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Mercedes-Benz has issued a recall on certain versions of its E350 4MATIC Wagon due to a potential issue involving the affected cars’ rear suspension. The recall only affects 2007 to 2009 E350 4MATIC Wagons built from July 1, 2006, through to April 30, 2009. There are approximately 3,613...

Since Toyota made the tough decision to pull out of Formula 1 racing at the end of the 2009 season, the automaker’s multi-million dollar motorsports facility based in Cologne, Germany, has been keeping busy with a number of performance-related projects. Although the team at Toyota Motorsports...

The Caterham name may not be all that familiar in the U.S. but over in Europe Caterham is well known for manufacturing a range of lightweight track cars built around the classic Lotus Seven chassis. More recently the British firm has been expanding into the road car business with the launch of its...

Aston Martin's Vanquish is back. Revived in celebration of the historic automaker’s centenary taking place next year, the new Vanquish is both forward-looking yet still hinting at the past. It will serve as Aston Martin’s flagship now that the One-77 supercar is officially sold out and...

The new Bentley Continental GT Speed will make its official public debut at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed, but first, we get this early look at its essential features--and a small gallery of photos.

When you think of Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, you may imagine Eniac, or a DEC PDP-8, perhaps even such early personal computers as the Altair and Apple II. Well, think SYNC, too. Curators at the museum have added Ford's SYNC in-car connectivity and communications system to its...

Free trips to some of the world's greatest races? Free sports cars? No gearhead/speedfreak/track rat in his or her right mind would turn such a thing down, even across brand loyalty barriers. That's probably part of the motivation behind Chevrolet's latest duo of giveaways. The other part is...

While there's already at least one 2012 Tesla Model S in the wild, the official start of deliveries is this Friday, June 22. To show off its all-electric luxury sedan before it starts pulling into owner garages, Tesla Motors has released a final production video of the car, showing the complete...

Chevrolet's COPO Camaro drag racer is under construction, and this is an inside look at the cars as they undergo conversion from run-of-the-mill Camaro bodies-in-white into full-on race cars. The photos, from The Block, a Chevrolet Performance website, show the cars in various states of completion...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a nearly religious experience for the dedicated motorsports fan, and this year, it will feature a holy trinity of its own: three of the six-wheeled F1 cars, gathered in one place for the first time in history. Three six-wheeled F1 cars, you say? Why yes, though...

BMW bosses have vehemently denied that a successor to the legendary M1 supercar is in the works, yet that hasn’t stopped reports of a new super sports car being developed by the M Division from surfacing every now and then. One of the main reasons cited by BMW for the lack of such a model is...

Volvo and its performance partner Polestar will build more of its 508-horsepower S60 sedans should anyone--with a spare $300k lying around--require one.

Straight out of the box the Ferrari FF is a very capable performance machine, no doubt thanks to its 6.3-liter V-12 engine, seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and sophisticated all-wheel drive system. Tuning firms all over the world are now faced with the challenge of improving the car beyond...

A brand new generation of the MINI Cooper is just around the corner, and that means replacements for all the different variants including the sportier S and John Cooper Works trims, as well as new versions of the Clubman, Countryman and all the other bodystyles MINI is now offering. The first will...

When it comes to endurance racing, the emotional strength and will to succeed is often the edge teams need to come out on top. Satoshi Motoyama, one of three drivers that piloted the Nissan DeltaWing in last weekend’s 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has shown us just how powerful...

Daimler, Mercedes-Benz's parent company, is one of the oldest names in the automotive world. Mercedes-Benz itself bears a long history. But the AMG performance brand is quite a bit younger--just 45 this year. In celebration of the anniversary, the company has loosed its lips, a bit, about its...

Continuing his somewhat unlikely but nevertheless awesome partnership with Hot Wheels, Tanner Foust is preparing to do something even crazier than his life-sized toy car jump: a parallel double loop-the-loop. Coming on the heels of Top Gear Live's successful sequential double loop-the-loop, the...

Kudos to Hyundai for putting a new twist on the "can a car outrun this object" theme by outrunning an arrow with a humble Genesis Coupe--but pardon us if we take a closer look at the physics of this video before we go all googly-eyed. Most arrows from a typical modern compound bow will travel...

Gareth Roberts, a 24-year-old Welsh rally co-driver with a promising career ahead of him, died this weekend during the Targa Florio-Rally Internazionale Di Sicilia rally after the Peugeot 207 Super 2000 piloted by driver Craig Breen was skewered by a guardrail. The accident is eerily reminiscent of...

Jaguar is currently testing prototypes for its new F-Type sports car, which has been confirmed for launch in the middle of next year, initially as a convertible. So far, all the spy shots of prototypes we’ve seen, including those released by Jaguar (pictured below), have shown cars with a...