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  • Determining whether wheel spacers are good for you car

    Your wheels, they occupy the corners of your car. Sometimes you might want those corners to be a bit further apart from how the car left the factory. You corner hard and you want to maximize the capability of your machine. It sounds like a set of wheel spacers are on your automotive shopping list. Of course, there are more reasons you might want wheel spacers, and our friend at Engineering Explained has prepped a video walking you through all of this. There's the aforementioned wider track, which helps with load transfer. You could want to fit wider wheels on your car, change your offset, or...

  • Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell prototype
    GLC F-Cell previews Mercedes fuel cell car coming in 2017

    Mercedes-Benz first tested the waters with a vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell with the unveiling of the B-Class F-Cell in 2009, which the automaker didn’t actually sell to the public but leased to a small number of customers and fleet buyers to learn about usage patterns. The automaker...

  • 2017 Maserati Quattroporte
    2017 Maserati Quattroporte preview

    German brands may dominate the full-size luxury sedan segment, but there are a few compelling alternatives that aren’t as predictable. One is Maserati’s Quattroporte, which has just undergone a substantial update for the 2017 model year. The big sedan, the nameplate’s sixth...

  • 2018 Volvo V90 (Euro-spec prototype)  -  First Drive, June 2016
    2018 Volvo V90, Transformers 5 Ford Mustang, Mercedes electric car platform: Today’s Car News

    Volvo is going after the German mid-size luxury sedans and wagons with its new S90 and V90 duo. We’ve driven them back-to-back and have come away thoroughly impressed. They’re genuinely stylish, different, and rather enchanting. The S90 arrives this year as a 2017 model while the V90...

  • Roger Feghali at the 2016 Arsoun Hill Climb
    Watch this Mitsubishi Evo rock a hill climb in Lebanon

    With the 100th anniversary of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb just weeks away, here's a video out of Lebanon to whet your appetite. It shows a Mitsubishi Evo rally car making all the pops, growls, and snarls we want to see from a dedicated rally car. Lebanese rally driver Roger Feghali was on his home...

  • Mercedes-Benz modular platform for electric cars
    First look at Mercedes' modular platform for electric cars

    Mercedes-Benz has crafted a dedicated platform for its next-generation electric cars. Revealed this week during a tech briefing at the automaker’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, the platform will make its way into a handful of models, the first of which will be previewed in concept form...

  • 2017 Volvo S90  -  First Drive, June 2016

    With Volvo’s most recent products, including the 2017 Volvo S90 sedan and upcoming 2018 V90 wagon, the Swedish automaker is wholly embracing its Scandinavian roots. From the upright concave grille, the prominent brand ironmark, and the elongated hood in front, to the name proudly spelled out across the rear, and the organic, French-curve upkick of the curved side glass at the rear, on the outside the new S90 sedan loads on retro cues from the great P1800 sports car. And then it embraces Scandinavian design more than ever inside. Specifically, that’s design that’s functional...

  • Mercedes AMG's Lewis Hamilton at the 2016 Formula One Canadian Grand Prix
    Hamilton shrinks 2016 Formula One Championship gap with Canadian GP win

    There are now just nine points separating the top two drivers in the 2016 Formula One World Championship after an impressive performance put in yesterday by Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton at the Canadian Grand Prix. The reigning world champion fended off Ferrari’s [NYSE:RACE] Sebastian...

  • 2016 Tesla Model S
    Musk: 37 of 40 Tesla Model S suspension complaints were fraudulent

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently examined the suspension of the Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S after receiving a number of complaints about parts breaking. The CEO of the electric car company Elon Musk revealed in a Twitter post on Friday that NHTSA determined...

  • Jannarelly Design-1
    Jannarelly Design-1, 2017 Nissan GT-R at Spa, 2018 Mercedes A-Class: This Week’s Top Photos

    Sports car startup Jannarelly this week unveiled its gorgeous Design-1 roadster. The best part is that Jannarelly, based in Dubai, is hoping to get the car into U.S. showrooms for just $55k. It sure would be a tasty track toy. This week we spent some time behind the wheel of the 2017 Porsche Macan...

  • Flying car in BMW's Wherever You Want To Go trailer
    Google founder Page working on flying car

    Some details have finally made their way online regarding Google founder Larry Page's ultra-secret startup, Zee.Aero, and they might surprise you: He's working on a flying car. Zee.Aero is entirely unrelated to Google, which Page is no longer running (he's still in charge of Google parent company...

  • 1973 Porsche 911S Targa
    New classic car auctioneer promises the finest

    The classic car auction world just got a little more crowded, but the promotional video released by The Finest Automobile Auctions suggests that this company may live up to its heady name. The Finest Automobile Auctions says that it plans to offer their well-heeled clientele "the finest experience...

