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While Audi continues to set the benchmark in World Endurance Championship racing, particularly at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the newcomer to prototype racing, Toyota, is eager to prove it has the pace to win. Coming off a strong showing at last year's 24-hour race, and a trio of wins to close out the...

It’s less than 10 years old, but the Franschhoek Motor Museum in South Africa contains a remarkable collection of classic cars that ought to be better known than it is. The highlight of our last day on a three-day tour of the Garden Route through South Africa’s southwestern Cape region...

Toyota teased its track-focused GT 86 TRD Griffon concept at the beginning of June 2013. The car was eventually revealed at the Tokyo Auto Salon, and now fans of the lightweight coupe are going to see it hit the track. Toyota is bringing the two-door to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this...

New Car-2-Object and Car-2-Car communication will enable your car to warn you of an impending crash, or perhaps even take action itself to avoid one, by knowing well ahead if there’s a potential hazard in the road ahead or approaching at the next intersection. It will do this by...

The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG has made an early debut thanks to a production line video from the company. While we're still waiting on specs and equipment information, we at least have a glimpse of what the hot S Class will look like. Porsche's upcoming smaller crossover, the 2014 Macan, has...

The 2014 BMW 4-Series gets an early debut thanks to leaky web sources.

In 2010, Lincoln announced ambitious plans to launch seven new models in the U.S. market by 2014. Most of the models were to be updates of existing cars, though two brand new additions were also mooted: a compact car and a compact crossover. We’ve already seen concept versions of both cars in...

Mercedes-Benz this week started production of its sixth-generation S Class at its main plant in Sindelfingen, Germany, and in an official video showing the production line one of the cars featured just so happens to be the high-performance S63 AMG variant. The latest S63 AMG model is yet to be...

Formula One triple world champion Sebastian Vettel has extended his contract with Red Bull Racing for at least two more years. Vettel, now 25, won his three successive world championships with Red Bull Racing, and, considering his performance so far this season, the German youngster could soon be...

Mosler Automotive, founded by Warren Mosler during the 1980s, had a knack for making really awesome road cars that looked horrible, although it could be argued that Mosler's original Consulier GTP had a very cool 'form follows function' quality to it. By the late 1990s, Mosler started work on a new...

Earlier this week, we had the good fortune to interview Audi racer Allan McNish ahead of next week's 24 Hours of Le Mans. During the interview, he made a case for the Le Mans formula being very well-designed to yield the most relevant form of racing, both now and in the future. But is that really...

The king of rally is about to take on the biggest hill climb in the world. We expect records to tumble, re-set at levels that will stand for years. What else should you expect, after all, when the eight-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb brings an 850-horsepower Peugeot to Pikes Peak?...

Tragedy struck New Jersey's Bridgeport Speedway when sprint car driver Jason Leffler died from injuries sustained in a wreck. The incident took place during a preliminary heat at the Bridgeport event. Leffler had to be extricated from his sprint racer after it hit a wall and then flipped over...

Lexus wants to hit the ground running with its new updated 2014 IS. To do so, the automaker is launching a slate of new ads with an interesting tagline. The campaign is called "Blend Out", and it features highly stylized commercials. There's black and there's white, and Lexus wants to cross those...

The Gran Turismo racing game series first launched on December 23rd, back in 1997. That was a top-flight release for the original Playstation gaming system. Fast forward 16 years and we're now on the verge of the fourth Playstation console and a brand-new Gran Turismo game. Gran Turismo 6 should...

One of the primary complaints for electric cars has been the long time periods required to charge their batteries. While regular AC charging systems, which take hours to top up a typical electric car battery, are sufficient at home or at the office, where a car may be sitting stationary for long...

The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S Class just made its global debut in Hamburg last month, but it's already on its way to production. Does the new technology and new look of the 2014 S Class make you itch for a new super-luxe sedan? BMW says it has about 100,000 people set to test drive the new i3 electric...

Despite being five inches longer, the 2014 Cadillac CTS is also 244 pounds lighter than the model it replaces, and it's packed with 20 new standard features--and the new CTS will start from $46,025 including the $925 destination fee. The 420-horsepower, twin-turbo V-6 2014 Cadillac CTS Vsport will...

71 examples of the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SLK are being recalled in the U.S.

The current Subaru WRX STI is a beast: powerful, capable, but something less than pretty. Despite its ungainly looks, it has made fans out of us and out of a large chunk of the populace. But it's due for replacement soon. So we took the opportunity to spend the better part of a week with the car in...