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  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG E63 S

    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 founding 50 years ago as a performance engine builder to its early motorsport efforts and eventual transition to official performance arm of Mercedes-Benz. The company, founded by Hans-Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, was set up in an old mill in 1967, as an “engineering office and design and...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Andy Wallace in the McLaren F1 during land speed record attempt on March 31, 1993
    Unseen footage reveals what it took for the McLaren F1 to hit 240.1 mph

    It’s now been 25 years since the McLaren F1 was unleashed on the world and to celebrate McLaren has dug up from its archives unseen footage taken during the car’s attempt at setting an official top speed. The attempt took place on March 31, 1993 on the famous Ehra-Lessien high-speed...

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger with Kreisel Mercedes-Benz G-Class electric conversion
    Arnold Schwarzenegger helps Austrian firm Kreisel launch electric G-Class

    He may be famous for owning Hummers, Unimogs and even a tank, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is also a strong proponent of more ecological forms of transport. He demonstrated this during a recent visit to his homeland where he helped launch an electric Mercedes-Benz G-Class built by local firm Kreisel...

  • 2017 Dodge Viper ACR at Carolina Motorsports Park
    Dodge Viper ACR racks up one more track record

    The Dodge Viper is on its way out but is still managing to set records. A bit over a year ago, Dodge took the Viper in ACR trim to 13 top tracks across North America and set records at all of them. One of these was Laguna Seca where the car managed to outmuscle both the McLaren P1 and Porsche 918...

  • Teaser for 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon debuting at 2017 New York auto show

    Dodge has dropped more details on its upcoming Challenger SRT Demon, and the latest look reveals the car’s sexy wide-body design. Yes, the Demon is going to be as mean as its name implies, with the car adopting some very pronounced fender flares as revealed in one of the teaser shots. And it’s not just for looks. As we learned a week ago, modifications have been made to the wheels, suspension and steering, all of which have resulted in a wider track than on the rest of the Challenger lineup. According to Dodge, overall width is up 3.5 inches. (The Challenger GT AWD concept from...

  • Engineering Explained talks about the improvements made with the new Michelin Pilot Sport 4S
    Has Michelin designed a better tire than its Pilot Super Sport?

    If you have a vehicle that likes to perform, you'll do best to fit it with a set of Pilot Super Sport tires from Michelin. This is a seriously good set of rubber that will have you turning faster lap times, finding more aggressive turn-in from your car, and braking in less distance when compared to...

  • 2018 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Coupe spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2018 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Coupe spy shots and video

    Land Rover is set to emulate BMW’s niche-oriented lead with the introduction of a new sloped-roof SUV tipped to be called a Range Rover Sport Coupe. Land Rover already has the Range Rover Evoque Coupe in its lineup, but as confirmed by our latest spy shots and video the British automaker...

  • Lamborghini Veneno in the wet
    Seeing the Lamborghini Veneno on a wet track is something special

    Supercar owners typically have an aversion to weather that's anything short of sunny and dry, so it's downright pleasantly surprising to see a Lamborghini Veneno being thrashed on a race course on a rainy day. There's not a lot of backstory on this one, but the video posted to YouTube by user...

  • 2017 Ford Mustang GT during Euro NCAP crash test
    Ford Mustang scores 2-star rating in Euro NCAP crash test

    Ford Motor Company's [NYSE:F] sixth-generation Mustang has scored just two out of a possible five stars in the latest crash test run by Euro NCAP, the first time since 2008 such a low score has been handed out to a major automaker by Europe’s main safety body. Euro NCAP also issues scores...

  • 2018 BMW 530e iPerformance
    2018 BMW 5-Series preview

    BMW’s redesigned 5-Series was a late arrival for the 2017 model year. That’s why the automaker has already announced the 2018 5-Series which sees the lineup expanded with plug-in and performance-oriented models. Look hard. You'll need to focus to spot the differences between the...

  • 2017 Race of Champions in Miami, Florida

    The Race of Champions is an annual motorsport event held since 1988 that brings together the best drivers from various competitions to compete against one another in a variety of cars. In 2017 the ROC was held on January 21-22 in Miami, Florida and saw some big names compete including Formula One ace Sebastian Vettel, endurance racing legend Tom Kristensen, and NASCAR’s Kyle and Kurt Busch. The winner turned out to be current IndyCar driver Juan Pablo Montoya. The Colombian was up against ROC veteran Tom Kristensen in the final. The Dane has now reached the final round no less than five...

