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With its back-to-back wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans over the past two years, Audi’s R18 prototype race car could be mistaken for being unassailable in the classic endurance race. Audi isn’t thinking this way, as the automaker’s motorsport division, Audi Sport, has worked...

Take a closer look at what makes the Rapide S tick.

This morning, Fisker laid off all of its communications staff and most of the rest of its labor force. Far from the beginning of the end, the news today comes as the final flameout for a company that has been reduced to smoldering wreckage for some time now. That's meant both figuratively and...

Jaguar's sports car heritage is deep, but there have been intermissions. From the very founding of the company, sporty cars were a priority, despite the a desire by William Lyons to parley the brand's sporting success into a broader line of vehicles for greater market reach and profit. Along the...

The 2012 MKS, along with the Ford Taurus and 2013 Ford Explorer, have been recalled because of faulty fuel tanks.

The BMW Concept X4 was finally revealed last night, and while we will need some time to get used to the idea, the success of the X6 has us thinking we will, eventually, get used to it. Cadillac's new 2014 CTS has been a huge hit since its debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show, but what about the...

Following the success of the BMW M5 as MotoGP’s official safety car in 2012, the latest bahnstormer from the hallowed M Division, the 2014 BMW M6 Gran Coupe, has been picked as this year’s safety car. This will be the 15th successive year that a BMW M car has served as the official...

Is the Chevelle nameplate about to become familiar with a whole new generation? General Motors recently applied for a number of trademarks with the United States Patents and Trademarks Office, with all of them centering on the “Chevelle” name. The applications, first discovered by GM...

Following the hugely successful debut of the all-new 2014 Cadillac CTS at the New York Auto Show last week, the question on everybody’s lips is whether or not we’ll be seeing a coupe version of the stunning new sedan. Prior to the reveal of the new CTS, there was speculation that...

The Mercedes AMG Formula One squad has just taken the wraps off the new turbocharged V-6 engine that it hopes will give it an edge over rival teams in the 2014 F1 season, when radical new regulations come into play. The biggest departure from the current rules will be a switch to the turbocharged...

From the company that brought us the legendary Forza Motorsport line of games, comes the new, go anywhere Forza Horizon. The game bases the action in simulated real-world environments that are so vast you need an in-game GPS to keep track of where you’re going. The company behind it is Turn...

As BMW's model proliferation continues, with a renaming scheme impending, we have to wonder: where will it end? Not here, apparently. The latest addition to the BMW fold is a concept, but it appears to be a concept in name only. The BMW Concept X4 brings to the X3 size class an X6-like Sports...

Acura’s 2014 RDX has been priced from $35,415, including a destination charge of $895. That represents a $200 increase on the starting price of the 2013 model, which was all-new last year. Apart from the price increase, the only major change is the addition of Kona Coffee exterior paint...

In the world of supercars, there are battles and then there are "battles." This is one of the latter. In this rather dry and yet superficial look at the Nissan GT-R's snow-driving capabilities, Nissan sets up one heck of a straw man--or snow man, as it were. Testing slalom, acceleration, and...

Day two of our 30 Days of the 2014 Jaguar F-Type starts where everyone should: ogling the little roadster. The second image in the gallery above was submitted especially for Motor Authority by Jaguar Land Rover North America's vice president of communications, Stuart Schorr. The F-Type almost...

At the recent 2013 New York Auto Show, Ford tuner extraordinaire Shelby American took the covers off the latest vehicle in its rapidly expanding lineup, the 575-horsepower Shelby Raptor pickup. Starting with the already formidable Ford F-150 SVT Raptor as its donor vehicle, Shelby applied some of...

BMW's latest remainder from its ongoing long division of models has leaked to the web: the X4 Concept. Calling it a Sport Activity Coupe like the X6, the new X4 looks to be a concept in name only--we expect to see a production version by the end of the year. Detroit Electric's SP:01 roadster has...

One of the most successful online racing simulators for PC users, iRacing, has just got that much better, with the company behind the service announcing that the latest Chevrolet SS and Ford Fusion race cars from the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series are now available. For those serious about racing...

If you’re longing for a Tesla Roadster but aren’t prepared to drop your hard-earned on a used example, another electric startup, whose name dates back more than a century, has just unveiled its own Lotus-based electric roadster. That startup is Detroit Electric, which, as promised a...

An original Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing, similar to the one pictured above, was almost completely wrecked after a mechanic crashed the rare classic on a stretch of road near Pleidelsheim, Germany, last week. The car, one of 1,400 original 300SL gullwing coupes ever built, was in for scheduled...