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If you're not familiar with the Goodwood Festival of Speed, you should be. It's a pilgrimage of motorsports and car enthusiasts from around the world to the grounds of Goodwood to see and hear some of the most exciting, unique, and historic cars of the past and present. Next year will be its 20th...

Three tuned Scion FR-S coupes will be headed to SEMA to see which tuner deserves the $10,000 prize.

True "barn finds" are getting rarer and rarer, but this one is about as close as they come: a 1966 Mini Cooper found in storage 36 years after it was parked. While the car itself isn't exactly the stuff of gloss-book legend, the Cooper holds a definite place in the history of motorsports--and the...

Looking at any given weekend's upcoming F1 Grand Prix is typically a matter of previewing the track, weather conditions, drivers, and the current state of the points race. Here, Pirelli gives us a different look ahead at the Indian Grand Prix: from the tire's point of view. With the yellow (the...

Hennessey's heavily modified 1,226-hp Cadillac CTS-V Coupe has become the fastest in the world.

On the same day that Chevrolet announced the new LT1 6.2-liter V-8 engine for its 2014 Corvette, prototypes for the eventual convertible version also cropped up and have since been spotted by one of our spy photographers. We were fortunate enough to be given a ride in the very first generation of...

Tire manufacturer Toyo will be back at the SEMA show in 2012 with four new concept vehicles developed with some top tuners, including Japan’s Wald International. One of the concepts is based on the Lamborghini Murcielago supercar, though what’s most impressive about the lineup is its...

As sales of luxury cars in China start to mature, the major automakers are now looking for the next country or region to offer the most growth. One of the top contenders is Brazil, which is benefiting from strong demand for its resources as well as a growing service industry. Most major automakers...

Ford teamed up with almost a dozen tuners to help develop its range of custom Mustangs for the 2012 SEMA show.

Recently we brought you news that current owners of Cosworth, American racing names Gerry Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven, had put the legendary British tuner and engine manufacturer up for sale. Since then, reports out of the UK claim motorsport firm Prodrive is considering submitting a bid for...

As Europe’s automakers continue to see their sales increase in key markets like the U.S. and China, while back home sales either remain flat or are on the decline, it’s natural that going into future car design will better reflect the desires of consumers where a bulk of sales are made...

Remember the Sonic Dusk concept car that Chevrolet presented at last year’s SEMA show? Well, the concept has since been confirmed for production and will be appearing in its final form at this year’s SEMA show, which takes place next week in Las Vegas. The idea behind the original...

Last week was Nissan's Advanced Technology Briefing, held in and near its headquarters town of Yokohama, Japan. And one of the unexpected delights of the program was rides in two different cars from the Nissan Heritage garage in Zama, a stunning collection of 330 Datsun, Nissan, and related...

Though Chevrolet is playing coy with its teaser videos and information on the 2014 Corvette (aside from its just-revealed LT1 V-8 engine, of course), spy photographers the world over are having a field day with the coupe--and now, with the convertible. Lucky us. Here, we see a Corvette Convertible...

Here at Motor Authority we tend to spend most of our time on the paved bits, in low-slung, fun-to-drive cars. Barring that, we gravitate toward full-size highway bombardment hardware: cruising in style. But sometimes we get the urge to go where the roads don't. And when we do, the Toyota FJ is at...

Apparently, it does. The Bloodhound SSC, which generates an astonishing 47,000 pounds of thrust through a rocket motor fed by an F1 engine used as a fuel pump, will go carbon neutral for its land speed record attempt, the team announced today. How, exactly, does a hydrocarbon-spewing monster with...

If you buy a high-performance automobile, there is no shortage of factory-backed training programs to teach you how to be both fast and safe behind the wheel. Porsche has its own academy, as do AMG and BMW, while automakers like SRT and Fiat rely on the services of others. Buy a serious off-roader...

When it comes to restored or modified cars, an insurance agent can either be your best friend or your biggest nightmare. Few things are worse that finding out your cherished ride wasn’t insured for replacement value, adding insult to the injury of theft or accident damage. State Farm...

Chevrolet has released details on the fifth-generation small block V-8, destined for use in the new C7 Corvette. The base LT1 6.2-liter V-8 will make 450 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque, enough to get the new Corvette from 0-60 mph in under 4.0 seconds. Thanks to direct fuel injection and...

Audi has consistently stated that its R8 e-tron, an all-electric version of its R8 supercar, would be launched on the market by the end of 2012. With Audi recently setting the Nürburgring lap record for a production EV with a prototype built to production specs, as well as providing details...