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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...

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...

Time for a confession. We've been angry all these years. Europe has been sliding around behind the wheel of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Focus RS for years. Here in America--land of the free, dammit--we've been RS-free. Time for that to end. The Focus RS is finally here, finally free to drift...

The Ferrari-powered Toyota 86 from the imagination of Ryan Tuerck finally made its public debut at SEMA this past week. Before that? It was doing donuts around a Ferrari 458 Italia. If you think a Toyota 86 powered by a V-8 engine from a Ferrari 458 Italia doing donuts around a Ferrari 458 Italia...

BMW built a fearsome reputation for speed with its M cars. But you're forgiven if the last generation of Ms left you a little wanting. They're high-performance demons--but they can feel brittle and digital. There's one M car that captures the best of BMW and puts it all in a reasonably priced...

You're caning your Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Focus ST on your favorite local race track. This could be your best lap time yet, but you don't really have an easy way of knowing this. You could invest tons of money into track data tools, or you could just grab the new Ford Performance App...

Nissan is one of the biggest proponents of electric cars but even it concedes that not everyone is ready to make the switch. That’s why the automaker is introducing series hybrid powertrains to bridge the gap between internal combustion cars and electrics. Nissan is using the name e-Power for...

Remember the Toyota 86 / Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] 458 mashup from drifter Ryan Tuerck? Well, he and the crew at Huddy MotorSports have given a little taste of what’s to come. It may not be much to look at right now but it certainly sounds awesome. That’s probably due to the custom headers...

A critical component of a successful racing team is its ability to accumulate and understand many points of data. Motorsports engineers thrive on racing data, as it helps them figure out how to make the car and driver a faster symbiotic unit. In the still fairly virgin world of the Formula E...

The Baja 1000 is one of the most punishing races in the world. It’s also the breeding ground for Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] F-150 Raptor pickup trucks, with early mules often entered into the grueling off-road race during development. Thanks to this tough regime, the Raptor can...

In the early 1960s, the top brass at General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] put a stop to any of its motorsports programs. There was to be no involvement with racing from any of its divisions. This initially seemed like it might be a tough move for the likes of Pontiac but the brand used a...

Tesla [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk on Friday unveiled two new products, one from Tesla and another from SolarCity, the solar home installation firm Tesla is hoping to acquire and headed by Musk’s cousin Lyndon Rive. Tesla’s new product is a second-generation Powerwall home energy storage...

Vaughn Gittin, Jr. has a serious amount of control over his Ford Mustang RTR. That RTR stands for Ready to Rock, and that's what Gittin gets to doing. In this video, he's brought the Mustang out to Barcelona, Spain's famed Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and he wants to do what he does best. That...

If you research the topic on YouTube, riding on two wheels in a car is seemingly the normal way to commute on the highways in the Middle East. Still, those Middle Easterners who do this so-called side-wheelie aren't seeking to set new speed records. Instead, it's more about just keeping the shiny...

While Nissan in the United States is busy promoting its new turbocharged Sentra SR, the company's counterparts down in Mexico are marking the end of an era: the Nissan Tsuru, which was sold here as the Sentra in the early 1990s, is finally going out of production. With more than 1.8 million built...

On Wednesday we received confirmation that the next-generation Opel Insignia will be sold in the Australian and New Zealand markets as a Holden Commodore. A version of the car will also be sold as a Regal in markets where Buick operates. (It’s no surprise since the current Regal is twinned...

The Race of Champions has been thrilling motorsports fans for decades. The first ROC event was in 1988 and it was held in Paris with a lineup of drivers that would make your eyes bulge from your head. The winner that year was Juha Kankkunen and he earned the very first Champion of Champions title...

Pumping fuel is something you've been doing for years now (unless you're one of those people in New Jersey), and it's something you probably don't put a lot of thought into. You pay, you pump, and then you leave. What you should be aware of, however, is the amount of safety technology on hand to...

Otto and Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch made history in October by successfully making the first delivery by a self-driving truck. Last week, one of Otto’s self-driving truck prototypes traveled 120 miles on a stretch of Colorado highway between Fort Collins and Colorado Springs to deliver...

The Stutz Motor Company was cranking out sports cars while the rest of the world was impressed with the mobility afforded by the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Model T. Based in Indianapolis, Stutz produced vehicles capable of hitting 80, 90, even 100 mph at a time when folks were getting by just fine...