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Following the likes of Honda, Nissan and Mazda, Subaru has announced its lineup for the upcoming 2013 Tokyo Auto Salon, the Japanese market’s showcase for its burgeoning aftermarket industry. For the latest event, Subaru has once again collaborated with its in-house performance tuner STI to...

Alfa Romeo has promised to launch a new model next year, one it’s boasting will be the “car to end all cars.” While the automaker hasn’t mentioned exactly what car it will be, we know it will be the long-awaited 4C sports car first previewed as a concept in 2011 and recently...

As the industry looks to meet tough new fuel economy targets while still stepping ahead in performance, safety, sophistication, and on-board technology, watching weight by moving to advanced materials like carbon fiber is going to be increasingly common. Using carbon fiber for parts, panels, and...

Mazda’s new Mazda6 sedan and wagon will be the highlight of the automaker’s stands at the upcoming 2013 Tokyo Auto Salon, with three separate concept versions already confirmed for the show. In addition to the Mazda6 concepts, Mazda will also present two concept versions of its CX-5 as...

Having successfully launched its first ‘Supercharger’ fast-charging stations on the West Coast back in September, electric car startup Tesla has quietly added more of the stations on the East Coast. The new stations make it possible for owners of the Tesla Model S, the only model...

Honda has announced a strange assortment of cars for the upcoming 2013 Tokyo Auto Salon, which takes place on January 11 in the Japanese capital. The annual show draws in all the big names in the aftermarket business, as well as some of the OEMS. While Nissan has already announced it will be...

JamesList, your one stop shop for all things luxury, has an extremely rare Koenigsegg Agera X supercar up for sale. Only one Agera X was ever created, and it was the first Koenigsegg to feature a matte black exterior. The previous owner is alleged to be a shareholder of legendary Porsche tuner...

Just as its rivals downsize to high-performance fours and sixes, AMG is reportedly working on a brand new V-8, albeit one smaller than we’re used to seeing from the official tuner to Mercedes-Benz. The new engine is said to be a turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8, destined for the upcoming 2015...

Video footage shows the dramatic crash between an oncoming train and an unfortunate truck at a railway crossing in Russia. A truck is seen at the start of the clip attempting to cross some railway tracks when a train suddenly appears, t-boning the truck and dragging it along the tracks for several...

Most readers will recognize the names Fisker and Tesla as being two leading electric car startups, but there’s a third that will soon be making headlines, and it’s got one very famous auto industry personality as its chairman. The company we’re talking about is Via Motors, which...

Like the rest of us, a few of General Motors’ 25,000 manufacturing robots are taking a break from their daily tasks, in this case welding, fastening and painting chores, to spread some holiday cheer. They’re featured here in this Christmas video, helping Santa Claus and his elves by...

UPDATE: The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette has been revealed. Click here for all the photos and specs. Following last week’s leak of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette’s front end, via an official service manual, new images alleged to be of the upcoming sports car have now hit the Web. Like the...

Next year will see the launch of the McLaren P1, the spiritual successor to a supercar that turned the performance car world on its head when it was launched more than two decades ago, and which to this day can lay claim to a land speed record. That car is, of course, the legendary McLaren F1...

In the race to develop the world’s first self-driving car, Japanese firms have been lagging their European and North American counterparts. Google has already developed a fully autonomous vehicle and has even gained a license to test it on public roads in the state of Nevada. Mercedes-Benz...

As we prepare ourselves for the holidays we also gear up for the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. This week was full of news, from the final Lexus LFA rolling off the build floor to SRT's CEO Ralph Gilles building a 2013 SRT Viper, we brought you the latest automotive stories. This week we also spied the...

If you’ve never had the pleasure of driving a mid-1960s Cadillac Coupe DeVille, do whatever is necessary to get yourself behind the wheel of one. It’s not that the cars were strong performers, it’s more that they had a ride quality unlike anything else on the road, before or...

When the new C7 Corvette goes on sale sometime in 2013, base models will come to market with an all-new 6.2-liter LT1 V-8. Chevy says the new engine will make 450 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque, including the 400 pound-feet that are on tap between 2,000 and 4,000 rpm. That kind of output...

Right To Work laws are a big issue in the national political scene these days, even up at the North Pole, it seems. You might think the famous reindeer that pull Santa's sleigh have excellent job security based on name recognition alone, but Lexus is looking to put them out of work with the Lexus...

According to the latest information from Ferrari, its Enzo successor is no longer being called the F70; instead, Ferrari is referring to it with the same alpha-numeric combination that it used to identify its 2011 Formula One car. If you recall, Ford wasn’t too happy about that, claiming that...

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