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Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] a week ago announced a grand master plan that called for an expansion into more segments including electric commercial vehicles such as buses and trucks. Unbeknownst to many is that Mercedes-Benz’s trucks unit has been working on electric trucks for some years now and...

Less than two years after announcing plans to build its Gigafactory in Nevada, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] on Tuesday opened the doors and allowed media to take a look inside. A formal opening ceremony for the $5 billion battery plant is scheduled for Friday. Though already operational, only about 14...

What did you do for Father's Day this year? A young man named Steven Aghakhani took his father's Bugatti Veyron out for a blast down an airport runway. It unfolded at a Shift-Sector event in Colorado, where Steven's father Armik was hoping the boy would blow past the 200 mile per hour mark. He did...

The answer to the question posed in the title is "yes, you do." The problem here is that it's seemingly impossible to find one of the rarest versions of the Ford Mustang ever built. Until today that is, as the folks at Road & Track have found one for sale on eBay and it's a bucket of...

Remember this video from a few days ago which appeared to show a disgruntled skateboarder smash the windshield of a McLaren 12C? In the clip, you can see the British supercar cruise through a stop sign and nearly hit a street-crossing skater. The driver then proceeds to honk at the skater which...

Aston Martin on Friday revealed via Twitter that the very last examples of the DB9 were being completed. Nine final cars are part of a special series from the Q by Aston Martin personalization department, and no doubt all of them are already accounted for. The DB9 was unveiled to the world at the...

Bugatti CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer has revealed that the maker of the Veyron and Chiron hypercars is considering a new model line, and there are as many as four possibilities for what it could be. The information was revealed by Dürheimer during a recent interview with Drive, and though he...

Audi fans lamenting the automaker’s decision not to bring over the svelte A4 Avant wagon can take solace in the knowledge the related A4 Allroad is coming here. The small, luxury softroader made its world debut at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show in January and will land in showrooms this fall. It...

Mercedes-AMG has finally started public road trials of prototypes for the convertible version of its GT sports car. The first in the lineup will be called the GT C Roadster and is confirmed for a debut in early 2017. Another vehicle spotted testing is a new compact SUV being developed by Chinese...

Chinese automaker Geely is out testing a prototype for a new compact SUV. Normally such news wouldn’t register on Motor Authority but there’s extra significance riding on this model. The compact SUV is based on the CMA (Compact Modular Architecture) platform being developed by Geely in...

It recently emerged that Formula One driver Max Verstappen had purchased a 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Thanks to a Twitter post from Mark Webber, who ended his F1 career with Verstappen’s current team Red Bull Racing, we now know what color Verstappen chose. Shunning the more radical orange and...

Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new F-150 Raptor is now only months away from hitting showrooms and orders can already be placed. There’s still a lot to learn about the new performance pickup truck, but slowly details are emerging. Today we learned that the starting price for a 2017 F-150...

At the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, Morgan unveiled a glimpse into its future. It's the EV3, and it's an all-electric version of the company's beloved 3 Wheeler. A 62-horsepower electric motor pairs with a set of lithium-ion batteries to give the electron swilling EV3 a reported range of 150 miles. It...

Rumors have been swirling that McLaren engineers and designers are hard at work on successor to the near-mythical F1. Reports from Autocar talk about a hyper-focused machine that slots below the performance arch created by the P1, but above the rest of the lineup. It almost sounds like a variant of...

You're an under-hood expert by now, aren't you? We've been sharing a whole lot of information thanks to Engineering Explained and that means you should be fluent now in "gearhead." Still, there's always more to learn and today we're taking on a subject that's a bit more complicated, which must mean...

The Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] F40 is rare. Just a handful over 1,300 were produced, and back in the '80s Ferrari conceived it to be the fastest car available on the market. The original plan was to build just 400 examples and charge around $400,000 1987 dollars for the privilege. The cost to acquire...

Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] unveiled an enhanced version of its Sync 3 infotainment system during January’s Consumer Electronics Show and at the time said the system will be available on 2017 model year vehicles. The Blue Oval on Monday confirmed that the system will be available across its...

Editor’s warning: This article contains some geeky in-depth engineering information about what makes the 2017 Porsche Panamera tick. Reading it puts you in danger of learning more about this car than you thought you might want to know. What is the Golden Rule? Treat others as you would like...

A prototype for Mercedes-Benz’s next-generation GLE has been spotted again. The new mid-size SUV is still in the early stages of development but already we can see that it will adopt a boxier, more rugged design. Speaking of design, one of the alternative designs for Bugatti’s Chiron...

Is Mercedes-Benz via its AMG skunk works about to enter the hypercar war? In its latest issue, Autobild makes mention of plans for a new model called the R50 being developed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of AMG in 2017. That’s just one year away so things already seem doubtful but making...