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The 2012 Chicago Auto Show is just under a week away from its press day opening, but Volkswagen is heating up expectations with its new Beetle TDI. The oil-burning clean diesel Bug promises 29 mpg city and 39 mpg highway--all wrapped in the Beetle's new look. Following the 2.5-liter and Turbo...

An eBay seller looking to capitalize on President Barack Obama's former ownership of a 2005 Chrysler 300C with a starting price on the car's auction of $1 million has ended up with nothing to show for it but a healthy spate of media coverage. The car's auction history shows no one bid on the car...

Although the Porsche 911 is now in its fifth decade of production, the iconic sports car remains true to the original's styling.

Jaguar's fastest cat shows its stuff on a frozen lake bed at the hands of test driver Minna Sillankorva.

The new Mercedes-Benz A-Class has been spotted without any camouflage ahead of its upcoming debut, and it looks pretty slick for a little hatchback. What do you think? The Fiat 500L, the "L" meaning large, or at least larger, has made its first showing on the web ahead of its Geneva unveiling. It...

Lewis Hamilton was blocked by handlers from answering questions about the Adrian Sutil verdict. Team orders, it appears, come before long time friendships in F1.

We already know Infiniti is bringing a new sports car concept to March's 2012 Geneva Motor Show, and that it will come packing an advanced range-extended electric drivetrain. However, the automaker has today released the name of the concept car, which we can confirm will be called the Infiniti...

There are two big advantages to the sort of platform and technology sharing that goes on in the Volkswagen Group (VAG). One, is economies of scale. The more you share across a greater range, the bigger the profit margins. The second, is seeing the cool tech developed for high-end cars filter down...

The fourth addition to the Fiat 500 lineup, the all-new 500L, has been revealed ahead of its official world debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show in March. The “L” in 500L stands for “large” and while this is the biggest model in the Fiat 500 family it will still be one of the...

Yesterday we brought you the first details on the Volkswagen Group’s new Modular Transverse Matrix architecture that will go into several models from Audi and Volkswagen including the next-generation A3 and MKVII Golf. Today we have details of another modular platform being developed for...

They say that a dog is man’s best friend, but we wonder just how many people out there would leave their pet dog unattended in a car that stickers for about $2 million. We now know of at least one individual that would. Pictured above is a Bugatti Veyron parked curbside on a street in West...

The last few weeks of Guilty Pleasures have gone Ford, Oldsmobile, Infiniti… but, really, the Detroit-to-Japan Guilty Pleasure ratio has been way more skewed in Detroit's favor than just 3:1. The problem is that Japanese cars in recent decades have tended to be heavy on quality (which...

Late last month Mercedes-Benz launched a new campaign in Europe asking people to look out for camouflaged prototypes of its new A Class hatchback in order to win several prizes, including a trip to car’s official world debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show in March. We bet they weren’t...

In Hyundai's latest Super Bowl ad, its revised Genesis Coupe proves it's good at more than just accelerating, braking and cornering.

A few years back, BBC’s Top Gear featured soccer games using Toyota’s Aygo and Volkswagen’s Fox city cars. More recently, Forza Motorsport 4 enabled gamers to safely hoon through their own reenactments. Around this time last year, the sudden stunt du jour was breaking world...

Continental Tires asked British drivers which celebrity they'd least enjoy taking a thousand-mile trip across Morocco with.

Whispers, rumors, denials--the idea of a new Lamborghini SUV heading to production has run the gamut of online coverage. Earlier this week, we got a few dubious images from a magazine page touting a new concept version of a Lamborghini SUV coming to Beijing. Today, an Audi manager has confirmed the...

Volkswagen's new modular transverse matrix platform will allow it to build products as diverse as Polo hatchbacks and Passat sedans from a single platform.

BMW's front-drive 1-Series GT, a cross between a hatchback and a wagon, will debut at this fall's Paris Motor Show according to a report from BMW Blog.

A soon-to-be-available ALMS Pack for Forza 4 gives players 10 new cars, including the Audi R18 TDI and the Mazda 787B.