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The 2014 Ford Fiesta ST offers an impressive combination of performance and price, outdoing the Fiat 500 Abarth, Chevy Sonic RS, and Mini Cooper S on the numbers, and, based on our first driving impressions, possibly on the road as well. Ford this morning confirmed several choice statistics about...

Chevrolet has teamed up with Hot Wheels once again, this time to organize a tour that will see a number of the automaker’s performance cars, including some Hot Wheels specials, take part in a road trip designed to kick off the summer cruising season. Called the Hot Rod Power Tour, the trip...

Making a convertible out of a perfectly good hardtop supercar might seem like an unnecessary complication to some, adding weight and reducing performance. But with the McLaren MP4-12C Spider, the difference appears to be negligible. Case in point: this speedometer video, via Sport Auto, of a run to...

Just over a week from its official web debut, the 2014 BMW 5-Series is now showing off on video. From sedan to wagon to Gran Turismo, the updated 5-Series range adds more power, a new diesel engine, and interior refinements. We Americans will miss out on the 5-Series Touring (wagon), again...

If you've been wondering what Aston Martin was teasing us with last week, wonder no more: the V12 Vantage S is here, with 565 horsepower and more. The Audi R8 e-tron electric sports car won't be built for production. Why? Audi says battery development hasn't been fast enough to provide the...

One of the most pristine Maserati Khamsins possibly in existence has just touched down in Jay Leno’s Garage. This particular model is a 1975 example that’s wearing the original European-specification bumpers and lights that the Khamsin first wore upon its debut in 1972 when it was...

Ford’s F-150 SVT Raptor has been a major success for the Blue Oval, but while the performance pickup is now entering its fourth model year, we’re still yet to see a similar model from key rivals Chevrolet and Ram. We have had some inklings from the Mopar aftermarket division, though...

Former Jaguar managing director Mike O’Driscoll, the man credited with overseeing the British automaker during its transition from Ford’s Premier Auto Group to new owner Tata, has been announced CEO of the Williams F1 Team. O’Driscoll’s newly created role will see the...

It has been confirmed that a board member and key investor of distressed electric car company Fisker Automotive has resigned. Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers confirmed to Reuters that Ray Lane, the owner of the first Fisker Karma delivered to a customer, resigned from...

Green technology motorsport firm Drayson Racing, the brainchild of former British science minister Lord Paul Drayson, is out to break some records using an electric version of a race car originally developed for the American Le Mans Series. Using its B12 69/EV Le Mans prototype, Drayson Racing will...

Funky-hot and retro-modern, the Carrozzeria Touring Superlegerra Alfa Romeo 8C Disco Volante channels the best of the classic Italian coachbuilding ethos, but filters it through a modern lens. The result is breathtaking. Fortunately it sounds the part, too. Filmed at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa...

If you haven't been keeping pace with AMG lately, you might not know that all E Class AMG models will be all-wheel drive in the U.S. soon. A new, higher-performance S-Model will also join the range for 2014. Here, AMG product manager Rob Moran takes us on a tour of the car's features. Sure, it has...

Snap, crackle and pop! No, we’re not talking about breakfast cereals here but the signature sound of the burly V-12 fitted to Aston Martin’s CC100 Speedster concept. The car was first shown at the recent Nürburgring 24 Hours, where it made a historic lap of the Nürburgring...

After an early estimate of 450 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque for the 2014 Corvette Stingray's V-8 engine, followed by a supposedly leaked document hinting at 455 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, Chevy today one-upped itself, delivering final, official figures of 460 horsepower and...

Despite reports to the contrary, BMW is expected to launch its new front-wheel-drive cars in the U.S. The first of these front-wheel-drive cars will be a compact MPV that is likely to be labeled a 1-Series Gran Turismo. The vehicle has been testing in prototype form for over a year and was...

Japanese racing driver Kamui Kobayashi recently headed to Ferrari’s Fiorano test track to try out the Scuderia’s 2010 Formula One car, the F10. Though we’d love to tell you that the former Sauber driver is being considered as a possible replacement for one of Ferrari’s...

In the world of car tuning, a suitably impressive dyno sheet can be as important as the car itself. It's documentation of your--or at least your car's--awesomeness. But even a 1,000-whp dyno doesn't match this guy's dyno cred. He and his Shelby GT500 blew the dyno right up. On what appears to be a...

Talk of an affordable electric car from Tesla dates back all the way to 2009, and we have no doubt the company’s CEO Elon Musk had envisaged launching such a model when he co-founded Tesla back in 2003. Now, with its federal loan out of the way and production of its award-winning Model S...

Lexus wants new car shoppers to see the brand as representing sophistication and a design-centric philosophy, and recently launched a new campaign to help get the message across. As part of the campaign, the Japanese automaker launched a new lifestyle magazine and announced it would be sponsoring...

In its quest to further differentiate itself from Nissan and position itself as a credible player in the global luxury automotive market, Infiniti recently appointed reigning Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel to help fine tune its cars. Serving as the brand’s official director of...