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Yes, you've read about the 200-mph top speed, the 662 horsepower packed underhood, and the $55,000 base price. But, if you're like us, you couldn't help but look at the 2013 Ford Shebly GT500 and wonder: how does it compare to the original? Well, here's the quick run-down. Since the folks ...    Read more

No, Renault won’t officially unveil its long-awaited conceptual tribute to the fabled Alpine-Renault A110 until later this week – but a Web site in Europe claims it has the first leaked photo of the Alpine reincarnate. French publication MotorSport Magazine, which first broke the images, says what you’re ...    Read more

2011-2012 Ferrari 458 Italia, California The Problem: Ferrari has released more details surrounding its recent recall of 2011-2012 458 Italia and California models. As previously reported, a machining error may have affected the crankshafts used in these vehicles. The crank may not be able to withstand thermal and ...    Read more

General Motors’ Holden brand is understandably excited by today’s announcement about the 2014 Chevrolet SS: after all, the Australian division is chiefly responsible for both designing and producing the vehicle that will soon be sold to North American consumers. But is this news really all that new? Hardly. Five years ...    Read more

The speculation can finally come to a close: Yes, Chevrolet will sell a rear-wheel-drive sport sedan in the U.S. market next year. Yes, it will be based on a Holden-developed platform. And yes: it will be sold as the 2014 Chevrolet SS. Today’s announcement is largely hinged around the fact that ...    Read more

Chances are you’ve already seen it on our home page – but there’s more to our story than celebrating the advancement in carbon fiber bodied automobiles becoming increasingly mainstream. It also gave us an opportunity to drag race four of the most exotic machines available to mankind on an open ...    Read more

I harbor no ill will towards snow, but as someone born and raised in Michigan, even I find it a little ironic that I’m flying out to California, of all places, for a rally that touts snow-capped scenery. It’s also funny that I’m heading to an event called the Snowball ...    Read more

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…tuner GT-R? Actually, it’s none of the above: what you’re looking at is likely one of the two Nissan GT-Rs the automaker plans on entering in this year’s 24-hour endurance race at the Nurburgring. Per Nurburgring rules, cars entered need to be production-based. ...    Read more

We've already professed our love for the handsome Peugeot 208 hatchback, but it seems as if the French automaker's shapely B-segment car can transform into an equally attractive crossover. Case in point? The Urban Crossover Concept, which debuted this week at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show. Peugeot says the ...    Read more

“The proof is in the pudding,” says a very old English proverb. Some of my experiences in the month of March this year -- through which my solid distaste for two contemporary cars has been seriously tempered by actually driving them in real-world conditions – illustrated the proverb, because the ...    Read more

Pop quiz: The Ferrari California gained an optional manual transmission in early 2010, but how many examples of the retractable-hardtop roadster were built with such a gearbox? Two. That’s not two percent of all volume, but two cars period. That’s a pittance, even given Ferrari’s limited volumes. In fact, given roughly ...    Read more

The production-ready version of the 2013 Acura ILX made its official debut in February at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, but as the brand's entry-level offering is now making its way to dealers nationwide, we now have finalized pricing in hand. According to Acura, the suggested retail pricing for 2013 ...    Read more

Seeing exotic machinery take to the Nurburgring's tarmac isn't uncommon. But seeing a 2013 Ford Shelby GT500- and one that appears to be a development mule - on the 'Ring isn't something you see every day. Yet that's exactly what our spy photographers managed to capture. Actually, our spy photographer was ...    Read more

Yes, the first wave of 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 spy photos broke long ago, but as Chevy’s latest and greatest sports car inches closer to production, prototype cars are apparently becoming an increasingly common site on public roads. Case in point? A CorvetteBlogger reader bumped into a Corvette testing group in ...    Read more

Yes, we have seen what performance hop-ups Toyota plans on selling in Japan for the GT-86, but until now, details surrounding accessories for the U.S.-spec 2013 Scion FR-S have been fleeting, at best. As the on-sale date for the FR-S grows ever closer, we’re starting to learn more about what ...    Read more

With apologies to David Byrne, the new 2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class is largely the same as it ever was. Even so, Mercedes-Benz has given its veteran off-roader a few new engines and a couple of cosmetic tweaks for its 33rd year on the market. As a rash of spy photos previously indicated, ...    Read more

A sizable chunk of RM Auction’s forthcoming Monaco acution consists of vintage Ducati motorcycles of all shapes and sizes, but we can’t help but notices a number of amazing vintage Ferrari race and road cars have also worked their way into the auction catalog. Here are a few of ...    Read more

Automakers offering restoration services for vehicles they built decades before isn’t exactly uncommon. Aston Martin’s Works Heritage Service will gladly maintain your wanna-be-Bond DB5. Mercedes-Benz Classic will restore a 600 Grosser, a 300SL Gullwing, and everything in between. And Volkswagen, it seems, is more than willing to give your Microbus ...    Read more

There's no need for any further estimation or guessing: Subaru announced today at its press conference here in New York that the 2013 BRZ sports coupe will carry a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $26,245, including $750 in destination charges. That price puts buyers behind the wheel of ...    Read more

Hyundai's next-generation Santa Fe will come in 2 flavors: the standard Santa Fe (5 seats, FWD/AWD, 4-cylinder); and a longer version (3 rows of seats, FWD/AWD, V-6). The standard version arrives first, late this summer, and will take the name Santa Fe Sport. Its standard 2.4-liter four-cylinder makes 190 hp and ...    Read more

It was a poorly kept secret at the time (the vehicle was officially referred to as a "production concept"), but technically Jaguar hadn't fully confirmed its C-X16 sports coupe concept was destined for production when the car broke cover at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. That said, it's now completely ...    Read more

If you had access to a 2012 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, where would you take it? Laguna Seca? Route 66? Corvettes at Carlisle? All fair options, but Motor Trend's Angus MacKenzie had a better idea: grab contributor and racer/ driving ace Justin Bell, and take the ZR1 on a proper ...    Read more

March 2012 proved kind to the Chrysler Group, as the automaker reports sales volumes rose 34 percent year-to-year to 163,381 vehicles. That makes March 2012 Chrysler's best sales month since March 2008, and a key part in the automaker posting it's best first quarter sales result in four years. "The combination ...    Read more

GMC spent most of its first 100 years building workhorses of industry, military, and public transportation. How?s the brand celebrating its next 100 years? By building some gussied-up 2012 Sierra, Yukon, and Yukon XL models, of course. The new package is called the Heritage Edition, and as ...    Read more

The Honda Fit is one of four Honda passenger cars sold in North America that isn't manufactured in North America - but that may soon change. Honda announced today it is constructing a plant in Mexico that, among other things, will build Fit models for the North American market ...    Read more