Miscellaneous

It takes guts to take on Germany's famed race track, the so-called Green Hell. Requiring even more guts is lapping the Nürburgring when it's covered in snow. And ice. In a Formula racecar. Nürburgring Driving Academy chief instructor Andy Gulden recently did just that, turning laps on the Nordschleife and ...    Read more

Double vision isn’t necessarily a good thing, but in this case, it is. Two professional Japanese drivers decided to double the fun in a drifting demonstration with twin Toyota GT 86s. Below is a video of a white and red GT-86 getting into double trouble ...    Read more

Following the announcement that classic car insurer Hagerty placed the 2012 Buick Regal GS  on its "2012 Hot List," General Motors decided to see how the Regal GS would stack up against other past collectibles from the Buick bloodline if it were ...    Read more

If there’s one big takeaway from the National Automobile Dealers Association convention going on in Las Vegas right now, it’s that the car market is in flux. NADA, however, has gone so far to say that changes in government policy and the used car market could lead to some bigger ...    Read more

We've already come across accessory catalogs for the new Toyota FT-86 (or Scion FR-S, as the U.S. shall know it), but it seems a similar publication for its twin -- the 2013 Subaru BRZ -- recently made its way online. Some of the options this Japanese market catalog shows are actually ...    Read more

For all the discussion of CAFE standards, engine downsizing, and geo-political tensions in the Persian Gulf, there's still an argument to be made for this being the golden age of performance. Perhaps one of the best examples of this is the ...    Read more

Yes, we’ve already seen the Cadillac ATS in the flesh and on the stand at the Detroit Auto Show last month, but that until recently, we hadn’t had a chance to see one actually in action. That changed this past weekend, as our Creative Director spotted a 2013 ATS prototype ...    Read more

Been away from your computer all week and missed the automotive news? We've pulled this week's hottest stories into one place--right here--for your enjoyment. Super Bowl XLVI Automotive Ads: You'd Better Like Dogs It must have been a banner year for dogs in car ads, because this year's Super Bowl automotive ...    Read more

Continuing this week’s unofficial theme of everyone is releasing Super Bowl commercials on YouTube, BMW has a new crop of quick videos that should make you chuckle, two of which will air during the big game. There are six videos, in total, but only two will make it to the airwaves ...    Read more

A good dream could star literally anything, as long as it’s not the recurring one where you’re locked out of your house and not wearing any pants. Kia likes to think, however, that its new Optima Limited has a place in ...    Read more

Subaru advertisements have always appealed to potential owners’ love of the outdoors, social consciousness, or love of safe, fun cars. The company’s newest crop of ads taps into an even deeper love: dogs. Subaru has released four new advertisements as part of ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz is not happy about being overtaken by Audi as the world's second largest luxury brand, and it's definitely not happy about BMW coming out on top again. The German automaker is setting its eye on the prize with a projected 2.7 million ...    Read more

Three of the four vehicles Chrysler’s Mopar brand unveiled this morning are offered as dealer-installed kits – but if they prove popular with consumers, there’s a chance they could be built on the original factory assembly line. Jim Sassorossi, Mopar’s head of sales and product development, says his brand can ...    Read more

Fiat's reported four-door subcompact, dubbed Project L-Zero, is scheduled to launch in the U.S. in the middle of 2013, but before that happens, the all-new Cinquecento variant will show its face at the Geneva Motor Show in March. The 500L ...    Read more

Yes, that annual ad-fest where each company tries to out-do each other is upon us again. Of course, we're talking about the 2012 Super Bowl. The commercials are arguably as watched as the game itself, and companies pay major money ...    Read more

What's being first worth to you? Evidently, for comedian Jerry Seinfeld, quite a bit. In Acura's first Super Bowl ad, the eponymous sitcom star tries to tempt a buyer who is first in line for Acura's revived NSX sports car with a ...    Read more

The Super Bowl kicks off in six days, which means it’s time for automakers to prematurely roll out their multi-million-dollar advertising campaigns for the big game. Hyundai released a total of five Super Bowl ads today on its YouTube page; while we’d like to call it an advertising blitz, the ...    Read more

That was fast. Last September, John Travolta reportedly left his classic Mercedes-Benz 280 SL convertible parked on a residential street in Santa Monica, California, for just 10 minutes, but that's all the time it took for it to get stolen. Unfortunately for the actor, ...    Read more

To celebrate its partnership with Chinese automaker Dongfeng, Nissan commissioned a unique sculpture that shows a three-dimensional exploded view of a car. Seen here in this video from Nissan, the vehicle in question is a Nissan Teana, a midsize sedan that is reportedly one of China's most popular cars. The sculpture ...    Read more

Some of us are insatiable gearheads. Whether it's lunchtime web-surfing, mobile updates, after-work conversation, or even regaling our spouses with our automotive expertise, we just can't get too much of a good thing. Well, if you count yourself among this group, prepare for the coming cornucopia of online content that ...    Read more

We’re freely going to admit that this video is a bit hard to watch: it’s a clip of a Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, with the top down, parked in a rainstorm. Ouch. We say ouch because the title suggests that this bit of rain could have caused $100,000 in damage to ...    Read more

Ford would still like you to drive and buy its cars, but it’ll stop telling the public so blatantly: the company will replace its current “Drive One” tagline with a new one, “Go Further.” The slogan is meant to evoke the automaker’s financial struggles ...    Read more

You might be tempted into thinking that life with an AMG-tuned Mercedes-Benz is filled with supermodels, superbikes, empty airstrips, and tire smoke. Mercedes-Benz’s newest video doesn’t do much to sway that opinion, either: it has all three, topped off with a C63 AMG coupe. The video is a behind-the-scenes number of ...    Read more

Audi recently got a lot of flack for its A6 Avant commercial that was strikingly similar to Chrysler's much-talked about "Imported from Detroit" ad, but it's apparently OK to crib ideas from corporate cousins. Witness the ad ...    Read more

Out of the many cars that got flung around a parking lot at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon during Toyota's motorsport exhibition, nearly every one survived without a scratch, including the Lexus LFA Roadster convertible concept. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for one special Lexus IS F. In just ...    Read more