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Cars that talk to one another and drive themselves may arrive on U.S. highways sooner than you think as the Obama administration launches an effort to expedite their progress. “We don’t want to be part of the problem of integrating this technology into the marketplace,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Tuesday. “We want to be part of the solution.”

Though it never went into series production, the wedge-shaped coupe was a hugely influential product, as a new exhibition proves.

Lamborghini’s mass-market offering, the Huracan LP 610-4, feels like it was just launched yesterday, but the engineers in Sant’Agata Bolognese are already working on an upgraded version to keep up with today’s extremely competitive supercar market.

Flying car startup AeroMobil recently experienced a scare as its prototype vehicle crashed during a test flight in Slovakia. Creator and pilot Štefan Klein suffered only minor injuries as he was able to successfully deploy the vehicle’s parachute.

German researchers have developed a flexible electric car.

While news on Tesla has been dominated by their new Powerwall home battery system this last week, the company made a small change

Complaints from Land Rover that the Chinese-built LandWind X7 too closely resembles the Range Rover Evoque have been dismissed by authorities in the country, Autocar understands. The row between LandWind and Land Rover broke out last November, when the covers came off the LandWind at the Guangzhou motor show. The X7 is on show again at the Shanghai auto show, and Autocar understands that Chinese officials gave the firm the go-ahead to manufacture...

A note of caution to anyone who works on the security team of a major automobile manufacturer: Don’t plan your summer vacation just yet. At the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences this August, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have announced they plan to wirelessly hack the digital network of a car or truck. That network, known as the CAN bus, is the connected system of computers that influences everything from the vehicle’s horn and seat belts to its...

Not a very good car and an even worse boat, it was nevertheless a remarkable piece of ‘60s derring-do.

Road racers bring heritage-rich cars back to their old stomping grounds – and it sometimes gets messy.

Mobile phones and other technology are stepping in to let us continue to drive while interfacing with the interwebs allowing car companies and telecoms to generate sales.

The BMW 540i's 4.4-liter V8 is a great engine, but sometimes you want a little more power, a little more noise, and a touch more America.

With just hours before a live, global, contractually required television broadcast, Formula E organizers raced to assemble a track in downtown Miami. With the hot sun beating down on an anxious crowd, workers filed down bumpy manhole covers and used forklifts to put the last few concrete safety barriers in place.

I've spent most of my adult life looking to Formula 1 for tech things innovative and buzzworthy. The mind-bending designs of Gordon Murray and Adrian Newey spawned teenage fantasies of moving to Europe and training to become an aerodynamicist. But in recent years, my inner compass has pointed away from Monaco.

A multi-million dollar house is only as cool as the multi-million dollar cars sitting in its garage.

This chopped, be-winged Phantom is Rolls’ engineering mule for its coming luxury 4x4. But why?

Supercharged V8 Brit promises Veyron-busting performance for a tenth of the cash. Be very afraid

Manhattan may be a cruddy place to drive, but every April, it becomes a fantastic place to look at cars. The New York International Auto Show is the biggest car show on the continent, and this year doesn’t disappoint: The world’s automakers unveiled 60 new models at the press preview this week.