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We hear the 2015 Subaru WRX and its more extreme STI variant will be going on sale in the first half of next year, following a world debut in November at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. Anyone hoping for the aggressive look seen on the WRX concept unveiled earlier this year will be disappointed as...

Saleen will launch a new supercar within the next two years, according to its CEO and founder Steve Saleen. The car will serve as the spiritual successor to the company’s last supercar, the S7, and will borrow elements from a stillborn supercar project previewed by 2008’s S5S Raptor...

We know what you love. You love to see guys warp by in Aventadors and Corvette Stingrays and SRT Vipers because...Aventador, Stingray, Viper. It can make your day to know someone's ripping off a redline run, even if it isn't you. The opposite of that place is your dark space--where you'll find the...

"Load up the Rolls--it's time for some shootin'!" isn't something you're likely to hear too often these days, but there was a time when hunting vehicles were a little more salubrious than your average bashed-up pickup. One such vehicle was owned by Umed Singh II, Maharaja of Kotah, back in the...

The Land Rover Defender is one of the toughest vehicles ever built yet even it can’t survive the crusher of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The example featured in the above video was seized at a Baltimore port back in April and sent to the crusher because it was imported illegally...

Racing games are coming thick and fast from the Gamescom exhibition in Cologne, Germany, but one of the most important games on show is the latest installment in the Forza Motorsport series, Forza 5 (FM5). Gamers were able to try the next-gen racer on the Forza stand, but the game's appearance also...

In the new, strange and intriguing world of electric cars, customers have plenty of questions to ask--and BMW is launching a tool to help answer those questions without having to contact your dealer. Called i Genius, it's actually an artificial intelligence service, combining a database of...

Volvo isn’t exactly known for being a style setter but the automaker hopes to change all that. At the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show next month, Volvo will present a new concept it bills as the embodiment of an upcoming “transformation.” That transformation has been instigated by the...

General Motors Company’s [NYSE:GM] European unit Opel is introducing an updated version of its Insignia range of sedans, wagons and liftback hatch at next month’s 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. The Insignia is essentially the Buick Regal’s European twin, and just as the Regal has a...

The 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show is still three weeks away but already we’ve compiled a long list of world premieres set to take place at the biennial event. Use our preview guide to get up to date. Red Bull Racing’s replacement for Mark Webber has been all but confirmed, following the...

French automaker Peugeot is launching a new generation of its 308 hatchback at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, and to help build excitement will also roll out this performance-oriented concept version. Dubbed the 308 R, the concept hints at a hotted-up Peugeot 308 that if built would target the likes...

Local Motors has taken its open collaboration, local-building approach to making vehicles and made it even more fun to participate--by giving users an online configurator for its Rally Fighter off-road vehicle. The company's approach is a unique one, having designed the Rally Fighter through an...

Formula One ace Mark Webber has virtually given away the identity of his replacement at Red Bull Racing next year, suggesting during a post qualifying interview at this past weekend’s 2013 Belgian Grand Prix that fellow Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo will get the seat. Asked who he would...

Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel showed why he’s Formula One’s reigning world champion yesterday at the 2013 Belgian Grand Prix, dominating the race from start to finish and in the process expanding his lead in the Drivers’ standings by 46 points. The German overtook pole...

Cars aren't enough for Lexus any more, it seems, as the company now plans to expand into "luxury spaces" to enhance the brand's image. Lexus has announced a new string of 'Intersect By Lexus' luxury spaces where people can experience the brand "without getting behind a steering wheel". The first...

This week we received our best look yet at the upcoming 2015 Ford Mustang, or the S550 if you’re a die-hard fan. The styling of the car’s face has been revealed for the entire world to see and shows an aggressive look that borrows influences from both the outgoing model as well as...

Lexus’ GX 460 and CT 200h are the only models yet to receive the automaker’s new spindle grille treatment, but now we can prune that list down to just the CT 200h as Lexus has dropped the first photos and details for its 2014 GX 460 and they reveal a vehicle with some radical plastic...

Like its doppelganger, the Scion FR-S, the Subaru BRZ gets a small price increase for the 2014 model year, rising $100 to $26,390 (including delivery). A handful of equipment changes come with the slight price rise. Two trims are available: the manual-transmission-only Premium, or the...

The future is going to be automatic. Automatic social updates pushed automatically to your mobile phone, synced automatically to your computer and to your car, which then drives you automatically to work where you automatically perform the tasks for which your employer automatically drops credits...

While we have attempted to recover from the craziness that was Pebble Beach, we haven't had a moment to breathe. Instead, we jumped right back into it this week with coverage of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. We also spied the new 2015 Ford Mustang with barely any camouflage on its front end...