Miscellaneous Car Blog

With the 2013 Infiniti JX expected to be a major player in the luxury crossover segment, what better way to promote the all-new seven-seat crossover than during the NCAA selection games this Sunday? The all-new three-row crossover ...    Read more

This past weekend, Chrysler sponsored the John Varvatos ninth annual Stuart House Benefit in Los Angeles, CA, where it unveiled a limited-edition 2012 300S sedan designed by John Varvatos. The specially-designed 300S will be auctioned off online, with bidders able to enter the auction until next Tuesday, March ...    Read more

The Mini Countryman has gone from roly-poly cute to more aggressively athletic now that it's been adopted under the John Cooper Works name, but just how much higher is its performance now? Watch the 2013 Mini Countryman John Coopers Works at ...    Read more

Lunch break: it's a great time to go to the post office, catch up on your March Madness bracket, or actually eat lunch. We recommend scrapping the errands, grabbing a quesadilla, and watching this 15-minute video clip of the Pagani Huayra in all of its detail-oriented glory. The Huayra, Pagani likes ...    Read more

The weather outside this weekend was downright balmy if you were on the east coast or Midwest, but that didn't stop us for wishing for a little bit of snow. That is, we can't help but wish we were a part of this video, when the Italian offshoot of ...    Read more

At face value, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's newest report should be filed under obvious: making it harder for convicted drunk drivers to drive while intoxicated decreases the number of people who drive under the influence more than once. As ...    Read more

We all need to enjoy the fresh air sometimes, and after being displayed  in Geneva this week, the Range Rover Evoque Convertible needs to step outside, too. Check out the open-air off-roader in action in the video below. Although the Evoque ...    Read more

KW Automotive has released pictures of its new wing door hinge kit for the 2012 Chrysler 300. Built in Germany by its LSD Doors division, the new wing door hinge kit is a bolt-on affair and doesn’t require welding or painting to install. It bolts to the same ...    Read more

Effective April 1, Jim Lentz will assume the position of president and CEO of Toyota Motor Sales, USA. Currently president and COO, Lentz will become the first American to hold the top slot at Toyota’s North American wing. Lentz started at Toyota in 1982, working on the west coast as the ...    Read more

Even though many of the services are free, many BMW owners routinely skip the service intervals recommended by their cars' on-board computers. Despite easy-to-understand messages prompting owners exactly when their vehicle needs servicing, BMW has found that many drivers skip or delay taking the car to the dealership. To help deal ...    Read more

The Fiat 500 family is growing, both literally and figuratively. Hot on the heels of the recently-released Fiat Abarth model in the U.S. is the Fiat 500 L four-door. Although clearly related to its smaller stablemates, ...    Read more

Aside from “GT,” it’s perhaps one of the most over-used and sometimes mis-applied letters to designate performance cars. Yes folks, we’re talking about the letter R. There are manifold examples of it, some deserving, some less so. Where does Volkwagen’s latest hot hatch fall on that continuum? Carlos Lago puts ...    Read more

It's funny: Los Angeles is packed full of exotic and lustworthy sports cars, but its crowded city streets and clogged freeways aren't exactly conducive for actually exercising that sort of machinery. Motor Trend took a page from Snake Plissken: when presented with the opportunity to try out the new ...    Read more

If you can’t get enough of exotics, then you’ll love this episode of Wide Open Throttle. We’ve got news on the most powerful Ferrari in the company’s history, the 700+ horsepower F12 Berlinetta, the highly-anticipated 2013 SRT Viper, and ...    Read more

If you've been watching rally driver Ken Block's YouTube videos of late, you might have forgotten that the man is a professional rally driver. What with the videos of gymkhana, ...    Read more

What has the roof from a Pontiac G6, the layout of a Chevrolet Avalanche, and the general shape of a Range Rover Evoque? It's the Magna MILA Coupic, a three-in-one concept that promises to combine the ...    Read more

General Motors claims the Chevrolet Camaro and Chevrolet Corvette are responsible for one-third of sports car sales in the U.S. during 2011. Chevrolet sold 88,249 Camaros and 13,164 Corvettes in 2011. The most interesting bit of GM’s claim is the models it compares its two sports cars with. In the sports ...    Read more

If owning one of Mercedes-Benz’s AMG performance models isn’t lavish enough for you, you can now buy another Affalterbach-inspired novelty, but for a bit more than its land-bound namesake. AMG and Cigarette Racing have gotten together once again to show off another boat at the 2012 Miami Boat show. ...    Read more

I like to think of myself as a really fair guy. Always have been. So when my dad reneged on a deal to buy me a car in my last year of college, I felt like the world had suffered a giant injustice, and it was my personal responsibility to ...    Read more

It not like there’s much left of the new Ferrari F620 sports car the world hasn’t seen – after all, some rather complete photos did leak online late last week. Still, until Ferrari officially unwraps the car on Wednesday, the automaker will continue to tease its upcoming replacement for ...    Read more

The 2012 Hyundai Azera is the next Knight Industries Two Thousand, and it's childproof; that is, if you believe the newest set of advertisements for the Azera, made with help from cult-favorite movie writer Wes ...    Read more

The Motor Trend Channel’s Wide Open Throttle news show kicks off its fourth episode, starting out with more than a dozen models coming from AMG in the next few years, electric-powered BMWs, and spy shots of the upcoming seventh-generation Corvette just around the corner, and Tesla’s sporty new Model X ...    Read more

If you’re not well heeled enough to afford a ride in, say, an Audi R8 Limo, we might suggest finding a more economical, more American option; we might suggest the Lincoln MKT Livery, which will now be ...    Read more

Shortly after the success of its 2011 ‘Imported from Detroit’ Super Bowl ad – the two-minute spot featuring Detroit rapper Eminem driving a Chrysler 200 – Chrysler launched its then all-new ‘Imported from Detroit’ merchandise line. Now the automaker has added new items to the line. Chrysler has introduced more ...    Read more

The theme Hot Rod's new "Roadkill" series is low-budget road trips, and to kick it off, Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger of Hot Rod magazine are given a total budget of $1500 to buy a car, purchase fuel, drive home, attempt to re-sell the car, and somehow come out ahead in the ...    Read more