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  • Ford Fiesta ST GRC

    The Global Rallycross series is currently on its way to Loudon, New Hampshire after spending a few weeks overseas. The series has several races to take care of stateside before jetting back to Europe for a battle in Germany, but apparently there's a U.S. city feeling a bit left out, and it would like a date on that schedule. Detroit wants to host a GRC event, and it took to the streets of the city to make its case. The Ford Fiesta ST has become a potent weapon in the series, helping Ford to a massive lead in the manufacturers' points standing. So it should be no surprise that the Ford ST was...

  • Jay Leno CHP Ford Explorer
    Jay Leno Gets Up Close And Personal With The CHP: Video

    Jay Leno always gets to drive the coolest machines on the planet. This means he might also have spent some impromptu face time with the fine folks patrolling the highways of Southern California. In fact, Leno recently spent a bunch of time with the California Highway Patrol because he invited them...

  • Teaser for 2014 BMW i3
    2014 BMW i3 To Be Revealed On July 29: Video

    BMW plans to reveal the final production version of its long-awaited i3 electric car on July 29, 2013, which is exactly two years to the date of the original concept version's debut. Since then we’ve been treated to a handful of additional i3 concepts as well as numerous prototype sightings...

  • Ferrari 458 smashed
    It's A Ferrari Smashtravaganza At Spa Francorchamps: Video

    Let's get this out of the way before we start here; seeing someone push their exotic sports car on a race track is a wonderful thing. Too often these highly capable machines are left all too shiny in someone's garage or pushed down the road to the country club and back. These cars were meant to be...

  • 2014 BMW 4-Series Coupe
    BMW Shows Off 2014 4-Series Coupe In New Video

    The splitting off of BMW's coupes (including the four-doored kind) into even-numbered lines is further underway now that we have the 2014 4-Series. It's a sharp-looking take on the 3-Series sedan it shares its internals with, and it looks even better in this new video. Filled with Lord of The...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Premiere Edition
    Chevy Celebrates Corvette’s 60th, Launches Corvette Stingray Premiere Edition

    Although the very first Corvette prototype was shown at the GM Motorama event in New York City on January 17, 1953, the first production cars didn’t start rolling off the line until June 30 of that year. That means yesterday, June 30, 2013, marked 60 years since the official start of...

  • Audi Matrix LED headlight technology

    Audi has been an innovator and pioneer in the area of headlight technology, having been one of the first to introduce lighting technologies such as adaptive lights, full-LED headlights and even fuel-saving LED lights. Now the automaker is extending its leadership in headlight technology with the announcement of new Matrix LED headlights, which Audi plans to introduce on its 2015 A8 facelift confirmed for launch overseas later this year. Audi has already previewed in its Matrix LED headlights in concept form but now the technology is ready for production. Matrix LED headlights rely on multiple...

  • Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak race car
    Sébastien Loeb obliterates Pikes Peak record

    Sébastien Loeb, driving a highly-modified Peugeot 208 rally car in yesterday’s 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, completely obliterated the standing record, set last year by Rhys Millen. This was only the Frenchman’s first time at Pikes Peak but with the entire course now...

  • Alfa Romeo 4C on track
    Alfa Romeo 4C Takes To The Track: Video

    Enough pictures, enough video, enough stats and press releases. Someday soon, by the beard of Jupiter, we want to experience the Alfa Romeo 4C in the flesh. Still, the videos aren't terrible, as the subject in question is more than easy on the eyes. The latest clip released from Alfa Romeo shows...

  • 2013 Holden Commodore SS V Ute at the Nürburgring
    Holden sets Nürburgring ‘record’ with VF Commodore Ute

    A version of the latest VF-Series Holden Commodore, the high-performance SS V Ute, was recently taken to the Nürburgring in Germany for some final tuning and one very important test. That test was to see how fast the car could lap the famous German track’s full Nordschleife, which Holden...

  • 2013 Porsche 911 RSR race car
    Porsche Makes Major Impact In Its 2013 Return To Le Mans: Video

    Last weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, as devastating as it was, proved to be an almost fairy tale-like event for the Porsche works squad, which made its official return to the legendary race after a 15-year hiatus. After trailing Aston Martin in the GTE category, both in the Pro and Am classes...

  • Lexus short film
    Lexus Rolls Out Final Short Film in Series

    The Lexus short film series comes to a close with the fifth and final installment. This last video is titled A Better Tomorrow and was directed by Mitsuyo Miyazaki. It's as oddly captivating as it is beautiful. Based in the future, the film shows a world where water has become a scarce commodity. A...

