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California may have earthquakes, high unemployment, suffocating taxes and onerous environmental and business regulations, but the state enjoys some of the best weather in the country, and is the center of the country's, if not the world's entertainment industry. Those that work in "the biz" see it as just a ...    Read more

In this week's roundup, Chrysler builds a one-off special edition of the 2013 SRT Viper to help benefit a charity auction, Motor Trend‘s Michael Shaffer as he drives a Gallardo with other new and classic Lamborghinis from around the world, Tanner Foust slides a Mustang GT for the camera before ...    Read more

On their Roadkill video trips, David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan are used to buying vehicles of questionable repute, and putting them to the test. By Roadkill standards, the Chevrolet Monza they bought in Ohio was a relative gem. Factory-equipped with a 305 V-8 ...    Read more

If you follow the hod-rodding scene with any regularity, you're well aware of the basic formula for a street rod. A '32-'34 Ford body with some variation of a Chevrolet small-block V-8 (usually around 350 cubic ...    Read more

The introduction of the Jaguar XF sedan in 2008 showed that the storied British brand would no longer be saddled with the deliberately retro styling that it used to think its customers wanted. The new XJ followed suit by ...    Read more

With growth seemingly constrained only by a self-imposed production capacity moratorium, there aren't many areas of automobiledom that Hyundai hasn't already conquered. But one item missing from its portfolio of global facilities was a permanent outpost at the Mecca of automotive testing, Germany's ...    Read more

Since its 2009 rebirth, Chrysler has shown its strength in trucks and SUVs, with the excellent 2013 Ram 1500 and 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. But one market that Chrysler has perpetually been an also-ran in the midsize sedan segment. The 2011 refresh of the Sebring, which dropped the race-inspired name ...    Read more

For those of us that came of age during the Clinton administration, and rocking out to Nirvana and Pearl Jam in our flannel shirts, the defining mega-trend of the automotive market was the seemingly unstoppable dominance of the sport-utility vehicle. While tastes and preferences have changed somewhat for the utilitarian ...    Read more

In his more than a decade of racing in the IndyCar series, Brazilian Tony Kanaan has had multiple second and third-place finishes in the historic Memorial Day weekend race, but has never taken the checkered flag. Kanaan's winless streak at the Indy 500 finally ended on Sunday, taking the checkered ...    Read more

Nissan is conducting a major worldwide recall of 841,000 Micra and Cube subcompact models built from 2002 through 2006 for a loose steering wheel bolt. The cars affected were sold in the markets of Japan, Asia, Oceania, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. No cars sold in the U.S. ...    Read more

Over its 20-year history, Need for Speed has become one of the most popular racing games of all time, and Electronic Arts is showing no signs of letting off the throttle with ...    Read more

Bob Lutz, in conjunction with China's Wanxiang Group, is reportedly making a move for the remaining assets of Fisker Automotive, possibly in a move to increase production of Lutz's Karma-based supercharged V-8-powered VL Destino. But Lutz and friends ...    Read more

If you're a fan of fine German machinery, you'll love this week's Rumors Video Roundup, with a look at all four generations of BMW's legendary M3, the F10 M5 setting a new drift record, and a flyover view of Volkswagen's epic Wörthersee Festival in Austria. But fret not, fans of Detroit ...    Read more

The drumbeat of negative news about the European auto market has become so consistent and regular over the last two years, that it almost seemed like down was the new normal on the Continent. ...    Read more

The number of times rivals such as the Porsche 911 and Chevrolet Corvette, the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro have been compared can probably be counted in the hundreds of times. For the cars' respective fans, the matchups ...    Read more