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Here’s a clear example of what not to do when your luxury SUV gets stuck in the mud. After refusing the help of a truck driver whose vehicle can clearly tread through the mud safely, the driver of this modified Porsche Cayenne proceeded to floor the throttle in vain hope that his luxury SUV...

Remember the special edition ‘Frozen Gray’ BMW M3 launched in the U.S. last year? The one that sold out in just 12 minutes? Well, China has now received its own matte-painted special edition M3, also built to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first M3. Like its U.S. counterpart, the...

Back at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show Lexus unveiled a modified version of its new CT 200h that was prepared by the guys at tuning firm Five Axis. Now, just a few weeks out from the 2011 New York Auto Show, Lexus has announced that another, more highly modified version of the luxury hybrid hatchback...

F1 star Lewis Hamilton has confirmed that he will be making a cameo in the new Cars 2 movie from Disney Pixar, revealing via his Twitter page that he’ll be appearing as the McLaren MP4-12C supercar. Hamilton posted on Twitter: “Hey guys, big news--I'm going to be in Disney Pixar's Cars...

The North Loop. The Green Hell. The 'Ring. It's known by many names, but all of them serve to call out one of the greatest racing and testing circuits in the world: the Nurburgring's Nordschleife. Today, the team behind the James Glickenhaus Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5 Competizione posted a video of...

Can you imagine a future--thirty-nine years from now--where there are no engines humming, no exhaust smells, no car sounds of any kind in the city except the presumably Jetsons-like beeping of EVs? The European Commission, the governing body of the European Union, can, and it has a transportation...

The Middle East is being pulled apart by internal strife, gas prices are going decidedly upward, and there's still no clear solution to any of it. Rolls-Royce and the United Arab Emirates aren't worried by all the unrest, however: the Brit hyperlux brand has just opened its largest showroom in Abu...

Toyota has resumed production of the Lexus CT 200h and HS 250h hybrids following a shutdown after the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami that rocked the northern part of the country. At issue is the battery supply. The batteries for the vehicles -- as well as the ever-popular Prius -- are...

Perhaps this one should be filed under "tell me something I don't know," but Audi is king when it comes to all-wheel drive in the premium luxury segment. Audi sold 437,792 vehicles with all-wheel drive in 2010, with the Q5 taking the lead with 155,025 all-wheel drive models sold. Of the remaining...

The short-lived Pontiac G8 was perhaps the most missed of the cars to die with the brand, but rumors of its rebirth in Chevrolet guise persist. Today, the idea has been given another boost with a report from GM Inside News that internal documents are calling the Zeta-based Holden Commodore the G8...

Where is every BMW born? In a secret place the company has barely admitted exists--until now, called Plant Zero. The plant is staffed by the best of BMW's technicians, where prototype cars are built almost entirely by hand. The techs use their own methods to program the eventual robotic assembly...

Ford Racing offers buyers of the 5.0-liter Mustang a chance to buy and install a Boss intake manifold as an aftermarket upgrade. Aftermarket tuner has gone one step further. By taking one of the Ford Racing intakes and coming up with a new induction system that uses a high-velocity cold-air intake...

The name Samuel Hubinette is synonymous with drifting, his personal drift team, Samuel Hubinette Racing (SHR), having sent all manner of high-powered vehicles sideways including Dodge Challengers and Vipers and even a Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV. We’re now less than a fortnight out from...

Last week, four U.S. Senators expressed outrage over smartphone apps designed to reveal the location of DUI checkpoints. As they said in letters to Apple, Google, and Blackberry, "Giving drunk drivers a free tool to evade checkpoints, putting innocent families and children at risk, is a matter of...

Traditionally, concepts have been built to show off new automotive design, styling and mechanical technology that may or may not find its way into actual production vehicles. Increasingly, the auto world is seeing concepts with slightly different goals: displaying new entertainment, information and...

If you live somewhere with particularly changeable weather and low temperatures during the winter you'll be familiar with potholes. The broken road surfaces and large holes that result can play havoc with traffic and vehicles, damaging suspension, wheels, tires and bodywork and even causing...

Remember the British journalist that managed to damage Ferrari’s brand new baby, the hate-it-or-love-it FF supercar? If not, here is our original post. Well, today we have an image of the resultant damage, which on the surface only appears to be a dented wheel. Similar damage also appears on...

It’s now easier than ever to join the exclusive club of Porsche 911 ownership thanks to new lease deals being offered on the iconic supercar. Porsche has been offering a 24 month lease deal on its 911 and according to the company, the promotion has been a runaway success when compared to the...

Playboy is back with a new list of the best classic sports cars around, ensuring that you’ll always be traveling in style. All of the mid-century classics listed top 40 years of age, yet they offer performance, looks and road-handling agility to best some of the top sports cars on sale today...

There’s a reason why incredibly fast cars have an assortment of strangely styled aerodynamic components stuck to their bodies--to keep them glued to the ground. Travelling at similar speeds to aircraft taking off, cars too can have trouble staying on the ground, which is exactly what happened...