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Car 2 Car and Car 2 Object communications are the next big steps forward in vehicle safety, and both are necessary milestones on the road to fully autonomous cars. Automakers such as Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Ford, General Motors and Nissan have been active in research for years, and now Toyota...

Development of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost Coupe is progressing nicely, as evidenced by this spy video showing a prototype being flung around the arduous Nürburgring-Nordschleife with sports car-like pace. This makes sense, as the Ghost Coupe, which may end up reviving the Corniche name, is to...

General Motors is hard at work developing eight-speed transmissions for both transverse (front-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive) and longitudinal (rear-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive) applications, which will ensure the brand’s competitiveness with others in terms of both performance and fuel...

The upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG will debut the new design language for future AMG models. The design will be bold and much sportier in an effort to attract younger buyers. The design change was also prompted by current AMG customers complaining that regular Mercedes models with AMG Sports...

Rolls-Royce knows how to please customers within a given market segment. In the past year, it’s introduced a Year of the Dragon Phantom special edition for China, shown an Art Deco range of bespoke models at the Paris Auto Show and debuted its Aviator Collection Phantom Coupe at Pebble Beach...

McLaren is one of the dominant forces in racing, with its Formula One team second only to Ferrari in motorsport’s highest echelon when it comes to the total number of wins. What many readers may not know, however, is that McLaren is much more than just a race team. In fact, McLaren has...

In August, we heard the sad news that Germany’s Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur, maker of the legendary Apollo line of supercars, was forced to start insolvency proceedings following a failed deal to market its cars in China. At the time of the announcement, the administrator overseeing the...

At January’s 2013 Detroit Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz will unveil its updated 2014 E Class range, which once again will include a high-performance E63 AMG variant. The reveal of the new E63 AMG, in particular, is very important as this will be the first time that we’ll be seeing the bold...

Porsche has spent the past few years ramping up its production to meet demand. In Leipzig, Germany, its plant is running three shifts to meet global demand for the Cayenne SUV, while an expansion is underway to add another line for the upcoming Macan crossover. Things had been equally busy in...

Here’s what we know for sure: Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are in the United States, losing money in Las Vegas and driving a Lexus LFA, an SRT Viper and an Aston Martin Vanquish. Autoblog was first to decipher this from the ramblings of Jeremy Clarkson on...

The problem with most barn find stories is that they generally start out with “I knew a guy who’d heard of a guy whose neighbor bought a mint-condition Cobra at a garage sale for $500.” The further away from the point of origin, the taller the tale generally gets. In reality that...

We announced the nominees for this year's Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2013. The nominee spread this year includes everything from the Porsche Boxster and Cadillac ATS to the Mercedes-Benz SL and GL, to Japanese sports cars such as the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ. Land Rover is working on a faster...

Honda isn’t as well known as a hybrid manufacturer as its primary Japanese rival, Toyota. Though Honda has been producing parallel hybrids nearly as long as Toyota, its Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid system lacks the popularity of Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive system. Now Honda is...

Every year, dozens of new cars light up their tires in our hands. Just one does it in our heads, weeks after we've turned the keys back in. That's the car we call Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy, and it's time again to kick off the teasing and waiting before we name our 2013 winner on December...

Actions have repercussions, something that Jeff Gordon was well aware of before he deliberately hunted down and crashed Clint Bowyer in last Sunday’s AdvoCare 500 in Phoenix. Arizona. We now know what those repercussions are, as NASCAR was swift in handing out penalties to drivers and crew...

Range Rover’s best selling models in the U.S. market are its Sport variants, and it’s no secret that a new Range Rover Sport is under development. Like the all-new Range Rover, the Sport will benefit from the extensive use of aluminum in its construction, shaving serious weight from all...

Ford’s F-150 SVT Raptor has become the brand’s best selling performance-enhanced pickup in the United States, winning over buyers from coast to coast. It’s earned fans overseas as well, including China, where pickups traditionally aren’t seen as status vehicles. Until now...

Acura may not quite have the prestige or the cachet of longtime luxury marques like Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, or even Lexus, but it does have top-drawer access to the most innovative powertrain and chassis engineering developments from Honda. And with Acura’s upcoming flagship sedan, the 2014...

Lamborghini made the Aventador even hotter by removing the roof and adding Roadster to the name. Revealed today, the new convertible features some unique lines and a removable carbon fiber roof. The new roadster will go on sale later this year. Director Michael Bay confirmed there will be a...

When Honda launched its ninth-generation Civic in the U.S. market in 2011, the car was almost universally panned by the media, which collectively found it to be a giant step backward in materials and construction compared to the previous generation. Even Consumer Reports, long one of the...