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With Mitsubishi's combination of dodgy reliability and puzzling styling, you know the Three Diamonds' back catalog should be good for some seriously guilty automotive pleasures. I admitted to searching for a nice first-gen Diamante a few months back, but the Diamante might be a bit too, you know...

As if Red Bull Racing's F1 team hadn't already risen to incredible heights, they've now taken the showcar version of their F1 racer to the top of the world, driving the "world's highest driveable road"--Khardung-La pass in the Himalayas. At 18,380 feet, it's a wonder the team (and the car) didn't...

For years, we've wanted more from our cars. More power. More performance. More luxury. More gadgets. More recently, we've wanted less, at the same time: Less weight. Less expense. All the time carmakers have been giving us more of some things and less of others, cars have continued to get safer...

The airwaves are ablaze today with a host of news out of General Motors, including a new Cadillac CUE infotainment interface, the Chevy Spark and its electric variant, and a new set of small engines. Our spies have also been hard at work, bringing us a look at the 2013 Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting...

Coachbuilding has certainly become a tough business. As sales volumes of even the most exotic cars go up, and manufacturers offer more and more custom and exotic options direct from the factory, the niche once filled by the older custom building companies is becoming increasingly shallow. But the...

A new Lotus special edition has been built in honor of Queen front man Freddie Mercury and his charity Mercury Phoenix Trust.

With or without a partnership with Daimler, redesigned versions of both the DB9 grand tourer and Vantage sports car are deep in development at Aston Martin. The new DB9, spy shots of which we've already seen, will be first out of the blocks, with a late 2012 or early 2013 reveal expected. Then...

Cadillac’s just-announced CUE (Cadillac User Interface) system, which will make its debut in the upcoming 2013 Cadillac XTS, will mark a number of automotive technology firsts.

BMW plans to start installing its laser headlights onto production cars within three years.

An 1,800-HP dune buggy rips through the desert like a sidewinder.

The system, which was first hinted as under development when GM showed its XTS Concept at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, will make its debut in the production version of the XTS—the 2013 Cadillac XTS, which will arrive next April and be shown in nearly-showroom-ready form for the first time at next...

The headline feature of the truly nutty Nissan Juke-R Concept is obviously the twin-turbo V-6 powertrain lifted straight out of the Nissan GT-R. But that's not the only tech the Juke-R gets from Godzilla. It also gets the GT-R's advanced traction control and dynamics logic, to help control all of...

Cadillac's 2013 ATS sedan, the smaller sibling to the CTS, is anything but a secret at this point. In fact, the company has just loosed another video and a set of exclusive photos to document the ATS's testing at the Nurburgring. Check out the video and gallery for a peek inside the testing and...

Mazda's next rotary engine may yet be a few years in development to meet fuel economy and emissions requirements.

A new iPhone app allows you to easily calculate the cost difference between driving and flying to a given location.

A stress-free journey is a happy journey, and the invention of satellite navigation was the biggest boost for in-car happiness since the bench seat... if you catch our drift. GPS Navigator 7.1 for Android is the latest navigation system, described as next-gen navigation to make drivers' lives...

If you haven't heard about it yet, there's a new racing spec making the rounds of the small-car world: B-Spec. Build to cross series boundaries and make racing a near-stock compact car more affordable and fun, the series has already attracted the likes of Honda and Mazda--and now Kia. Kia, racing?...

There are at least three obstacles standing between electric cars and mainstream drivers: range-anxiety, battery recharge times, and the fledgling charging infrastructure. The good news is, Nissan may be well on its way to eliminating one of the three. Working in partnership with Japan's Kansai...

Saab is on the brink of bankruptcy--finally, and seriously, this time--as backing from its Chinese suitors may be blocked by the Chinese government. The 2012 Lexus LFA shows its stuff, yet again, in another new gallery and video. The 2012 Audi RS5 Cabrio and 2013 BMW 3-Series Touring are caught in...

We admit that we've been critical of TomTom, Garmin, and other aftermarket satnavs. After all, in the age of smartphones and factory-installed telematics systems, dashtop devices can seem as outdated as your grandmother's VCR. But you have to give them props for trying, and TomTom is trying very...