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Time shares have long been a popular way for people to “buy” something they otherwise couldn’t afford. Whether you’re talking about vacation properties, airplanes or exotic cars, there’s a time share concept for almost any passion. Écurie 25 is perhaps the best...

The future looks bright for V-12 engines, at least, they do at Mercedes-Benz. This is because the luxury automaker has confirmed its future lineup will offer the full flavor of a V-12, though the development and production of the engines will be outsourced to AMG. That’s right, Mercedes will...

Porsche is ensuring classic race cars like the 917 LH pictured above don’t end up as museum relics, by offering support for owners who actually want to use the cars as their designers intended, racing around a track. Speaking at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion last week, Porsche announced it...

Mercedes-Benz has installed a complete drive through restaurant in the lobby of the old Selfridge Hotel in London, which will be the centerpiece of the automaker’s latest installment of its digital magazine The Avant/Garde Diaries, the hip new advertising campaign promoting Mercedes’...

It’s been a while since we last heard from British sports car manufacturer Trident, the company behind the unique Iceni diesel-powered sports car. Today, however, the company has announced that it will be showing an updated version of the car, the Iceni Grand Tourer, at Salon Privé...

If you've never been to the Monterey Peninsula during the week leading up to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, you might not be able to fathom the breadth and depth of history, excellence, design, and, sometimes, downright oddity that it encompasses in terms of four- (and two- and three-)...

There's been no confirmation but the Opel Astra Cabrio, along with its Astra GTC sibling, may reach the U.S. in the near future as Buicks.

Warning: the video above contains footage of the accident that took the lives of three spectators. Rally racing, like any other kind of motorsport, is dangerous. It's dangerous simply because of the laws of physics: heavy things traveling quickly can cause lots of damage to our relatively soft...

Chris Harris is famous on the automotive web for many things, not least of which is his long-running antagonism of Ferrari. Despite his leanings, however, he has recently joined the Prancing Horse herd, selling his Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 to buy a Ferrari 599. That previous sentence is verifiable...

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance wasn't the only thing going on in the automotive world this past weekend. In fact, an event some might consider its rival--especially if you're more into American muscle and style--was held in Detroit: the Woodward Dream Cruise. This video, Chevrolet's recap of...

Manual transmissions have been under fire for years now--something like 95 percent of average buyers don't want them, and that's making it harder and harder for the automakers to justify building cars with them at all, even for enthusiast-oriented models. But they're not dead yet at Jaguar. In...

The Mk VII Volkwagen Golf is nearing fruition, due to debut at the 2012 Paris Auto Show--and it will have a Golf R variant, as our latest spy shots show. Mazda has taken the wraps off its MX-5 GT4, a 320-horsepower turbocharged track-dedicated special still weighs in at just over 2,200 pounds...

Ever since the first Mazda MX-5 Miata hit the streets in 1989, some people have wanted a little more power. With each new generation Mazda has duly obliged to the point where the current model has a 2.0-liter engine with 167-horsepower--over 50 horses more than the original car. Even then, this...

The $220,725 starting price of the 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed is inclusive of destination chargers and the gas guzzler tax.

Some models of the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro range will sport a frameless mirror with electrochromic capabilities.

In the past couple of years BMW started offering a new range of performance-oriented models aimed at customers looking for something a little sporty but not quite ready to upgrade to a dedicated M car. These models featured a small “is” badge on the end of their regular model...

Coinciding with a similar program being run in Germany, the U.S. Department of Transportation is about to start a trial of technology relying on car-to-car and car-to-object communications. The hope is that cars, either through warnings made to their driver or through autonomous systems will be...

Audi recently confirmed plans to build a new plant in Mexico and BMW is reportedly considering the same, so it comes as little surprise that fellow luxury automaker Infiniti is also considering building a new plant in Mexico. The information was revealed by none other than former Audi of America...

Buyers of Ferraris have a number of options available to them for personalizing their supercars, something the automaker says nearly all of its customers opt to do. Not content with its previous Special Projects, Carrozzeria Scaglietti and One-to-One departments, Ferrari decided to launch a new...

The thought of autonomous, self-driving cars brings doom and gloom to most gearheads. It's hard not to imagine a future where driving for fun is a thing of the past. We probably don't have to worry for quite some time, so in the meantime it's easier to appreciate the technology behind cars like...