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Fresh from its first runs around the 'Ring, the first 2014 Corvette Stingrays are shipping to dealers today, bringing a new era of the iconic American sports car into the first retail buyers' hands. About 1,000 Corvette Stingrays have been built so far, and will reach dealers over the next several...

Legendary BMW tuner Alpina is about to expand its range with a brand new line, the B4, now that BMW’s 3-Series Coupe has been replaced by the 4-Series. We have new spy shots of a prototype for this BMW Alpina B4 model, which we’re expecting to be launched on the market by the middle of...

German scale model builder Robert Gülpen has taken on the challenge of crafting a scale model of the Lamborghini Aventador from solid gold. All up it will weigh around 55 pounds and will cost any interested buyer a total of $7.5 million. Another prototype for Nissan’s upcoming GT-R NISMO...

If you're a fan of F1, you're probably pretty familiar with what an F1 car is made of. But do you know how it's made? Probably not. Fortunately, Red Bull Racing and Infiniti have decided to let us in on the less secretive parts of the process through a new video series. This is the first part. The...

As sales of luxury cars in China start to mature, major automakers are now looking for the next country or region to offer the most growth. One of the top contenders is Brazil, which benefits from strong demand for its resources, a growing service industry and access to markets in both North and...

BMW’s latest X5 is a fine vehicle, but if you want yours to stand out from the crowd you’re going to need to personalize it. BMW makes the process easy by offering a range of upgrades direct from the factory. If you’re looking to add a little more sport to your sport activity...

At the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show last week, Jaguar announced a new modular platform constructed entirely of aluminum that will be used to underpin some of the automaker’s future models. The platform, code-named the iQ[Al], was introduced in Jaguar’s C-X17 crossover concept and so far has...

The longest-serving Toyota president in the automaker's history, Eiji Toyoda, died yesterday aged 100. He was a cousin of Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda and ran the company from 1967 up until 1982. He served as chairman until 1994 and as an honorary advisor right up until the time of his death...

Nissan recently confirmed that its next NISMO model will be a more extreme version of the GT-R, and now we spy shots of a prototype of just that car, caught while undergoing testing on Germany’s Nürburgring and some of the race track’s surrounding roads. The GT-R NISMO will be the...

Zooming upward on a ribbon of road, along a cliff wall, between tight hairpin curves and breathtaking views in the mountains of Southern France, I goose the accelerator from about 2,000 rpm and hear a series of sounds that’s entirely foreign, especially in a Volvo: the wail and whine of a...

While it might be the most expensive Jaguar F-Type ever, this deal from Surface Developments also includes a shiny designer home on Melrose. That's Melrose Avenue in Ottawa, Canada, not the Melrose Place in California (or your sweat-soaked college flashbacks). The house itself is stunning, a...

Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic boom. Sonic screwdriver. Many things go with Sonic, but Global RallyCross? Apparently that one works, too. At least, that's the plan for Pat Moro, 2012's most successful privateer in the GRC series. This weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Moro will debut the new PMR...

There are times in life when we've all wanted to just stand on the throttle and smash our way through traffic, but few of us have been stupid or desperate enough to actually do it. This driver was apparently both. The YouTube posting describes the driver as a drunk woman, but gives no other...

Join the CLA45 AMG and its Euro-twin, the A45 AMG, on track at one of Europe's best new circuits, Bilster Berg Drive Resort.

The European car market continues to decline as the economies of most of its nations spiral downward, and the toll on the upper end of the custom and tuner segment continues to rise. Porsche-specific tuner companies 9ff and speedART have both filed for insolvency protection in Germany this month...

When you have, quite literally, everything--or at least the capacity to buy everything--what do you want? Solid gold models of $400,000 cars, apparently. That's our take-away from this $7.5 million solid gold Lamborghini Aventador model, anyway. Carved from an 1,100-pound block of solid gold, the...

There's so much afoot in the world of luxury and performance cars this year it's almost impossible to keep pace with it all--but we're doing it so you don't have to. First up in today's news highlights: the 2015 Mercedes-Benz C Class has been spied in testing again, this time revealing its...

With a blistering 6:57 lap of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife already under its belt, Porsche's 918 Spyder may be capable of still faster laps, says the driver who clocked the record-setting run. Porsche factory racing driver Marc Lieb spoke with Australia's Drive recently, saying he thinks the...

The Tesla Model S is an undeniably quick car, especially considering its considerable weight. But just how much power does the world's only real electric car produce? A lot, it turns out. The team at Autocar took the Model S to the dyno to find out exactly how much power reaches the rear wheels...

No matter which of the hot new trio of hybrid hypercars you're most infatuated with, you have to admit they're all massively impressive machines. And unlike most hybrids, this group sounds pretty great--perhaps especially the LaFerrari. HEAR MORE: Hear The LaFerrari’s Engine Bark In This...