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Top Gear is teasing its 18th series and will return to the air on January 29 at 8pm GMT on BBC2. To heat up demand, Top Gear has released a teaser video showing some of the stunts from this series.  From the teaser video, the boys will be...

The government in the UK is taking the first baby steps towards creating a hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure. It launched a £400 million project together with Nissan, Toyota, Vauxhall, Daimler and nine other companies to make fuel cells in t...

The possibility of Volkswagen producing the Bluesport roadster is looking less likely, and it is partially the America's fault.  Volkswagen thinks that it needs to sell 50k Bluesports a year to make it viable. To support that number o...

It has been a weird day if you like sports cars. First, Toyota tweets a picture of the hybrid car it will race at Le Mans this year, and now Peugeot is pulling out of the series.  Reuters reported this morning and Peugeot Sport just confi...

Mercedes considers its test of electric Vito E-Cell vans in specific regions of Germany a success. There are 230 Vito E-Cells on German roads with the largest numbers in Berlin and Stuttgart. The test vehicles have covered  650,000km to date....

A few weeks ago we ran a post discussing what would happen to Lotus if its parent company Proton was privitaized and sold. Well, the future is now. Malaysian billionaire Syed Mokhtar has purchased a controlling stake Proton for $410 million. M...

The Beaulieu Motor Museum in Hampshire, England, will be hosting an exhibit of 50 vehicles from the James Bond films between February 11 and 19. Also part of the event will be a James Bond quiz trail and undercover army commando course. ...

*Update: At the time of the original post, the .pdf showing all of the cars for sale on the law firm's web site was not working. The firm has fixed the link, and you can few it here. The .pdf is quite large. It shows two pictures of each car, ...

Bruno Senna will race for Williams for the 2012 Formula 1 season. The team's other driver is Pastor Maldonado. Bruno will enter the car for the first time on February 9 for the winter test at Jerez.  "The circumstances of Bruno&r...

It is not really news that the internal combustion engine creates a lot of friction. Every bit of heat, noise and vibration created by the engine, is energy that is not making it to the wheels to move the car.  The VVT Technical Research ...