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Just a week before the NAIAS show in Detroit, Cadillac is at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an international technology trade show, with its high-tech Provoq concept. Another iteration of GM’s E-Flex platform, like the Chevy Volt and the Opel Flextreme concepts, the Provoq shares some...

Despite Australia’s record-breaking 1 million-car sales this year, Maybach managed to snag exactly zero buyers. To put this in perspective, with a population of approximately 21 million, 1 million cars sold means nearly one in 20, or roughly five percent of Australians bought a car this year...

Two days ago we saw Ferrari launch its F2008, and yesterday McLaren Mercedes unveiled its MP4-23 at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart. Lewis Hamilton was on hand for the launch, and it being his birthday, called the MP4-23 the “coolest birthday present you can get.” The car...

Embargoes just aren’t made like they used to be, and things just keep leaking onto the web. So, thanks to those journalistic cowboys, we get to bring you the full details on the newest and coolest Hummer - the HX Concept. A lighter, trimmer - even a greener Hummer, if you can believe it - the...

As the dollar weakens and the American auto market stagnates, GM America’s number one automaker is looking overseas for its future. This year GM made 58 percent of its sales outside the U.S., and since 2004 a majority of GM’s sales have been from foreign markets. The driving force...

UPDATE: In addition to the new pictures you’ll find below, we’ve found some more details on the R8 V12 TDI coming to Detroit next week. The diesel mill’s 500hp should drop four tenths of a second off the 0-100km/h time to bring it down to 4.2 seconds. Fuel consumption will be...

Continuing Ferrari’s Formula 1 tradition, the Prancing Horse today launched its F2008 car for the upcoming season. The first of the new generation of cars to incorporate the mandatory Standard Electronic Control Unit (SECU) produced by Mclaren Electronic Systems, the F2008 comes a day ahead...

Oil topped $100 per barrel in America just the other day and fuel conservation is now a hotter topic than ever. Some pundits are predicting gasoline prices in excess of US$4 per gallon before the end of Q1. Sure, these prices are pretty tame by the rest of the world’s standards, but Americans...

Max Mosley has played down formula one drivers’ fears that the ban on traction control will make the sport more dangerous in wet weather. The FIA president denies that the removal of driver aids is set to compromise safety, after a group of drivers expressed their concerns to the British...

Ford’s first Escape plug-in hybrid vehicle is ready to start real-world testing along with electric utility South California Edison. Ford today delivered the first of the 20 research vehicles, which use high voltage lithium-ion batteries and have a fuel-economy figure of 120mpg. Full charge...

Sporting the famous Gulf Oil livery worn by the GT40 that dominated Le Mans in the late 1960s, Auto Futura’s CAV GT is not a modern Ford GT dressed to look like the original, it’s a vintage remake of the actual GT40, using largely the same technology and equipment. The 2008 CAV GT comes...

Global warming concerns, urban pollution and the expected end of the petroleum fuel supply were closer to the forefront of American consciousness in 2007 than ever before. While changes to America’s highly automobile-dependent infrastructure are nearly as slow as those to the environment...

General Motors is looking to dump V8 engines on its luxury cars altogether and replacing them with high power direct injection V6 engines in the near future. Cadillac was expected to be the main recipient of GM’s new V8 engines, to be built in its Tonawanda, N.Y. plant with an investment of...

It’s becoming something of a trend for electric-powered cars to fail to meet deadlines and goals - in the case of cars such as the Tesla, repeatedly. GM’s Volt series hybrid has added itself to the list of potential no-shows, stating that a 2010 debut for the Volt couldn’t be...

Last year London Mayor Ken Livingstone announced an increase in London’s daily congestion fee for vehicles entering the UK’s capital city. Along with the fee hike came a new fee of £25 (US$50) per day - this time aimed at high CO2-emitting vehicles including trucks, buses, SUVs, luxury...

A new set of rules could have an immediate impact on the 2008 formula one championship, according to BMW-Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld. The German driver told his website that he is “anxious” to see the effect that the ban on driver aids including traction and launch control will have...

Europe has embraced diesel-fueled vehicles and their efficient - if not always clean-burning - ways for decades. While Americans were running around celebrating the 50mpg Prius, Europe was yawning, pointing at its fleet of diesels that easily match or exceed the Prius’ petroleum parsimony. So...

For a car maker that prides itself on being the ‘Ultimate Driving Machine’ BMW spends quite a lot of time making sure passengers also have an excellent experience. Some of BMW’s customers think they’ve gone to far, complaining that even the sport-package equipped version of...

Ford’s ‘other’ brands had a hard time in 2007 - Jaguar and Land Rover were sold, Volvo was in the dumps, Mercury was rumoured to be on the chopping block and Lincoln was forced to apply approximately 20lb of chrome to every vehicle it sold. It seems Mazda was the only Ford-owned...

Team principal Tadashi Yamashina says he has been given two more years to deliver the goods for Toyota in formula one. The Japanese took the reigns of the struggling Cologne based team earlier this year, following a half decade of underperformance despite Toyota’s top annual budget...