  • Jeep Wrangler Rubicon blasts through the Baja desert

    The folks at Pennzoil took a thoroughly customized Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon for a punishing blast through the desert. Luckily for us, they filmed it. This video is ostensibly designed to promote Pennzoil's synthetic engine oil, but it also gives us a great look at one of the ultimate joyrides. The Wrangler itself has been souped up for Baja duty with upsized tires, a suspension lift, and no shortage of appearance add-ons, but Pennzoil says its 3.6-liter V-6 gasoline engine hasn't been modified other than the addition of its synthetic motor oil. Despite ambient temperatures that tickle...

  • Ecto-1 From Ghostbusters 2016
    The new Ghostbusters Ecto-1 will surprise you

    A reboot of the "Ghostbusters" franchise is headed to theaters soon, and instead of dusting off the classic (and rather iconic) 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance that was such an integral part of the original film, this latest installment updates things in a somewhat surprising direction. The...

  • 2017 Ford Fusion
    Ford ups Fusion V6 Sport's torque to 380 pound-feet

    Ford Motor Company [NYSF: F] has raised the bar for its new Fusion V6 Sport. Instead of the 350 pound-feet of torque the automaker initially said its 2.7-liter V-6 would produce, the Blue Oval now says to expect a staggering 380 lb-ft when it is run on 93 octane fuel. The horsepower projection...

  • Jeff Zwart
    When I grow up I want to be like Jeff Zwart

    Don’t ask Jeff Zwart for the $100 in his pocket right now. For a multitude of reasons, the racing driver, photographer, and pilot probably wouldn’t give it to you, but for one very important reason, he almost certainly won’t. The 61-year-old speed specialist slowly rolls a smile...

  • This Week on the Forums: 04.10.2016
    Subaru wrecks stupidly, financial idiocy, AMG gold, and more: This Week On The Forums

    Yelp users generally think otherwise, but screwed up takeout seldom ruins lives. Unfortunately, Paul Wilson's tikka masala proved to be just such as order. Because as ITV reported this week, the 38-year-old Englishman died when North Yorkshire restaurant Indian Garden failed to heed his pleas to...

  • Toyota FT-1 concept, 2014 Detroit Auto Show
    2017 Nissan GT-R, 2017 Porsche Macan GTS, next Toyota Supra: The Week In Reverse

    We drove the updated 2017 Nissan GT-R; slid behind the wheel of the 2017 Porsche Macan GTS; and told you what the new Toyota Supra needs. It's the Week in Reverse, right here on Motor Authority. The fifth Transformers movie, titled Transformers: The Last Knight, is set to be released on June 23...

  • 2017 Fiat 124 Spider, 2016 Press Drive San Diego

    What's the best way to make an Italian roadster? Build it in Hiroshima, Japan. That may sound like a joke, but that's exactly what's going on with the new 2017 Fiat 124. Colloquially known as the Fiata, the 124 Spider is built on the architecture of the Mazda MX-5 Miata, which debuted last year and was one of our finalists for the Motor Authority Best Car to Buy award. We've driven the Miata and we loved it. This week, we got the chance to get behind the wheel of an Italian take on a Japanese roadster, and we learned some of the differences between the two during our drive. Here they are. It...

  • 2017 Mercedes-Benz G550 4x4² (European spec)
    2017 Fiat 124 Spider, 2017 Mercedes G-Class, 2017 Porsche Macan: Car News Headlines

    Fiat has a new sports car on sale this year. It’s called the 124 Spider and it’s the spiritual successor to the 124 from fifty years ago. Find out what it’s like to drive in our first drive review. Mercedes-Benz’s G-Class receives a few updates for the 2017 model year. Among...

  • Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, home of the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix
    2016 Formula One Canadian Grand Prix preview

    Formula One has arrived in North America for the first time this year in preparation for this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix. The race, round seven of the 2016 World Championship, is once again being held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. The 2.7-mile track runs around the perimeter...

  • Tesla Motors production line for Tesla Model S, Fremont, California
    NHTSA probes Tesla Model S suspension

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is examining suspension components on Tesla Motors’ [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S sedan after receiving dozens of complaints of parts breaking. According to The New York Times, NHTSA received 33 complaints, including one where a suspension ball joint...

  • 2017 Fiat 124 Spider, 2016 Press Drive San Diego
    2017 Fiat 124 Spider first drive review

    Fifty years ago, Fiat sought the help of the legendary Pininfarina design firm to turn its somewhat stodgy 124 sedan into a stylish convertible sports car. The result was a simple but attractive drop-top that would enjoy a 19-year production run of more than 200,000 cars—roughly 170,000 of...

  • 2016 Honda CR-Z Final Label (Japanese spec)
    Honda says sayonara to CR-Z in Japan with Final Label

    Honda’s CR-Z, described by the automaker as a Sport Hybrid Coupe even though it’s neither sporty nor a coupe, looks to finally be on its way out. Honda recently unveiled the CR-Z Final Label for the Japanese market and it’s likely we’ll see something similar in the United...

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