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While Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has soared in recent years, a lack of distinct product and brand identity has left its Lincoln luxury division struggling. In an effort to combat sagging sales of its MKX crossover—which have seen a nearly 50 percent drop since last year—the brand has...

The AMS Performance Alpha Omega GT-R is, as you know by now, a beast of a machine designed to obliterate any bit of straight-line tarmac in front of it. This is a Nissan GT-R that has been modified to the point where it's pushing forth around 2,000 horsepower out to all four wheels. Even crazier...

Toyota has made little secret of the fact that its GT 86, a Scion FR-S for readers in the U.S., hasn’t been selling well, with the poor sales performance even leading management to rule out additional variants of the car such as a high-performance version or convertible (just a thousand FR-S...

Mercedes-Benz’s current A-Class made its debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, and an updated version of the stylish hatch is due to go on sale in select markets towards the end of this year, the U.S. not being one of them. A formal debut for the updated A-Class range is scheduled for...

Chevrolet recently released a teaser video for its upcoming 2016 Camaro Convertible, which the Bowtie brand has confirmed will be revealed to the world on Wednesday, June 24. However, since then official photos of the car have leaked onto the web. The leaked photos, more of which you can view over...

A final episode of Top Gear starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will air June 28, marking the end of the popular British television show’s 22nd season. It will be the last time that any of the three lads host the show as none of them renewed their contracts after Clarkson...

Here in the U.S., we only get the Chevrolet Cruze as a sedan but overseas there are hatchback and wagon bodystyles as well. Not offering the hatch in the U.S. is something General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] product chief Mark Reuss once called “a pre-bankruptcy planning mistake,” a...

Buyers shopping for a 2016 Mercedes-Benz S550 might get sticker shock upon learning exactly how much upgrading to the S550e plug-in hybrid variant will cost... because it won't cost a dime. Opening bids for either the gasoline or gasoline-electric hybrid version of the uber-lux sedan will begin at...

Audi’s next-generation A4, the B9 series, won’t be in American showrooms until the 2017 model year (yes, the current model has one year left in it), but we’ll see the car unveiled this September at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show. We already have a pretty good idea as to what the...

Mercedes-Benz is selling about 500 examples of its new Mercedes-Maybach S600 luxury sedan in China every month, which is remarkable considering sales of the previous standalone Maybach models only reached about 600 units worldwide during the better years. The numbers had dropped to between 200 and...

Dodge’s ultra-exclusive ‘1-of-1’ personalization program for its Viper supercar has proven so popular that for the 2016 model year the American go-fast brand is adding even more options, one of which is a striking matte finish available for most of the exterior colors. It means...

The teaser for the next installment of Electronic Arts' long-running Need for Speed franchise left us wanting to see more. And now we have. In the days surrounding last week's E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles—which also saw news regarding rival title Forza Motorsport...

Mercedes AMG has secured yet another pole position, with star driver Lewis Hamilton the fastest at today’s qualifying session for the 2015 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix and teammate Nico Rosberg a close second. It means the team has now claimed every pole position since last year’s...

Porsche has completed production of its 918 Spyder. It was—to put it mildly—one hell of a run. From the beginning, the car was a complete departure from the bareknuckle Carrera GT which preceded it. Electric motors at the front wheels. An army of computerized nannies. A seven-speed PDK...

This sexy beast is actually called the Beast. It comes from Californian startup Rezvani, which this week launched on the market the stunning track-focused sports car. It’s an ultra-exclusive, carbon fiber-bodied track weapon with 500 horsepower on tap, and it can be yours for $165,000. Just...

The Wankel engine, also known as the rotary, is an outlier in the world of powertrains. Don't be ashamed if you have no clue how one actually works. Instead, flip open the YouTube. Thanks to a basic video tutorial, you can explore the anatomy of the how the pistonless engine creates power. (Hint...

We expected big changes when Mercedes-Benz dropped its M-Class designation and rebadged its mid-size SUVs the GLE, and now we have our first information on what the new nomenclature means for consumers cost-wise. The starting price of the 2016 GLE is $52,025, including a $925 destination charge...

Hawthorne, California is hardly Tatooine—but if entrepreneur and Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk gets his way, both will boast pod racing. Plenty of details are still to come, but SpaceX, which is also headed by Musk, has announced a competition to challenge universities and...

UPDATE: The Nürburgring operator Capricorn has confirmed that it is implementing speed limits of 155 mph in certain areas of the track, one of the fallouts of a fatal crash at the ‘Ring involving a spectator earlier this year. Forcing the operator’s hand is the DMSB...

According to our sources, Jeep’s Grand Cherokee SRT will adopt the new name Grand Cherokee Trackhawk starting from the 2017 model year. Two engines will be on offer, one of which will be the 707-horsepower supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 we all know as the Hellcat. Also due for the 2017 model year...