On Wednesday, Tesla announced that it paid off in full a $465 million loan that the Energy Department made in 2010, nine years earlier than scheduled. In the statement, the California-based company also added, "Following this payment, Tesla will be the only American car company to have fully repaid the government."

During a press conference held in Melbourne today, Bob Graziano, president and CEO of Ford Australia, said that the company could not continue to build cars in the country after reporting a loss of $141 million after tax in the last financial year, and more than $600 million over the past five years.

Like his counterparts over at Holden, which will likely kill the Commodore in 2016 and put the final nail in the coffin of Australia's long production-run of rear-wheel drive sedans, utes and estates, Graziano also blamed the rising value of the Australian dollar against other currencies.

In a video interview about the sixth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise on Razor TV, journalist John Lui came up with the smart idea of asking the actors to guess the prices of cars in the country.

Tesla added that it repaid the loan nine years ahead of schedule, saving taxpayers at least $12 million on the $465 million lent.

However, this latest story from the UK really gives car drivers a bad name, after a young woman from Norfolk used her Twitter account to post about how she hit a cyclist and knocked him down.

In fact, the exterior revisions will be rather modest, limited to a tweaked front grille, more modern head- and tail-lamp fixtures, and possibly changes to the bumper and mirror designs, along with a fresh assortment of exterior colors and alloy wheel designs.

BMW's high-performance model that will soon replace the M3 Coupe is scheduled for a summer 2014 launch, following the introductions of the plain 4-Series Coupe and Convertible as well as the M3 Sedan later this year.

If you are looking for a fancy estate with a lot of punch, costing about that much, then you are in luck, because something very Italian and exclusive has cropped up, and it's set to go under the hammer on May 25.

We obviously can't argue with that, as one would have to hate Leonardo Fioravanti personally to say that his work on the 512i BB is anything but excellent. A minimalist architect, Schubert decided to create his studio-garage space by making the Ferrari BB 512i its centerpiece. The car shares the same space with Schubert's working area, as he says he's inspired by Ferrari's perfect lines when he's drawing.

While a Chrysler spokesman declined to comment about the existence of the engine, company engineers reportedly confirmed the story to Allpar. The supercharger system is believed to help bring the V8's output closer to the 640hp of the Viper's V10, up from 470hp of the current Challenger SRT8.

Once in a while, though, the seriousness of the situation calls for much more drastic measures, as was the recently case in an incident that took place Tuesday morning in Tolleson, Arizona, and which saw SWAT teams using a…truck to repeatedly smash open a house!

They say that its future "hinges on a standard process of induction charging being introduced around the world," and it is explained that having cumbersome cables and plugs to fiddle around with contradicts the company's idea of being premium – so they're either making it wirelessly-chargeable or not at all…

We're told this 2013 Chrysler 300 sedan that we found on eBay was "custom factory built for a retiring 72 year old entrepreneur" and CEO, who obviously had some fond automotive memories from the 1970s and 1980s.

Modern diesels deliver, and have been doing so for a good few years now - progress is also unstoppable in the automotive industry, and since diesels bring in a lot of cash, a lot of time is spent improving them.

Here's what it says: "I forward along this latest press release from my Lotus UK colleagues announcing the availability of the new Exige S Roadster, not to cruelly tease you with what we can't have here in North America, but because the Exige V6 Cup and Exige V6 Cup R Lotus Racing variants ARE available here in North America for track use only!"

The Zoe is the latest electric Renault that launched on European roads, with prices starting from €13,700 in France and from £13,995 in the UK (both prices include governments' incentives, but not monthly lease fees for the battery).

One of its coolest looking and most recognized models was the 750 Grand Sport Berlinetta with a body penned by the great Giovanni Michelotti, who was the designer of the BMW 2002, Standard Triumph, Lancia Aprilia Coupè and many other classic cars.

In traffic, you can ask for forgiveness if you do something dumb, as long as it doesn't really put anybody's safety at risk. You could cut somebody off, or not indicate while changing lanes and others may honk their horn and not think very highly of you, but you won't really be judged too harshly, because there are lots of people doing mindless driving, and people have included it into their daily routine.

The first were the similarities of the front-quarter photo with this image of the 3-Series Sedan M Sport right up to the…last numbers of the license plate, and the second, the regular, single slats for the double kidney grilles as opposed to BMW M's new double slat design, as seen on the refreshed M5 and new M6 models.