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Tragedy struck Saturday morning at an airfield near Burns Flat, Oklahoma when a replica of an airplane designed by Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti in the 1930s crashed during a test flight, killing its pilot Scotty Wilson. Wilson, an Air Force veteran, was the leader of the small team developing the...

British tuner Mountune is an expert at extracting more performance from Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] products. And in recent years we’ve seen the company come out with upgrades backed by the factory, including here in the United States where it has a local arm. Now Mountune has teamed up with...

In late 2015 a little known automotive startup by the name of Atieva announced plans to compete in the electric car space. Beyond that intention, the company, which is based in Silicon Valley, has been mostly quiet on all fronts. Now, however, Atieva has previewed the performance of its powertrain...

The Chinese port city of Qinhuangdao was the location for the first test of an innovative new mode of public transport called the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), a high-riding bus that can glide over gridlocked traffic. According to China Xinhua News, the test was carried out on Tuesday, with engineers...

When Toyota and Subaru got together to build their 86 and BRZ coupes, they weren't thinking about big power. Instead, the 200-horsepower coupe they created was focused more on its balance and light weight—factors designed to evoke sports cars of yore. That's not exactly what drifting pro Ryan...

The Mazda 3 has received a nip and tuck for the 2017 model but beyond the visual tweaks there is an interesting bit of new technology. So far Mazda has only announced the updated 3 for Japan, where the car is known as an Axela, but specifications for the United States should be similar. ALSO SEE...

Here’s your best chance to get ahead of all the buyers looking to snag one of Aston Martin’s new hypercars being developed with the Red Bull Racing Formula One team. We should warn you it’s not cheap, but since it’s hypercars we’re talking about we assume money...

Fernando Alonso is used to Honda power in his McLaren Formula One race car, but now he’s experienced it in a road car, in this case the 2017 Acura NSX. The two-time world champion recently got behind the wheel at Portugal’s Estoril race track and treated some journalists with a hot lap...

Yesterday we were treated to the reveal of a new hypercar being developed by Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing. The development is far from complete yet already the car, code-named the AM-RB 001, is being billed as the McLaren F1 for this generation. That’s because just like the F1, the new...

Chevrolet has released a pair of new videos celebrating 50 years of Camaros with rare footage of all six generations of the pony car in action. The video above features complete commercials and promotional videos, while the shorter video below is a compilation with snippets from ads throughout the...

Mercedes-Benz has shown us its new E-Class, but soon after the car reaches showrooms in the summer we should have had our first look at the high-performance version from Mercedes-AMG. No, we’re not talking about the new E43. We’re talking about the new E63 sledgehammer, which once again...

Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Performance has released the fourth and fifth installments in a series of videos on the development of the revived Ford GT. Part four details the process that Ford and Chip Ganassi Racing used to pick the drivers and part five delves into the racing results along the way...

The European Grand Prix has had an erratic history on the Formula One calendar, held sporadically and shuffled between a number of circuits over the years. The last time a European Grand Prix was held was in 2012 and back then it was in Valencia, Spain. The event has now returned as round eight of...

Unplugged Performance, a tuning company that exclusively deals with Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] products, has released a conversion kit that allows existing Model S owners to make their cars resemble the recently refreshed version of the popular electric sedan. The kit consists of a smooth-look front...

BMW turned 100 this year and as part of the celebrations unveiled a forward-looking concept aptly named the Vision Next 100. But BMW isn’t celebrating alone as the German automaker’s subsidiaries Mini and Rolls-Royce have Vision Next 100 concepts of their own. Code-named the 103EX...

Honda’s Civic Type R is one of the fastest hot hatches in the world, despite it skipping an all-wheel-drive system and sticking with a good ol’ manual transmission. The current generation, powered by a 305-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder, made its debut in 2015 and although...

There’s been a lot of hoopla over Mark Higgins’ recent setting of the blistering 17:35 lap time for the Isle of Man TT. However, Higgins isn’t the fastest around the winding 37.73-mile course. He’s only the fastest on four wheels, in this case a modified Subaru WRX STI. The...

Updated with new record time set by Mark Higgins on Monday, June 6. He’s done it. Manx rally driver Mark Higgins on Monday smashed his own Isle of Man record for cars. He completed the 37.73-mile course in a blistering 17:35, resulting in an average speed of 128.73 mph. That beats the...

Those gloriously fluffy rings of fried, glazed dough aren’t the only donuts we’re celebrating on National Donut Day. We also love the stinky, smoky, rubbery kind. Here’s a collection of some of our favorites, including one from Nissan featuring Formula Drift icon Chris Forsberg...

BMW’s current 5-Series has been around since the 2011 model year and was given a mid-cycle update for 2014. Now we have a new set of spy shots of a prototype for the next-generation 5-Series, and this one's wearing the least camouflage gear yet. At present, we're expecting the car on the...