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Opel has begun an on-road test of car-to-car and car-to-environment communication technology around Frankfurt am Main that will run through the end of the year. The test is called the simTD project, which stands for "Safe Intelligent Mobility...

According to a study conducted in the US and UK, women who combine friendliness, playfulness, flirtation and sexiness were able to get as much as a 20% discount off of a car. The study comes from the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulle...

The London taxi is one of the most iconic shapes in all of motoring. They may not be fast, but the their two-box shape goes back to the 1920s, and it has been repeatedly copied since then. On August 6, Nissan revealed a new shape for the London ta...

BMW M Gmbh has revealed an until-now unknown car from its collection - a one-off V12-powered Z3. Details about the car are scant at the moment, but power comes from BMW's M73 5.4-liter V12 that was also in the 7 Series and 8 Series at the...

The German Autobahn celebrates the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first 18km section between Cologne and Bonn on August 6 1932. Before you begin reading this piece, I recommend that you scroll to the bottom and click play on the song Autob...

Man has made one step closer to visiting another planet today. The Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars. It is the largest manmade object ever to visit the surface of the red planet. The Curiosity is a six-wheeled vehicle that weighs 900kg ...

Shelby SuperCars, which is usually shortened to SSC, is finishing out the model run of the Ultimate Aero with 5 Ultimate Aero XTs. The cars have an unbelievable 1,300hp and 1,004lb-ft of torque from a 7.0-liter, twin-turbo V8 with water-cooled int...

Spyker has filed a $3 billion lawsuit against General Motors in United States District Court of Eastern District of Michigan because it claims that GM unlawfully blocked Saab’s competition in the Chinese market, and that these actions caused...

The Viper GTS-R made its race debut at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday, August 4, in the two hour and 45 minute American Le Mans Series race. The cars finished 10th and 12th in class out of 13 cars in its class. It was not the best perf...

Former Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking and former Chief Financial Officer Holger Härter are facing charges in Germany for alleged market manipulation. German magazine Der Spiegel reports that prosecutors in the German state of Baden-...