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  • 2020 Chevrolet Corvette (C8) spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien

    The mid-engine car everyone thinks will be the C8 Chevrolet Corvette has been spotted again. The latest shots show a prototype testing alongside the mystery C7 Corvette thought to be a new ZR1 range-topper. Saab may be dead but its 9-3 will live on. The company that bought the rights to the Swedish automaker will soon start building electric 9-3s at a plant in China. Ferrari’s LaFerrari hypercar features a little piece of technology that the Italian firm was banned from using in Formula One. The technology is used to enhance the volumetric efficiency of the car’s V-12 mill. You'll...

  • McLaren Production Center in Woking, England
    McLaren to partner with BMW on next-gen engine tech

    The last time McLaren and BMW collaborated on an engine, the result was the world-beating McLaren F1. Now the two firms are joining forces again to develop next-generation engine technology. Working with a number of other firms including current McLaren engine supplier Ricardo, as well as metals...

  • Final seventh-generation Rolls-Royce Phantom
    7th-gen Rolls-Royce Phantom production ends after 13 years

    A new, eighth-generation Rolls-Royce Phantom is due in 2018 but production of the current model has already wound up. Rolls-Royce on Tuesday revealed the final seventh-generation Phantom to roll off the line at its plant in Goodwood, England. Its build was commissioned by a Rolls-Royce collector...

  • General Motors Brownstown Township factory for assembly of Chevrolet Volt battery packs
    GM, Honda form joint venture for mass production of fuel cells

    General Motors and Honda on Tuesday announced plans to produce a next-generation hydrogen fuel cell system together starting around 2020. The two automakers are making equal investments totaling $85 million in the joint venture, labeled Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, and will use the resulting...

  • Saab 9-3 EV electric prototype shown by NEVS, 2014
    Saab 9-3 production to live on… in China

    Production of the Saab 9-3 sedan will restart for the second time, only this time around the cars will be sold under the NEVS brand, feature electric powertrains and be produced in China. NEVS, which bought the assets of Saab following the Swedish firm’s bankruptcy in late 2011, and briefly...

  • 2016 Volkswagen GTI Clubsport S
    Could next VW GTI get a hybrid horsepower boost?

    For Volkswagen, the diesel engine is dead here in the United States. The automaker knows it needs to bring a steady stream of electrified options to our shores to help keep its lineup in the good graces of the car buying public. These cars already exist, and more will be added to the future lineup...

  • Engineering Explained talks about the banned F1 tech used by the LaFerrari

    Anytime you get to use the term "banned F1 technology" you know you're going to be talking about something very interesting and very cool. That's the case today because the topic is the magical engine placed into the belly of the beast called the LaFerrari. This is a 6.3-liter 800-horsepower V-12 that works together with a hybrid system to pack a prancing horse punch. Today's engines employ all sorts of variable trickery to generate more power, fewer emissions, or a combination of the two. It's typically the timing of the intake or exhaust valves, and it can happen on the camshaft or through...

  • 2017 Kia Optima
    Kia's Georgia plant is making a Super Bowl-sized run of Optimas

    The Atlanta Falcons may have new allies in helping stop the New England Patriot's edge-rushing talent for the Super Bowl this weekend. A new offensive line with a combined weight of 18,000 pounds could do it. This week, Kia's manufacturing plant in West Point, Georgia, announced it will build...

  • 2018 Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid
    Report: Porsche planning more potent, V-8-equipped Panamera hybrid

    Porsche’s Panamera already comes as a hybrid but there are reports claiming a second, more potent gasoline-electric option will be offered, this one throwing a V-8 into the mix. Last summer Motor Trend came out with a report that a 918 Spyder-inspired Panamera with 700 horsepower was on the...

  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG E63 S
    Learn the 50-year history of Mercedes-AMG

    Mercedes-AMG has earned quite the name for itself over the years as Mercedes-Benz's performance arm, and for those who have forgotten the past—or never really knew it in the first place—a video is making the rounds showing AMG's roots. The video takes the viewer from AMG’s...

  • 2017 Maserati Levante, 2016 Geneva Motor Show
    Maserati: What’s new for 2017

    Maserati’s plans to boost sales to 50,000 units annually has hit a snag. The automaker is facing slowing demand in the key market of China and plans for a redesigned GranTurismo as well as a new sports car based on 2014’s Alfieri concept have been pushed back. That doesn’t mean we...

  • 2017 Dodge Challenger GT, Media drive, Portland, Maine, January 2017
    Dodge Challenger GT driven, Mercedes-AMG GLC63 spied, Toyota Supra rendered: Today’s Car News

    Dodge’s Challenger now comes in all-wheel-drive flavor. We found it to be a big, spacious coupe with killer retro looks, and genuinely fun to drive in the snow. Another vehicle that should prove fun to drive in the snow is the upcoming Mercedes-AMG GLC63 Coupe. A prototype has just been...

