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Four years after Chinese brand Land Wind revealed the X7 SUV, a nearly identical copy of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, the British luxury brand has scored a win in Chinese court. Autocar reported Friday that the Beijing Chaoyang District Court sided with Land Rover and found Jiangling Motor...

Tesla operated a very generous referral program for years but axed it on Feb. 1 due to high costs. Less than two months later the referral program is back—with a few twists. A lot of the benefits remain from the old program, but they've been drastically scaled back. For example, the old...

We took a spin in the 2019 BMW X7; the Subaru WRX STI S209 was our track weapon of choice in Japan; the Porsche Cayenne Coupe debuted. It's the Week in Reverse, right here on Motor Authority. We descended into South Carolina for our first drive of the 2019 BMW X7. There, we found a powertrain eager...

Frankly, Porsche is fed up with customers flipping special edition sports cars and supercars for big profits. The automaker's CEO Oliver Blume proposed a solution: interested parties won't actually purchase the cars. Instead, he told Autocar on Friday, the special edition models would only be...

The Lamborghini LM002 has been on the minds of executives inside the Italian automaker and its CEO, Stefano Domenicali, said the brand has considered a successor to the Rambo Lambo. Domenicali wouldn't provide many other details in a conversation with Motor Trend published Thursday, but an LM002...

Porsche has finally jumped on the fastback SUV bandwagon with the 2020 Cayenne Coupe, which despite its name actually features four doors. The vehicle is a twin under the skin with the regular Cayenne but virtually all of the body from the A-pillars back is unique. BMW will launch its own EV in...

Last week Volkswagen Group announced plans to double-down on building electric cars with 20 new models and an additional 7 million cars over five years. So far it's said that the battery cells for its MEB vehicles will come from four different global suppliers: CATL, LG Chem, Samsung, and SK...

Ares, the Modena-based coachbuilder and tuner formed by ex-Lotus CEO Dany Bahar, has provided a first look at the latest model in its Legends Reborn series. The series reimagines iconic cars using modern design techniques and materials, not to mention performance, with the first model, aptly...

Prototypes for an electric version of the BMW X3 have been spotted and follow an earlier sighting of a test mule. The vehicle, which will go by the name iX3, is confirmed for launch in late 2020, meaning we'll likely see it arrive as a 2021 model. After stumbling with the oddball i3, BMW decided to...

Porsche is open to turning every model it sells into an EV, bar the 911, which CEO Oliver Blume said last fall would never be a pure electric car. But any EV that Porsche launches won't be offered with an alternative powertrain utilizing an internal-combustion engine, Blume told Auto Express during...

A new open-top version of Volkswagen's trendy T-Roc has been spotted. Its sighting follows February's reveal of the high-performance T-Roc R. The T-Roc is a compact crossover SUV based on Volkswagen Group's flexible MQB platform. It isn't sold in the United States so don't count on this open-top...

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class has made a name for itself over decades for being tough as nails. Yet, it won't stop rifle fire from the factory. For those with an urgent need for armored and ballistic protection, Toronto-based Inkas is here. In the latest from the company's line of armored vehicles is...

Cost cutting killed the Land Rover Range Rover SV coupe in January before it ever arrived. Don't shed a tear yet, know that it will live to die another day. British coachbuilder Niels van Roij Design will pick up the pieces Land Rover left behind for the Range Rover coupe and will put the swanky...

The Bugatti La Voiture Noire was one of the star debuts of the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show, but its owner won't see theirs for at least two years. The showstopper from Geneva lacked an engine and a complete interior, Carscoops reported Tuesday. When Bugatti builds the one-off supercar...

Porsche's Cayenne can soon be ordered in a sleeker, sportier shape thanks to the arrival of the 2020 Cayenne Coupe, which the German performance marque unveiled Thursday. Like other players in the segment, such as the BMW X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe, the Cayenne Coupe sacrifices space in pursuit...

Volvo's always had a watchful eye toward safety but now the automaker's wondering if being a Big Brother to drivers isn't a bad thing. CEO Hakan Samuelsson told Motor Authority on Wednesday that his company may not only be responsible to monitor the safety of its cars, but also to monitor the...

The Porsche 917 will forever be known as one of the most dominant race cars of the 20th century, but deep inside the halls of Porsche some seven years ago, a tribute project began. Earlier this month, Porsche marked the 50th anniversary of the original 917's debut at the 1969 Geneva International...

BMW introduced a redesigned 3-Series last year. That means a new M3 should be just around the corner. Our latest spy shots show a tester for the upcoming sport sedan, which rumor has it will come with all-wheel drive and close to 500 horsepower. Dodge's updates for the Charger for 2019 were...

The Bloodhound land speed record project is alive and kicking, with the company behind it, Grafton LSR, on Thursday revealing a new livery for the supersonic car as well as a new base of operations. Grafton LSR took over the project last December after the previous company overseeing it, Bloodhound...

Audi has confirmed plans to unveil an EV concept at next month's Auto Shanghai 2019. Rather than previewing a future model in the works, the concept will be a pure design study exploring electric mobility a decade from now. Audi rolled out a similar concept at the 2017 Frankfurt International Motor...