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Back in June Audi set the fastest lap time of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife for a produced-based electric car using its upcoming R8 e-tron. The final time for the electric supercar, which was piloted by German race car driver Markus Winkelhock, was a brisk 8:09.099. Today we have a video of the...

Legendary race car drivers Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori died within weeks earlier this year and to mark their passing, as well as celebrate their life achievements, Aston Martin took one of its original 1959 DBR1 race cars around the famous Circuit de la Sarthe in France in June. Shelby and...

Ford is about to embark on an ambitious plan to streamline all of its car plants around the globe in order to boost their efficiency and see them introduce a set of common practices. Ford calls this ambitious plan the “One Manufacturing” system and hopes to have it fully implemented by...

Video footage has been captured of a late model BMW M3 Coupe crashing into a concrete center divider at high speed after its driver loses control of the car in very wet conditions. The M3 is seen overtaking another vehicle on the right when suddenly it hits a large patch of water and then careens...

MINI is set to reveal the seventh addition to its ever-expanding lineup, the all-new 2013 MINI Paceman. Essentially a coupe version of the Countryman crossover, the new Paceman is expected to be revealed in full in the coming months, with some tipping a debut at the 2012 Paris Auto Show at the end...

When a California man passed away recently, he left behind a barn full of stuff. Amongst the stuff was a 1963 split-window Corvette (pictured below) in what appears to be fairly good, if neglected, condition. There is, of course, the usual three-decades coating of dust, and what looks like a fair...

The five-cylinder engine in the Audi TT RS traces its history back to the brand's racing 90 Quattro of the last 1980s.

Those of us that love cars often see the art in their designs, in driving them, in the sounds of their engines, even in their construction--but it's not often we see them made into the tools of art, or music, to be exact. But that's exactly what Jordan Hill calls Motor Rhythms. Hill terms his Motor...

Colorado wildfires delayed the 2012 running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, but it's getting underway this week--and it looks like Audi has something up its sleeve. An image posted to Facebook teases us, saying there will be a surprise "to pay homage to [Audi's] record-breaking past" at...

It’s going to be a while before you can walk into your local Chevy dealer and drive away in a 2014 Corvette. Perhaps the most eagerly anticipated Corvette model in history, the C7 has been the subject of rumor, innuendo and threatened lawsuits for the better part of the past two years. Now...

If you’re counting down the days until you can take delivery of your very own 2013 Beetle Convertible, there’s some good news to report on its official fuel economy. According to the EPA (via Motor Trend), the 200-horsepower Volkswagen Beetle Turbo Convertible will deliver 21 mpg city...

Automakers are downsizing engines and adding hybrid powertrains to many next-generation supercars. But this raises the question: how many cylinders does a supercar need to have? Engines with fewer cylinders provide many benefits as outlined earlier today by McLaren. Ranging from less weight and...

Spyker N.V has announced the filing of a $3 billion lawsuit against General Motors, alleging that it deliberately forced Spyker-owned Saab into bankruptcy by blocking a planned purchase from Chinese investor Youngman Lotus. GM, which owned preferred stock in Saab, objected to the deal between...

Spies have laid eyes and lenses on the 2013 BMW Z4, showing us a car that's not so much new as mildly updated. A new M Performance model may be on the way, however, potentially outdoing the Z4 sDrive35is. A Pagani Zonda GR race car crashed in an incident with an Audi A4 DTM car during a race at the...

Rubbing, it’s said, is racing, and that may hold true in certain forms of motorsports. Punting your competitor because you don’t want to finish second, however, isn’t racing unless we’re talking about demolition derby. A Pagani GR, as far as we can tell, has never been...

Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems combine adaptive cruise control with full automatic braking to avoid frontal collisions, even without driver input. Still in their infancy, such systems are currently available on just 20 percent of the cars sold in Europe. New regulations may be coming to...

When McLaren finally unveils its successor to the legendary F1 later this year, there won’t be a V-12 engine in sight as the famous motorsports company and now full scale sports car manufacturer has adopted a ‘less is more’ philosophy. While rivals such as Ferrari, Lamborghini and...

In Europe it’s not uncommon to find law enforcement officials rolling around in luxury models like an Audi A6 or BMW 5-Series. Most major automakers overseas offer a series of modifications to their usual fleet aimed at customers looking for a little extra safety, and some, such as BMW, even...

This 800-horsepower version of the Toyota GT 86, the Scion FR-S' twin sold overseas, features a heavily worked engine from a Toyota Supra.

As automakers seek new locations for factories in order to lower production costs, hedge against currency fluctuations and build cars closer to where they are sold, BMW is reportedly seeking a site in Mexico to build a new plant for production of its popular 3-Series model. Close rival...