MG opens its doors for ...

Filed under: Latest News MG is offering tours of the historic Longbridge site every Thursday lunchtime. Longbridge was the largest car factory in Europe immediately after the war, but it is now a far smaller operation, with much of the old site sold off for housing. However, there are...

V+ Volteis by STARCK: L...

French designer Philippe Starck has designed everything from toothbrushes to mega-yachts. Best known to Americans as the man who infused a dash of Euro style into ordinary household products for the retail giant Target, he’s now turning his streamlined Gallic vision towards the lowly...

Brabus Tunes Smart Elec...

Brabus, the well-known Mercedes tuner, is attempting what might be the impossible: Make the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive fun to drive. This is the first time Brabus has worked over the electric version; past Brabus Smarts were based on the regular car. An updated version of the EV Smart...

Mercedes-Benz to Launch...

Mercedes-Benz will introduce the new SL65 AMG at the New York auto show this April, we’ve learned. The company just took the wraps off of its new, sixth-generation SL this past January, so far showing the SL550 (pictured above) and SL63 AMG . (You can read our first drive of the...

Official: Ford reveals ...

Filed under: Performance , Geneva Motor Show , Hatchback , Ford This is the production version of the Ford Fiesta ST, and except for the fact that it’s missing a couple of doors, it looks just like the Fiesta ST Concept we saw at the Los Angeles Auto Show last year. Of course, the...

GM’s Alliance with Pe...

General Motors and PSA Peugeot-Citroën will form an alliance, the companies said this week, confirming recent rumors of a tie-up . Here’s a rundown of the deal: what it is, why it’s being done, what it means for other companies, and what could go wrong. What’s Happening?...

2013 Volkswagen Golf GT...

VW’s beloved Mk1 Golf Cabriolet combined GTI power and suspension tuning with top-down motoring, and now Volkswagen is at it again—in Europe anyway—as it debuts the Golf GTI Cabriolet. Buzz around such a model started building last year when the company showed its Golf R Cabriolet...

We Sample the EA211, Vo...

Volkswagen’s various platforms, including the new MQB architecture , can enlist many different engines, but those engines will start to look a lot more similar. As it stands now, VW engines worldwide vary quite a bit. U.S. four-cylinders are fairly similar to the diesel...

Ford Tourneo Van Concep...

Ford will debut the first of its new generation of big vans at the 2012 Geneva auto show in the form of the Tourneo Custom concept. Don’t let the name throw you: the Tourneo is a short, low-roof van built off of the Transit platform that’s sold in Europe. Despite the...

Watch A New $50 Million...

Even the rich are sinking in Europe: the 198-foot (60.2-meter) superyacht Yogi sunk under a Force 8 storm in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. This video, just released today, shows the Hellenic Air Force rescuing the passengers in the middle of the gale. More » Read the...