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When there's a baddie running from the cops, it's in everyone's best interest for the police to get the offending driver slowed down and stopped. Exactly how to do that though, can be quite a tricky issue. A PIT maneuver works well when there is plenty of room and no other traffic on the road way...

We've been talking about the AMS Alpha Omega GT-R a lot recently. The car is an amazing feat of aftermarket engineering, and it recently ran away with the title at the Texas Invitational speed event. While in Texas, the team decided to stick around and make the most of their trip. This meant a...

The Porsche Macan Diesel will be coming to the U.S, the company confirms; Lamborghini’s Huracán isn’t just a much better entry point to the brand, it’s selling like hotcakes, too; and the even-more-powerful Ariel Atom 3S takes the naked sports car to new heights. It’s...

Mercedes-Benz’s rival to the BMW X6 has just been spotted in prototype form testing at the Nürburgring. Our exclusive spy video shows two separate prototypes, one of which is a high-performance AMG variant. The new X6 rival will share its underpinnings with the M-Class. The vehicle was...

If you thought the Focus ST was the limit of Ford’s tuning potential of its Focus, then you’d be wrong. Coming next year is a new Focus RS, and we hear it will pack an all-wheel-drive system and an uprated version of the Mustang EcoBoost’s four-cylinder engine. An autonomous Audi...

Acura may take a page out of Subaru’s playbook and make all-wheel drive a standard feature on its cars. The move is just one strategy Acura is looking at to stand out from rivals in the luxury segment. "The key is awd," Acura chief Koichi Fukuo told Automotive News (subscription required)...

Infiniti will seek to boost its profile in the U.K. by entering the British Touring Car Championship next season with a new race car based on its Q50 sedan. Infiniti will field two of the cars in a partnership with Support Our Paras Racing, a race team linked with the veteran’s charity...

UPDATE: Video has been removed by owner. McLaren’s P1 has been designed to be pushed hard on the track but sadly many owners of the rare supercar will never go beyond the world’s popular boulevards. That isn’t the case of the P1 owner in this latest video, who after just taking...

It’s hard to believe that the BMW X5 first arrived on the scene only 15 years ago but since then the vehicle, now in its third generation, has gone on to win numerous accolades, spawned high-performance M variants and new coupe-like models, and is still one of BMW's most popular vehicles...

We’re just days away from watching Audi’s autonomous RS 7 tackle Germany’s Hockenheimring grand prix circuit with no one sitting behind the wheel. The stunt, which coincides with the DTM season finale running this weekend, is to demonstrate the dynamic potential and driving...

A new generation of the Chevrolet Camaro, the nameplate’s sixth, is just around the corner, and we have a spy video of a prototype testing at the Nürburgring. The vehicle is set for a reveal early next year, either at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show in January or the 2015 New York Auto Show...

There’s nothing visually spectacular about this drag strip video featuring the 2015 BMW M3. There is no giant wreck, the engine doesn’t blow up and burst into flames—the pre-launch burnout isn’t even very impressive. But the speed and ET, on the other hand…very...

A test mule for BMW’s next-generation 5-Series has been spotted at the Nürburgring and on some of the German race track’s surrounding roads. The overall shape of the new 5-Series isn’t expected to change much but there’ll be radical changes taking place beneath the...

Jay Leno has been away from your television for a few months now. Well, technically, he's probably been away from your television for, well, ever. He has been all over the Internet, however, thanks to his Jay Leno's Garage web show. Now CNBC has confirmed that denim on denim is prepping for a...

Even though there have been rumblings that a high-performance RS version of Audi’s entry-level A1 could be coming, the boss of the automaker’s quattro performance division has ruled out the possibility. Speaking with Top Gear, Audi quattro boss Stephan Reil said it’s hard to build...

It’s been known for some time that a diesel-powered Macan would eventually be offered in the U.S., but now we have official confirmation from the German sports car manufacturer. Speaking with Automotive News (subscription required), Porsche Cars North America’s vice president of...

Lotus has come up with a new way to raise some much needed cash: offering customers an opportunity to visit the factory and even get some track time on the company’s official test track located onsite. The offer is part of a new program called Handmade in Hethel (Hethel being the town where...

Although it was largely expected that Mercedes-AMG would eventually launch a high-performance Black Series version of its new GT sports car, the boss of the official Mercedes-Benz tuner has now confirmed the news. “Sooner or later there will be a Black Series version,” Mercedes-AMG boss...

Almost immediately after it was announced that current Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne would be replacing longstanding Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo, there were fears production would be ramped up and the exclusivity of the brand tarnished. It was a policy of di Montezemolo...

If you had any questions about the success of Lamborghini’s Huracán as a replacement for the Gallardo—which you really wouldn’t have if you’d read our first drive review—you’ll have none now: the Huracán has officially racked up 1,000 U.S. sales and...