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While other parts of the globe struggled in 2012, the U.S. has experienced its best year in auto sales since 2007, with close to 14.5 million light vehicle sales registering over the past 12 months, a 13 percent increase over 2011’s tally of 12.7 million sales. A significant portion of those...

We recently brought you a story about Shelby American preparing for the reveal of a new EcoBoost-powered model at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. The story was based on comments made by Shelby American vice president of operations Gary Patterson, himself citing the company’s late founder, Carroll...

Nissan, together with Sony, held the first GT Academy in 2008, and since then the event has gone on to become a global phenomenon with gamers-turned-drivers from all parts of the globe now competing. Nissan’s GT Academy essentially pits gamers, playing the popular racing simulator Gran...

The Mayans (or at least their interpreters) were wrong, the holidays are over, the new year is upon us, and the 2013 Detroit Auto Show is just around the corner. Accordingly, Mercedes-Benz has some more of the E Class range to bring us, as a sort of belated holiday gift: the 2014 E Class Coupe and...

Volkswagen recently revealed its long-awaited Polo R, the sportiest version of the Polo subcompact sold overseas. The new car, whose official title is Polo R WRC, just like the World Rally Championship Polo race car it’s inspired by, is set to make its debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in...

Let’s be brutally honest with one another for a second: there’s a segment of the sports-car-buying population that has no interest whatsoever in actually driving fast; instead, they like the image that a fast and expensive sports car gives them. We’re not here to judge, and that...

If you have a thing for early 1940s Lincolns, or if you’re a huge fan of The Godfather (the second-greatest film in American cinema, according to the American Film Institute), you’ll want register to bid at the upcoming Bonhams Scottsdale auction. Crossing the block will be a pair of...

Just yesterday we brought you word that Top Gear would be returning to the airwaves on Sunday, January 27, at least for viewers in the United Kingdom. In case you can't wait that long, this teaser clip (available outside of the U.K.) gives you a flashback to clips from last season. As for Season...

Painting a NASCAR Sprint Cup car used to be a labor-intensive, time consuming process, which is why most teams carried a single livery (or paint scheme) throughout an entire season. Unless your primary sponsor changed, repainting a car for a single race wasn’t exactly cost-effective. The...

Some of the cars owned by historic and current NASCAR stars will be crossing the block at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale this month, including one particularly attractive 1964 Plymouth Belvedere 'ForPly' custom built by Ray Evernham. The Rolls-Royce Phantom, at least in its current...

In just two days the 2013 Dakar Rally will commence, with scores of drivers and riders set to take across the plains and hills of Argentina, Chile and Peru during the arduous race. South America has been home to the Dakar Rally since 2009 due to security threats in Western Africa where the rally...

According to data compiled by five industry consulting groups, new car production in China will surpass new car production in Europe for the first time in 2013. As the Financial Times reports, China is poised to build 19.6 million cars and light trucks this year, compared to a projected 18.3...

It’s been 10 years since Mercedes-Benz first introduced its PRE-SAFE technology, with the anticipatory occupant protection system initially debuting on the W220-series S Class back in 2002. PRE-SAFE is now available on 40 models from Mercedes-Benz, from the base A Class to the S Class...

For almost 60 years NASCAR, and the cars and personalities that make up the sport, has been closely linked with American culture. From the hallowed grounds of Daytona International Speedway in Florida, to the Sonoma road course in California, the sport has created a lifetime worth of memories--some...

Ford’s Australian division has confirmed that a new version of its Falcon sedan will be launched in 2014, one featuring Evos concept-inspired styling, a premium interior and more technology than the current ‘FG’ model pictured above. This will hopefully alleviate dismal sales of...

It was on January 1, 2003 that the first of the latest-generation Rolls-Royce Phantom sedans was delivered to its owner, marking the reign of the prestigious British brand’s ownership under German automaker BMW. At the time, production of the Phantom was trickling along at just one car per...

In 2010 industry giants Daimler and Renault-Nissan formed an alliance that was, among other things, to see the development of the next-generation Smart ForTwo and Renault Twingo shared between the two companies. According to the original alliance deal, the future Smart and Renault models would ride...

If you were to head down to your local Jaguar dealer today, cash in hand, the sportiest offering on the lot would be one of Jaguar’s XK series cars, in coupe or convertible variants. Even in its most potent XKR-S form, fitted with a supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 rated at 550 horsepower, the XK...

Tired of watching endless Top Gear reruns from past seasons, or (even worse) “Best Of” episodes hastily cobbled together to keep torch and pitchfork-wielding villagers from storming the BBC studios? We’ve got good news then: as Jalopnik points out, free tickets for Top Gear...

When Hurricane Sandy devastated the New York metro area last October, some 338 Fisker Karma sedans parked at Port Newark, New Jersey were destroyed by flooding or fire. Fisker believed the vehicles were covered by insurance, issued through XL Group Plc., so it submitted a claim as quickly as it...