was back in December that Aston Martin surprised us with the unveiling of a new car, the DB10, developed exclusively for a starring role in the new James Bond movie Spectre. Aston Martin has built just 10 examples, all of them for filming purposes, and while the car was never intended for...