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Audi and Airbnb have an interesting proposition for you: rent a property, get an Audi R8, and do whatever you want with the dry lakebed that surrounds the house. You don't have to be a total loner or a speed freak to love the idea--but neither would hurt. The property in question is located on a...

The internal-combustion engine is something with which you're no doubt very familiar. Air, spark, and fuel come together over the course of four strokes to create power and move your vehicle forward. That's for a gasoline engine; in a diesel engine, fuel is compressed until it explodes, after it's...

The car versus plane video is a thing that may have run stale. It seems that everyone watched Top Gear do it, and then proceeded to dream up ground versus air battles of their own. There was probably such a stunt done even earlier, but it seems Clarkson and company opened the flood gates to these...

Get ready to say goodbye to the aging LR4 and hello to the new Discovery. The handsome SUV makes its world debut this month at the 2016 Paris auto show and will be on sale by mid-2017, arriving as a 2018 model. Although it’s aimed at soccer moms—it’s Land Rover’s rival to...

If you haven't yet seen Mad Max: Fury Road, there's a glaring hole in your life right now. You must see this film, and you must enjoy it in a dark room with the volume set to a level that will have your neighbors ready to call the cops. It's a masterpiece of old-school Mad Max action with minimal...

Ken Block is at it again. The rallycross racer and gymkhana king on Tuesday released the ninth installment in the Gymkhana series that started almost a decade ago. It’s called Gymkhana Nine: Raw Industrial Playground and is a must for anyone that’s into fast cars and ruin porn. No, it's...

Before you start shaking your head and shouting "No!" at your computer screen and preparing an angry email about how stupid we are, hear us out. Our host Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained is referring to the addition of weight when traction is limited, such as in snowy or icy conditions. In...

Valentino Balboni is a legend in Lamborghini circles. Having served as a test driver for the company for almost four decades, Balboni is thought to have driven almost 80 percent of all Lamborghinis ever built. Now he’s turned his hard to tuning them, via a company he’s founded called...

Classic cars have never been more popular but the trend hasn’t pervaded the world of pickup trucks like it has, for instance, sports cars. That won’t be the case for long if companies like Legacy Classic Trucks, based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, continue to sprout up. You may recall the...

Nissan’s Rogue has been huge hit for the automaker. Buyers in the United States snapped up 287,190 examples last year, making the compact SUV the second most popular model after the Altima in Nissan’s fleet, and this year’s tally is on track to be even higher. The roomier, more...

We’ve seen some interesting engine swaps lately, though the latest is perhaps the most ambitious. First discovered by Road & Track, it’s a Porsche Cayman that's had much of its internals removed so a Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] 5.0-liter V-8 could be squeezed in. As the photos show...

It isn’t meant to debut until the 2016 Paris auto show but the upcoming convertible version of the Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] LaFerrari hypercar has been spotted. The car was recently in Spain for an official video shoot. On Thursday we saw photos of the car taken at the shoot, which revealed for...

Following the debut of its new Giulia Quadrifoglio at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show, Alfa Romeo proclaimed the car had lapped the Nürburgring in 7:39. At the time, this was the record for a production standard four-door car at the ‘Ring by a significant margin. We thought it would be safe...

Rallycross racer and gymkhana king Ken Block is at it again. Today on Instagram he teased the ninth installment in the Gymkhana series that started almost a decade ago. That first video was titled "Gymkhana Testing and Practice," and was run on Block's own site. It went viral and taxed the...

If the best thing you can do with a car is to drive it, then the best thing to do during Monterey Car Week is to drive a classic. I can think of no better place to drive a classic than at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, so I packed up my 1956 Lotus Eleven sports racer and headed to...

Your intake manifold. It takes in air and sends it to your engine's combustion chamber. This is basically the start of the combustion process. After all, you can't have combustion without air. Engineering Explained is here to walk us through the process and explain how a variable intake manifold...

Kia has taken the increasingly unusual step of developing its own automatic transmission, a new 8-speed that debuts in the automaker's Cadenza sedan set to arrive in dealers within the next couple of weeks. In the Cadenza, the 8-speed mates to a 3.3-liter V-6—but it's safe to assume that the...

Hyundai has revealed its new i30 hatchback ahead of the vehicle’s world debut later this month at the 2016 Paris auto show. The car is the Korean automaker’s rival to the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Focus and Volkswagen Golf. It’s also the successor to our Elantra GT, although...

Mercedes-Benz today unveiled a futuristic van concept powered by an electric drive system. No, this isn’t the concept Mercedes is bringing to the 2016 Paris auto show to preview its much-hyped Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] rival. Rather, it’s a preview of the automaker’s plans for its...

Love the svelte lines of Audi’s A5 but can’t bring yourself to owning a coupe? Audi offers a more practical option called the A5 Sportback, and the version based on the second-generation A5 has just been revealed ahead of the world debut later this month at the 2016 Paris auto show...