You may recall that last month the CEO of Aston Martin, Dr. Ulrich Bez, auctioned off his Rapide company car in order to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief effort. Bez, and his counterpart at Toyota, Akio Toyoda, are at the Nurburgring 24 Hours race taking place in Germany this weekend where this giant cheque was presented. The Concours...
With an bold new design for 2011, the Infiniti M sedan is out to make itself known, and to earn respect from buyers of German hardware as well. It's Infinti's sculpted curves and flaring fenders may not strike every eye the same, but many find it beautiful. It handles very well, and has plenty of power, too, earning a score of 8 from...
A curious scene of a body in white being built up in the video that auto-plays on GM.com's home page has the Web asking if it's the Cadillac ATS. We're not sure it is, but we're not sure it isn't either. There are some factors pointing toward it being the ATS: it's a compact sedan, judging by the smaller rear door opening and size in relation to...
The first season of Global RallyCross is drawing to a close, with just X Games 17 left on the schedule following the Last Chance Pikes Peak event that just wrapped. This video teases the action. We don't want to spoil it for you--the TV broadcast comes tomorrow at 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN--so we'll leave it there. But if you haven't gotten into the...
Ferrari hasn't needed any help in the design department lately. The 458 Italia set a new benchmark for sleek, inspired, modern supercar design, and the Ferrari FF followed it with a shooting brake body to die for. But that's not stopping these College of Creative Studies, Detroit students from bending their imaginations to the task of what future...
Vintage racing cars that inspire all sorts of emotions, from the lascivious to the idyllic, are seemingly everywhere, and yet each is rarer than diamonds. This 1955 Frazer Nash Le Mans Coupe is a perfect example. Powered by a BMW-Bristol 6 2.5-liter inline six-cylinder engine topped with triple carburetors, the Le Mans Coupe isn't exactly quick or...
If you’re looking for a single new car to drop $1.7 million on, your list just shrank by one. Bugatti has announced the sale of the final Veyron 16.4 coupe, to a “European customer” who will take delivery next fall. Bugatti built only 300 examples during the car’s seven-year production run, including numerous limited...
Legislation passed in Nevada today that will allow companies to test autonomous cars that can drive themselves. The law has given the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles the authorization to write new rules that will allow self-driving cars to operate on the state's highways. The department will have until March 2012 to put the new rules in place...
As Columbo, Peter Falk played one of the more memorable detectives ever to ply the airwaves, but his trademark fedora and trenchcoat weren't his only distinctive calling cards. Can you imagine Elliott Stabler driving...a 1959 Peugeot 403 Convertible? As a fan site describes it, Columbo's Pug was "battered and unbeautiful, eccentric and woeful...
Currently, the United States is a patchwork of laws regarding cell phone use while driving: You can talk here, you can't text there, you must be in park or neutral to use your phone there. If a bill in the U.S. House eventually becomes law, that patchwork will be superseded by a federal standard. The crux of the proposed law is this: You won't be...
Yesterday MINI unveiled the 2012 MINI John Cooper Works Coupe Endurance (yes, the name is longer than the car), based on the brand-new 2012 MINI Coupe, and today, we have video of the car testing on track. Upgraded from the standard 208-horsepower MINI JCW Coupe, the Endurance race car packs 250 ponies in its tiny 1.6-liter turbo four-cylinder...
Ryan Dunn's death in an alcohol-addled 130-mph Porsche 911 GT3 wreck shines a light on drunk driving dangers. [MotorAuthority] The 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe gets its official unveiling, complete with John Cooper Works trim. [MotorAuthority] Britney Spears flashes something new in her latest video--the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle. [TheCarConnection]...
You may recall that last month the CEO of Aston Martin, Dr. Ulrich Bez, auctioned off his Rapide company car in order to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief effort. Bez, and his counterpart at Toyota, Akio Toyoda, are at the Nurburgring 24 Hours race taking place in Germany this weekend where this giant cheque was presented. The Concours...
With an bold new design for 2011, the Infiniti M sedan is out to make itself known, and to earn respect from buyers of German hardware as well. It's Infinti's sculpted curves and flaring fenders may not strike every eye the same, but many find it beautiful. It handles very well, and has plenty of power, too, earning a score of 8 from...
A curious scene of a body in white being built up in the video that auto-plays on GM.com's home page has the Web asking if it's the Cadillac ATS. We're not sure it is, but we're not sure it isn't either. There are some factors pointing toward it being the ATS: it's a compact sedan, judging by the smaller rear door opening and size in relation to...
The first season of Global RallyCross is drawing to a close, with just X Games 17 left on the schedule following the Last Chance Pikes Peak event that just wrapped. This video teases the action. We don't want to spoil it for you--the TV broadcast comes tomorrow at 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN--so we'll leave it there. But if you haven't gotten into the...
Ferrari hasn't needed any help in the design department lately. The 458 Italia set a new benchmark for sleek, inspired, modern supercar design, and the Ferrari FF followed it with a shooting brake body to die for. But that's not stopping these College of Creative Studies, Detroit students from bending their imaginations to the task of what future...
Vintage racing cars that inspire all sorts of emotions, from the lascivious to the idyllic, are seemingly everywhere, and yet each is rarer than diamonds. This 1955 Frazer Nash Le Mans Coupe is a perfect example. Powered by a BMW-Bristol 6 2.5-liter inline six-cylinder engine topped with triple carburetors, the Le Mans Coupe isn't exactly quick or...
If you’re looking for a single new car to drop $1.7 million on, your list just shrank by one. Bugatti has announced the sale of the final Veyron 16.4 coupe, to a “European customer” who will take delivery next fall. Bugatti built only 300 examples during the car’s seven-year production run, including numerous limited...
Legislation passed in Nevada today that will allow companies to test autonomous cars that can drive themselves. The law has given the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles the authorization to write new rules that will allow self-driving cars to operate on the state's highways. The department will have until March 2012 to put the new rules in place...
As Columbo, Peter Falk played one of the more memorable detectives ever to ply the airwaves, but his trademark fedora and trenchcoat weren't his only distinctive calling cards. Can you imagine Elliott Stabler driving...a 1959 Peugeot 403 Convertible? As a fan site describes it, Columbo's Pug was "battered and unbeautiful, eccentric and woeful...
Currently, the United States is a patchwork of laws regarding cell phone use while driving: You can talk here, you can't text there, you must be in park or neutral to use your phone there. If a bill in the U.S. House eventually becomes law, that patchwork will be superseded by a federal standard. The crux of the proposed law is this: You won't be...
Yesterday MINI unveiled the 2012 MINI John Cooper Works Coupe Endurance (yes, the name is longer than the car), based on the brand-new 2012 MINI Coupe, and today, we have video of the car testing on track. Upgraded from the standard 208-horsepower MINI JCW Coupe, the Endurance race car packs 250 ponies in its tiny 1.6-liter turbo four-cylinder...
Ryan Dunn's death in an alcohol-addled 130-mph Porsche 911 GT3 wreck shines a light on drunk driving dangers. [MotorAuthority] The 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe gets its official unveiling, complete with John Cooper Works trim. [MotorAuthority] Britney Spears flashes something new in her latest video--the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle. [TheCarConnection]...
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