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Every year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) produces a list of the best and worst cars for fuel efficiency and not surprisingly this year’s worst offender is the 2011 Bugatti Veyron--a car fitted with a quad-turbocharged 16-cylinder engine displacing no less than 8.0-liters. This...

Back in September Ferrari issued an official recall of its still new 458 Italia supercar following a spate of reports of cars spontaneously combusting and burning to the point where they are no longer recognizable as even cars. In the past year there have been no less than ten different reports of...

Prior to the start of the global financial crisis back in 2008 BMW was working on a new full-size SUV positioned above the X5 and X6 to take on rivals like the Range Rover and Mercedes-Benz GL-Class. However, plans for the new model, which was to be called the X7, were quickly dropped as BMW...

Ferrari has been working on a proprietary part-time four-wheel drive system designed for both its mid- and front-engined models for the past several years. Christened the “Insertable 4x4”, not much has been seen or heard about the system for some time but now a mysterious Ferrari...

There are some years in the history of the automobile that stand out as particularly good ones, and 1964 is near the top of the list. The first Mustang was introduced that April, the Pontiac GTO was born as an option package to the LeMans, and Morgan began building the Plus Four Plus. Only 26 Plus...

With the year drawing to a close, it's time to set your phone reminders to January 6-9 for the annual 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, CES. For the car crowd, the CES has become an important stop on the show circuit, thanks to in-car technologies like SYNC, iDrive and iPad making their ways into the...

We knew the Aston Martin Vantage N420 would be coming to the U.S. back in July when pricing was released, and we finally saw the roadster version in the flesh at the Paris Auto Show, but now we have the first video trailer of the car. After some symphonic music and mellow static panning shots, we...

The 2011 Shelby GT500 is an impressive beast, as we showed you from our first drive at Virgina International Raceway (complete with video). But now Shelby and Nelson Racing Engines have decided to team up to make the 2007-2009 GT500 something truly unique, with the aid of a pair of turbochargers...

The world is clearly spiralling into the depths of some narcissistic hell, but we might as well enjoy the trip. Latest data point: Verne Troyer's response to 50 Cent's recent overt display of wealth, stacking cash into what appears to be a Lamborghini Countach. The differences in the scenes are...

Hear are some questions we're pondering on this peaceful Zen Tuesday: 1. What is the sound of one hand clapping? 2. Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? 3. What do you do with a drunken sailor? 4. Who's on first? 5. Why in the hizell would 50 Cent stash $2 million in the boot of a...

Being courteous and coming clean with officers of the law--especially when you know you've done wrong--is often a route to warning instead of a ticket, even for the most average of citizens, but more often than not, our autograph simply assures us a court date and a fine. But if you've got star...

The Audi Q5 crossover tends to get lost in the X3/GLK/SRX hubbub, but it's a contender not to be overlooked. Especially so now that it's coming with a hybrid drivetrain pairing a 2.0-liter TFSI engine with a 44-horsepower electric motor. This video gives us our first look at the vehicle, due for...

The 2011 Honda CR-Z may not have lived up to all the hype of being the first real hybrid sports car for the masses but the car has still managed to convince judges in this year’s Japan Car of the Year awards, scoring top honors in the annual event. The award is all the more surprising given...

Mitsubishi was one of the first major automakers to announce plans for a mass produced electric vehicle and even had a working prototype out testing back in 2008 in the form of the first generation i-MiEV. Since then the i-MiEV has gone through a series of redesigns until finally being launched in...

We've seen Mustangs that can break nine seconds in the quarter-mile, and now we know of at least one aftermarket Camaro that is coming close to breaking nine seconds as well. This LS9-powered Lingenfelter Camaro with the six-speed manual transmission came very close to breaking the nine-second...

Apart from its extensive North American distribution network and production base, Chrysler doesn’t have much to offer its new strategic partner Fiat--especially when it comes to actual product. There is the new Pentastar V-6 engine as well as the Chrysler 300C’s LX rear-wheel drive...

While it may not be strictly car news, we just couldn't resist writing this story up about Honda's new ASIMO app for the Apple iPhone. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, ASIMO is a robot that resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet...

In the past two weeks we have seen a youth shot dead for egging a Mercedes-Benz, a F1 champ flee for his life from armed gunmen, and a Chicago car dealer arrested for being naked and possessing an unlicensed firearm, and now we can add another gun-related incident to the pile. A man in France took...

We've already heard rumors about the 2012 Boss Mustang's production numbers, and now we are getting word regarding pricing for the upcoming pony car. Mustangs Daily is reporting that the 2012 Boss will check in at around $40,000. The site arrived at this figure after a contest--the Mustang Dream...

[Ed. note: We haven't been able to install background music here at CelebsAndCars -- mostly because that crap is seriously annoying -- but if you could hum the tune of "Macho Man" while reading this, that would be just great.] The 2012 election cycle hasn't really geared up in America yet, but to...