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While the fans have been insisting for years that American luxury brands Cadillac and Lincoln ditch the alphanumeric naming practice favored by the Germans and return to using storied nameplates like Eldorado and Town Car, it seemed all their pleas were falling on deaf ears—especially...

Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, maker of the road-going race car that is the SCG003, can now count among its many fans none other than McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray. The notoriously hard-to-please road and race car designer has previously described the current crop of hybrid supercars as being...

Mercedes-Benz is the latest to join a growing list of automakers being fined by the Chinese government for monopolistic behavior in the country. According to China’s official Xinhua News Agency, authorities in the eastern Jiangsu province fined Mercedes 350 million yuan (approximately $56...

Talk of Audi’s Q6, a coupe-like crossover slotting between the more conventional Q5 and Q7, dates back all the way to 2006, but official info on the vehicle never really emerged until this year when a teaser sketch of a vehicle fitting our previous description of the Q6 was shown at an...

Having already missed April 12’s opening round of the 2015 World Endurance Championship at the Silverstone Circuit in the U.K., Nissan has confirmed that its new GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 racer won’t be ready for the next round at Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps on May 2 but will be on the...

After Jeremy Clarkson’s punch-out flameout, and the subsequent death of Top Gear As We Know It (TGAWKI), there was some doubt as to whether the final Clarkson-featuring episodes of the show would ever be aired. Now the BBC has confirmed they will indeed air. Or at least, they’re...

A Z06 with an automatic isn’t a real Z06, you say. It’s barely even a sports car, you sneer. It’ll probably get outrun by a grocery cart, you chortle. You obviously haven’t been paying attention. Maybe you will now. CHECK OUT: Yes, The Tesla Model S Can Drift: Video If this...

When a tractor trailer full of lunch meat goes missing—which we're going to guess has happened, in human history, at least once previously—most folks aren't going to jump to the assumption it had been traded for crack cocaine. On that note, we'd like to introduce Arkansas trucker Larry...

At a recent drift event in Japan, former D1 champion Nobuteru Taniguchi took to the course in a stock Tesla Model S. Right away the car seems eager to invoke sideways shenanigans, and the driver is able to link a few turns together. It's clear that the mighty power output and instant torque of the...

A pair of dogs decided to go for a bit of a joy ride when their Yarmouth, Nova Scotia owner walked away from a car they were in. A few onlookers noticed a Pontiac Vibe slowly rolling out into traffic, and saw not human drivers at the helm but rather canine controllers. One onlooker managed to snap...

A prototype for Lincoln’s all-new Continental has been spotted. The good news is that the new full-size sedan, which replaces the MKS when it arrives next year, looks almost identical to the striking concept version unveiled in New York. Finnish firm Toroidion has unveiled a new supercar with...

Tired of looking on at the Porsche Panamera with envy, Mercedes-AMG reportedly wants a performance sedan of its own. Of course, Mercedes-AMG already offers a full range of performance sedans based on models from Mercedes-Benz, but if the Affalterbach-based outfit hopes to transition from tuner to...

The Honda Crosstour is being dropped from the market because of a lack of sales but a vehicle very similar to it may be about to go on sale in China. At this week’s 2015 Shanghai Auto Show, Honda unveiled the Concept D, which if you look past the highly-stylized front and rear facias appears...

Not long ago, 500 horsepower seemed an incredible output for a car. Then the Bugatti Veyron arrived and all of a sudden the “1,000-hp supercar” had entered the automotive vernacular. Lately, more and more cars have been coming out with “megawatt” ratings, which for those...

With no new products coming onto the market this year, the highlight of Infiniti’s stand at this week’s 2015 Shanghai Auto Show was a concept hinting at a more luxurious version of the Q70L. The long-wheelbase Q70 was originally the domain of the Chinese market but was added to the...

Fire is still the main scare for nearly all racing drivers, whether professional or amateur. But sudden and catastrophic mechanical failure has to come in a close second. Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima experienced the latter at this year’s Race to the Sky. ALSO SEE: Ultra-Exotic Parking Problems...

In Corvette tuner circles—and performance car circles in general—Callaway remains a legendary name. From the simply bizarre to the purely awesome, the brand has run the gamut, but now it’s working with the best Corvette ever: the 2015 Z06. ALSO SEE: Wing, Bodywork Rip Off Of...

We don't know where or when, but Jeremy Clarkson will return to television with a new car show. The news comes by way of his Sunday column in The Times, and helpfully summarized by Britain's The Week. Whether he'll enlist Richard Hammond and James May to join him on the venture is one of the many...

While we’re still waiting for our U.S.-spec configurator, we now know exactly how much each trim level of the 2016 Mazda MX-5 will cost to start, as well as the features that come with each. ALSO SEE: Ultra-Exotic Parking Problems: Veyron On LaFerrari Crime At $25,735 (including the $820...

When you think about purchasing a car, you go through a lot of Internet detective work to determine your ultimate vehicle. This is something that you're going to live with for a few years at least. It needs to be the right vehicle for you, and want to be happy when you look back upon your choice...