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Nick Heidfeld will have his wings clipped when he tackles the Nurburgring's famous 'Nordschleife' layout in a BMW-Sauber this weekend. For a BMW event, the German will drive the 22km layout known as 'Green Hell' that almost claimed Niki Lauda's life back in 1976. But team officials have clipped...

The spy shots last week told us what to expect and now GM has unveiled the 2008 Corvette, fitted with a new 6.2L LS3 V8 engine developing 430hp and 575 Nm of torque. Other changes include the option of a new dual-mode exhaust system, improved manual and automatic transmissions, better steering...

It seems things are much worse over at Nissan than first thought. The carmaker announced its first drop in annual profit in seven years today, the first major loss under the guidance of Carlos Ghosn who admits that it’ll be at least 12 months until key production targets are met. Nissan has...

Despite the rising cost of fuel, genuine muscle cars are as popular as ever it seems with new versions of the Ford Mustang, Chrysler 300C SRT-8, Pontiac GTO and Chevy Camaro all scheduled to hit showrooms in the not too distant future. Now, The Detroit News is reporting that Chrysler could be...

Updated: There may be some hope for Ford after all. The Blue Oval has posted a much smaller net loss for the quarter, which stands at $282 million. Though this seems a lot, it pales in comparison to the whopping $1.4 billion loss for the same period last year and shows that Ford is heading in the...

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the movie Redline. Who could forget the bizarre Ferrari Enzo crash caught on video with one of the film’s actors, comedian Eddie Griffin, behind the wheel. That car, along with this Porsche Carrera GT, was owned by the movie’s producer...

Despite rising crude prices and a push for more enviro-friendly cars, the average fuel efficiency of American made cars and trucks sold last year has not improved since 2005. The figure has remained at an average of 25.4mpg according to data released from the federal government and published by the...

It’s rare to see just a single supercar out on public roads, so imagine what it would be like to witness three of these incredible machines take to the highways for some enthusiastic driving. You’ve gotta love the Italian police force’s attitude towards the exotics. Note: only the...

The auto world was shocked when the first images were leaked of Subaru’s next-generation Impreza and its sporty WRX variant. Almost everyone who saw them came to the same conclusion, that either it was some sort of prank or that Subaru’s designers had totally lost the plot. This was...

Despite their low numbers and high-tech security features, luxury vehicles still rank highly in a list of America’s most likely stolen autos with the recently updated Cadillac Escalade scoring worst among the luxury makes. The results come from the US Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), which...

F1's long running Toyota espionage saga has ended with the two former Ferrari employees handed jail sentences. Mauro Iacconi and Angelo Santini have been found guilty in a Modena court of stealing design information from Ferrari before switching to Toyota in 2002, according to Italian newspapers on...

German tuning house Edo Competition has taken a look under the hood of Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] retro GT supercar and worked its magic to the tune of 610 horsepower. Not happy with the performance from the standard car’s all-aluminum supercharged V-8, the tuners added a new sports...

Due to be unveiled at this weekend’s gathering at the National Corvette Museum in BowlingGreen, the 2008 model-year Chevrolet Corvette has been spied by a member from DigitalCorvettes, whose images reveal a new LS3 V8 powerplant. Power for the entry-level model is expected to jump by 30hp...

It’s official. Toyota has overtaken General Motors to become the world’s number one car company in terms of sales for the first three months of the year. For the January-March quarter, Toyota managed to sell 2.348 million vehicles versus 2.26 million vehicles sold by GM over the same...

Having begun its European expansion the next step for China’s Brilliance is the lucrative US market. If everything goes to plan, the company could be shipping models as early as this year or early 2008. Brilliance already sells the BS4 sedan in Europe and plans to expand this to include the...

Czech carmaker Skoda has been given the go-ahead from parent company Volkswagen to produce a new small 4x4 model based on its Yeti concept car that was displayed at 2006’s Geneva Motor Show. Smaller than VW’s upcoming Tiguan soft-roader, the new Yeti is expected to be built using a mix...

It seems Rolls-Royce CEO Ian Robertson can’t keep his mouth shut surrounding information about the luxury marque's forthcoming new entrant. After revealing production details for the new model back at February’s Geneva Motor Show, Robertson has spilt the beans with Reuters at this...

Pictured above is the Maserati GS Zagato, a special one-off creation commissioned by Italian furniture bigwig Paolo Boffi, who took inspiration from the original 1954 Maserati A6 Zagato. Based on Maserati’s Gransport Spyder, the all-aluminum custom features a 180mm shorter wheelbase and a...

This weekend saw Spyker’s F8-VII Formula One racecar pitted against an F16 jet-fighter from the Royal Netherlands Air Force in a drag race. The event, named 'Full Throttle', saw Dutch driver Christijan Albers race his F1 car side by side against Captain Ralph Aarts in the high-tech aircraft...

Mystery solved -- it has emerged from the venue of the Turkish grand prix that F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone is attending the MotoGP race in Istanbul this weekend because he has bought the circuit. We previously reported that the 76-year-old turned up on Friday at the 'Otodrom', also known as...