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Jaguar plans to launch an electric SUV by the end of 2018. We received a preview of it overnight in the form of the I-Pace concept car. It’s based on a dedicated platform for electric cars and has a range of 220 miles. Kia’s popular Soul is getting turbocharged power for the 2017 model...

The BMW 7-Series range is being expanded for 2017 with two performance-oriented models. One is the V-12-powered M760i xDrive, which BMW has priced from $154,795. The other is the V-8-powered Alpina B7 xDrive, which has been priced from $137,995. (Both figures include a $995 destination charge.)...

Next January, at the Detroit auto show, we’ll learn the winners of the 2017 North American Car and Truck/Utility of the Year awards. On Tuesday, at the Los Angeles auto show, the organizers revealed the three finalists for the respective categories that make up the prestigious awards. The...

A prototype for a new generation of the Lexus LS has been spotted. The outdated fourth-generation model currently on sale was introduced as far back as the 2007 model year. This redesigned model is due out in 2017, as a 2018 model. It will ride on the new rear-wheel-drive platform that debuted in...

The Soul hatchback has been very, very good to Kia. Where some car companies believe in their most expensive products to exemplify their respective brand identities, Kia has turned to the chance popularity of its compact hatchback to embody the image of a brand in transition. The way Kia explains...

The question every die-hard Top Gear fan is wondering: can Amazon with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May recreate the magic of the old show on The Grand Tour. The first trailer showed plenty of promise and now a new trailer is finally out, and judging from the few tidbits we’re...

Drag. Friction. Weight distribution and load. These are things you need to consider when you begin to think about how tires work. Yes, those four bits of rubber are your only connection to the ground and they keep your car moving in the direction you desire. Most of us think that a wider tire is...

The Ram 1500 may be among the oldest full-size pickup designs on the market, but that isn't stopping FCA's Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' [NYSE:FCAU] truck brand from hitting the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show auto show with a couple of new special editions. Both are built on the bones of the 2017 Ram 1500...

Land Rover is ready to bring its all-new Discovery to market, and the first stop for the new SUV here stateside is in Los Angeles ahead of the upcoming auto show. Not only does it mark the Discovery's first arrival in the U.S., the automaker also says that its SUV will sticker from...

From 1987 through 1992, Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] built a tremendous machine called the F40. It was the last car to get the thumbs up from the man whose name is on the building and all of the cars—Enzo Ferrari. Enzo himself blessed the F40, and the world rejoiced (and put up posters of the F40 in...

We’re still hoping for Ram to put its awesome Rebel TRX concept into production but until that happens your best bet at a Ram-badged rival to Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] F-150 Raptor is the Power Wagon. Built on Ram’s 2500 platform, the Power Wagon gets a new, more aggressive...

Lexus is never shy for a bit of product placement. We’re sure everyone remembers the company’s futuristic sports car that starred in 2002’s Minority Report. Now Lexus is projecting its brand even further into the future, with a single-seat spaceship that’s set to appear in...

BMW’s 5-Series Gran Turismo will be moved up into the 6-Series family for its next iteration. A prototype has been spotted and reveals the sleeker, sexier shape BMW’s designers are going with. The next Mercedes model to receive the Maybach treatment will be the S-Class Cabriolet. The...

Samsung is making a major push into the in-car electronics game with the acquisition of Harman [NYSE:HAR] in a deal worth $8 billion. The Korean electronics giant will pay $112.00 per Harman share, which represents a premium of 28 percent on Friday’s closing price. The deal is still subject...

The Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] 250 GTO isn’t the rarest Prancing Horse around, though it does tend to fetch the highest bids whenever one comes up for sale. Just 39 of the homologation specials were built between 1962 and 1964, and one of them, chassis number 3387, the second example to come off the...

On November 6, German media first reported that certain automatic transmissions used in gasoline- and diesel-powered Audi cars had software that could determine whether the car was being tested by regulators and then switch to a more economical shift program in order to reduce carbon dioxide...

The winner of the 2016 Formula One World Championship will go down to the wire after Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton took victory on Sunday in the penultimate round, the Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace. The title fight is between Hamilton and his Mercedes AMG...

Someone spent $9 million on a license plate; we spied the 2018 Porsche Cayenne; and things are ramping up as we near the 2016 Los Angeles auto show. It's the Week in Reverse, right here on Motor Authority. Another eight supercars belonging to the son of Equatorial Guinea’s dictatorial leader...

We spent some time with the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro 1LE this week, in both V-6 and V-8 trim. Regardless of which you pick, you’re in for a treat. The car is seriously good. Porsche has expanded its Panamera range with a base model as well as the long-wheelbase Executives. The latter sees the...

It's an icon that has endured for five decades, but the AC Cobra's story has definitely not been completed. Autocar reports that AC Cars will build another "quasi-modern" Cobra series utilizing 6.2-liter V-8 power early next year. Though the cars will be based on the fourth-generation Cobra...