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Buick- or Holden-Badged "People’s Panamera" Anybody?

Posted: 08 May 2014 06:15 PM PDT

Would the world be a better place if Buick suddenly announced that it was launching a car similar to the Porsche Panamera in both style and performance, but one that undercut it on price significantly? Read more »

Two Drunken Russian Dudes Try to Fill Up their Motorcycle

Posted: 08 May 2014 05:24 PM PDT

We really, really hate to say it, but a small voice in our heads is telling us that this won't be the last time that we're seeing these fine gentleman from Mother Russia featured in our Offbeat News section. Read more »

BMW Launches New M3 Sedan and M4 Coupe with Fresh Mega Gallery

Posted: 08 May 2014 04:51 PM PDT

While we know of at least one early bird who got his claws on the new M3 last month, the official launch date for both the F80 M3 Sedan and the F82 M4 Coupe is today. To refresh our interest in the two related models, BMW pushed out a boatload of new photos, including some nifty family shots with all five generations of the performance series that dates back to the E30 M3 from 1985. Read more »

Drag Race Duel: Mercedes E63 AMG versus Vauxhall VXR8 GTS

Posted: 08 May 2014 04:22 PM PDT

While the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG and the Vauxhall VXR8 GTS wouldn't strike you as rivals, they are a match for each other in terms of size, weight and power. This makes them excellent candidates for what should be a close drag race. Read more »

Mercedes-Benz Pinks Out a Custom A 45 AMG Called "Erika"

Posted: 08 May 2014 03:57 PM PDT

Mercedes is showcasing the latest work of its AMG Performance Studio with a customized A 45 AMG with one too many pink accents baptized "Erika". While the company doesn't say whether the car was commissioned or built just to show what its customizing division can do, we strongly suspect it was ordered by a pink-loving customer who may be called… Erika. Read more »

First Drive of the New All-Electric Mercedes-Benz B-Class ED

Posted: 08 May 2014 03:32 PM PDT

The recently priced B-Class Electric Drive (or ED) is kind of Mercedes' answer to the BMW i3. It's a very different looking car, and one that is far more conventional in appearance than its Bavarian rival. Read more »

BMW Vision Future Concept Turned into an Estate

Posted: 08 May 2014 02:53 PM PDT

Aside from its hideously large and disproportionate grille, the BMW Vision Future Concept bears the promise of bringing about the first elegant 7-Series since the time of the imposing and angular E38. Read more »

Honda to Resurrect the Beat with the Launch of S660 in 2015

Posted: 08 May 2014 02:09 PM PDT

Good news for fans of small roadsters with small engines: next year Honda will start producing the S660 small roadster, which it presented in concept form at the Tokyo Motor Show last year. Read more »

Crazed Driver Plows Through Crowd in Texas

Posted: 08 May 2014 01:40 PM PDT

In a story that took a bizarre twist right in front of the cameras, a murder suspect's father drove his silver Nissan Sentra into a crowd of dozens of people at an apartment complex in southeast Houston, Texas. Read more »

First 500 Mustangs for Europe to be Pre-Ordered at UEFA Champions League Final [w/Video]

Posted: 08 May 2014 01:10 PM PDT

For the first time in Mustang's 50-year history, Ford will officially sell its pony car in Europe as well, with the carmaker deciding to take the first orders during the continent's most popular sporting event: the final of the UEFA Champions League. Read more »

Skoda Adds a Premium Tone to Octavia with Laurin & Klement Edition for the UK

Posted: 08 May 2014 12:48 PM PDT

Following its world premiere at the recent Geneva Motor Show in March, the new Skoda Octavia Laurin & Klement (L&K) Edition has arrived in Britain with a starting on-the-road price of £26,570. Read more »

The IIHS’ Sophisticated High-Speed Cameras Detailed

Posted: 08 May 2014 12:15 PM PDT

As the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (or IIHS) crashes cars in a deeply scientific manner to rate their safety credentials, it needs to record all of it on video for later analysis and conclusion-drawing. Read more »

First Scoop Photos of New BMW M2 Coupe Prototype!

