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BMW has never been shy about building big, powerful engines. The company was founded to build aircraft engines, and the first engine that it built itself was a 19.1-liter inline-six engine for World War One-era planes. Among its top engines in rec...

For the competitive automotive market, constant technological innovation is the key to commercial success. No wonder then, many of the most prosperous and longest-living brands invest large shares of their budgets into the development of new ideas...

Jaguar Land Rover claims to be the largest automotive employer in the UK, and to save money in the future it plans to develop platforms that it can use for both its Jaguar cars and Land Rover trucks. They have seven platforms between them already,...

Lincoln has been on a gradual downfall for at least the past 20 years and possibly longer. What in the 60s challenged Cadillac in terms of style and cache, slowly became a brand that put nice interiors into relatively mundane Fords. Ford has f...

Ford and the University of Michigan has teamed up to make cars cleaner, but not cleaner in an aesthetic sense, they want to makes automotive interiors more anti-microbial. The two groups are searching for where microbes in cars are most prevalent ...

Former Volkswagen manager Karl-Thomas Neumann is being eyed to be the next CEO of Opel according to the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper. Neumann left Volkswagen during the summer and has a non-compete clause in his contrac...

12 cylinder Ferraris are a minefield, it would be wrong of me to claim otherwise. That said, if you find the right one then you’ll also find them to be some of the most rewarding and ultimately satisfying cars on the market. Take the new...

Renault and Caterham have confirmed what has been an open secret over the past month; they are working together on a next generation Alpine that is due in three or four years. The deal between them means that Caterham will own 50% of Alpine, ...

Volvo will offer its new three-phase charging system on the upcoming Volvo C30 Electric. Three-phase charging is the latest generation of battery charging that uses up to 500v of current. Volvo says that it charges its cars six times faster than p...

Ford is making its Active City Stop emergency braking system available as an option on the Fiesta but only in Europe for now. When activated, the system examines 50 images roughly every second, and it can prevent collisions at less than 15km/h and...