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With its 2013 ATS, Cadillac is aiming to knock the BMW 3 Series off its compact luxury sports sedan throne. Certainly, a range of three engines, rear- and all-wheel drive, and six-speed manual and automatic transmissions will help in that quest, but he ATS has another arrow in its quiver: ...    Read more

If you've ever wanted to go around the Nurburgring very quickly, but lack either the requisite skills or a fast car, you've had two options to quench your thirst: buy a video game and lap the virtual ...    Read more

Following the enthusiastic public reception of the Cross Up! and Buggy Up! concepts that debuted at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Volkswagen is reportedly considering an Up!-based SUV, according to the German newspaper Handelsblatt. SUVs are one of the fastest-growing vehicle ...    Read more

A total of 107 employees at Mazda North American headquarters in Irvine, California have accepted the company’s buyout offer after a memo was circulated by CEO of North American Operations Jim O’Sullivan in March, according to ...    Read more

In the latest development stretching over several years and involving the largest recall in the company’s history, Toyota did get some welcome news from a ruling from a U.S. District Court in California. Judge James Selna’s ruling Friday effectively bars plaintiffs in Florida and New York state from suing Toyota ...    Read more

BMW and Hyundai are considering a partnership to develop and produce a new engine, according to a report by Reuters. Sources close to the possible tie-up have told Reuters that the two automakers met in Munich yesterday and that discussions are still in the early stages. Development is expected to ...    Read more

The Nissan NV200 “Taxi for Tomorrow” is under attack again, according to the Transportation Nation, as John Liu, Comptroller for New York City, says the van violates the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Liu claims that because the fleet won't be 100-percent wheelchair accessible, he won’t approve the contract ...    Read more

Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern says the company could build an "overtly sporty" version of the Range Rover Evoque crossover -- but is such a model necessary? In an interview with Auto Express, McGovern revealed that Land Rover might consider building a variant called the Evoque Sport. "What's so right ...    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

Chevrolet engineers took the new 2012 Camaro ZL1 down to the drag strip, and came away impressed. Stock examples of the new muscle car managed to run an 11-second quarter mile time with both the automatic and manual transmissions. The results are pretty impressive for a street-legal car with no modifications: ...    Read more

The 2013 Volvo XC90 is wearing slightly different clothes, thanks to some minor updates from the Swedish carmaker, but bigger changes should be on the way two years from now. The biggest visual change Volvo did was to replace some silver exterior pieces with body-colored moldings, including the side skirts and ...    Read more

Toyota once lacked a true sports coupe from its vast lineup, but this year, it has two: the $25,000 Scion FR-S, and the $375,000 Lexus LFA. Give it a few years ...    Read more

Land Rover’s Halewood Operations has reached a major milestone this week. The plant has built the 300,000th Freelander 2 since production began in October 2006. The Freelander 2 also serves as the base for the Range Rover Evoque. Land Rover sold approximately 52,000 LR2 SUVs globally last year, ...    Read more

Automotive production plants frequently close during the summer to give workers time to rest, engineers time to retool or upgrade plants, and dealers time to normalize their inventories. If you're Chrysler, however, that might not be the case: the company is keeping four plants open through the summer to keep ...    Read more

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of Aston Martin, and the company plans to celebrate by launching some sort of special-edition centenary model. Auto Express reports that the car could be a limited-run model based on the current Aston Martin DBS. "This will be an entirely new model," Aston Martin CEO ...    Read more

Mini has sponsored the Life Ball benefit to support HIV/AIDS research in Europe for 11 years now, each year contributing a special one-off car to be auctioned for the charity. This year, the British marque commissioned a special-edition version of its new Roadster from Franca Sozzani, the chief editor of ...    Read more

Nissan has announced that it will put the high-performance Juke-R concept into limited production. The unique vehicle combines the running gear of a Nissan GT-R with the body of a Juke crossover; though originally a limited-run prototype, customer demand meant Nissan will put the model into production. Nissan has so far ...    Read more

If the one-off Lamborghini Aventador J concept wasn't exclusive enough, Prindiville has revealed its own plans for a retuned version of the design study, if the Italian automaker ever brought the car to production. The Prindiville J concept made weight reduction and a power boost for the 6.5-liter V-12 top ...    Read more

Ford can't keep up with demand for its EcoBoost V-6 and 3.7-liter V-6 engines. The automaker is adding a third shift to its Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1, a move that is expected to require 250 jobs mostly filled by former employees at Cleveland Engine Plant No. 2, which ...    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

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

My, how the mighty have fallen: in a month where the midsize segment's top contender and bottom third didn't change, competitors from Chrysler, Honda, and Nissan are making things interesting. As we just said, the top spot didn't change at all in April: the Toyota Camry sold 36,820 units, enough to ...    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

Three automakers, three high-performance cars, and a whole lot of tire smoke. In celebration of reaching 500,000 Facebook fans on the Audi Deutschland page, the automaker sent an Audi R8 to perform donuts. At the same time, Mercedes-Benz AMG sent a C63 AMG coupe out drifting to celebrate reaching two ...    Read more

While Kia and Hyundai posted their best sales months ever in March, Kia had its highest April sales on record and Hyundai had its second best sales month ever. Kia sold 47,550 units and Hyundai sold 62,264 units, both representing increases of about 1 percent compared to April 2011. ...    Read more