Filed under: Motorsports Any hope of rescuing the 2015 German Grand Prix ground to a halt when the FIA has officially removed it from the Formula One Championship for this year after negotiations with both the Nürburgring and Hockenheim bore Read more
Do you hear that? What you’re (not) hearing is the sound of an electric car that isn’t a Tesla. BMW’s i3 is made of carbon fiber and drives like a dream . Read more…
Somewhere between shifter kart and open-wheel dirt track racer lies this 1975 Jenssen midget car for sale on Hemmings.com, a one-off with a number of outside-the-box innovations, including a rear-mounted four-cylinder Chrysler marine engine, torsion bar suspension, and a handmade Read more
* The image above, of the 1965 Honda RA272, isn’t all that striking – especially after the nice images of it under the bright lights that we recently saw – but the sound of that 1495cc 48-valve transverse mid-mounted V-12, Read more
Filed under: Green, Humor, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Volkswagen, Hatchback, Sedan, Diesel Volkswagen enlists the Three Golden Sisters – a trio of New York grandmothers – to help dispel erroneous ideas about diesel engine in four new 30-second commercials, with help from Read more
Filed under: Green, Mercedes-Benz, Hybrid Mercedes-Benz is promising to bring a total of 10 plug-in hybrids to its lineup by 2017. Not all of them might arrive in the US, though. Continue reading Mercedes to add 10 new plug-ins by Read more
Look at that shifter! It’s the same in all ’97 race cars and if you hit a clown with it, you’ll have to deal with a dead body. Read more…
This Florida State Trooper in an unmarked Monte Carlo, attempts to pull over a motorcycle with a questionable technique. The resulting traffic stop includes the police car pinning the bike against the shoulder barrier, after which the officer tries to Read more
* Over the last 85 years, Pinin Farina (later Pininfarina) has built plenty of noteworthy cars. As this week’s story from Petrolicious noted, it’s a monumental task to sift through that history to pick even the 50 best Pininfarina cars, Read more
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Jaguar, Land Rover The new National Automotive Innovation Centre is a joint project between Jaguar Land Rover, Tata and the University of Warwick, and will bring together 1,000 engineers, technicians and academics when it opens in 2017. Read more