Videos

Ever wondered what the BMW ActiveE looks like while it's rolling through the plant, innards exposed to the open air? Here's your answer. The 1-Series bodies in white glide through the Leipzig plant as they are built up into BMW's all-electric, lease-only ActiveE coupe. As it's being build, BMW...

The BMW M3 gets a fully radicalized motorsports interpretation for the company's return to DTM racing next year. The DTM series will be coming to the U.S. in 2013.

Audi fans can take a complete virtual walk-around of the 2012 Audi A5 Coupe thanks to a 360-degree video posted on YouTube.

Felipe Massa's severe head injury and close call with death after being hit in the head with a spring thrown free of Rubens Barrichello's car at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, which happened less than a week after 18-year-old Henry Surtees died during a Formula Two race when a loose wheel struck...

Dual-clutch gearboxes are the latest word in high-tech transmissions, but even though they're not as demanding on the driver as a manual transmission, this Ferrari 458 Italia owner proves they still require at least a modicum of skill.

The clip is of a 11-year old boy in the UK hopping behind the wheel of the right-hand drive Audi R8 supercar and then proceeding to hoon it on a patch of grass.

Dartz, the Latvians known for gigantic armored SUVs, faux whale penis leather, and something called a "Prombron Nagel," have just completed a red chrome wrap on a Bugatti Veyron. While we (and anyone with eyes) ask why, Dartz asks, why not? Though the video is low-res and grainy, it's still clear...

The Corvette Racing Team shows us what it takes to win a race like Le Mans. Hint: it's all about teamwork.

When a new car is launched, the manufacturer typically provides the media with a few minutes of "B-roll" footage, to be used for voiceovers and the like. Typically, it's pretty tame stuff--static shots, some two-lane driving, fly-bys. The new SRT brand's B-roll is all sideways and smoking. It's a...

Want to be a motorsports hero? Think you can hang with some of the best rally, drift, offroad, and gymkhana drivers in the world? Get your video camera out and try out for the Octane Academy. Four high-profile drivers will put on a four-day driving camp for the people chosen through the video...

We know you don't need any excuse to spend a minute listening to the sweet sounds of V-8s revving and tires screaming, or watching the resulting smoke and lurid opposite-lock slides, but we'll give you one anyway. The video below shows the Silver Arrows precision driving team at work at...

The Nissan Leaf tackled Pikes Peak this year, setting the benchmark for production all-electric cars.

That's right folks, the car show you've been waiting for, The Car Show, will offer up its first episode this evening at 10 p.m. Eastern. Will it suck? Will it wow? You will be the judge. Color us less than optimistic, however. While Dan Neil's skilful print review background and Matt Farah's...

Fisker will trot the Karma plug-in hybrid sedan out to celebrities first, continuing its practice of limited and exclusive release.

The Porsche Sport Driving School at Barber Motorsports Park offers instruction from the most basic to full-race--and the cars to learn in, too.

Whether you loved it, hated it, or were somewhere in between, Top Gear USA's first season was apparently successful enough commercially to justify a second run at becoming America's car show. History has just released the first teaser for the second season, and it looks like the same gang will get...

You might not think of the voice inside your sat-nav system or the sound of your blinkers as being particularly sonorous, but then you're probably not working with BMW to turn those sounds and more into a few minutes of music as the backdrop to production of the 2012 BMW 1-Series. The man behind...

The Spada Codatronca Monza is a one-off design by Aznom, but we wish it were built for series production--just so we'd have a chance to see one on the street.

Tommy Kendall walks us through the fundamentals of high-performance driving in this video, the first of a series from AMG's Driving Academy.

This crash video shows how quickly things can go from great to terrible when professionals make mistakes at high speed.