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Replacing the current Sport Sedan, SportCombi, Convertible, and 9-3X, the new 2012 Saab 9-3 Griffin range (still available in all of the familiar body styles) features updated engines, freshened exteriors, and upgraded interiors. The new 9-3 Griffin will make its official debut at the Geneva Motor...

Power, efficiency, luxury--you can have it all, and the entry price is just $53,700. That's the price of the 2012 Infiniti M35 Hybrid, announced today ahead of the start of retail sales March 16. Infiniti bills the M Hybrid as the only car in America to offer 350 horsepower in combination with a...

With a pair of rather shapely Giugiaro-designed concepts on deck, Volkswagen was already headed for an appealing Geneva show stand. Now, it's going to be even better, as the new Golf Cabriolet shows the world how to make a drop-top small car that doesn't look like it was beaten by the neighborhood...

There's always an irony to dual-purpose vehicles - amphibious cars, flying cars - which is that in the quest to master two disciplines, they usually end up being heavily compromised, and often just totally useless at both. Amphibious cars are generally passable in the water provided they don't...

Purists bemoan Porsche's rapid expansion into non-traditional segments, while buyers eat the cars up with ravenous glee. It's a no-brainer for the people looking to make Porsche into the strongest, most profitable company they can, and CEO Matthias Mueller is at the head of the charge. His plan? To...

Billed as the "most potent series production" Jaguar ever, the XKR-S is staged for a debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The XKR-S leverages a 542-horsepower supercharged V-8 engine to rocket to a top speed of 186 mph, hitting 60 mph in 4.2 seconds and 100 mph in 8.6 seconds along the way. If...

Almost out of nowhere, the Geneva Motor Show just got a whole lot more interesting: Aston Martin will be showing its latest supertourer, the Virage. Sitting between the DBS and DB9, the Virage will be available in both coupe and Volante convertible models. Powered by Aston's familiar 6.0-liter V-12...

Leaks, teasers, previews...the Geneva Motor Show is gearing up to a fever pitch this year, and MINI wants to be part of the action. Its entrant to the concept category? The MINI Rocketman Concept. Positioned as a curious "3+1" seater with three doors and a scant 10-foot overall length, the...

A pair of Volkswagens--both Golf and Polo--in Giugiaro-styled Italdesign concept form have emerged from the ever-leaky European patent office a week ahead of their scheduled debut in Geneva. Portrayed in unflattering gray-on-gray, they still manage to look quite good. While the futuristic details...

Maserati will unveil a new, faster version of its stunning GranTurismo Convertible at the Geneva Motor Show next week. Known as the Maserati GranTurismo Converitble Sport (GranCabrio Sport outside the U.S.), the upgraded model will have more power, better handling, more aggressive looks and a...

Today's fourth installment marks the last in BMW's documentary series entitled "Wherever You Want To Go." Entitled, "How We'll Learn To Stop Worrying And Love The Future," the last video segment pushes an optimistic take on what's to come in the world of personal mobility, positing that it might...

Imagine you could drive your car using only your thoughts. German researchers have just made that possible -- and they have the video to prove it. Following his recent interview on the Robots Podcast about autonomous vehicles, Raúl Rojas, an AI professor at the Freie Universität Berlin...

The Toyota-Subaru joint sports car project, known as the FT-86 in Toyota's hands and spied many times on its long road to production, will finally see an official Subaru-branded concept at Geneva. This teaser gives us a taste of its front-mounted boxer engine. Full of words like "technology...

The 2011 Geneva Motor Show is knocking on our door, due to kick off press days in just a week. The latest early arrival is this shot of Lamborghini's Murcielago-replacing Aventador LP700-4, in naked rolling chassis form. If the new chassis looks decidedly familiar in shape, it's for good reason...

Just yesterday, our colleagues at All Cars Electric gave readers a sneak-peek of the 2012 Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid, an intriguing new wagon that promises to earn up to 745 miles on a fully charged battery and a full tank of diesel. But of course, no high tech ride would be complete without the...

We can finally confirm that the production version of 2009’s BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept, set to go on sale in October of 2013, will go by the name ‘i8’ and head a range of new eco-focused vehicles from BMW. BMW yesterday announced its new ‘i’ sub-brand...

It looks like the Ferrari California ‘Race 606’ won’t be the only modified supercar from Ferrari tuning experts Novitec Rosso at next week’s 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The German tuner has now rolled out its new performance upgrade for the exhilarating Ferrari 458 Italia...

With the death of BMW's M5 V-10 engine, Wiesmann recently made the jump to another BMW powerplant: the twin-turbo, 4.4-liter V-8 found in BMW's own cars--including the beefy 555-horsepower M variant. One of the two engines will be under the hood of the Spyder concept announced by the company for...

There is, you may have heard, some backlash to the idea of global warming and environmentally responsible driving. For every hybrid driver, there is someone who will deride the purchase, and maybe even buy a big gas guzzler out of spite. But if you ever had any doubt that the automotive industry...

The Audi A3 is one of those cars that, despite its inherent goodness, hasn't ever really caught on in the U.S. Maybe it's the high price, or the fact that it doesn't offer much more performance than a Volkswagen Golf, which shares the underpinnings. Then there's the hatchback-only shape, which is...