The BMW M1 is a legendary automobile in its own right, and any moto enthusiasts would love to have one in their collection. But as far as M1’s go, there’s a small handful of ultra rare special editions out there called the M1 Procar’s and they are flat out spectacular. …

The automobiles are fascinating entities. A few people love them, attracted to the sentimentalism of travel and take a strive for Engineering flawlessness. While automobile designs and make-ups do not freak some people. They don’t get to be passionate about them by any stretch of the imagination, thinking of them off as overrated pieces of metal. From the design perspective, one may not have much to say against such folks.

Lotus has, for the "first time in many years," reported a profit, according to the press release from the automaker. Lotus called this event a "radical financial turnaround" and "a major milestone" in the history of the company. Specifically, the recently-minted Geely subsidiary posted a positive EBITDA (that's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization for you non-finance majors) last year of £2 million or $2.6 million in today's exchange rates—a significant achievement considering the company lost the equivalent of over $21 million by the same metric the year before that.

Virginia residents and tech blogs alike fooled by university ‘research project’ featuring a driver pretending to be part of autonomous vehicle

Of course you remember the DeLorean car from Back to the Future. At the end of the 1985 movie, it didn’t just speed off into the distance—it flew away after Doc Brown’s infamous line, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” If Paul DeLorean has his way, Back to the Future won’t be science fiction. It will be a documentary.

After hearing so much hype about this car, I was surprised that my first reaction was a profound sense of delight.

An owners club in Italy did it by "hypermiling" the Model S.

With the recent successful delivery of updated software, the Tesla Model S regains its position as CR’s top-ranked ultra-luxury sedan now that its automatic emergency braking system works at highway speeds.

With the entire automotive industry looking toward a future of driverless mobility, commercially owned self-driving taxis seem poised to be on the frontline of tomorrow. However, nobody seemed to realize that these vehicles will eventually become little more than mobile toilets.

Following the successful introduction of the Lotus Evora 400 and Evora Sport 410 to global markets, Lotus has unveiled its most powerful road-going model ever - the Evora GT430. A beautiful and pure combination of elegance and power, Lotus has lavished attention on hand crafted carbon-fibre components to endow this fully homologated Evora with a level of precision engineering and design unseen before.

Petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch, who have underwritten attacks on climate science, have launched a series of videos attacking electric vehicles.

Today, Roland announced it has brought back its iconic drum machine, the TR-808, for its Boutique line. The new iteration, now called the TR-08, is a “detailed and faithful replica” of the original, updated in a more compact size with a few new features.

France is preparing to end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040 as a way of reaching its emissions targets under the Paris climate agreement.

Tesla say the IIHS has "motivation that suits their own subjective purposes." 

Currently, the only way to make EVs competitive is with government incentives.

Not quite but they have come very close. Overnight, Tesla made some changes to their available options, making some options standard, and notably eliminating one thing: leather seats. As of now, Tesla only sells vegan seats. While this lack of leather is not made explicit on the Tesla configuration page, any mention of leather has been removed, and all upgraded interiors are now referred to with Tesla’s “premium” designation which they applied to the original rollout of vegan seats made of a new synthetic material.

When Ford introduced the updated Fiesta last fall, it made absolutely no mention of the U.S.-spec model. One of the company's top engineers has just revealed that's because the smallest member of the Blue Oval's American lineup will not return for the 2018 model year. "The previous model was a global Ford product, and with the new generation, we are targeting only Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In North America -- especially in the U.S...

Find out why buying a limited-edition supercar takes more than wheelbarrows of cash.

Ford is shifting production of its next-generation Focus from Mexico to China, planning to import the small car to the United States. While other U.S. companies such as Apple have been manufacturing products in China, Ford's decision to source the Focus from the country in East Asia is likely to draw more attention than the others. That's because this marks the first time that the carmaker will make a vehicle in China targeted at U.S. consumers.

Datsun 240Z values seem to be surging in the past two years, bucking the recent 'cooling' in the classic car market. Why is this? What do you think?

