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The previous record was set in 1983 by a Range Rover

Philip Young and Paul Brace will attempt to drive a modified Fiat Panda TwinAir from Cape Town, South Africa to Marble Arch in London in an overland route in February to break the previous record of 14 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes set by Bri...

They want experienced designers immediately to give Chinese cars personality

China instituted a policy decades ago that for automakers to avoid high tariffs on imported cars they must form joint ventures with Chinese automakers to build factories in China. The government's idea was to give automaker's access to its...

The future XJ could have three body styles sharing a platform

Jaguar Land Rover has been doing quite well for itself since being bought by Indian automaker Tata. Jaguar still sees room for improvement though. The company sells about one-fifth the cars worldwide that its partner Land Rover does, but sales are...

Allows for up to 60 favorite radio stations, link 10 device and better voice recognition

Chevrolet will debut its second-generation MyLink infotainment system on the new Impala, but it has already confirmed the system for the Spark EV. Eventually, the upgrade will roll out to other Chevy's with MyLink for 2014 including its pick-u...

Electric cars are staying on the west coast of the US and not going to Europe

An interesting trend is starting in the electric car marketplace. Automakers are choosing not to offer their electric cars in Europe or even large portions of the US. Chevrolet, Fiat and in a way Scion have all decided to exclusively offer their e...

With 641hp and 550lb-ft and accelerates to 60 in 3.9 seconds

Toyota's Essen Motor Show shows three impressive racecars that we have seen before - the TS030, GT86 CS-V3 and Yaris R1A - and a twin-turbocharged version of the Lexus LS tuned by Toyota Motorsport GmbH that it calls the TMG Sports 650.  ...

Porsche does a fantastic job of making sure that its test cars get spotted to keep interest high. The latest of its test cars to be spotted is the Macan again.  We posted about the Macan being spotted testing in November, but that car sti...

Interior packed with 2, 7in LCD screens

Chevrolet will unveil the Spark EV at the Los Angeles Auto Show tomorrow, but it has revealed nearly everything about the car already. Chevrolet's big news about the car is that it will cost less than $25,000 after government tax incentives, w...

There was a rumor at the end of October that Kia was considering building a hot hatch version of the Pro_Cee'd, and Kia has confirmed its hot hatch with a new teaser image. Kia says that the car will go on sale in the second half of 2013. ...

The 2012 Formula 1 season has come to a close, and it ended in an extremely exciting way with Fernando Alonso being the provisional world champion at moments during the race. The first complex incident that involved Vettel, Senna and Perez caused ...