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It will be a sad day for the folks at Jaguar Land Rover's plant in Solihull, United Kingdom, as the automaker on Tuesday confirmed that the redesigned Defender coming later this year will skip the nameplate's traditional home in favor of a new plant in Slovakia. The original Defender was built in Solihull for more than three decades, with the...
If CEO Andy Palmer has his way, Aston Martin’s sports cars will always be available with a manual transmission—but right now none of its cars come with a third pedal. The good news is that Aston Martin is rectifying the issue by bringing back the manual with its latest Vantage sports car. The transmission, a 7-speed with Aston Martin's...
Toyota previously ruled out a turbo-4 powered Supra for its first model year, but curiously, the engine has undergone certification with the California Air Resources Board. The CARB document, which Autoblog first discovered and reported Tuesday, shows the engine was certified for a number of BMW vehicles, plus one outlier: the 2020 Toyota Supra...
Tobias Moers is the type of guy you want running your performance automaker. The boss of Mercedes-Benz AMG looks the part. His casual answers belie his intensity for the details in what he does; Moers drives all AMG models and is intensely involved in engineering. He tracks his cars—often. He talks softly, but his words carry a lot of...
Ford may not have plans to grace Americans with a Ranger Raptor from the factory, but that hasn't stopped Texas-based Hennessey Performance Engineering from doing it anyway. After announcing plans for the Hennessey VelociRaptor Ranger last month, HPE dished out the final specifications for its performance-oriented mid-size pickup truck, and it's...
The sixth-generation Chevy Camaro hasn't caught fire like the previous-generation car, and its sales slump as continued into the first quarter of the year. The Dodge Challenger continued to outsell the Camaro through the first quarter of 2019. According to a report from The Detroit Free Press last Thursday, Dodge's muscle car sold 13,431 units...
We’ve said it in so many ways, but it bears repeating: The sport sedan is in full wane. BMW’s X3 is a better 3-Series, the GLC’s our favorite C-Class, and Jaguar’s I-Pace points to the future of electric transportation. What to make then of the pert and lively 2020 Jaguar XE sedan? It’s trying to put gravity on hold...
First Tesla, then Ford, and now General Motors. The U.S. automaker confirmed during an investor call on Tuesday it definitely has plans to build an electric pickup truck. The news came directly from CEO Mary Barra and follows small hints the automaker had an electric pickup truck in the pipeline. Most importantly, it follows years of Tesla teasing...
Land Rover is set to unveil a redesigned Defender in 2019 and the latest teasers reveal the new shape. The redesign is the first for the iconic nameplate since the original was launched more than three decades ago. Engineers from AMG have been spotted testing the next generation of the GLS63. The new full-size SUV is expected to come with a...
Porsche has a new 911 in showrooms but the previous generation in GT2 RS guise is still out setting records. Having claimed the lap record at Road Atlanta only in March, the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS has now added the record at Wisconsin's Road America to its tally of achievements. With 24 Hours of Daytona winner David Donohue behind the wheel, the...
The Porsche 917 is one of the most insane automotive creations ever dreamt up by humanity, offering a performance level that remains as impressive today as it was during the 1970s, when it dominated events like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Nürburgring 1000 km. Some iterations were tuned to deliver well over 1,000 horsepower, enabling them...
The soap opera that is Faraday Future's road to production took a new twist on Monday with the EV startup announcing a bridge loan that will keep funds flowing as the company attempts to raise capital to get the FF91 crossover into production and develop additional models. There's a potential $225 million on the table via the bridge loan, which...
Mercedes-Benz in April unveiled a new generation of its GLS full-size SUV, and once again there will be high-performance variants from Mercedes-AMG. Our latest spy shots reveal a prototype for one of the upcoming AMG versions, likely to be a new GLS63. We know this is the AMG version of the new GLS because of its protruding Panamericana grille...
Few, if any, automotive icons have as wide and as immediate a recognition factor as the Land Rover Defender. Spanning the globe and over three decades of production, the boxy go-anywhere SUV is finally due for a redesign this year, and now we have our best look yet at what's coming down the line. New teaser shots were released on Tuesday to...
The Smart brand will no longer sell cars in the United States and Canada after the 2019 model year. The cause is shrinking demand for minicars coupled with the high cost of homologating future models for local sale. Smart sales totaled 1,276 units in the U.S. in 2018, down from a high of 24,622 units a decade ago, and the sole model currently on...
If it's an oddball kind of car, chances are, it will have its time in the spotlight on Jay Leno's Garage. On the latest episode, Leno doesn't welcome a guest, but instead pulls a labor of love from his own collection. It's none other than a 1934 Rolls-Royce powered by the historic Merlin aircraft engine. Like so many of the stories featured on...
Building scale model cars is a wonderful way for enthusiasts to pass the time and "own" the cars of their dreams. They're usually built from plastic kits, but one jeweler took his love affair for the Ford Escort to new heights. The scratchbuilt Ford Escort Mk II seen here is done in 1/25 scale and made entirely from silver, gold, diamonds, and...
Jaguar-Land Rover will encourage drivers to share their data voluntarily in exchange for compensation in the form of cryptocurrency. On Monday, the British automaker announced the data sharing and payment process, which uses Smart Wallet technology to unlock access to crytocurrency. JLR will provide cryptocurrency credits to drivers who opt to...
Hyundai will soon have an option or maybe two for those looking for a sub-compact crossover with more performance. The South Korean brand confirmed a Venue N-Line is coming, and a full-blown Venue N with real performance credentials is absolutely possible. Australian website Drive reported the news after Hyundai North America chief operating...
Those attending the National Corvette Museum Bash this past weekend received a surprise visit from a special car: the mid-engine 2020 C8 Chevy Corvette. The annual NCM Bash gathers hundreds of Corvette fans from around the country for a massive owner's meet, car show, seminars, and much more. However, with the mid-engine C8 Corvette nearly two...
The Volkswagen ID R electric race car will attempt to set a new lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, and testing is already under way. Following a debut of the updated and tweaked version of the ID R for the Nürburgring, VW got right to work at the racetrack. The team hit the track for the first time last Friday with driver Romain...
The 2020 BMW X3 M and X4 M arrive in dealerships this summer and a configurator has been launched on the German automaker's website. Importantly, the configurator reveals pricing details for the two performance SUVs, with the X3 M starting at $70,895 and the X4 M at $74,395. Both figures include destination. Those prices net you the standard...
The newest car to be introduced by McLaren under its Track25 business plan will be the brand's interpretation of a grand tourer. A prototype has now been spotted ahead of the reveal in May. With its new Ferrari Premium program, Ferrari is extending even further its lucrative after-sales services for owners. The latest is an official maintenance...
Toyota is constructing an expansive research and development center settled in Aichi, Japan, and included in the sprawling site will be 11 separate test tracks. And one of the tracks already completed mimics tough elements of the famed Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Known as the Toyota Technical Center Shimoyama, the 1,600-acre site's 11 tracks...
With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson confirming in January that he won't make an appearance in the upcoming ninth instalment of the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, Vin Diesel, who plays the lead character Dominic Toretto and produced some of the films, has managed to find another actor just as big, quite literally. Diesel, who's also...
