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Earlier this month, the aftermarket retailer AmericanMuscle hosted the world's largest Mustang car show. More than 3,000 examples of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] pony car descended on Pennsylvania's Maple Grove Raceway, where, along with the huge show field, fans were treated to an afternoon of...

Now that Amazon has struck a deal to bring the Top Gear trio back to work, the world is waiting to see just what the crew can produce. We're even more curious now that we know just how much money is being dumped in the laps of the team. The entirety of the deal is worth around $250 million, and...

So you've seen those pictures of the new Ford GT. You've read the specs. You've saved up some coin. This is your dream car and you're going to make sure you put one in your driveway. It's nearly time to place that order, and the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] isn't messing around with the process this...

If you’re looking for an expert in extracting huge power from exotics, one name you’ll hear often is Underground Racing. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the company regularly builds kits that come with four-figure horsepower ratings, and one of the most popular models its customers...

We recently had the chance to drive the Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new Mustang Shelby GT350 and Shelby GT350R on the road and track. As much as we liked driving the Mustang GT, the GT350 corrects all its niggling flaws, and the GT350R is just the icing on the cake. Shelby himself would be...

A multi-year ordeal involving Suzuki and Volkswagen will soon be at an end, with the German automaker ordered by an arbitration court to sell its 19.9 percent stake in the Japanese firm. DON'T MISS: Barracuda Coming Back As A Dodge? The ordeal goes back to 2009 when VW first bought the stake in...

The Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] is set to enter the World Endurance Championship next year with a race car based on its new GT supercar, competing alongside the likes of Aston Martin, Chevrolet, Ferrari and Porsche in the GTE category for production-based racers. The real highlight will be the Le...

Blame it all on notorious badass Carroll Shelby. The man was a goddamn prophet. Back in 1965 he knew what was wrong with the Mustang—it needed more power. It doesn't take a genius to think that, but it took one to make it happen, and to make history. Shelby gave the pony car more power in the...

Mercedes-Benz is working on a mid-cycle update for its GL-Class that will see the full-size luxury SUV rebranded a GLS in line with the automaker’s latest naming scheme. Like the GL, the new GLS will feature a high-performance variant developed by Mercedes-AMG, a prototype for which has been...

The all-new, fourth-generation Toyota Prius is due to be unveiled at a special event in Las Vegas on September 8, ahead of a possible world debut at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show one week later. We’ve been spying camouflaged prototypes for more than a year but now completely undisguised...

The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro hits dealer lots late in 2015 and we can confirm the car will be priced from $26,695, including a $995 destination charge. That’s for the entry-level Camaro LT equipped with the new turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. The car’s engine is rated at 275...

Over in Japan, electric car company Green Lord Motors (GLM) is raising a toast. Founded in 2010 by a group of Kyoto University graduates, the company has just successfully raised $14 million in funding, according to Tech In Asia. This comes after a recent round of funding that saw $6.6 million...

Koenigsegg’s first car, the CC8S, was launched in 2002 but the company’s story goes back much further than that. Recently, CEO and founder Christian von Koenigsegg revealed the inspiration behind the Swedish supercar marque and how he actually went about raising funds to start it...

It was only a month ago that I drove the fourth-generation (ND) Mazda Miata on the canyon roads of Southern California and wrote a First Drive review for Motor Authority. In that review I concluded that the Miata is an absolutely fabulous car with plenty of power, brilliant handling, and a ride...

If voice commands, touchscreen controls, a central dial, and steering wheel buttons aren't enough, BMW will soon have a new way to control the features of your infotainment system. With the release of the 2016 7-Series in October, BMW will debut its new Gesture Control feature. DON'T MISS: 2016 BMW...

In the wake of Justin Wilson's tragic death last week, the conversation about closed cockpits in open-wheel racing has been renewed. Formula One's governing body, the FIA, will begin evaluating potential closed cockpit designs for single-seat racecars. It's a surprisingly controversial topic that...

We learned how a turbocharger works; Self-driving trucks are coming to Florida roads yet this year; and Jaguar announced some of the chassis technology debuting in the F-Pace crossover. It's the Week in Reverse, right here on Motor Authority. Porsche is preparing to launch the refreshed 2016 911...

About a month ago, reports emerged claiming longstanding Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa had resigned and that a search was on for his replacement. It’s now being reported that Sergio Marchionne, already chairman of Ferrari as well as CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU], may step in to...

We’ve just driven the all-new BMW 7-Series and are happy to report that the car improves on the outgoing model in almost every way. Fast, roomy, comfortable, and packed with technology, it makes an excellent competitor for the stately Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and right now it’s probably...

TVRs have always been a niche product, but it appears there’s plenty of pent-up demand for a new one because the company has managed to sell a year’s production allocation for a new sports car in just six weeks—without even showing any of the car or revealing how much it will...