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The Acura ILX sedan enters its second model year with a few more features—and a price hike of $1,000. Leather upholstery is now standard on all 2014 ILX models, with leatherette door liners. An eight-way power driver's seat, heated front seats, and a Multi-Angle Rearview Camera system have...

It's been a great run for Tesla Motors these last few months. The startup electric-car maker delivered 4,900 Model S luxury sport sedans from January through March, got a rave review from Consumer Reports, and reported its first-ever profitable quarter. CEO Elon Musk even dropped hints that it...

Volvo announced as far back as September 2011 it would be implementing a strategy where its entire lineup would feature four-cylinder engines, with the engines to be based on a next-generation design and where additional performance would be drawn upon from turbocharging and vehicle...

Lamborghini this weekend took the wraps off a new concept car built to celebrate the automaker’s 50th anniversary. Called the Egoista, the new concept joins the likes of the Veneno and Aventador LP 720-4 50° Anniversario in Lamborghini’s expanding lineup of celebratory models. The...

Development of the next generation of the Audi TT has been ongoing for years, and we've followed talk of lightness, improvements to technology and power, and even seen spy shots of test mules on the road. The rumors all place the 2015 Audi TT at a major auto show for its debut in late 2013 or early...

Scuderia Ferrari secured a superb first and third place finish in yesterday’s 2013 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix, with star driver Fernando Alonso taking home the victory and his team-mate Felipe Massa coming in third--this despite a penalized start at ninth on the grid for the Brazilian...

Following the reveal of the new 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo last week, we’re now down to just a few Type 991 Porsche 911 variants that are yet to surface. They include new generations of the 911 Targa, 911 GT3 RS and supercar-rivaling 911 GT2 and 911 GT2 RS. Today, we have the first details on the...

The upcoming 2014 Hyundai Genesis is shaping up to be one heck of a sports sedan, as this spy video of a prototype testing at the Nürburgring reveals. The new Genesis will be Hyundai’s first model developed extensively at the automaker's recently built Nürburgring test center and...

Over the weekend, the first photos and details for a brand new Lamborghini concept cropped up. We now have all the official details for the concept, which goes by the name Egoista and was developed as a tribute to Lamborghini’s 50th anniversary by a team led by Volkswagen Group design boss...

Lamborghini has long been known for its extreme approach to design. Usually those designs are not just striking, but beautiful as well. Usually. Here we have the Egoista, apparently designed to echo the look and feel of an open-cockpit formula car as viewed through a kaleidoscope. Unveiled during...

Pole position after qualifying today at the 2013 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix went to Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg. The young German posted a best time of 1.20.718, which was just enough to edge him past his Mercedes AMG team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s time of 1:20.972. This means it will...

Martini Racing is set to make a return to international motorsport this weekend, with the famous logo of the Italian distillery set to appear on a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car competing in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race preceding the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona’s Circuito...

The Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR is the product of the mad minds at AMG. Built to compete in the 1997 FIA GT Championship, the CLK GTR was crafted as a racecar first but it was also a road car since it required homologation models to actually compete. Thus Mercedes-Benz was forced to churn out 25...

Driving games have evolved massively from the early days of PC and console arcade. You can even get some pretty decent mobile phone sims. But what if a smartphone driving game could cross over into the real world? That's exactly what the Code of the Curve app seeks to do. At least, that's part of...

John Hennessey has an unabashed and unapologetic love of making fast cars even faster. He enjoys turning his power tricks on a wide variety of vehicles, from crushingly fast Cadillacs to crushingly fast exotics to... well, crushingly fast anything really. His latest high-speed shenanigans mobile is...

Raquel Pomplun is a beautiful young lady. That's what we in the biz of writing call an understatement. Pomplun is wildly attractive. We're talking the variety of beauty that scrambles the brain and senses, often resulting in a guttural tone as the only available form of communication left. Okay...

Fernando Alonso is an extremely talented Formula One racecar driver. He's won two F1 championships with Renault, and was in fact the youngest driver ever to earn back to back championships. Alonso bounced around the next few years with a stint at McLaren, then back to Renault before finding a home...

A Carlisle car gathering is an automotive event attended by a sea of like-minded auto enthusiasts. Carlisle, Pennsylvania serves as home for a rotating run of various automotive events, but one of the most popular has to be Corvettes at Carlisle. This is a celebration of the iconic machine that's...

Masquerading as a cabriolet, the 2014 Porsche 911 Targa has been spied in testing. With the Turbo recently joining the normally aspirated coupes and convertibles already unveiled, the Targa is one of the few remaining variants to arrive for the full Porsche 911 update to the 991 platform. A German...

This is how the new Audi R8 comes together.