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Earlier today we brought you word from the 2012 BMW 6-Series North American launch in Baja Mexico about the coming M6, the coupe's pricing, and a few other key details--now we can add to those with word of the coming all-wheel drive system, BMW's first all-LED headlights, and a few more details on...

Every so often, we bring you the Ugly Car Guide--the spotters' Bible to the stuff that'll make you heave in a parking lot even if you haven't been up 'till 3 a.m. dualing Jaegerbombs and butterscotch-pudding shots. This week, Ugly Car Guide comes to you from the Green Mountain State of Vermont...

The navigation-system provider TomTom, which uses crowd-sourced traffic data to help find the fastest routes, has been caught in the Netherlands selling users' speed data to police—who then might use that to decide where to set up speed traps. Live traffic information is arguably one of the...

When it was launched as a 2009 model, the Acura TL was the most extreme definition of Acura's new styling direction. It was a polarizing design, with a brash front end and beak-like silver grille surround. According to Acura marketers, buyers in Miami and New York loved it, but Californians and...

Most readers would recognize the Goodwood name as either being the home of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, an annual event in the UK that draws the latest in supercars and British motorsport personalities, or the home of luxury automaker Rolls-Royce. Soon the Goodwood name may be recognized for...

Online car sales sites have transformed the way we buy and sell cars. Whether you're selling to the highest bidder on an online auction site or setting your price and waiting for the calls on sites like Autotrader, you can not only add far more photos and details than ever before but reach a...

The future of Saab still lies in jeopardy as the financial woes of its parent company, Spyker Cars, run by Dutch businessman Victor Muller, is starting to have an effect on investor sentiment and daily operations. Saab has run out of cash, meaning it can’t pay suppliers and has subsequently...

BMW says its new 2012 6-Series Coupe--by the numbers, the 650i--will be priced from $83,875, including destination, when it goes on sale later in the year. The new Coupe is the star at a press preview today in Baja Mexico, where BMW confirms the hardtop two-door will go on sale late in the summer...

Lexus is expected to lose its luxury segment crown here in the U.S. this year, due mostly to the production delays caused by the Japan’s recent earthquake, but even without the natural disaster the upmarket Toyota division had been losing ground to rivals. Another key reason for the closing...

The BMW X1 compact luxury crossover has been on sale in Europe and other parts of the globe for some time now, including in Canada, but the car is still nowhere to be seen in the automaker’s single biggest market, the U.S. The X1 was originally meant to be launched early this year as a 2011...

Remember Progressive's Snapshot program? Sign up, and the agency sends you a device that plugs into your car's onboard diagnostic port and lets Progressive know how safely you're driving. Score well, and your auto insurance rate could plummet. Score poorly, and your rate might go up. Now State Farm...

The new 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 starts from a reasonable--given its level of performance--$40,995, but the heart of the car, its mighty 5.0-liter V-8, can be all yours for just $11,995. That’s because Ford is now offering its Boss 302 V-8 as a standalone ‘crate engine’ through...

"You can't start a fire without a spark" sang Bruce Springsteen in his 1984 hit Dancing In The Dark. Great line, but unfortunately for old Bruce he wasn't quite technically accurate, as a research team in Japan and Romania is looking into using lasers to ignite the fuel-air mixture in combustion...

Porsche has been selling a diesel version of its Cayenne SUV for several years now, so the idea of an oil-burner from the legendary sports car company from Stuttgart is nothing new. However, what’s certainly ground-breaking for Porsche is the launch of a new model that can cover more than 745...

Rapper Birdman, also known as Bryan Williams, has reportedly spent $8,000,000 on the one-off Maybach Exelero coupe that was built back in 2005 by tire manufacturer Fulda as a rolling test-bed for high-performance rubber. The Exelero has previously starred in a video clip for rival hip-hop star...

Truth be told, the all-new Zagato TZ3 Stradale isn't exactly a concept. It's more of a very limited special edition street car. But the press release that accompanied its debut refers to it as a "design exercise" and "avante-garde car," which pretty much equates to "concept car" in our book...

Nothing kills the landscape like the eyesore of a rusty, automotive carcass. No matter if it's a whole junkyard full of rotting cars or a single car abandoned in the middle of the woods, dead old cars aren't pretty. And with millions of cars on the road, there is just a ton of future garbage...

Electric cars are a unique slice of the automotive world. At once futuristic and yet the technology of today, wrapped in the politics of environmental consciousness and foreign oil dependency, EVs have a milieu all their own--and that extends to the way we talk about them. Especially when you're...

Concept cars as dashing as the Mercedes-Benz A-Class are often little more than design bucks, built to give the flavor of future styles, without any intent for production. The A-Class is going to production, however (albeit in much more production-spec clothing), with an AMG variant even planned...

NASCAR ain't easy. Just ask Travis Pastrana. After largely dominating North American rally for the past several years, he's finding it hard to make it to the front of the pack in the roundy-round crowd. His latest race at Richmond in the Nationwide Series saw him finish 33rd after contact with the...