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Koenigsegg founder Christian von Koenigsegg has revealed he’s a huge fan of electric cars, and that he sees the zero-emission vehicles becoming a dominant form of transport by 2020. Koenigsegg, for those unfamiliar with the Swedish brand, is a manufacturer of some of the world’s fastest...

Late last month a new luxury British sports car was announced by the startup automaker David Brown Automotive. Now, we've got our first taste of the car's styling and underpinnings, courtesy of a few teaser images and drivetrain details. The company's founder, businessman and sports car enthusiast...

An alleged drunk driver recently crashed his Kia into a Ferrari dealership in an upmarket area of the Qatar capital Doha. The video above, sourced from YouTube user JustinsSupercars (via The Supercar Kids), was taken at the scene just moments after the crash. It shows what’s presumed to be a...

MINI is on the verge of launching its third-generation Cooper, and will soon follow up with new versions of the Convertible, Clubman and Countryman variants and possibly even a new sports car, but the first details on the fourth-gen Cooper family have already emerged, despite the cars not being due...

BMW’s cars already have a distinctive look in your rear-view mirror with their angel-eye headlights and that view will soon start to look even more distinct. That’s because the automaker is now offering new laser headlights on its cars, starting with the 2015 i8 sports car which has...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk discussed details of the company's lineup during a Q&A session with customers.

Goldfish. They're surprisingly good pets, especially when you're young, but unless you have deceptive and kind-hearted parents, they're also an early lesson in mortality. But they're also surprisingly good at something else: driving. That's right, goldfish can drive--at least, they can with the...

Have you ever wanted to feel the exfoliating joy of a 40-foot-high, 300-foot-long sandblaster of a rooster tail? Then you want to get to know Dennis Rieck and his dirt-loving Top Fuel dragster, Hammerdown. When Rieck drops the hammer, sand flies. Everywhere. Why? Because he's dropping the hammer on...

Formula One may be downsizing to turbocharged V-6 engines this year, but it’s good to see there are still some motorsport categories where a good ol’ V-8 remains the engine of choice. One of the most exciting V-8 racing series is Australia’s V8 Supercars, which traditionally has...

Why do we watch car commercials? For this? For attitude? Other enthusiast hobbies, they do their thing, they meet at the cafe, they take the weekend off--OFF. Why aren't you like that? Why aren't we like that? While there's a lot to be said for the rhetorical construction of the speech delivered in...

America's sports car takes on the best of Britain in a hill-climb challenge.

Toyota’s show-stopping FT-1 concept has been confirmed by sources to be a direct preview of a new Supra sports car. This new, fifth-generation Supra is said to arrive in 2016. New patents filed by Audi show two potential technologies being developed by the German automaker. One is a...

Volvo’s first Polestar-enhanced models have finally landed, and they look particularly tasty in their signature Rebel Blue paint schemes. But with any good performance car, it’s what’s inside that counts most, and in this department the new S60 and V60 Polestar models certainly...

Toyota has made little secret of the fact it's keen for new mid-size sports car to fill the void left by the Supra’s exit from the market early last decade. And at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show last month, Toyota pulled the covers off its FT-1 concept, which looks very much like a Supra...

The 2014 motorsport season has got off to a good start for Ferrari and its 458 GT. After victory in the GTD class at the recent Rolex 24 at Daytona, yesterday it took an overall win in the Bathurst 12 Hour event, the most important event on the Australian endurance racing calendar. The victory went...

BMW's odds'n'evens naming scheme isn't as logical as it once was, but most gearheads are prepared to forgive the German marque provided it keeps churning out great drivers cars. That includes powerful, focused M performance models. And while the new BMW 2-Series doesn't yet have a dedicated BMW M...

Toyota has hit the final nail in the coffin of Australia’s volume auto manufacturing industry with the announcement today that it will stop building cars in the country by the end of 2017. Rival Australian manufacturers Holden and Ford have also confirmed plans to stop building cars in...

On February 9, 1989, the world was introduced to the very first generation of Mazda’s MX-5 Miata convertible sports car at the Chicago Auto Show. That first MX-5, the NA, then went on to win rave reviews from many of the top magazines and would eventually spawn two successors. Now, a fourth...

Retired from his winning endurance racing career, Allan McNish has taken up a job reporting on Formula 1 for the BBC. He's trading on his experience as a top-flight racer of hybrid-powered race cars, and we're buying in. Of course, McNish also has some seat time in F1 cars, too, so he may be one of...

A consortium of 29 firms including most major automakers has commenced a research project that will look into the requirements for autonomous driving. Called AdaptIVe (Automated Driving Applications & Technologies for Intelligent Vehicles), the research project is taking place in...