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  • Mercedes-Benz Seals Deal To Name Louisiana Superdome

    The New Orleans Saints will be playing in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for the next 10 years, the carmaker announced today. The brand is already the "official and exclusive" vehicle for the Saints. In addition to the NFL tie-in, the stadium naming deal means the Mercedes-Benz name will be headlining the likes of the 2012 Men's Final Four and BCS Championship game and the 2013 Super Bowl. Mercedes-Benz says it's a natural alliance between a world-class brand and a world-class facility, but to our eye it looks a lot like a competitive step in the ongoing war between Mercedes-Benz and BMW for the...

  • 2008 Lamborghini Estoque Concept
    Lamborghini: We'll Confirm Third Model Within Weeks

    Lamborghini will decide by the "beginning of next year" on what form its third model will take--whether it's a sedan, an SUV or something entirely unexpected. The resulting vehicle will not be on sale before 2016, says CEO Stephan Winkelmann. A concept car in advance of the new vehicle seems a...

  • 2011 Nissan Juke-R Concept
    Nissan GT-R Based Juke-R Concept May Spawn Tamer Production Version

    Nissan is working on a project based around shoehorning the mighty GT-R drivetrain into the body of a Juke crossover. One might wonder why Nissan would go to such great lengths to pull off such a feat, but for the Japanese automaker and its engineers the reason is simple: to drum up excitement and...

  • Forza Motorsport 4 trailer voiced by Jeremy Clarkson
    Clarkson Delivers Eulogy Of Fun Driving With Forza Trailer: Video

    Jeremy Clarkson is many things: tall, obstinate, outrageous, British, and even, occasionally, right. But if the message in the latest Forza Motorsport 4 trailer he voices is true, he is also the harbinger of the death of driving for fun. The video, showing an Aston Martin DB9 being used in a futile...

  • 1957 Chevy 150 sedan from 'Pawn Stars'
    1957 Chevy From 'Pawn Stars' Catches Fire, Gets Restored Within Hours

    Unless you're a fan of the TV series Pawn Stars, you might've missed the news on Friday that a 1957 Chevy 150 sedan belonging to the "Old Man" overheated and burst into flames. But there's a follow-up piece that might interest you: the classic car was restored in just a matter of hours, and it's...

  • Top Gear USA preps for its second season
    Top Gear USA Season 2 Extended: 8 More Episodes On The Way

    General consensus among Top Gear fans wasn't too positive for the first season of Top Gear USA. For anyone who'd caught episodes of the UK version and enjoyed the crazy antics of Clarkson, Hammond and May, it just wasn't up to scratch. Heck, even if you'd not seen an episode of the UK series it...

  • 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque

    The 2012 Range Rover Evoque is the first vehicle fully capable of off-roading—not just light trail use—to employ magnetorheological suspension technology

  • 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8. Photo by Alex Bellus
    2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8: The Executive's Muscle Car

    Photos by Alex Bellus Say you have a family of four plus a dog, a job downtown as a mid-level executive, and you are a proud American. What do you drive? While you'd love to have a muscle car, your wife says a two-door just isn't practical right now. Well, let me introduce you to the new 2012...

  • 2012 Bentley Continental GTC
    2012 Bentley Continental GTC: First Drive

    Croatia doesn't sound like anything familiar to Americans, but Europeans have been calling it the "new Tuscany" since they turned their timeshare-building, economy-hyperinflating attentions away from the last "new Tuscany" in southern Spain. We're still puzzled about what was wrong with the old...

  • 2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 5
    2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 5 Preview

    The ActiveHybrid 5 joins the BMW lineup as the third hybrid for the brand. Packing plenty of power and advanced technology, it should prove an interesting choice from green-minded luxury buyers.

  • Researchers in Switzerland testing mind reading technology
    Nissan Working On Mind Reading Technology For Cars

    While the idea of implementing mind reading technology in an automotive application is nothing new, in fact, it’s something Ferrari has previously been reported as dabbling in, this is the first time that we’ve seen an automaker actually confirm an interest in the field. Nissan is...

  • Hugh Jackman
    Hugh Jackman Signs On As Audi’s Newest Brand Ambassador

    Aussie actor Hugh Jackman has joined the likes of fellow entertainers Justin Timberlake, Naomi Watts, and Lang Lang as the latest brand ambassador for Audi. The announcement was made during the Australian premiere of Disney’s latest action movie, Real Steel, where Jackman rolled up to the...

