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Follows the history of the Enzo

It appears that the LaFerrari may be following in the steps of its predecessor - the Enzo. Like Ferrari's previous super car, the company is planning an ever higher performance version, and Maserati may take parts of the LaFerrari to create it...

It expects sales to increase after people can drive the car

Porsche's head of R&D, Wolfgang Hatz, says that it still has some units of the 918 Spyder available, even though no one outside of the company has been allowed to drive the new super car yet. The car will go on sale in September with price...

It set the record for electric cars up the peak last year

Toyota has announced that it is bringing an upgraded version of its EV P002 to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this summer. The car set the record for an electric vehicle up the 12.4-mile hill climb with a time of 10 minutes and 15.380 sec...

Milestone includes all three generations of the the Scirocco

Volkswagen has built its millionth car carrying the Scirocco moniker, and it is celebrating with a special edition called the Scirocco Million.  Volkswagen says that it built 795,650 Sciroccos over two generations from 1974 to 1992. Since...

Only two of the special cars will ever be made

Nissan has delivered its gold GT-R to Usain Bolt as the finale to the promotional effort that Bolt started for Nissan in April 2012. Nissan auctioned a one-of-a-kind Bolt Gold GT-R for the Usain Bolt Foundation charity late last year. Bolt has rec...

More four-wheel drive options, transmission options and driving modes

BMW will roll out comprehensive technology upgrades to its cars this summer that will improve emissions and offer new technologies. As part of the upgrades, all of BMW's TwinPower Turbo models and M models will meet EU6 emissions. Sev...

Possible problems in Germany and China

Mercedes-Benz Cars' sales were up 10% to 125,306 cars, and it is up 4.6% for the year so far to 475,836 cars.  Mercedes-Benz by itself had April sales up 11.7% to 116,566 cars, and for the year so far Mercedes has sold 441,464 cars, u...

Nearly every major series has a race this weekend

Unless the only racing that you care about is Formula 1, there will be racing for you to watch this weekend. If you like touring cars there are races from the DTM, V8 Supercars and WTCC. The biggest race of the weekend is the Six Hours of Spa for ...

More women already working in F1 from team management to test driving

Williams test driver Susie Wolff predicts that it will not be long before women are starting on grid of Formula 1. After last year's career-ending crash of Maria de Villota of MaRussia, Wolff is currently the only woman driving in F1.  ...

Features subtle differences at the rear

The Audi R18 e-tron Quattro Long Tail has made its track debut at the Six Hours of Spa. It first announced the car last week but refused to release any images that really showed the differences in the car. Now that the race has begun, we can final...