Posted: 08 May 2014 11:39 AM PDT

Rumors of BMW working on a new M2 model have been swirling around for ages, but this is the first piece of hard evidence that we have on the car. It looks like it's an early prototype that incorporates the expanded front fenders from the M235i Racing with more bloated rear fenders than the regular M235i Coupe used to widen both tracks. Read more »

Peel P50 Can Make a U Turn Inside the Ford Transit

Posted: 08 May 2014 11:12 AM PDT

To give us an idea of how big the cargo space of the 2015 Transit is, Ford arranged for its new van to meet the world's smallest production car, the Peel P50. As you probably expect, there were no problems whatsoever for the Peel to fit inside the Transit's belly, but the demonstration went further than that. Read more »

1991 BMW M3 E30 Touring Conversion Returns to eBay

Posted: 08 May 2014 10:46 AM PDT

We don't know what happened, but the same custom-built 1991 BMW M3 E30 Touring model that was purportedly sold for $45,000 by user wsbk996 on eBay back in the summer of 2012, has returned on the same seller's auction list. Read more »

Ford Builds One-Off 2015 Mustang 50 Years Convertible for Multiple Sclerosis Research

Posted: 08 May 2014 10:21 AM PDT

Ford will build a single 2015 Mustang 50 Years convertible for raffle, with proceeds to support multiple sclerosis research. The Mustang GT will be the only 2015 convertible to feature a performance pack and select content from the 50 Year Limited Edition Mustang fastback. Read more »

Peugeot Crafts RCZ Red Carbon Limited Edition, Priced from £26,000 in the UK

Posted: 08 May 2014 04:33 PM PDT

Peugeot has announced a new limited edition RCZ model called Red Carbon, available exclusively in two body colors, Moroccan Red or Nera Black. Peugeot will build only 300 Red Carbon models. Read more »

Watch Russian Road Slowly Cave in and Reveal Huge Sinkhole

Posted: 08 May 2014 09:11 AM PDT

It's like watching a disaster happening in slow motion, but this footage caught from a nearby traffic/surveillance camera on a road in the Russian city of Tyumen earlier today, occurred in real time. Read more »

New Open-Top Rolls Royce Wraith Drophead Coupé Spied for the First Time

Posted: 08 May 2014 08:33 AM PDT

About a year ago, Rolls Royce boss Müller-Ötvös acknowledged that the company had given the green light for the development of a convertible version of their new Wraith Coupe, and now, we have the first spy pictures of the car that will most likely borrow the bigger Phantom's Drophead Coupé nomenclature. Read more »

Care to Explain What's the Deal with These Three Aston Martins?

Posted: 08 May 2014 08:05 AM PDT

Unless these Aston Martins are a swinging trio of cheeky Transformers in disguise having a PG 18-rated slumber party behind what they thought were closed doors, we think you'll agree with us that something isn't quite right with this picture… Read more »

ABT Infuses New Audi S8 with 632 Ponies

Posted: 08 May 2014 07:41 AM PDT

Since Audi doesn't see a market for an RS8 luxury sedan, it's up to tuners like ABT to fill the need for speed with improved versions of the S8, which received a nip and tuck just last year. Read more »

Porsche Scooped Testing 4-Cylinder Boxster or Something Else?

Posted: 08 May 2014 07:27 AM PDT

If we only had the pictures to work with, our first thought about what you see here would be that, either Porsche or a higher-end tuner with the cash to afford prototype testing on the Nürburgring, are evaluating the aerodynamic and handling properties of a new version of the Boxster. However, our spies say otherwise. Read more »

Audi Unveils New 3.0-Liter TDI Engine with Up to 268HP / 272PS and S Tronic

Posted: 08 May 2014 06:50 AM PDT

Audi has revealed the latest generation of its 3.0-liter TDI engine at the 35th International Vienna Motor Symposium (May 8-9). The new V6 turbodiesel features a 90-degree cylinder bank angle and a displacement of 2,967 cc. Read more »

Two Very Painful Crashes from South African Longboard Race

Posted: 08 May 2014 06:27 AM PDT

Riding a longboard with no brakes down a steep road at vehicle speeds – what could possibly go wrong? Well, for five competitors at South Africa's "Urban Descent 2014" downhill longboard race, things went a bit sour on two separate occasions. Read more »

Fiat's 2016 Punto Replacement Could be Named 500 Plus and Made in Poland

Posted: 08 May 2014 05:57 AM PDT

Eleven years – that's how long Fiat plans to keep the current generation of the Punto that was initially launched as the Grande Punto in 2005, before it was renamed to Punto Evo after a light facelift in 2009, and simply Punto in 2012. According to Fiat's latest product plan documents released on Tuesday, a successor for the European model is scheduled for 2016. Read more »