It may be wearing STI badges, but the car featured here isn’t the fabled BRZ STI we were all hoping for when teaser images of an STI-badged BRZ appeared on Subaru’s website over the weekend. This car is actually a concept that previews some mild performance upgrades developed by STI for the BRZ. The upgrades are a mixture of new and...
BMW released specifications for its new i8 plug-in hybrid sports car, and it's going to be impressive. With an estimated 0-60 mph time of 4.5 seconds, and the ability to get up to 95 mpg in the European cycle, the i8 will be one fuel-efficient sports car. BMW will reveal the i8 soon as it makes its formal debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show...
British sports car manufacturer Morgan has issued a recall on certain versions of its iconic 3 Wheeler because of missing warning labels on the vehicles’ brake fluid reservoirs. The recall affects both 2012 and 2013 model year 3 Wheelers, but only those examples built between October 2012 and July 2013. Morgan says there are 139 of its 3...
Just as America’s big name tuners catch on to the idea of focusing on the hot hatch segment, one of the more established marques in the scene, the U.K.’s Mountune, has confirmed it’s entering the U.S. market. Mountune is a motorsport and engineering firm that has served as a semi-official tuner for the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F]...
It’s been almost a year since Hyundai first announced its intention to return to the world of WRC, and since then we’ve seen the Korean automaker slowly build up its team, establish a new motorsport center in Germany and start development of a brand new WRC car. Today, Hyundai revealed the first photos of its 2014-spec WRC car, which...
MINI will celebrate the 107th anniversary of the birth of Sir Alec Issigonis, the designer of the original Mini, by unveiling the third generation of the modern MINI, the 2014 Cooper, at a special ceremony at the car’s plant in Oxford, England. That special ceremony will take place on November 18, after which MINI will ship some 2014 Coopers...
Toyota will present a new concept at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show next month that the automaker has confirmed will showcase its hybrid technology from its race-winning Le Mans prototypes in a road car platform. Along with the announcement, Toyota released the first of three teaser images, which depicts the new badge for the automaker’s...
Crash tests are one thing, but actual real world crash data is quite different. That's why General Motors engineers are taking a close look at a recent accident involving a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The C7 'Vette was being driven by a GM employee when it was t-boned by a Lincoln Towncar. This is only the third real-world crash with the new...
The new i3 electric hatch isn’t the only i-badged BMW we’ll be seeing this year; another is a new i8 plug-in hybrid sports car that will not only top the i range of cars but also serve as BMW’s flagship. We were given our first taste of the i8 four years ago, when BMW rolled out its Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the 2009...
The tech is currently making inroads in the world of commercial helmets and portable devices. It's also been available on a few other models for some time now. Mercedes-Benz, however, has finally decided to jump into the world of Head-Up Displays and will offer it as an optional extra on the upcoming 2014 S-Class and next-generation C-Class...
True fans of drifting know that the original slideways hero was a young man by the name of Takumi Fujiwara. His drift machine of choice was his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno (basically, a rear-wheel-drive Corolla built between 1983 and 1987). Fujiwara honed his skills while making delivery runs for his father's sushi company in...
A year ago, a 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo won the best in show award at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and we could see another car from the German automaker achieve similar success at this year’s event. That’s because Mercedes-Benz is bringing two very special models to the annual event in Monterey...
Tony Stewart took to the Southern Iowa Speedway dirt track on Monday night to take part in a sprint car race. He wound up wrecking, and the crash was a rough one, as Stewart ended up breaking his right leg. Both the fibula and tibia... ouch. Because of the wreck, Stewart will have to sit out of the Watkins Glen International. This marks the first...
It may be wearing STI badges, but the car featured here isn’t the fabled BRZ STI we were all hoping for when teaser images of an STI-badged BRZ appeared on Subaru’s website over the weekend. This car is actually a concept that previews some mild performance upgrades developed by STI for the BRZ. The upgrades are a mixture of new and...
BMW released specifications for its new i8 plug-in hybrid sports car, and it's going to be impressive. With an estimated 0-60 mph time of 4.5 seconds, and the ability to get up to 95 mpg in the European cycle, the i8 will be one fuel-efficient sports car. BMW will reveal the i8 soon as it makes its formal debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show...
British sports car manufacturer Morgan has issued a recall on certain versions of its iconic 3 Wheeler because of missing warning labels on the vehicles’ brake fluid reservoirs. The recall affects both 2012 and 2013 model year 3 Wheelers, but only those examples built between October 2012 and July 2013. Morgan says there are 139 of its 3...
Just as America’s big name tuners catch on to the idea of focusing on the hot hatch segment, one of the more established marques in the scene, the U.K.’s Mountune, has confirmed it’s entering the U.S. market. Mountune is a motorsport and engineering firm that has served as a semi-official tuner for the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F]...
It’s been almost a year since Hyundai first announced its intention to return to the world of WRC, and since then we’ve seen the Korean automaker slowly build up its team, establish a new motorsport center in Germany and start development of a brand new WRC car. Today, Hyundai revealed the first photos of its 2014-spec WRC car, which...
MINI will celebrate the 107th anniversary of the birth of Sir Alec Issigonis, the designer of the original Mini, by unveiling the third generation of the modern MINI, the 2014 Cooper, at a special ceremony at the car’s plant in Oxford, England. That special ceremony will take place on November 18, after which MINI will ship some 2014 Coopers...
Toyota will present a new concept at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show next month that the automaker has confirmed will showcase its hybrid technology from its race-winning Le Mans prototypes in a road car platform. Along with the announcement, Toyota released the first of three teaser images, which depicts the new badge for the automaker’s...
Crash tests are one thing, but actual real world crash data is quite different. That's why General Motors engineers are taking a close look at a recent accident involving a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The C7 'Vette was being driven by a GM employee when it was t-boned by a Lincoln Towncar. This is only the third real-world crash with the new...
The new i3 electric hatch isn’t the only i-badged BMW we’ll be seeing this year; another is a new i8 plug-in hybrid sports car that will not only top the i range of cars but also serve as BMW’s flagship. We were given our first taste of the i8 four years ago, when BMW rolled out its Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the 2009...
The tech is currently making inroads in the world of commercial helmets and portable devices. It's also been available on a few other models for some time now. Mercedes-Benz, however, has finally decided to jump into the world of Head-Up Displays and will offer it as an optional extra on the upcoming 2014 S-Class and next-generation C-Class...
True fans of drifting know that the original slideways hero was a young man by the name of Takumi Fujiwara. His drift machine of choice was his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno (basically, a rear-wheel-drive Corolla built between 1983 and 1987). Fujiwara honed his skills while making delivery runs for his father's sushi company in...
A year ago, a 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo won the best in show award at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and we could see another car from the German automaker achieve similar success at this year’s event. That’s because Mercedes-Benz is bringing two very special models to the annual event in Monterey...
Tony Stewart took to the Southern Iowa Speedway dirt track on Monday night to take part in a sprint car race. He wound up wrecking, and the crash was a rough one, as Stewart ended up breaking his right leg. Both the fibula and tibia... ouch. Because of the wreck, Stewart will have to sit out of the Watkins Glen International. This marks the first...
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