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In August of 2012, Spyker filed a $3 billion lawsuit against General Motors in a U.S. District Court in Michigan, alleging that the American auto giant deliberately forced Spyker-owned Saab into bankruptcy by blocking a planned asset purchase by Chinese investor Youngman Lotus. General Motors...

The 2013 McLaren MP4-12C is undoubtedly a very quick car. In fact, it's among the quickest production cars on the road, as the latest 0-60 mph acceleration run video shows. The 2015 Volkswagen Golf R is on its way, and we have the spy shots to show you what to expect. As will before, all-wheel...

A week ago we saw a video of a McLaren 12C Spider hitting 213 mph, a figure that’s 9 mph higher than the car’s claimed top speed. Now we see a 12C coupe accelerating from 0-60 mph, which as you may have guessed is accomplished significantly faster than McLaren’s official claim for...

Williams is the latest Formula One team to get involved with the new Formula E Championship, whose inaugural season commences next year. McLaren has already announced it will supply the electric motors for the Formula E race cars while Renault is helping to optimize their performance and electronic...

Right now the hottest Mustang from Ford is the Shelby GT500, which is built by the automaker’s SVT performance division and benefits from a supercharged 5.8-liter V-8 rated at 662-horsepower. A similar range-topping version of the next-generation 2015 Ford Mustang is planned, though the new...

Volkswagen’s seventh-generation Golf and GTI have made their official debut, but the cars won’t be on sale in local in showrooms until the start of next year. Hopefully by that time, development of the ultimate Golf, the all-wheel-drive Golf R, will be complete. These latest shots show...

Toyota has used an upcoming toy fair in Tokyo to present a wacky sports concept you could actually build yourself. Its name is the Camatte57s and it is essentially a kit car that’s designed to be simple enough for a child to assemble. Camatte is derived from the Japanese word for...

We're big fans of hauling the mail on track, but we have learned to rein in our wilder tendencies on the street. That's why games like Need for Speed Rivals are such a good outlet for our excess hooliganism. From the scenes in this official trailer for the upcoming E3 electronics and video game...

A one-off Mustang will star in the new 'Need for Speed' movie, based on the video game.

Audi is clearly on a mission to make parking a much easier affair. We recently showed you the latest Audi Connect feature that pairs up with the INRIX parking database. It shows drivers what local garages are charging and if they have any spots open. This is a neat feature that should make the...

China represents a truly amazing proposition for car makers. The country is jam packed with people, and those people are gaining access to more and more of the worlds wealth. Additionally, some of those people are themselves rather wealthy. So it's not just standard and premium automakers that are...

Playing the lottery is not something that tips the odds in your favor, and buying more tickets only makes things fractionally better. Occasionally, however, there are raffles where you pay a bit more to increase your odds of winning. That's a good thing, especially when the prize is a 2014 Shelby...

I may be missing something, but the last I heard, I was completely normal for ditching work for a weekend fling with an Audi R8. Maybe you'll understand, after some evidence, why it took about a millisecond to take Audi up on its offer to wing it to Malibu and toss the R8 lineup around some of the...

Late last week, news broke that the assets of niche sports car manufacturer TVR, which hasn’t built a car since 2006, had just been sold. At the time, it wasn’t clear who the new owner was or what he or she planned to do with the assets, but we can now confirm that TVR will remain a...

Diesel is making a comeback in the U.S., from the luxury ranks all the way to the entry level, and Audi has been at the front of the new wave. Today, the four-ringed company announced pricing for its 2014 A6 TDI, A7 TDI, and Q5 TDI. "As drivers increasingly look for high fuel efficiency and...

The Lamborghini Sesto Elemento is a study in what's currently possible at the outer end of road-going carbon fiber technology, so what better place to show its prototype moves than on track? Mercedes-Benz's next generation of the S Class is coming for the 2014 model year, and it's packed with new...

The Mercedes-Benz S Class has been the perennial leader for new technologies in the automotive sector for decades, and with the launch of the latest generation that trend looks set to continue. The new 2014 S Class’ tech features are numerous but the big ticket items are its advanced safety...

The 2014 Chevrolet SS doesn’t hit showrooms until this fall, where it will wear a pricetag of $44,470, but the car’s Australian cousin, the new VF Holden Commodore, has just launched in its own market. These are two of the television ads for the VF Commodore, both of which make mention...

A few days ago we told you Acura had signed on as the exclusive sponsor for the second season of Jerry Seinfeld’s online hit Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We now have a trailer for the new season whose first episode airs on June 13. Given the popularity of the little known first season...

After being dominated for years by Holden and Ford, Australia’s V8 Supercars this year opened up the series to more brands. This saw Nissan with its Altima and a private entity racing a Mercedes-Benz quickly sign on, and at one point there was talk of Chrysler joining too. While the Chrysler...