  • 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan

    The Volkswagen Group has overtaken Toyota to become the world's biggest automaker by volume, with its sales for 2016 coming at 10.31 million vehicles. That compares to Toyota’s tally of 10.175 million over the same period. It’s the first time VW has been at the top of the sales ranks, while for Toyota it’s the first time in four years that it has missed out on the top spot. General Motors Company [NYSE:GM], which has been the world’s biggest automaker in more years than any other, is yet to announce sales for figures for 2016 but is expected to rank third overall. ALSO...

  • 2020 Toyota Supra rendering - Image via SupraMkV
    2019 Toyota Supra rendered

    Toyota’s new sports car based on a platform developed with BMW is nearing completion. The car, which many predict will revive the Supra name, will reportedly be previewed in concept form during October’s 2017 Tokyo auto show and is likely follow in production trim shortly after. We...

  • Eagle Spyder GT
    Eagle adds Spyder GT to its list of beautiful bespoke machines

    Eagle is a company that should be on your radar. The reason? Eagle is responsible for turning out truly lovely machines, and it's all based around the forever iconic Jaguar E-Type. The British firm takes existing E-Types and either refurbishes them or upgrades them into even more intriguing...

  • No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R  at 2017 24 Hours of Daytona
    1-2 finish for Cadillac DPi-V.R at 2017 24 Hours of Daytona

    Cadillac’s new DPi-V.R scored a one-two finish on Sunday at the 24 Hours of Daytona after dominating the whole weekend. Crossing the line in first place was the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R , fielded in the premier Prototype class by Wayne Taylor Racing and driven by Max Angelelli...

  • 2016 Manor Formula One race car
    End of the road for F1 backmarker Manor

    Formula One team Manor Racing, formerly Marussia, was disbanded on Friday. The news comes after the team announced on January 6 that it had entered administration, similar to bankruptcy protection, after several months of failed talks with potential investors to back it in the 2017 season. But with...

  • 2018 Aston Martin Vanquish S Volante
    Aston Martin Vanquish S, Audi R8 V10 Spyder, Dodge Demon: This Week’s Top Photos

    Aston Martin’s Vanquish S Volante is one of the sexiest drop-tops in production right now. It sports a 580-horsepower V-12, a carbon fiber body and extra plush Bridge of Weir Caithness leather trim. We flew to Granada, Spain to drive the refreshed 2017 Subaru BRZ with the new Performance...

  • 2017 Dodge Challenger GT, Media drive, Portland, Maine, January 2017

    How do you make an old car new again? If you’re Dodge and your Challenger's structure hasn’t significantly changed since it was released for the 2008 model year, you add an all-wheel-drive system from an existing product, slap a new model name on it, and call the all-season muscle car. The result is the 2017 Dodge Challenger GT. Now, Dodge did a little more than that, but we'd have a lot more to say if we were reviewing the next generation Challenger today, the one built on the Alfa Romeo Giulia's platform, instead of a “new” version of a nine-year old car. But Fiat...

  • Genesis Smartwatch app
    Genesis pairs its cars with a brand new smartwatch app

    Want to feel like you're living in the future? Start talking to your watch and have it tell your car what to do. That's what Genesis owners will be able to do when they download a new app for their smartwatch. For those owners who also have an Apple Watch or an Android Wear timepiece, the new...

  • Mercedes-AMG GT Roadster in Super Bowl commercial
    Mercedes 'Easy Driver' Super Bowl spot features Peter Fonda, AMG GT Roadster

    The Coen Brothers are rightfully viewed as directorial geniuses. With such masterpieces as "Fargo," "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou," "Miller's Crossing," "and "The Big Lebowski" under their belts, their take on the world can range from understated to surreal to hyper real. It's not often you can get...

  • Lamborghini Sesto Elemento for sale - Image via Craigslist
    Lamborghini Sesto Elemento shows up on... Craigslist?

    It never ceases to amaze us what shows up on Craigslist. For example, right now you’ll find a Sesto—frickin—Elemento listed on the popular classifieds website as tipped off by Motor Authority fan Drex. The asking price for the rare Lamborghini supercar is $4.5 million. ALSO SEE...

  • Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive
    Mercedes-AMG boss Moers says hybrids coming after 2020

    The future for Mercedes-AMG will be more than just fire-breathing, turbocharged engines. AMG boss Tobias Moers told Motor Authority on Thursday at a media event in Los Angeles that the brand will have a hybrid and electric future—maybe soon. "We are not able to change the future," Moers said...

  • Ed Pink Racing builds the engines for Singer
    Peek inside Ed Pink Racing to see where Singer gets its engines

    Starting back in the mid 1940s, a man named Ed Pink started building engines—masterfully built engines designed for vehicles to go racing. The Ed Pink Racing Engines enterprise has had a home in Van Nuys, California since 1965 and drag racers all over the world have turned to EPRE for...

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