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After first presenting the 05 at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Mexican sports car startup VUHL has returned to this year’s running of the popular British event with a new, more hardcore version of the track car. The new version is called the 05RR, and it's said to be packing more power...

Niche British sports car marque Noble has finally unveiled the production version of its M600 Speedster. We first saw the open-top supercar as a computer-generated rendering four years ago but at this week’s 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed we were finally treated with the real deal. The car...

Poised to win its first ever 24 Hours of Le Mans last weekend, tragedy struck for Toyota as its leading #5 TS050 Hybrid prototype competing in the premier LMP1 category suddenly lost power in the closing minutes of the race. Details are now starting to emerge on what exactly went wrong with the...

Porsche is due to unveil its new Panamera sedan on June 28 but photos have already leaked onto the Internet. The leaked shots, sourced from Motor1, reveal a very handsome look for the second-generation Panamera and provide us with a few details of the interior. From previous spy shots and video we...

What happens when you open up ideas for a new stunt track to the world? Well, you get a bunch of goofy suggestions. Honda did just that to promote its Civic Coupe and produced a video to prove it. In this video, stunt driver Matt Powers takes the wheel of a series of Civics to attack Honda's "Dream...

We are still patiently waiting for Lexus' new LC sports coupe to hit the market, but now we get to see it in action. The automaker's German arm recently released a video teasing the coupe, and it offers us our first opportunity to hear its familiar V-8. The wait has been worthwhile. The LC 500 will...

In just 100 feet, an experimental electric vehicle engineered by students in Switzerland has accelerated to more than 60 mph. The little electric vehicle, which looks like an open wheel racer with dwarfism and an especially enormous rear wing, recently sprinted from a stop to 100 kph, or about 62...

Four a couple months now, we've been following the restoration of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] GT40 Mk II, chassis P1046, that won the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car was purchased in 2014 by Rob Kaufman, owner of classic car dealer RK Motors Charlotte. While it was in pretty good shape...

Lamborghini rolled out a special version of its Aventador on the opening day of the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the United Kingdom. The car honors the iconic Miura which celebrates its 50th this year. The special edition model is based on the Aventador LP 700-4 but features colors and a few...

Volkswagen has announced a series of modest updates for the 2017 edition of its Touareg SUV, changes that come just prior to what is expected to be a full redesign next year. The big differences are in the details since the V-6-powered mid-size SUV remains mechanically unchanged. The mid-level Lux...

The fastest car at last weekend's 24 Hours of Le Mans wasn't decked out with sponsor graphics and racing tires. It was, instead, a street-legal Bugatti that you, too, can buy... assuming you're of the especially well-heeled variety. We are of course talking about the new Chiron. Bugatti CEO...

McLaren has unveiled a new road car that’s really the spiritual successor of one of the most sought-after cars of all time, the legendary F1 LM. The new model is the P1 LM, and it’s a lighter, more extreme version of the P1 GTR. Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller has revealed...

BMW engineers are out testing an updated version of the svelte BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe. It’s the first time a car from BMW’s 4-Series range has been spotted in updated form and we should see similarly updated versions of the 4-Series coupe and convertible models start testing soon. The...

For many shopping for a new car, something that’s well-built and reliable can be more desirable than how fast a car goes or how many bells and whistles it comes with. One of the best means of determining these attributes is checking the annual studies conducted by J.D. Power, and the two most...

Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller last week announced an all-encompassing strategy that will see the automaker through the next 10 years and hopefully leave behind any lingering thoughts of the recent emissions cheating scandal, which incidentally VW is close to settling in the United...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed may be more of a homage of the past than a glimpse into the future, but the latter is just what Briggs Automotive Company is offering with the new carbon composite wheel set it is introducing at this annual British automotive celebration. The wheels were specifically...

KTM's wild, bare bones X-Bow will be available to American buyers next year, but the Austrian firm won't need to bother with installing license plate holders for the track-oriented cars. Wards Auto reports that KTM will build about 15 American-specification X-Bows next year, none of which will be...

Yes, there's a lot more to car maintenance than simply changing the oil. One of the most overlooked aspects is an engine's cooling system, which is as crucial to car owners in Arizona as it is to those in Alaska. Here, our friend Jason Fenske, the host of the ever-popular Engineering Explained...

Lamborghini has been researching lightweight materials for use on its cars for more than three decades and has dedicated research facilities set up to develop new and better materials. One of the automaker’s more recent developments was forged composites, which is nearly as strong as...

The compact, rear-wheel drive show car we got so excited about at the Nissan stand a few years ago is back, but it isn't headed to dealers. Instead, as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson pointed out in a post on his Instagram channel, the IDx NISMO show car will apparently play a role in the upcoming eighth...