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With a weight of 1058 kg, the MX-5 is one of the lightest cars on the market. This doesn't stop Mazda from wanting to shed even more weight on the car. According to Autocar , the director of the MX-5 project, Nobuhiro Yamamoto, is satisfied with the size of the …

Road & Track just unearthed some important information on the cheat device used by Volkswagen for their 2.0-litre turbodiesel engine. In 1999, Audi was hard at work developing their 3.0-litre TDI powerplant. Everything was going smoothly, but it clattered too much when it was cold. Since they wanted to use …

It's become kind of a tradition: a few weeks before the launch of the latest Forza Horizon, the developers from Turn 10 unveil part of the lineup that will be available in their virtual world. This time, we hear about Forza Horizon 3. Through the series' website, we just learned …

As time goes on, we are getting closer and closer to the time where the torque ratings in heavy-duty pickups will reach the magic four-digit number. Ram offers 900 pound-feet of torque in the 3500, Ford manages to squeeze out 860 pound-feet out of their 2016 F-Seroes Super Duty and …

Back when Tesla Motors was founded, Elon Musk had a four-part plan: Create a low-volume car, which would necessarily be expensive Use that money to develop a medium-volume car at a lower price Use that money to create an affordable, high-volume car Provide solar power. That was 10 years ago.

Toyo just launched a nice little promo video where they showcase their most recent creation, the Ferret. The truck was created to highlight the Open Country tire. Based on the chassis of a 1959 English military vehicle, the vehicle has been thoroughly modified. Apart from the tires, there is also …

Unveiled for the first time worldwide at a special event in Berlin, the new Panamera features a much more classic silhouette than the first generation. The front overhang is shorter, the sides are more sculpted, the wheelbase is extended and the 20-millimetre sloping roofline all create a more direct link …

In addition to autonomous cars and trucks, Mercedes-Benz went one step further by showing an autonomous bus in front of a crowd in Amsterdam. The vehicle completed a 19.3-km course, went through tunnels and intersections and negotiated tricky corners without a single input from the driver. The Future Bus Concept …

Earlier this week, Koenigsegg was testing its most recent supercar, the One:1. They were putting the car through its paces on the Nurburgring. Something went wrong, though: the driver lost control in Adenauer Forst, a wooded section. After entering a turn too fast, the car went off-road and through a …

Up until now, Atieva was a relatively unknown Californian business. Die-hard fans of electric systems might have seen the name on a battery pack, but that’s about it. Today however, the small firm just put the automotive world on hold: in the above video, you can see its first drivetrain …