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On October 28th Bugatti will begin its attempt to get the Veyron recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's fastest production car. The attempt will take place at the Ehra Lessien test track located near Wolfsburg, Germany, and owned by Volkswagen. It kas an unbroken straight of 9.0...

Fiat’s baby Panda will produce 100hp in its Sport iteration, which is significant considering that the Panda is one of the smallest cars in Fiat’s line-up. The Panda Sport will accelerate from 0-100km/h in 9.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 185km/h. Thanks to the small displacement of...

Nissan has built a 5 mile (8.1km) high-speed test track at Rikubetsu, Ashoro on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. At a cost of close to 3.2 billion yen ($27.52 million), the newest addition to Nissan’s line-up of proving grounds is also its largest. It joins Nissan’s three other...

One of the major drawbacks of living in a trendy inner city apartment is the serious lack of garage space. It’s often the case that city dwellers must rely on a single car for the entire household, something that would be the bane of any auto enthusiast. Now Florida based company, Park Place...

US officials are expected to announce a proposal that would require all vehicles to be fitted with stability control systems that could greatly reduce the change of rollovers and single-car crashes. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, over 10,000 lives a year could be saved by...

Audi has just released images of its upcoming V12 powered turbo-diesel Q7 off-roader. The mega SUV is expected to be displayed at the Paris Motor Show and is set to be the most powerful diesel production car ever and will benefit from Audi’s Le Mans winning R10 racer, which is also powered by...

In an effort to expand its sports car lineup, Jaguar may be planning to release diesel and high-performance supercharged versions of the XK. Though there’s already a performance XK dubbed the XKR, Jaguar is planning a model with a supercharged 5L V8 engine that develops 550hp (410kW) and...

Presented as a concept a few years ago, no one really thought that the Tomahawk would get manufactured, but that's what Chrysler is reportedly doing. After all, a 500 horsepower motorbike? Surely that was a bit far-fetched? But with the greenlight given, it seems that the hyper Tomahawk will be...

The booming Chinese car market is now the 2nd largest in the world and 'First Auto Works', a major Chinese auto manufacturer, chose its hometown of Changchun to unveil its latest creation – an unmanned car. The vehicle is a Hongqi HQ3, and the driverless vehicle has been tested upto 37mph...

The dream garage. It exists somewhere for all of us, and we all have different ideas of the ultimate garage. But choosing a car these days is a tough prospect, what with the inundation of cars hitting the market. There are a lot of bad cars out there, but in the same vein there are also a lot of...

Seven-time Formula One World Championship winner Michael Schumacher has announced that he will retire at the end of the current season. He made the announcement after beating arch-rival Fernando Alonso and winning the 2006 Italian Grand Prix. The victory was the 90th in his illustrious career...

Dutch car manufacturer Spyker has confirmed it has acquired MidLand F1 Racing after bring in talks for almost a month. The new team will be called Spyker MF1 Racing and will be full owned by Spyker and valued at over $100m. Michiel Mol will join on as the team director and recently departed Toyota...

One of Ford’s “comeback” vehicles is the Shelby GT500, so it’s no surprise they’re pulling all stops to make sure it gets a great ad campaign. Here’s an ad that not only lets you hear the rumbling V8 in the car, but manages to be funny at the same time. We think...

These are the latest photos of the new Mondeo, which is due for release next year. The current model has been on sale since 2000 and is long overdue for an update to compete with other cars in its segment. The shots, taken by World Car Fans photographer Hans Lehmann, show the heavily concealed test...

BMW is prepping a fleet of hydrogen capable 7-series limousines to go on sale in 2007. In 2000, BMW showed off its first 7-series concept using a zero-emission system called CleanEnergy that allows the cars to use either hydrogen or petrol. The V12 engine is expected to develop 231hp and can switch...

Ferrari’s FXX program is one that's more exclusive than any other Ferrari program—including the Enzo—with just 31 FXXs in existence. But for Michael Schumacher it just got a little bit more exclusive. Schumie was given a special edition ‘Michael Schumacher’ FXX, decked...

It seems that while the Nazi's were quite a busy lot during their reign, they weren't too busy to try and break some world speed records. They maneged to build the sinister looking beast below - the 1939 Mercedes-Benz T-80 Weltrekordwagen. The ‘car’ features the largest engine that...

Peter Schwarzenbauer, CEO of Porsche, has spoken out about the long-accepted industry trade practice of 'incentives'. Faced with straggling sales and declining markets, major car companies such as Ford, Toyota, Daimler Chrysler and Honda often offer discounts to purchasers to increase demand for...

Nobody enjoys traffic. And if you live in a city like Los Angeles, traffic quickly starts to play a dominant role in your life. Such a reality has left me envious of George Jetson and his aerocar. Or Kobe Bryant and his daily commute to practice in a helicopter. I would love to fly over the...

This 22 minute long video outlines the entire history of the BMW 3-series - from its beginnings as a mid-sized sedan for the upper crust to its meteoric rise in becoming more ubiquitous than the Ford Mondeo in some countries. In just 22 minutes you can see how the Germans managed to create and...