Enthusiasts are already licking their chops as they await the next rear-wheel sedan from Chevrolet.

Perhaps you’ve seen the TV ad showing a CX-5 zoom-zooming across a dry lake and then whistling past an array of scientific apparatus, staffed by a bevy of guys in lab coats who seem to be deliriously happy with what they’re witnessing. The spot suggests a dynamic trait—speed—that isn’t readily apparent in the CX-5’s real-world persona. [...]

Volkswagen is showing a factory-apprentice-tuned GTI at the annual Wörthersee festival in Austria, an annual celebration of the GTI and all things VW. The GTI Black Dynamic is mostly SEMA-esque fare, so don’t expect to see any of its mods on a factory-built production car.
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While it was announced in advance of Carroll Shelby’s death last week that Ol’ Shel’s Cobras would be the

According to Lexus, the last examples of the maker’s HS250h luxury hybrid sedan rolled off the assembly line in January 2012. Based on the Euro-market Toyota Avensis, the HS250h debuted in 2009 as the luxury maker’s entry-level hybrid offering. Read full story »

Toyota’s Gazoo Racing is entering a pair of race-prepped GT 86s (the Toyota-badged sibling of the Scion FR-S) in the 24 Hours Nürburgring endurance race, in addition to its successful LFA race car. Read full story »

The annual Wörthersee meet in Austria brings GTI enthusiasts from across Europe and the world, and

On Tuesday we posted an audio recording of a mystery car’s exhaust note. To hear it again, click play above. Only a couple of you figured out that this week’s sound came from the 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.8 R-Spec . The refreshed Genesis coupe’s raspy, rorty noise comes from its updated 348-hp V-6 engine—that’s 38 hp more [...]

Volkswagen always brings cool stuff to the annual Wörthersee GTI meet—the event has previously hosted gems such as the Edition 35 GTI and the Golf R Cabriolet —and this year is no exception.  However, the best of this year’s batch of awesomeness has to be this Polo WRC Street concept, which previews a production model set to go on [...]

Since the 2013 Subaru BRZ and the

It has been a while since we last heard any news regarding Ford’s upcoming C-Max twins —hybrid and plug-in Energi—but today the silence was broken. Ford has announced the C-Max hybrid will start at $25,995 when it goes on sale in the fall. (The company has not disclosed how much it will charge to deliver the C-Max to [...]

You could say that our opinions on this subject are biased, and that might be true. But having seen firsthand over the years what a good business web design can do, we think it’s an important issue. Here is why: For most companies, a good web design , in and of itself, isn’t enough to make the business [...]

It’s back. Big, bad and with four doors, rear-wheel-drive performance will return to the Chevrolet sedan lineup in 2013, simply called the SS.

For collectors of World War II-era Volkswagens, one major date is marked on calendarsand#8212;the annual Kübel Korps USA Reunion.

We already knew that Chevrolet is working on a civilian vehicle using the Zeta bones of the rear-drive Caprice PPV cop car, and that it will be called the SS . It also will serve as the basis for company’s 2013 NASCAR entry . Today, Chevy made the news official and released some details on both the “limited-production” SS and the [...]

Our diminutive long-term Mazda 2 , the least-powerful, least-expensive car in our fleet for quite some time, has completed its 40,000-mile stay. Few tears were choked back as, after 16 months in our care, it pulled away from our office for the last time. Sure, the minimalist Mazda was fun to toss around, but it illustrated the difficulty [...]

Attention, dreamers: BMW has powered up its online configurators for the 2013 M5 and M6 coupe. Regardless of whether you have the scratch to afford the $90,795 M5 or the $106,995 M6 coupe, it’s always fun building out a fantasy ride.
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On Monday we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. The shifter apparently was quite easy to identify, and the first person to comment figured out it belongs to the 1987 Dodge Charger Shelby GLHS. As a reward, Lh415cd will receive a Save [...]

When you hear about a “barn find” car, you imagine it being removed from the barn. In the case of the Sensory Assault Mazda RX-2, the barn was removed from the car. Read full story »