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Rendered in a cute animated style that captures their most essential features, the 77 movie and television cars featured at the BBC's Autos channel today are some of the most iconic of all of four-wheeled history. Can you name them all? Some are rather obvious (who could miss the Ghost Busters'...

The 2014 BMW M3 sedan and M4 coupe will debut at the Detroit Auto Show in January.

Scion is fielding a typically large range of vehicles at the upcoming Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas--or SEMA, for short. The youth-orientated Toyota subsidiary will home five tuner cars on its stand, as well as three special Scion tC coupes competing in the Scion Tuner...

Many, many truly impressive cars hit the market for the 2014 model year. This hand-picked handful of sport/luxury sedans, coupes, and roadsters are our favorites--the very best. One of them will be our Best Car To Buy 2014. The list is presented in alphabetical order to preserve the suspense. Any...

Porsche has started work on its next-generation Panamera, which we’re expecting on the market sometime in 2016. The car is still in the test mule stage, with engineers most recently flogging the cars on the Nürburgring. Land Rover and its performance partner Bowler have started a new...

Round 17 of the 2013 Formula One World Championship takes place at the Yas Marina Circuit, home of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 55-lap race takes in a total of 190 miles from dusk to nightfall to allow a more temperate climate for spectators, instead of having them sit through Abu Dhabi’s...

One of the meanest looking cars currently in production is Jaguar’s 2014 XKR-S GT. Built by the automaker’s special projects division, ETO, the XKR-S GT is essentially a race car that has been made street legal. Unfortunately, there’s no additional power on this model, which means...

The popularity of one-make racing series like the Ferrari Challenge and Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo has spurred Land Rover to launch its own series, using its iconic Defender SUV. The series is being run by Land Rover performance partner Bowler, and is billed as a feeder series to train...

Subaru Rally Team USA took the 2013 Rally America Championship at the Lake Superior Performance Rally in Michigan.

The range-topping Panamera Turbo S has joined the rest of the facelifted 2014 Porsche Panamera lineup.

If you were to imagine the worst possible Photoshop of a fictional Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Shooting Brake, this is what you'd likely end up with. Strand Craft is great at making vaporware (both road-going and ocean-going). Almost all of it is wholly unbelievable. But we want this to be real. Or...

The Texas Mile is the site of many a crazy thing, from double-ton crashes to amazing new speed records. But this exploding Corvette lunching its nitrous-fed engine at 180 mph might be the craziest...this month, anyway. As shown in this video, shot by Gearhead Flicks, the explosion itself actually...

A 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will take center stage on the Toyo Tires stand at this year's SEMA show in Las Vegas. Not just any Corvette of course--that's not what SEMA is about. Designed by Michigan-based TZD, the P58 Concept Stingray on Toyo's stand has the look of a full-blown GT racing...

The Audi fleet shuttle quattro concept marks the German car maker's latest appearance on the big screen.

Rolls-Royce’s own personalization department, Rolls-Royce Bespoke, has put together a very special Phantom Coupe for the automaker’s brand manager in Dubai, Mohammed EL-Arishy. Called the Chicane Phantom Coupe, only one example exists and it's been developed with special touches...

When you're on the road, you're out in the world, and the world can get dangerous when you least expect it--especially if your car breaks down or runs into trouble. So what can you do about it? You're (probably) not a mechanic, after all. Fortunately, you don't have to be a mechanic to give...

Stainless-steel retaining screws on the cars' brake rotors may fail, the NHTSA says.

Our spy photographers have snapped a prototype for the convertible version of the 2015 Ford Mustang, this time revealing much of the new pony car’s interior. The 2015 Mustang, which is all-new, will be revealed in December ahead of an official world debut the following month at the 2014...

Mitsubishi has issued a recall on certain versions of its sporty Lancer Evolution. The recall is due to a defective clutch master cylinder, which could end up failing. Should this occur, owners of manual-equipped models may have trouble shifting the vehicle into or out of gear, increasing the risk...

Volvo’s aging C70 convertible finally bows out of the market once the 2013 model year has run its course, but a successor is planned, according to some senior sources at the Swedish automaker. And just as the original was offered both as a coupe and a convertible, the same could be true for...