For most people, self-driving cars are just an abstraction, something they read about occasionally in the press but still consider a far-off, futuristic fantasy. They read the headlines and scoff, “Not in my lifetime.” But the events of this past month may help put a lot of that skepticism to rest. There was a flurry of activity in both Congress and the private sector over the past few weeks, signaling a key shift in the trajectory of self-driving cars and proving that these vehicles are much closer to reality than most people think.

If you believe them, there will be a lot of self-driving cars on the road by 2020.

Why should Mercedes build an E-Class 4x4x2 when they have a full range of proper SUVs and an iconic G-Class? Because it can. No other luxury brand is as successful as when it comes to developing off-road toys. And in contradiction to the original G-Class 4x4x2 or the AMG G63 6x6 you won’t have to be a billionaire to play with it.

AeroMobil announced that the first-ever production-ready flying car will be revealed at the exclusive supercar show Top Marques Monaco. Slovakia-based engineering firm AeroMobil unveiled its flying-car prototype in 2014, but it was not made commercially available at the time. The company recently announced, however, that its latest model will be available for preorder this year (though there has been no word on pricing yet). This new model has not yet been revealed, but it's set to debut at the Top Marques Monaco, known as the world's most exclusive supercar show, on April 20.

His comments quell concerns that the V12 will be downsized and turbocharged, as with Ferrari’s V8s, or even axed entirely. ‘‘We will always offer a V12,” said Marchionne. “Our head of engine programmes told me it would be absolutely nuts to [put a] turbocharger on the V12, so the answer is no. It [will be] naturally aspirated, with a hybrid [system].” The electrification is not all about lowering CO2, either, said Marchionne...

The recent flying car announcements vary in type from single-seat, multi-copter drone-type aircraft, to road-style cars that turn into light aircraft and small flying boats that hover above the water. How safe is this contraption? The Chinese company Ehang is proposing to equip its flying car service in Dubai with a parachute.

Today, Volvo Chief Executive Officer Hakan Samuelsson said that the current generation of diesel engines will be the automaker’s last and that they will instead focus on electric vehicles. And he also gave credit to Tesla for launching demand for electric vehicles, which actually plays right into the automaker’s mission.

The only all-electric cars that Ford currently sells are compliance cars built on existing gas-powered platforms. Earlier this year, the automaker announced that its first all-electric car built to be electric from the ground up will come out in 2020. Raj Nair, Ford’s Chief Technology Officer, now says that the vehicle will be mass-produced, hinting that it will not be a compliance car, and priced affordably.

We now know diesel vehicles pollute more than they should to deadly effect everywhere, but the real scandal is government foot-dragging, says Olive Heffernan

It's one of the most celebrated, adrenaline-fuelled movie car chases in history. In Peter Yates’s 1968 Bullitt, Steve McQueen, sat at the wheel of a Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT, tears after two criminals in a black Dodge Charger at breakneck speed – as on-board cameras mounted on the cars themselves capture all the action.

MIT researchers argue that for now, robot copilots make more sense than autonomous taxis.

Oslo had a plan to lower its emissions by drastically limit car travel in its center. Now you can drive, but it might not be worth it.

Following a report last week that German automakers have been colluding on diesel technology, including fixing the size of Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) tanks, since the 1990s, BMW said in a statement that it “categorically rejects accusations that Euro 6 diesel vehicles sold by the company do not provide adequate exhaust gas treatment due to AdBlue tanks that are too small.”

It's hard to imagine the car world without Rolls-Royce. For over a century, it has been the unapologetic automotive signifier of wealth, success, celebrity and status. And while the company has experienced as many ups and downs as any other manufacturer -- if not a few more -- The Spirit of Ecstasy has remained a shining beacon of luxury. But even within Rolls-Royce, there is a hierarchy, and firmly at the top for over 90 years, the Phantom has earned adoration the world over as simply the best car money can buy.

Germany's transport minister orders move to remove what he says is illegal emissions-controlling software.