  • Lexus "Man & Machine" commercial
    Lexus previews its Super Bowl commercial

    Lexus has a big year coming up with two line-topping luxury cars. To promote the forthcoming LC coupe and LS sedan, the Japanese luxury brand will be spending big during the Super Bowl telecast set for February 5. A 30-second spot called "Man & Machine" will run during the second quarter of the...

  • Tesla Model S P100D runs 0-60 in less than 2.4 seconds
    Tesla Model S P100D blasts to 60 in under 2.39 seconds

    For the last few years, the Tesla Model S has been, well, ludicrous when it comes to moving off the line from a standstill. The Ludicrous and Insane driving modes are just that, with Tesla owners reporting incredibly low times for the jaunt from 0 to 60 mph. Now one Tesla fan who also happens to...

  • Florida Man uses device to obscure license plate while driving through tolls
    Florida man rigs up device to block his plate from toll cameras

    Toll charges can rack up over time, especially if you live in certain areas of the country with heavily taxed thoroughfares. You can spend a hefty amount of cash in a given month simply for the privilege of driving to and from work. Now, to be fair, those tolls maintain our roads and we know our...

  • Engine warm-up through a thermal camera
    Watch a cold engine heat up with a thermal camera

    What does your engine look like on the inside as it warms up? Aside from some "Honey I shrunk the kids" scenario in which you could protect yourself from heat and the mechanical bits inside your engine, finding out seems impossible, doesn't it? Not with a thermal camera. Out of curiosity, Jason...

  • Subaru Crosstrek teased
    New Subaru Crosstrek teased ahead of Geneva

    Subaru is teasing the "next XV" on Facebook, saying the small raised wagon will be shown at the Geneva auto show on March 7. The current model was known as the XV Crosstrek when it came out, but now it is just called the Crosstrek. Subaru is likely using the XV name in its teaser because that is...

  • Engineering Explained talks about rev limiters

    A rev limiter is there for your benefit. Without it, you'd be facing down a potential busted engine and trickier launches, especially in higher horsepower vehicles. If you have a vehicle with a launch control mode, then you have a car fitted with a two-step rev limiter. One step is designed to help you get off the line as quickly and efficiently as possible, while the other step is there to protect your precious spinning engine parts. Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained is here to tell you how it all works. With the first rev limiter, the computer tells the engine to hold at a certain...

  • View the evolution of the Land Rover Range Rover
    How the Range Rover has evolved over its lifetime

    The Range Rover has been the flagship machine for the Land Rover family for decades now. You know it as a wealthy suburbanite mall cruiser but it's actually a wonderfully luxurious and extremely capable four-wheel-drive beast. The history of the Range Rover runs all the way back to 1970, and if...

  • 2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake spy shots and video

    Jaguar last fall indicated that its current XF sedan would soon spawn a wagon, releasing a single teaser photo of a camouflaged prototype. We now have our own spy shots and video of a prototype for the new XF wagon testing on the Nürburgring and some surrounding roads. The wagon will be called...

  • Driving a Chrysler Turbine Car
    Driving a Chrysler Turbine Car is a view of the future from 1962

    Back in the early 1960s, Chrysler produced a unique vehicle that perfectly captured the imagination of the Space Age era. Instead of some sort of six or eight-cylinder engine, this new Chrysler coupe used a powerplant that would have been much more at home under the skin of a helicopter or...

  • 2017 Ford Shelby Super Snake 50th Anniversary Edition
    Shelby rolls out 50th anniversary Super Snake

    It was 50 years ago that Carroll Shelby and his team at Shelby American built the first Mustang-based Super Snake, a high-performance machine that started out life as a tester for Goodyear. It was based on Shelby’s original GT500 and featured the V-8 of the GT40 race car. Unfortunately, it...

  • Teaser for 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon debuting at 2017 New York auto show
    2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is 200 pounds lighter than a Hellcat

    A week ago Dodge came out with the statement it’s about to unleash the Challenger SRT Demon for 2018, likely the final model year for the current generation of the muscle car icon. Along with that bombshell, the company released a ballsy teaser video featuring a hellish big cat made out of...

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