  •  Official images from Niki Lauda Biopic ‘Rush’

    Like anyone else with a pulse, you're no doubt excited for the upcoming release of Ron Howard's new film Rush. The movie tells the tale of a slice of racing in the mid to late 1970s, when Niki Lauda and James Hunt battled for Formula One supremacy. Word got out about the movie when the crew was seen filming crucial plot points in Germany out on the 'Ring. Fast forward to today, and we're two trailers and a release date away from the flick. That release date is set for September 20th, 2013. If that's a bit too far away and you're jonesing for some new footage, well you're in luck. The...

  • Top Gear Season 20
    Top Gear Season 20 Trailer Released, Starts June 30: Video

    Buckle up, talk-show fans: this Sunday, June 30, is the premiere of season 20 of the popular television show Top Gear. And to get us all riled up, a trailer video has been released. As we've come to expect from the show and its trio of hosts, there will be the usual mix of chitchat, mayhem, and...

  • 2014 GTO
    2014 'GTO' Teases Return Of The Goat: Video

    Are you longing for a new Pontiac GTO? If so, Trans Am Depot might have your next mullet mobile muscle car. Pontiac may not exist anymore, but that isn't stopping "The Judge" from coming back to the market for 2014. Trans Am Depot has released a teaser for a new commercial promoting the new 2014...

  • Ford Mustang Concept
    Ford Revisits Early Mustang Concept: Video

    As we approach the upcoming reveal of the next-generation 2015 Ford Mustang, the automaker is taking a step back to remember a bit of its own history with the pony car. Ford have dug through their photo archives to find images of the original Mustang concept car, and it's quite a head turner. Not...

  • Mercedes-Benz SL Class-based CoupeTorino design study by StudioTorino
    Design Students Turn Mercedes-Benz SL Into Stylish Shooting Brake: Video

    Italian design students recently got a chance to ply their burgeoning skills on a real-world concept. The design house StudioTorino teamed up with Mercedes-Benz to build a rather unique concept version of the automaker's SL Class. Swapping out the folding roof for a fixed version allowed the...

  • John Legend and the 2014 Chevrolet Impala
    Singer John Legend Helps Sell New Chevy Impala: Video

    Nine-time Grammy award-winning musician John Legend stars in an ad for the new 2014 Chevrolet Impala.

  • 2013 Volvo S60 Polestar

    Volvo has launched its first model built by its performance partner Polestar, a tuned S60 sedan limited to just 100 units and of which half will be sold exclusively in the Australian market. The land down under is serving as a testbed for the sale of Polestar-enhanced Volvos and if the results are positive more of the cars could be on the way, cementing Polestar’s position among the lineup of official in-house tuners such as BMW M, Mercedes AMG and NISMO. Polestar boss Hans Baath hinted to Drive that performance versions of the stylish V40 hatchback sold overseas, one for racing in the...

  • Tesla Motors - Model S lithium-ion battery pack in environmental test chamber
    Watch Tesla's Battery-Swapping System In Action: Video

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk last night provided details on a new battery-swapping service for his company’s Model S electric sedan (and future models) that will allow owners to get a fully charged battery swapped into their cars in around 90 seconds. Musk demonstrated the service using a pair of...

  • 2014 Nissan ZEOD RC Le Mans Garage 56 electric race car
    Nissan Reveals ZEOD RC 2014 Le Mans Race Car: Video

    This odd-looking, four-wheeled contraption is Nissan’s electrified race car that will compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014 in the event’s ‘Garage 56’ entry for technically advanced, innovative vehicles. Nissan confirmed in February it will be making an official return...

  • Takara Tomy Chevrolet Camaro transforming toy
    Meet The Self-Transforming Chevrolet Camaro Toy Robot: Video

    Taking place this week in Japan is the annual Tokyo Toy Show, where we already saw Toyota roll out a wacky sports car concept it hopes will attract a new generation of buyers yet to learn of the advantages of car ownership. We now, surprisingly, have more news coming out of the Tokyo Toy Show, this...

  • 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG, First Drive, Bilster Berg
    2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG first drive review

    Mainstream success gets a bad rap. Most of the time it's richly deserved, emphasis on the "rich." Bieber, Budweiser, Burger King--they're all huge, and hugely profitable. But even at their very best, they're baseline goods, zero hashmarks on the pop-culture barometer. When it's done correctly, with...

  • Scene from Lexus short film ‘Chan Chung Ki's Pupil’
    Lexus Airs Fourth Short Film: ‘Chan Chung Ki's Pupil’

    If you still haven’t taken a liking to Lexus’ new short film series, we doubt this latest job will change your opinion much. But here it is anyway. Titled Chan Chung Ki's Pupil, the story revolves around two female artists that face the same traumatic event and come out of it even more...

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