Miscellaneous Car Blog

The electric vehicle division of this summer's Pike's Peak International Hillclimb is turning out to be one of the most watched and anticipated, with entries such as a full-race spec Mitsubishi i-MiEV and a ...    Read more

Carroll Shelby has been the subject of many a blog post and article over the past week and a half since his passing. Over the course of his almost nine-decade life, Shelby was involved ...    Read more

Chevrolet's SS badge has a long and storied history -- many cars have been worthy of the legendary "Super Sport," while others (remember the Malibu Maxx SS?) were certainly not. In honor of the revival of the SS badge for the 2014 Chevrolet SS rear-wheel drive sedan, we have rounded ...    Read more

A new film about the beginnings of Rolls-Royce called "Silver Ghost" will feature Martin Scorsese, Lord Attenborough, and Anthony Haas, it was announced today. "Silver Ghost" will follow the story of Lord John Douglas-Scott Montagu of Beaulieu. Montagu was instrumental in passing legislature in the United Kingdom that fostered the growth ...    Read more

China has become the land where models refuse to die – cars that have been discontinued for decades in the western world live on. Add a new one to that list: a new report from China Car Timeshas surfaced that Volvo has handed over the current XC90 to Geely to be ...    Read more

If 30 is the new 20 and 40 is the new 30, BMW's M division is hitting the prime of its life. The high-performance car builder turns 40 this year, and we've rounded up our eight favorite cars, one for every five years of the performance subsidiary’s existence.   ...    Read more

With the 2012 BMW M5 just beginning to roll into dealerships, fans of the Bavarian brand now have the ability to spec out their dream super sedan however they want thanks to BMW's online configurator. Oh, what's that? You say you would rather a coupe or convertible? Fret not; BMW ...    Read more

Honda Aircraft Company's fourth HondaJet small private jet lifted off and completed its first flight last week. This HondaJet, dubbed the F3, reached as high as 11,500 feet, and managed a top speed of 313 knots  true air speed (KTAS) while testing over the company's world headquarters in North ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz's new cruise control system goes beyond regulating speed and braking. The system, called Predictive Powertrain Control, reduces fuel consumption by using GPS technology to shift a transmission based on the topography ahead. Mercedes says it’s the first system to link GPS and gearbox shifting together. Currently offered in the ...    Read more

In a new video released online by Infiniti, Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel and Hong Kong-born actress Celina Jade face off against a slew of martial arts baddies in China. The stylized kung-fu clip features as its centerpiece, of course, a gold Infiniti FX50S. Sure. Why not? If it seems ...    Read more

Jeremy Clarkson took to twitter to confirm rumors that the next season of “Top Gear” would be delayed until January 2013. The rumors began to swirl after an interview with Clarkson on BallzRadio, a South African sports and entertainment news site. Fortunately, the Top Gear Christmas Special ...    Read more

“Motorcity” is a new animated series slated for the The Disney Channel about a group of teenagers fighting an evil billionaire for their rights to own cars. The series takes place in the subterranean refuge of Motorcity, which sits below the futuristic city of Detroit Deluxe. Known ...    Read more

Amazingly, young drivers continue to send text messages and make phone calls while driving, even though they allegedly know the risks of doing so. That's the takeaway from a study by Consumer Reports of 1049 people aged 16 to 21. Of the respondents, 29 percent admitted to sending or receiving text ...    Read more

DragTimes, a Russian-based outfit, has released a cluster of new videos that includes tuned versions of  the mighty Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Nissan GT-R, and a Lamborghini Gallardo with a reported 1500-hp going head-to-head in quarter mile and mile-long drag races. The latest video puts a Switzer-tuned 850-hp GT-R and the mighty ...    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

General Motors' worldwide tax rate may have gone up to as much as 13 percent, but the automaker's U.S. income tax rate remains low. And by low, we mean zero dollars low. GM has not paid U.S. federal income tax since coming out of bankruptcy. Though it posts profits, GM's actions ...    Read more

Anatole Lapine (left, above), whose long career included stints as chief designer for Porsche and designer for General Motors, died April 30 in Germany. He was 81 years old. Born in 1930 in Latvia, Lapine joined Daimler-Benz as an engineering apprentice after World War II, before joining GM in the U.S. ...    Read more

The rapidly changing midsize sedan market is inspiring Chevrolet to pay special attention to family-oriented customers' needs with the redesigned 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. With a little help from special engineers with expertise in family vehicles, the automaker hopes it has given the new sedan an edge over its competitors. Four ...    Read more

A funny new BMW ad takes a literal approach to keeping your head in the right place, showing what happens when one man's head wanders off to a tropical beach resort. His head even visits a nude beach, ultimately making this video NSFW, thanks to two bare female behinds. A man's ...    Read more

Mainstream  flying cars may not be too far off into the future, as Volkswagen's People's Choice Project suggests. More than 119,000 vehicle and technological ideas were submitted as part of the Chinese project, and while ...    Read more

We've all been warned of the dangers of obesity: it contributes to chronic diseases like heart disease and type 2 diabetes, shortens lifespans, and decreases your fuel economy. Add another line to that unfortunate list: a scientific study has found that obese drivers are more likely to die in or ...    Read more

The new, rear-drive Kia K9 officially goes on sale in Korea this week and now we have more details on its powertrain choices and features. The automaker first unveiled its new flagship sedan earlier this year. Kia says the K9 is the automaker's first large rear-drive ...    Read more

Maserati set its sights high when it announced a sales goal of 50,000 units a year by 2015, and it appears the Trident could target German rivals with a mid-engine, V-8 powered sports car. The sports car could adopt the ...    Read more

Scion is offering a neat opportunity to the first people to buy its new iQ micro-hatchback. Anyone who buys or leases a Scion iQ between May 1 and July 31 can receive a free PlayStation Vita handheld video game system. The tie-up between the world's smallest four-seater car and the ...    Read more

You know the old truism that American drivers hate manual transmissions and only ever buy automatics? Well, turns out that's not necessarily true anymore. An analysis in USA Today reveals that the proportion of new cars sold with manual transmissions in the first quarter of this year was at ...    Read more