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Danica Patrick seems to have nearly as many detractors as she does fans. Those against the Stewart-Haas driver are quick to point out that during her entire IndyCar career, Patrick managed just one win, at Motegi, Japan, in 2008. On the other hand, her fans will remind you that she’s the...

MINI and its stunt driver Guerlain Chicherit have done the impossible: executing the perfect “unassisted” backflip. Using a heavily modified MINI Cooper Countryman, Chicherit, a French rally driver and avid skier, completed the stunt recently at a resort in Tignes, France. The stunt...

With all of the excitement surrounding the launch of the new 2014 Chevrolet SS, a performance variant of the Australian Holden Commodore, it’s easy to forget that Holden’s arch rival Down Under, Ford, also has some formidable performance sedans of its own. Unfortunately, the Blue Oval...

According to the results of a latest study, Ferrari is the world’s most powerful brand, outperforming much larger automakers such as BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. The Prancing Horse also managed to outpace giants such as Apple and Coca Cola when it came to brand power, although it...

Remember the Hybrid Air drivetrain concept from French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen? Well, the revolutionary technology, which is essentially a hybrid drive system that instead of using electric motors to support an internal combustion engine, uses compressed air, will be appearing at the 2013...

Chevrolet’s new flagship sports sedan, the 2014 SS, finally made its debut this weekend at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The debut coincided with the competition debut of the car’s motorsport cousin, the Chevy SS NASCAR race car, in the NASCAR...

Earlier this week, High Gear Media editorial director Marty Padgett, social media manager Joel Feder and senior editor Nelson Ireson got together on Google+ for a Hangout on Air. The topic: our recent drives of the latest Mercedes-Benz and AMG hardware, what's in store for the brand in the near...

After years of conjecture and rumor, a new, rear-wheel-drive performance sedan has finally been unveiled for the bowtie brand, and it’s called the 2014 Chevrolet SS. The new sports sedan makes its debut today at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, where it will be showcased...

This weekend plays host to the reveal of the long-awaited 2014 Chevrolet SS, but we already have a pretty good idea as to what the new sports sedan will look like thanks to the recent reveal of its Australian cousin, the VF-series Holden Commodore SS V. Though the car is just a facelift of the...

Concept cars are meant to be breathtaking examples of what’s possible, not necessarily what’s practical. Sometimes, concepts are designed for a specific reason in mind, like relaunching an iconic model from years past, or re-igniting a market’s passion for a particular automaker...

If you’ve followed Porsche’s racing efforts in North America over the years, chances are good you’ve run across the Andial name. Porsche models prepared by Andial won the 24 Hours of Daytona from 1983-87, and again in 1989. If that’s not impressive enough, the first five...

Borrowing a page from BMW, Cadillac is building a limited edition of its CTS-V Coupe, finished in a matte color its calling Silver Frost. Only 100 examples will be built, and Cadillac is already labeling them as “collector editions.” Like BMW’s “Frozen” matte-finish...

The C2 Corvette, introduced for the 1963 model year, was already a radical and futuristic departure from the styling of the previous car. That wasn’t enough for some buyers, who wanted a personalized creation that was even more over-the-top. One such customer was speedboat racer Bob Nordskog...

Audi has come up with a novel display at one of its plants in Germany, which the automaker likes to call a pulse-rate monitor for the plant. The brand with the four rings has installed a giant digital panel at one its plants near its headquarters in the city of Ingolstadt, which shows, in real...

A revised Continental Flying Spur has been captured in testing by our spy photographers on several occasions, as well as on video. Bentley has released a stylized sketch and the second teaser video of the car, which is expected to land in showrooms in time for the 2014 model year and no longer...

BMW has issued a recall on certain versions of its X5 due to a potential problem with the luxury SUV’s brakes. The recall only affects V-8 versions of the BMW X5 built from September 12, 2006, through to March 18, 2010. This includes X5s from the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 model years...

While designing a new version of an existing vehicle is always a complicated process, the 2014 Corvette Stingray takes this to the extreme. Not only is the car’s styling new, but its engineers even began with a blank sheet of paper to create the frame and a portion of its body panels. The...

By now, we thought we’d seen every possible type of Russian driving horror from the ever-present dashboard camera footage posted to YouTube. It turns out we were wrong, and there’s nothing in any driver’s education manual we’ve ever seen that prepares you for being hit by a...

With Mercedes-Benz’s go-fast division AMG moving towards all-wheel-drive vehicles, we’re going to start seeing the option offered on more and more of its models. While we've even seen AMG make all-wheel drive standard on its latest 2014 E63 AMG for customers in the U.S., adding the...

The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray isn’t set to go on sale until the third quarter of the year, but if you’re itching to go up and see one in your local dealer and customize your ideal setup, we’ve got the next best thing. Chevrolet has launched a new section on its official...