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If you are a resident of Norway, underwater floating tunnels might be in your future. We already have tunnels that go under water, but they don't float and that means they don't deal with changing tidal conditions and the rather potentially violent forces at play under water. Still, it seems that...

You bought the Ford Mustang GT. Fun car, that one. When you go to sleep at night, though, your dreams are filled with visions of snake badging, noises from a flat-plane crank V-8, and a desire to hit the racetrack. You're not a crazy person, you just wish you could afford the Shelby GT350. We all...

Are you shopping for a new seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette? If you are, good for you, because that means you have some money to spend and you've chosen the best performing generation of 'Vette ever built. The base Corvette Stingray is relatively affordable compared to the competition and can...

When you're looking for a good work vehicle, you have many things to consider. Interior comfort is on the list, but towing and hauling capabilities are certainly more important. This is why folks buy trucks to do their dirty work. It's typically not why someone would buy a Lamborghini Murcielago...

There’s been a lot of interest in recent years surrounding the return of TVR, but it isn’t the only niche British sports car marque making a comeback. Another is Bristol Cars, the maker of the Viper V-10-powered Fighter which sadly bowed out of the market in 2011. Bristol today unveiled...

BMW and Toyota have confirmed they’re working on a new platform that will spawn sports cars for their respective brands. BMW’s sports car has already been spotted in prototype form and is expected to be called the Z5. It will replace the Z4 in the automaker’s lineup...

Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] is in the final stages of developing its next-generation platform. The platform, which sticks with aluminum construction and features a modular design, will bring weight savings as well as improvements in crash safety and NVH characteristics for the automaker’s future...

Given its combination of performance, practicality and pricing, coupled with the fact it’s built at only one location, in this case a plant in Saarlouis, Germany, supplies for Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] Focus RS was always going to be a little tight. Unfortunately for some customers...

Losing your brakes while driving is a terrifying feeling. There's nothing but the sense of impending doom since you're no longer in complete control of your two-ton metal machine. Imagine if you were out on a race track when you lost your brakes? Now imagine you were doing 165 mph when they went...

Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] is close to finalizing development of a modular platform that will underpin its next generation of cars starting with a replacement for the California due out in the next year or two. The platform needed to be highly flexible so that it can underpin most of Ferrari’s...

A little known company by the name of Keating is celebrating 10 years in the supercar business with a new model dubbed the Berus. It was in July of 2006 that Keating first announced plans for a supercar, a lightweight, mid-engine car which was known as the TKR (shown below) and boasted a steel...

Polaris made a bit of a splash recently when it introduced the Slingshot. Back in 2014, Polaris had fully revealed its three-wheeled sporting machine that sought to blend the excitement of a motorcycle with the comfort and convenience of a car. Since then the Slingshot has been a polarizing machine...

One Ram owner, Tom Stoll, has given up on waiting for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] to offer the supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 known as the Hellcat in a pickup truck, so he went out and had Master Technician Kevin Byrnes of Midland Chrysler in Midland Ontario, Canada build him one. Several...

When an automaker is developing a new vehicle, it will often seek out examples of the competition to use in creating benchmarks to meet or beat. In the sports car universe, the go-to benchmark is quite often the Porsche 911. So when Acura was prepping its latest NSX, it looked to the 911 GT3 to...

Your engine is a violent place. It's filled with moving metal, hot oil and fuel, and a mass of moving air. All of that combines to create combustion, which is basically a series of continual explosions—and it's all happening right in front of you. During the combustion process, some of the...

J.D. Power isn't the end-all, be-all of automotive evaluation, but the data crunching firm is a solid and nearly comprehensive start when looking for a new car. Along with its annual Dependability and Initial Quality studies, another of J.D. Power’s useful tools is the Automotive Performance...

Technology firm Mobileye, which worked closely with Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] to develop the semi-autonomous Autopilot system that debuted on the Model S, has confirmed its partnership with the automaker is over. The information was confirmed by Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua during a conference...

Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has opened its battery plant known as the Gigafactory. The plant is only 14 percent complete but it’s already churning out batteries for Tesla’s Model S and Model X. Soon it will also produce batteries for the Model 3. The Gigafactory will also produce batteries...

Jaguar is reportedly planning to launch two electric cars by the end of 2019. We’re not talking about electric versions of existing cars but new additions to the lineup. One will be a sedan and the other an SUV. The information was reported by Automobile, which also claimed the development of...

Detroit’s annual auto show may be one of the biggest and most prestigious in the world but Porsche has decided to drop it from its calendar. The German sports car marque has confirmed it will skip the 2017 show, scheduled for January 8-22. Auto Motor und Sport reported on Tuesday that Porsche...