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Nissan GT Academy named the winner of its third season.

Prototypes for Nissan’s third-generation Murano SUV have been spotted testing yet again. The new SUV will once again ride on Nissan’s modular D platform, found in vehicles like the Altima and latest Pathfinder, and should be in showrooms late next year, as a 2015 model. This means we...

Acura has finally confirmed that its aging TSX and TL models will be replaced by a single car to be known as the TLX. We’ve been spying prototypes for months but we’ll get the first official look at the car at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show in January. Also in Detroit will be the reveal of...

MINI is out testing a new electric car, but unlike the automaker’s previous effort in this field, the MINI E, this new one isn’t expected to be leased to individuals. The new electric car is based on the MINI Cooper Coupe and was spotted testing in Germany recently by one of our spy...

In today's edition of "things you wish you'd done if you had the brains and not wasted your life in front of the TV", an Australian and Romanian duo has come up with the childhood toy of our dreams: A full-size, working car made from Lego. It's the brainchild of Australian-based Steve Sammartino, a...

In July of this year, Aston Martin and Mercedes-Benz tuner AMG signed a Letter of Intent to form a wide-ranging technical partnership aimed at providing the historic British sports car brand with access to some of AMG’s latest technology in return for some shares and other assets. Today, the...

The Porsche 918 Spyder deserves the credit for forging the hybrid supercar territory trodden by the likes of Ferrari and McLaren, even if the car's venture to market has been a long one. But that lag time between concept and production has allowed Porsche to attain some pretty spectacular...

Is Ferrari about to make a return to top-level racing at Le Mans? Going by the latest comments made by its chairman, it may be a possibility. “We have won with the 458 GTE, but I also quite like the idea of racing at Le Mans in the highest category,” Luca di Montezemolo said during a...

Following the departure of Wolfgang Egger as head of design at Audi earlier this month, the German automaker has announced that Marc Lichte will now take up the reigns. Lichte, 44, comes to Audi following a stint as head of exterior design for the Volkswagen brand, where he worked on several Golf...

Gran Turismo 6 will get an end-of-the-year update with Red Bull-specific content.

The 2014 Acura RLX Sport Hybrid offers all-weather traction and V-8-like performance, with the fuel-efficiency of a four-cylinder. That's one way to sum up this tech-loaded luxury flagship, which will begin reaching Acura dealerships next spring. But after spending a few hours driving it, we can...

The steering system in Infiniti's 2014 Q50 is incredibly clever, but apparently not immune to issues--and the NHTSA has launched its first recall for vehicles fitted with the system. It shouldn't affect too many owners though, since only 23 units have been identified as potentially affected. The...

Mercedes is adding time to shifts at the German plant that builds its flagship sedan.

The Ford Mustang isn’t the type of car you’d typically associate with an event like the Consumer Electronics Show, but the latest version of the iconic muscle car has just been named the ‘official car’ of next month’s show. As the official car of CES, a pristine...

Tax exemptions will help Tesla save money on the purchase of equipment to upgrade its factory.

Kimi Räikkönen recently paid Scuderia Ferrari’s headquarters a visit recently where he was able to meet with team principal Stefano Domenicali and some of the other senior engineers. It was an opportunity to go over the current state of play on the design of Ferrari’s 2014...

A new Mitsubishi Evo is in the works, only it won’t be based on the Lancer platform anymore and its design will be being taken in a new direction. That direction is likely to be an electrified one, with most reports suggesting the next Evo will likely feature a diesel-electric hybrid...

Mercedes-Benz is working on a facelift for its CLS-Class, and that means separate variants such as the CLS Shooting Brake and high-performance CLS63 AMG are set to receive the same updates. We’ve already seen spy shots of a prototype for the updated CLS Shooting Brake, and now we have some...

Chevrolet’s new SS muscle sedan has just arrived on the market but production of the car will last only until the end of 2017--at the latest--since the only place in the world it is produced at, Holden’s plant in Australia, has been confirmed to shut by the same date. Could the SS end...

The 2015 Subaru WRX didn’t turn out to be the rocket we’d been hoping for ever since we laid eyes upon the stunning concept version that previewed the car. Its styling is still reminiscent of the Impreza on which it’s based and its performance, in terms of both speed and...