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Mercedes and its official in-house tuner AMG has been widely criticized for sticking its potent V8 engines into almost anything wearing the Three Pointed Star. Case in point was the disastrous R63, a people mover packing a 6.3L V8 and hyped as a performance car. Fortunately, product planners...

America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the latest organization to speak up against the current horsepower war raging between carmakers. The group wants an end to the development of high horsepower models because of the negative impact they have on the environment. Instead they...

BMW is set to expand its aftermarket accessories line to include the new 1-series range, and a new brochure that’s leaked onto the web details all the goodies we can look forward to (although it’s in German). Simply named ‘BMW Performance,’ the accessories line was initially...

The guys at Best Motoring are at it again, and this time they have the all new Nissan GT-R to play with. In their latest clip they pit the Nissan against Lamborghini’s Gallardo Superleggera, Honda’s uprated NSX-R and two different Porsche 911s, the AWD Turbo and club spec GT3. Follow...

One of the more stunning concept cars set to debut at March’s Geneva Motor Show won’t be the creation of some overpaid and stuffy professional designer. Instead, it will be the work of a group of students from Italy’s famed Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). The new concept is the...

SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. came to the attention of many for the first time thanks to last week's snafu involving the inclusion of 500,000 Wuling-produced cars in GM's corporate tally in an effort to stay at the head of the pack. But the latest word is that the American company could leverage...

Proving that no one is above the law when it comes to illegal parking, even owners of million dollar exotics, a Manchester City parking inspector has ticketed an illegally parted Bugatti Veyron in front of a crowd of spectators. People started to gather once it was revealed the car was left...

Although it’s hardly new – it’s been in production since 2006 – the YES! Roaster will be coming to American and Canadian streets for the first time ever, and to kick off sales, the company is bringing the Roadster to the Chicago Autoshow. The company’s motto is...

BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and even Mitsubishi have come to market with dual-clutch transmissions in the interest of power, economy and refinement. Until now Fiat Group – including Ferrari – has done without dual-clutch gearboxes, eschewing them for traditional automatics, manuals and...

Carlos Ghosn is the man credited with turning around the fortunes of Nissan during the 1990’s, bringing it back from the brink of bankruptcy and turning billion dollar losses into profits within a couple of years. At the same time he also headed Renault, which is now on track to boost its...

Cadillac together with Hella has announced today that it will be launching the world's first volume full-LED headlamp on its 2008 Cadillac Escalade Platinum edition. Unlike rival luxury brand Lexus, which offers single projector LED lamps on its LS600h flagship, Cadillac’s design uses the...

The personalized number plate ‘F1’ has been sold for a whopping $740,000 in the U.K. to the man behind one of our favorite tuners, A. Kahn Design. New owner Afzal Kahn is said to be saving the number plate for a McLaren Mercedes SLR supercar like the one pictured here, which is actually...

Tesla’s long and arduous journey of getting its all-electric Roadster to production only came to an end last week with the announcement that previous engineering problems would be solved and that the first car was ready for delivery. It appears now that initial announcement could have been a...

Cadillac’s presence in markets outside the U.S. is growing but there’s still a long way to go until the brand has the global recognition that rivals like BMW and Mercedes-Benz command. A major hurdle for Cadillac has been that for years its lineup has been developed solely with the U.S...

There are plenty of rumors claiming Ford could sell Volvo, just as it has with Jaguar and Land Rover, but new reports give a clear hint Volvo won’t be leaving the Ford group anytime soon. Executives see a future where both carmakers would work much closer together and possibly even share...

Update: We can confirm these concept sketches from last week are in fact the new Mitsubishi Lancer Prototype-S, which is set to be unveiled at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March. Just as the original Concept-X from the 2005 Tokyo Show and then the Prototype-X from last year’s Detroit...

We all know slowing down for a speed bump and then accelerating back to your original speed saps your fuel, but now a recent study commissioned by the UK’s AA motoring group has found out just how bad it really is. Researchers found that a car capable of achieving 58mgp fuel economy when...

Five young men were killed early Saturday at Greystone Airport in Florida when the car they were traveling in, a BMW M5 saloon, crashed in a high speed accident after being driven on the actual airport strip. Behind the wheel was 18-year-old Joshua D. Ammirato and riding along in the car was four...

The baby coupe from Stuttgart has finally come out from behind the curtain. Although the initial teaser shots didn't leave much to the imagination, the reveal does bring some interesting tidbits to light. But the real story lies just under the skin. Mercedes says that around 1,100 components are...

German-based coachbuilder IndiKar has been chosen to develop the rebirth of the mythic GDR Trabant economy car as part of the latest initiative of another company, scale carmaker Herpa. A full-scale concept car is expected be unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show although no information has been...