Motorsports: Patrick De...

Filed under: Motorsports , Celebrities Actor Patrick Dempsey is no stranger to racing. After his wife sent him to a three-day Skip Barber driving school, the actor fell in love with road racing has gone on to compete in Grand-Am for the last several years. McDreamy even got the chance to...

BMW officially reveals ...

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups , Concept Cars , Humour , BMW , News We can expect some pretty elaborate April Fools jokes from manufacturers today, but first prize has to go to BMW, who has actually gone to the expense of building this pick-up version of the M3. The 414bhp truck is powered...

BBC prepares to defend ...

Filed under: Celebrities , Green , Tech , UK , Electric cars , News , Tesla The BBC will ‘vigorously defend’ the claim that the race on Top Gear featuring the Tesla Roadster was rigged. Tesla has filed suit over the episode broadcast in 2008 with appeared to show that their...

BMW M3 pickup: an early...

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups , BMW , Prototypes , News BMW has sent ripples of terror through the hearts of car enthusiasts worldwide in the past week as pictures have emerged of an M3 pickup doing a spot of testing at the Nurburgring. A number of theories have been thrown up in the air,...

Record entries for 2011...

Filed under: Motorsport , UK , Racing cars , Features A record entry list has been confirmed for the 2011 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship which series bosses are calling the “most exciting” in 20 years. The 10 makes and 13 models that will line up for the season...

Universal announces Sen...

Filed under: Celebrities , Videos , Formula One As the 2011 Formula One season is upon us, it seems fitting to get more details of a film documentary of a legend from the sport’s past. As previewed in our five petrolhead movies for 2011 piece earlier this year, Universal have...

Webber plays to the Mel...

Filed under: Celebrities , Videos , Renault , Formula One F1 driver Mark Webber entertained the Melbourne crowds this week ahead of Sunday’s F1 opener, the Australian Grand Prix. The Red Bull Racing driver had the run of the city’s famous Bolte Bridge after local police...

Fuel duty cut by 1p a l...

Filed under: Government/Legal , UK , News Delivering the 2011 Budget , Chancellor George Osborne has surprised Parliament by introducing a raft of changes to fuel duty charges which begin immediately with a penny per litre drop in fuel duty at 6pm today. The inflation plus 1p annual...

Elizabeth Taylor vacate...

Filed under: Celebrities , Opinion/Editorial , Videos What has Liz Taylor got to do with Autoblog, you may be asking, and it wouldn’t be an unreasonable question. Well, we didn’t want to let the passing of one of Britains’ biggest screen icons go without some sort of...

Jenson Button’s g...

Filed under: Celebrities , Safety , Events , News , Formula One A relieved Jenson Button has tweeted to his fans that his girlfriend, Jessica Michibata, was safe after she was caught up in Friday’s devastating earthquake that shook Japan. Hundreds of people are already confirmed...