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Buick has revived its Electra nameplate for a modern vehicle but it’s a concept and not a production model. The new Electra concept was unveiled on Monday at a private event in Shanghai, China. It previews a new design language for Buick called Potential Energy, and it’s fitted with some of the technologies we can

Nissan has been hinting over the years at a range of off-road parts and on Tuesday the first of these were finally announced. The parts were developed by Nismo in collaboration with suppliers, and designed as retrofit items for the Frontier (2005-2020 model years) and Titan (2016-2021 model years) pickup trucks, as well as the

Acura revived its Type S performance designation with this year’s arrival of the redesigned 2021 TLX, whose own Type S variant is powered by a newly developed 3.0-liter turbocharged V-6 delivering 355 horsepower and 354 pound-feet of torque. The good news is that more Type S variants are on the way. In fact, all future

Maserati hasn’t raced in Formula One in decades, but the automaker’s recently unveiled MC20 supercar boasts some F1-derived engine tech, according to Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained. Specifically, the car’s 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 uses pre-chamber combustion. That means each cylinder has dual combustion chambers, each with its own spark plug. Pre-chamber combustion isn’t new; Honda

Italy’s Ares Design this week revealed more photos of its S1 Project supercar based on the C8 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, and confirmed some of the specs. The new supercar will feature a full carbon-fiber body and a naturally aspirated V-8 good for 715 horsepower and 715 pound-feet of torque. Ferrari Omologata Another Italian supercar in

Ferrari on Friday unveiled the latest in its line of one-off cars crafted by the men and women of the Special Projects division. It’s an 812 Superfast-based grand tourer called the Omologata, which is Italian for “homologation,” and it’s the 10th one-off Ferrari to feature a front-mounted V-12. Ferrari 812 Superfast As you may have

Audi’s electric super sedan based on the Porsche Taycan’s platform has been spotted in prototype form. The car is the production version of 2018’s E-Tron GT concept, and we’ll see it on sale in 2021 likely as a 2022 model. A debut later this year is likely. The original E-Tron GT concept had a low-slung,

Tesla late on Tuesday hosted a Battery Day event in Palo Alto, California, where CEO Elon Musk laid out many of the company’s future plans. In the near term is the introduction of the new Model S Plaid which will cost $141,070 and can already be ordered on Tesla’s website. It’s due in late 2021

Organizers of Detroit’s annual North American International Auto Show said Monday the show’s next running has been pushed back to fall 2021. They originally looked at a date in June but have confirmed that the 2021 Detroit auto show will run September 28 to October 9. Subsequent shows will also run in the fall, the

Nikola, a startup working on battery- and hydrogen-electric trucks, announced Sunday that its executive chairman and founder, Trevor Milton, has stepped down. The company also named current board member and previous General Motors vice chairman Stephen Girsky as its new chairman, effective immediately. The moves come just days after it was reported that both the

Many automakers have claimed that their supercars produce enough downforce to drive upside down, but in a new video Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske shows how Gordon Murray’s T50s might be the first car actually capable of pulling the stunt off. The T50s is the track-only version of the recently-unveiled T50 supercar. Like the road-going version,

Ferrari’s Portofino was transformed into the Portofino M this week. The transformation included the addition of an 8-speed dual-clutch transmission and some extra horsepower, with the new mechanicals basically lifted out of the Roma. 2022 BMW iNext spy shots – Photo credit: S. Baldauf/SB-Medien BMW is working on a Tesla Model X rival that will offer

If you thought the recent McLaren Senna LM was extreme, just feast your eyes on the new Senna GTR LM. Unveiled Friday, the hardcore track special celebrates this year’s 25th anniversary of McLaren’s outright win at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans with the original F1 GTR race car, and just five have been

There’s a new electric racing series from the same people behind the Formula E Championship coming in 2021. It’s called Extreme E, and it’s a series for electric SUVs racing over some seriously rough terrain. The calendar for the inaugural season spanning five rounds was announced in January, and since then we’ve seen a handful

The current Mercedes-Benz C-Class only underwent its mid-cycle update for 2019 but prototypes for the next-generation model have been testing for a while. Our latest spy shots and video show some of the more advanced prototypes for the new C-Class which we expect on the market in 2021 as a 2022 model. Prototypes for the

Popular car show “Top Gear” is still running and about to start its 29th season in the current format, with hosting duties once again going to Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff. The first trailer for the new season dropped on the weekend and reveals Ferrari’s new flagship hypercar, the SF90 Stradale, will be

BMW is working on a technological flagship code-named the iNext, which the automaker previewed in 2018 with the Vision iNext concept and has since confirmed is coming in 2021. New prototypes for the iNext have been spotted, revealing a few clues about the vehicle that in production guise could be badged an iX or iX5.

Jay Leno has several Bugattis in his collection, but most of the cars from the French marque featured on his “Jay Leno’s Garage” YouTube series have been performance models. This time, Leno featured a more luxurious grand tourer—this 1932 Bugatti Type 49. Under the hood sits a 3.3-liter inline-8 engine which, unusually, has two spark

Lexus is adding a limited-edition version of the RC F sports coupe to the lineup. The 2021 Lexus RC F Fuji Speedway Edition replaces the Track Edition model as the most hardcore RC F. It’s also among the rarest: production is limited to 60 units. Named after the famous Japanese racetrack, Lexus said the new

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a decade since the Lamborghini Aventador made its debut at the 2011 Geneva International Motor Show, especially because the design looks as fresh today as it did all those years ago. Production has been humming along over the period, and Lamborghini this week reached a major milestone: the