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Have you ever owned a vehicle with a call for freedom? You park on a steep hill, and you come back to realize that it has run away to the bottom of the slope? If you own a 2007-2008 Saturn Aura equipped with the 4-speed automatic gearbox, that problem is …

The all-new BMW i8 features a large array of new technologies. One of them is quite brilliant: the laser headlights. While the Bavarian automaker was the first to use lasers to light the road, its arch-rival Audi is also working on a similar technology. Audi’s latest Le Mans racecar, the …

Chrysler Fiat presented its 5-year plans earlier this week. Not to be outdone, Porsche decided to give us a few insights on the future of its lineup. One of the fastest cars ever made, the 918 Spyder, will see some of its technologies trickle down to the more plebeian models.

The new BMW i8 (and its more affordable sister, the i3) is a marvel of engineering. Using a combination of electric and gasoline engines, it develops a total of 362HP, can zip from 0 to 100 in 3.8 seconds and run all the way to a 250 km/h top speed.

If you own a 2014 Mazda6 built between October 25, 2012 and May 9, 2013, your car came out of the factory with a peculiar feature: you can put too much fuel in it! A manufacturing defect was found in the filling tube. The capacity of the fuel tank is …

If you know your obscure automakers, you have heard about Wiesmann. They were building some pretty crazy roadsters powered by BMW engines. The brand was founded in 1988 by the Wiesmann brothers. They started by building hardtops for various convertibles, but quickly decided to build their own cars. In 1993, …

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the BMW M5. It was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1984. Developed by a team of racing engineers, it was a supremely good mix of the E28 5-Series' luxury and the savagery of the race-bred M1 (since the M5 shared its …

To put the spotlight on the 2015 Golf (and its hot hatch variant, the GTI), Volkswagen is currently playing a nerve-frying game with its customers: by testing your resolve, you could win a big rebate on your next Golf! The rules are devilishly simple: the countdown starts at the car’s …

As you know, FCA unveiled its 5-year plan today. While we talked about the American side of Sergio's empire, there was also information about the Italian brands (Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Maserati and Ferrari). Alfa Romeo The famous sports-car maker will go back to its roots with multiple new models in …

As we mentioned earlier, the 5-year plan presentation is ongoing at FCA. Here are some of the best information tidbits we could gather: Chrysler Chrysler will become a mainstream brand, concentrating on regular vehicles (cars and crossovers, mostly). A new compact, the Chrysler 100, should arrive in 2016. A new …