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Just days after announcing an upcoming line of clean diesel products dubbed “EcoDiesel,” Chrysler has filed paperwork with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to claim the “HFE High Fuel Efficiency” name as its own. As Car and Driver reports, the automaker had previously...

Porsche is now officially part of the Volkswagen Group, with the two companies announcing this week that Volkswagen will purchase the remaining 50.1-percent stake in the sports car manufacturer for 4.46 billion euros (approximately $5.6 billion) from its current holding company owner Porsche SE...

Mazda is giving its MX-5 Miata a mild update before the arrival of a successor sometime next year or in early 2014. Today it has revealed the updated version of the current model that hits Japanese showrooms this week, and should arrive in the U.S. before the year is out. Subtle changes to the...

McLaren Automotive is expanding its lineup with the addition of its second model, the new 2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spider, which is ready for order and is priced from $268,250 including destination. The convertible supercar comes just one year after the launch of the hard-top MP4-12C and gets all the...

You've known the Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake was coming for a while now (and you even saw the leaked photos and details this morning), but the time is finally here: the wagon that would be a coupe has made its official web debut. Coming during the Goodwood Festival of Speed weekend, it's a...

The massive Waldo Canyon wildfire in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area, has spread flames, smoke, and ash as high as 20,000 feet and consumed more than 15,000 acres, creating tremendous, almost incredible images--and causing the U.S. Forest Service to forbid the running of the 90th Pikes Peak...

How does a $23,000, 201-horsepower Hyundai Veloster grab you? Great, right? You'd be surprised how challenging it is to other front-drive fans. It sounds silly, even ridiculous, to those who bow to the old school of hot hatchbacks. But it has to worry them, too. Sign up: Get our best headlines...

Driving can be stressful, and stress is a distraction. Driving can also be boring, and that can be distracting, too. So what can be done about it? Ford is working on a system that integrates various biometric measurements like pulse, galvanic skin response, and breathing rate to determine the...

Proceeds from the sale of the first 2013 SRT Viper will go to benefit the Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer.

The MINI range has burst forth in proliferation over the past handful of years, expanding from the Cooper and Convertible and their three variants to include the Clubman, Countryman, Coupe, Roadster, and now the Clubvan. Rooted--loosely--in history to the Morris Mini Van, the Clubvan aims to secure...

The new Bentley Continental GT Speed will make its official public debut at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed, but first, we get this early look at its essential features--and a small gallery of photos.

With the big-dog Le Mans 24 hour race just in the books for 2012, the American Le Mans Series has kicked up its program for the rest of the year, which will climax at the Petit Le Mans this fall. But the series is already looking to next year, too, with an announcement today that natural...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a nearly religious experience for the dedicated motorsports fan, and this year, it will feature a holy trinity of its own: three of the six-wheeled F1 cars, gathered in one place for the first time in history. Three six-wheeled F1 cars, you say? Why yes, though...

Continuing his somewhat unlikely but nevertheless awesome partnership with Hot Wheels, Tanner Foust is preparing to do something even crazier than his life-sized toy car jump: a parallel double loop-the-loop. Coming on the heels of Top Gear Live's successful sequential double loop-the-loop, the...

Ford's revised Mustang configurator website will give fans the chance to win one of four customized 2013 Mustang models.

Volvo is set to unveil a new performance concept based on its 2012 Volvo S60 TTA race car. Could a production version be just around the corner?

Hyundai. Zombies. Comic books. What? We're not entirely sure what's going on here, but we kind of like it. In celebration of the 100th issue of The Walking Dead comic, the Hyundai Elantra GT will get a special wrap bearing the issue's cover art. Better yet, Robert Kirkman, owner of the Skybound...

Rumors of a performance diesel version of the Audi Q5 emerged just days ago, and now Audi has delivered the goods: the Audi SQ5, powered by a 313-horsepower, 479 pound-feet of torque twin-turbo 3.0-liter diesel V-6 engine. That's a lot of grunt for a relatively compact crossover, and the...

You've seen the move (in movies, at least) before: two cars are moving along the highway at high speed, when someone crawls out of one in an attempt to get to the other. If it's a hero at work, it usually succeeds. Here, it's not a movie, but real life, and the bad guys don't win. These Romanian...

Every year since 1999, a worldwide panel of automotive journalists has been organized by Engine Technology International magazine, part of UKIP Media & Events. Their task is not an easy one: identify the best engines in the world, split into a dozen different categories. Since what defines a...