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A team of entertainers has developed a Diet Coke and Mentos powered rocket car, capable of traveling up to 239 feet on junk food power.

In 2012, Chevy engines return to Indycar for the first time in 10 years.

A new video from Subaru lets us hear the BRZ's boxer-four engine winding out. At least it would if it wasn't bogged down by a techno-music soundtrack.

Hopefully the last in what may eventuate as one of the worst weeks in history for Ferrari owners, this black Ferrari F430, possibly a hardcore Scuderia model, suddenly caught fire while it was being driven down a stretch of road in Houston, Texas, earlier this week. A passerby managed to capture...

Porsche has competed at Le Mans for 60 years, amassing a record setting 16 overall victories. It's commemorating this with a series of short films leading to the release of its new Le Mans racer.

Japan's car industry has a bit of a problem. As the cost of motoring rises and cities like Tokyo become ever more crowded, Japan's youth is quickly getting turned off owning cars - even diminutive Kei cars dwarfed by vehicles like the Ford Fiesta. In a busy world mobility is still important though...

The 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 was unveiled at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show last month, and we were there to cover it. What isn't widely known, however, is that the car on the show floor didn't have the new 5.8-liter, 650-horsepower engine under the hood. It still had the previous 5.4-liter...

The final video in the Nissan Juke-R build series takes us through shakedown and testing of the uber-crossover.

Regular readers might remember the solar-powered roadway proposed by a company called -- not so originally -- Solar Roadways. The gist was that LEDs embedded in the surface would allow for quick and easy updates to dividing lines, signage, and more. At the recent Design Miami showcase, Audi showed...

Nissan is working on an inductive (wireless) charging mat for the Leaf that should make charging a matter of simply backing into a parking spot, and hitting a screen prompt to verify that you'd like to charge.

Team Germany took the Nations Cup and Sèbastian Ogier took individual honors at this year's running of the Race of Champions.

The trouble with current accident avoidance technology is that it's usually reserved to the more expensive vehicles available on sale. That's not to criticize it of course. Just like ABS, traction control, airbags and other safety technology, it simply costs a lot to develop and initially the cost...

Seeing reports of a Ferrari on fire is starting to become a regular thing. Just weeks after we reported about a 599 GTB Fiorano that burned to the ground in Arizona comes yet another example suffering the same fiery fate, this time on a road in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The driver of the...

Porsche subjected its new 911 to environmental extremes that no sane customer would; the net result is a better, more reliable finished product.

Nissan hasn't released any on-track videos of the Juke-R yet, but Spain's Autohebdo Sport has released a quick video of their time behind the wheel.

Now that we've had our turkey and the dust has settled from the Los Angeles Auto Show, it's time to reflect. While the pony car wars have been reignited for the past few years, it wasn't until now that these beasts began to reach supercar levels. In L.A., Ford revealed the 2013 Mustang model line...

BMW is showing a new variant of the X6 M in a newly-released video. Could this be the rumored X6 M550d?

Distracted driving is bad, mmmkay? Driving tired is no better, and any time you spend with your eyes off the road is time taken away from reacting in a potentially life-threatening scenario. Carmakers have been on the case for a few years now, with technology aimed at minimizing distracted driving...

Pull up to a set of lights and you see a matching pair of Chevrolet Corvettes, one a current-generation C6 and the other a previous-gen C5, and you can bet the drivers of the respective cars will have a score to settle. And that’s exactly what unfolds in this video taken by another motorist...

At about the same price, would you buy a new rear-wheel-drive 2013 Subaru BRZ sport coupe or an all-wheel-drive Subaru WRX STI?