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Ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, Mercedes-AMG Petronas teammates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton took to the open seas in a most unusual, yet highly entertaining new video released by Mercedes-Benz. Designed to promote the drivers as much as the Cigarette Racing speed boat inspired by...

Although the average attention span may not be anywhere near the 40 minutes required to sit through this documentary on the Porsche 356, we highly recommend you grab a cup of coffee and make it part of your morning routine. Maybe do it every morning. The documentary, first picked up by Road &...

This past week’s 2016 Beijing Auto Show turned out to be a treat for sports car fans. One of the stars was the new TT RS which is due in showrooms early next year. The car was shown in both coupe and convertible bodystyles and looks especially tasteful in this gray paint. As expected, there's...

Fiat's revived 124 Spider will hit the market later this year with a sticker price just shy of $26,000, but the Italian automaker plans to offer a wide range of models. That's actually $24,995 plus a mandatory $995 destination charge for the base 124 Spider Classica, which will come with 16-inch...

What's the best Corvette to buy? Well, it looks like it will soon be the Grand Sport. Chevrolet has announced that the 2017 Gran Sport will be priced from $66,445 for the coupe and $70,445 for the convertible when they go on sale this summer. Both prices include the destination charge. The Grand...

Due to a vacation in beautiful Seattle, last week, this post was written on Tuesday. So we didn't address the untimely death of Prince, who passed at his estate that Thursday. While his public posturing threatened to overshadow his talent, he was irrefutably one of the most gifted musicians...

We drove the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace crossover SUV; rumors of a new mid-engine Porsche 960 supercar resurfaced; and Acura celebrated its birthday with a new ad. It's the Week in Reverse, right here on Motor Authority. Jaguar's about to launch its first-ever SUV. Hailed as the brand's most practical...

Despite what you might think, the BMW i8 is not a vehicle that actually depends solely on electricity for its power. Besides the electric motor there is also a turbocharged 1.5-liter 3-cylinder gasoline engine, and together they produce 362 horsepower. The car is a plug-in hybrid and it puts its...

McLaren F1s are fetching quite a bit of money these days. The last one we saw for sale went for $13.75 million and even an example that was previously wrecked still managed to sell for $12 million. Of course, the latter did have a single previous owner who just so happened to be Mr. Bean. Now...

Chinese tech giant LeEco has revealed some details about its future electric car plans. The company, which just this week opened its headquarters for the United States, plans to give away cars for free and make money by offering various services. Formula One team Red Bull Racing has started testing...

Round four of the 2016 Formula One World Championship is the Russian Grand Prix which takes place this weekend and held once again at the Sochi Autodrom, located about a thousand miles south of Moscow. The first Russian race was held only two years ago and so far the event's proven a hit with the...

Hyundai’s new Elantra has received a new performance range-topper in the automaker’s home market. The good news is that the car is headed to the United States with a debut expected to take place at the annual SEMA show the first week of November. It will be badged an Elantra Sport and...

Red Bull Racing has started testing its proposed race car cockpit protection system known as the Aeroscreen. The Formula One team’s star driver Daniel Ricciardo hopped behind the wheel of a car fitted with the Aeroscreen and successfully completed some laps of the Sochi Autodrom prior to this...

While the world debates whether American tech giants Apple and Alphabet (Google’s parent company) are actually developing cars, Chinese rivals have been upfront with their intentions and have already started parading concepts previewing their future plans. One of these is LeEco (formerly...

Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] Focus Electric will offer a 100-mile range when the 2017 model rolls in later this year, up from 76 miles at present. However, with the similarly priced Chevrolet Bolt EV and Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] Model 3 promising double the range or more, the Focus Electric...

There are now more options than ever in the small SUV segment and buyers are especially spoiled if looking for a little luxury. One of the newer options is Land Rover’s Discovery Sport which arrived last year as a 2016 model and replaces the aging LR2. For the 2017 model year, Land Rover is...

BMW's Mini division will not only gladly sell you a new car, it will also soon help you rent it out to other people. As part of BMW's ever-expanding ride and car-sharing initiative, Mini owners will be able to opt in to a BMW-run network that would make their cars available to registered members...

Rolls-Royces come with many features, but bespoke luggage generally hasn't been one of them—until now. The British automaker has created a line of luggage inspired by its new Wraith. Although the Wraith may be the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever built, the suitcases aren't exactly rated for...

Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Performance has released the first in what promises to be a four-part series of videos detailing the development of the Focus RS RX rally car. Built to compete in the FIA World Rallycross Championship series, the RS RX is an amped up, race-ready version of the...

Although about 400,000 people have already raised their hands to buy the not-yet-on-sale Tesla Model 3, company founder Elon Musk has an even wider audience in mind for his company's next act. Speaking last week at the Future Transport Solutions conference in Norway, a small market that has...