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The Opel Insignia will be redesigned in 2017, with the new model to also serve as a replacement for the existing Buick Regal and Holden Commodore in General Motors Company’s [NYSE:GM] global fleet. Opel on Tuesday gave a glimpse at the headlight design of the new car and confirmed it will...

Mercedes-AMG’s GT3 will be lining up on the grid for the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, which kicks off next January with the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The cars will be entered in the GT Daytona (GTD) class, designed for production-based race cars built to GT3 specifications. Rivals...

Tesla [NSDQ:TSLA] on Tuesday announced it has entered an agreement to buy privately-owned Grohmann Engineering. Upon completion of the deal, estimated to be in early 2017, the company will be rebranded Tesla Grohmann Automation. Based in Prüm, Germany, Grohmann Engineering develops automated...

Hybrids, traditionally, have been synonymous with everything that isn't fun about driving—commutes, traffic, gas mileage, and penny pinching. In recent years, though, they've taken on a high-performance sheen, thanks mostly to the introduction of hybrid sports cars where the electrical side...

Spy photographers have a few tools at their disposal to get the shot of that latest model from an automaker. They know where they test. They know when they're running the cars. They have long lenses and lots of patience. These days, some of them might also consider turning to a drone for increased...

It's as if the earth shook when Ram pulled the wraps off the Hellcat-powered Rebel TRX concept. Why? Because it's been a while since something generated this much buzz on Motor Authority. Of course, Ram's labeling this thing a concept, so don't get your hopes up too soon. Ford has the F-150 Raptor...

Police chases are incredibly dangerous. For the public that happens to be in the path of the pursuit, the officer, and the perp, it's a high-speed event that could have tragic results. A PIT (precision immobilization technique) maneuver can bring things to an end but it can also wind up causing a...

Doing a side wheelie must be the en vogue automotive stunt of the moment. Recently, we saw the fastest speed for a car driven on two wheels set by a Finnish stunt driver in a BMW 330d. Now we have a Chinese stunt driver setting a Mini on two wheels, and driving a complete lap of the...

Prototypes for a new Toyota sports car expected to revive the Supra name have been testing in public for the past several months. A video of one of the prototypes has surfaced and gives us a good dose of the car’s engine noise. Though it’s hard to be sure, the engine sounds a lot like a...

Still disappointed by Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] decision to equip its 2017 F-150 Raptor with a V-6? Don’t sweat it because there are a handful of reputable tuning shops that offer F-150-based performance pickups packing V-8 grunt. Among them is semi-official Ford tuner Roush, which...

The Chevrolet Camaro gets the track-focused 1LE package for the 2017 model year. For those that truly enjoy driving, particularly on a track, the 1LE is the way to go... at least until the new Z/28 makes its debut. Acura’s new NSX has supercar looks coupled with hypercar technology. But what...

Chinese tech giant LeEco, the backer of American electric car startup Faraday Future, is running low on cash, its CEO and founder Jia Yueting has revealed. In a letter to employees, obtained by Bloomberg, Yueting said the company’s recent expansion, in particular into auto manufacturing, has...

Unfortunately for some of us, 1990 doesn't feel like long ago. It was a watershed year for the car industry; Lexus was new, so was the Miata. Same goes for the Acura NSX. It was the supercar from 1990 that was so user-friendly it could only have come from Honda. The NSX arrived at the peak of the...

Buick has released a single teaser shot for a new concept car debuting on November 18 at the 2016 Guangzhou auto show. The concept is called the Velite and its purpose is to mark the introduction of a new Buick Blue brand for electrified vehicles in China. Velite will be a familiar name to Buick...

Mercedes-Benz vehicles are notorious for their smooth ride quality. Bumps and ruts just don't bother passengers in Mercedes vehicles like they do in other cars. How does Mercedes do it? Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained is here to tell us. In this video, Jason analyzes how two Mercedes...

Since Ford released it for the 2010 model year, the F-150 Raptor has been a hit for the Blue Oval. Why not? It's a mean machine, with genuine off-road performance. Now a new 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor is on the way. Even if you take sales out of the equation, the amount of buzz the truck has drawn for...

Apollo Automobil, the Chinese-backed, Italian-based supercar company born out of the remains of Germany’s Gumpert, announced on Friday it has cut ties with Roland Gumpert. The former Audi executive is the founder and namesake of Gumpert and started working for Apollo after it bought the...

Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has promised to deliver a self-driving car within five years. It will have Level 4 self-driving capability, meaning it can drive on its own but is limited on where it can go due to a reliance on mapping data. Level 4 self-driving cars can also be upset by severe weather...

In Dubai, where the police drive Bugatti Veyrons and supercars can be found abandoned by the roadside, it should not surprise you that special license plates sell for significant sums. But the 33 million dirhams (approximately $9 million) bid for the “5” license plate is still shocking...

In its five-year strategy announcement for Dodge made in May 2014, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ [NYSE:FCAU] target date for redesigning the Challenger and Charger muscle cars was calendar year 2018. In 2015 we heard that the redesign might be delayed until 2019, and now we’re hearing that...