| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTOSHOWS | SUBSCRIBE | MARKETPLACE |  |  | This blue Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport has a sticker price of about $2.4 million.... | | What is it? The 2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is only the world's fastest production car, as certified by Guinness World Records. Though it uses the same 8.0-liter W16 engine as the original Veyron 16.4, which debuted in 2005, it now turns out an unbelievable 1,200 hp and 1,106 lb-ft of torque. To that end, the Super Sport sees every major mechanical system revamped. It... |
|  | | NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: Ford should be rooting for gasoline prices to spike, because if they do, the Blue Oval will be able to print green with this sharp small car. It's impressive. It really is a nice drive that happens to be small. The exterior is sharp and has nice styling cues. I...
|  | | Volkswagen Group design director Walter de'Silva hopes to add "something positive" to the design of Porsche's new models, beginning with the Cajun SUV. Porsche AG is set to become Volkswagen AG's 10th brand and Porsche design director Michael Mauer now reports to de'Silva, along with the heads...
|  | | Mike O'Driscoll, the managing director at Jaguar Cars, has announced his plan to retire at the end of March 2011. O'Driscoll, 54, moved to the United Kingdom to lead the company's brand after Ford announced its plan to sell Jaguar and Land Rover. While there, he managed the introduction of the...
|  | | Aston Martin said on Monday that the Cygnet--a reworked version of the Toyota iQ city car--will go into production in 2011. The Cygnet, which was shown as a concept car at the Geneva motor show in March, is just less than 10 feet long. "Our customers need a small car for urban and city use...
|  | | Drifting is still drawing them in. Formula Drift closed out its seventh year of competition on Saturday in front of a sellout crowd at Irwindale Speedway in Irwindale, Calif. Drifter, movie stunt driver and star of the upcoming (someday) U.S. version of "Top Gear," Tanner Faust drove his...
|  | | Honda Motor Co. has decided the Honda Fit hybrid isn't a good fit in the United States--at least right now. The company has no plans to bring the hybrid version of its small car here, doubting U.S. drivers will pay more for its gasoline-electric drivetrain. The hybrid Fit went on sale in...
|  | | A government report says improving the gasoline engine will yield huge gains for the consumer and the environment as automakers consider ways to improve fuel economy over the next 14 years. The Obama administration's technical assessment looked at four technology scenarios by which automakers...
|  | | Automakers are seeking to head off an EPA ruling that would allow gasoline to contain 15 percent ethanol, up from 10 percent now, and they've won some bipartisan congressional support. The two main automaker industry lobbies have argued that the U.S. Department of Energy has done insufficient...
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