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The 2014 Land Rover Range Rover has been spied in testing, and it looks pretty sharp--though we're not entirely sure the proportions are working. The funky camouflage looks like an aftermarket paint job, though. Top Gear USA is on its way back next month, kicking off its third season on August 14...

Comic hero Batman has been around since 1939, and almost from the beginning there has been a Batmobile. Unlike other caped super heroes, Batman has no special powers; that makes the armored and heavily-armed Batmobile that much more important to the story of Batman. Warner Brothers knows this, so...

Porsche has issued a recall on the range-topping Turbo models from its Cayenne and Panamera lines, explaining that the turbine wheels from the turbocharging system featured in the cars may fracture under certain conditions. The recall affects all Cayenne Turbo models from the 2012 model year and...

The Suzuki SX4 in recent years has grown to include a whole family of subcompact sedans and hatchbacks, powered by economical four-cylinder engines, in front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive configurations. Developed together with Fiat, which sells a version of the car overseas labeled a Sedici, the...

Perhaps after watching Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift one too many times, the driver of a fourth-generation Honda Civic sedan in Japan recently decided to take to the streets for some drift action. With onlookers on hand to film his antics, the driver proceeds to burn some rubber before...

Though we’ve known for several years that Mercedes-Benz was planning to launch a new compact crossover based on its latest ‘MFA’ small car platform, which currently underpins the latest versions of the A Class and B Class models overseas and is set to debut in the U.S. next year...

Lexus will be introducing a completely redesigned IS sedan next year, followed by a successor to the convertible IS C a year or two later. In order to keep buyers interested in the IS C until the redesign arrives, Lexus will inject some fun into the lineup with a new IS F variant. Though news of...

Spanish sports car manufacturer Aspid’s follow up to the strange, albeit somewhat alluring, Super Sport from 2008 is the new GT-21 Invictus, revealed today in full and earmarked for production within the next two years. Aspid’s latest model sticks with the brand’s distinctive semi...

The final round of the second season of the joint Nissan-PlayStation GT Academy North America is about to get underway, with the top 16 contenders from the thousands of entrants headed to the U.K. Silverstone racing circuit for an intensive week-long race camp and competition series. Spike TV will...

The U.S won't be getting the M135i hatchback. Color us unsurprised, but the latest word is that BMW North America simply can't bring the car here--even though it would like to. According to Inside Line, the M135i, based on the three-door hatchback version of the 1-Series, was originally turned down...

In the gospel according to Audi, the traditional MPV is a “boring concept,” likely purchased out of resignation, not desire. The exception to this rule, according to Audi’s sales and marketing head, Peter Schwarzenbauer, is the Ford S-Max, which has reportedly attracted...

On July 3, Marussia F1 Team test driver Maria De Villota was critically injured while testing the team car at Duxford Airfield in England. As De Villota slowed to approach the pits, the car suddenly accelerated, striking the back of a support truck parked near the temporary paddock area. De...

While we here in the United States often complain that Europe gets better cars than we do, sometimes the opposite is true. In Europe, for example, the Fiat 500 Abarth comes standard with just 135 horsepower, while we in the United States get 25 more ponies for a total of 160 hp. The Fiat 500 Abarth...

The 2013 Lexus ES 350 and ES 300h don't arrive in dealerships until next month, but in preparation for the new, much-improved ES's arrival, Lexus has announced pricing of the two core models: the ES 350 starts from $36,100, plus $895 in destination fees, while the ES 300h starts from $38,850 plus...

In July of 2011, Subaru Rally Team USA driver David Higgins took second place at the New England Forest Rally, which was good enough to propel the Manx driver to the top of the championship standings for the 2011 season. For 2012, history has repeated itself: Higgins and co-driver Craig Drew again...

The next BMW 7-Series may get an M Division version, but don't call it an M7. The Lexus SC may be reborn in the form of the LF-LC Concept filtered through a production mindset. Will this put some life and vigor back into the sleepy, discontinued SC range? And Lotus has decided it won't show up at...

Automaker Bugatti already has a lengthy history in building some of the finest (and fastest) vehicles, aimed at buyers for whom money is not a concern. If the upcoming science fiction saga Elysium is accurate, Bugatti appears to have quite a future, too. Set in the year 2159, Elysium tells a...

When it comes to shopping for a new car, the most enjoyable part of the whole process (for us, anyway) is the test drive. While most of us have learned how to do the dance with car salesmen, we wouldn’t really rate “personal contact” as one of our key reasons for visiting a...

Nissan is taking a leaf out of Lamborghini’s book and looking to the aviation industry for inspiration for the development of its future range of sports cars. A team of designers and product planners from Nissan recently landed in Pensacola, Fl, to visit the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels...

One of the strongest arguments for the introduction of autonomous cars is the increased safety brought about by eliminating the possibility of human error, believed to be the main cause of crashes. So far the increased safety factor with autonomous cars has generally been assumed but now a leading...