  • 2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR

    Though it's well out of production and nearing the outer limits of what qualifies as a "production" car in the first place, the Dodge Viper ACR has reset the benchmark in road-going performance at the Nurburgring-Nordschleife with a 7:12.13 lap. Straight from the gearheads at SRT, the video shows what we've all been waiting for since word of the lap first broke earlier this month. Showing what is a largely uneventful, but very, very brisk lap, the video serves as the evidence everyone has wanted: the Viper is the new King of the 'Ring (again). The driver for this September 14 lap was Dominik...

  • Subaru XV (European spec)
    Subaru Impreza XV Will Come To U.S. For 2013: Exclusive

    For 2012, the Subaru Outback Sport model has been retired, replaced by a new Impreza Sport model that combines a specific set of options. But Motor Authority has learned that for 2013, the Subaru XV model unveiled two weeks ago at the Frankfurt Motor Show will come to the States--although not under...

  • 2012 MINI John Cooper Works Coupe
    2012 MINI Cooper Coupe: First Drive

    There are at least two ways to look at the arrival of the 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe: "Yay! Another MINI to love!"; and, "Another MINI? Why?" Whichever camp you fall into, the MINI Coupe shouldn't be called just another MINI, despite the fact that it very much is. Before we can make sense of that...

  • 2012 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Coupe
    Mercedes-Benz Facing Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged AMG V-8 Defects

    Mercedes-Benz may soon be facing a class action lawsuit over alleged defects in its M156 6.2-liter V-8 engine, used in seven different AMG models.

  • 2009 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Concept
    Welburn on C7 Corvette: Don't Be That Guy

    Chevy is trying to find the ultimate formula of tradition and modernity in redesigning its greatest icon: the Corvette.

  • 2011 Dodge Durango
    Dodge Durango SRT8: Str8 to production?

    Ability and feasibility aren't always harmonious. The former is usually in greater supply than the latter; denial and enabling fill the void. Final words before epic fail often go, “I’d be a fool not to do this,” “What could possibly go wrong?” or the two most...

  • New Jensen Interceptor artist impressions

    It sometimes seems that not a week goes by without some long-dead British sports car name from the past being revived, and the latest to make an appearance is Jensen. Between 1966 and 1976 Jensen sold the Interceptor, a two-door, four-seat grand tourer with a 383-cubic-inch Chrysler -V8 and a typically British fiberglass body. It was quite a ground-breaker at the time, being one of the first production cars to offer four-wheel drive with the Jensen FF, which also came with ABS and traction control. The new version is likely to be less groundbreaking but in the tradition of the best British...

  • 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster
    2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster: First Drive

    It's been nearly two years since we took you along for a first drive of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG gullwing, live from Laguna Seca. We were the first to call it Mercedes' Viper, summing it up thusly: "It's partly American in its tendency to speak out, part Italian in its cool-first aesthetic, and...

  • 2012 Mercedes-Benz B-Class
    First Mercedes-Benz U.S. Compact Luxury Vehicle To Debut At 2012 New York Auto Show

    With the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz B-Class freshly unveiled in Frankfurt, there's a lot of talk within the company about premium compacts. Unfortuately, there's been no solid word on the matter as yet for America--but we might not have too long to wait. Mercedes announced at an event this evening in...

  • Ford Fiesta ST Concept
    Ford Fiesta ST Concept Preview: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    Though its bigger, production-bound brother, the 2012 Focus ST, stole the hot-hatch limelight yesterday, today Ford released the Fiesta ST Concept, and it just might be the more interesting of the two. Packing a 177-horsepower turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine inside an exterior that...

  • 2013 Lexus GS 450h
    2013 Lexus GS 450h Preview: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    The 2013 Lexus GS 350 was just revealed a few weeks ago at Pebble Beach, and now it's time for it's bigger, hybrid brother to take the stage: the 2013 GS 450h has made its debut ahead of the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. Powered by a 3.5-liter V-6 sporting an Atkinson Cycle valve timing, 13:1...

  • 2011 Maserati SUV Concept leaked
    Maserati's Frankfurt Auto Show SUV Concept Leaked?

    We already knew that a Maserati SUV concept based around the award-winning 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee platform would be unveiled at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show on September 13, but now, just days out from the event, an alleged image of the luxury off-road concept has leaked onto the Web. Appearing...

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