More details are emerging about General Motor's all-new 2.5-liter Ecotec four-cylinder engine, and the latest heads-up involves how this bigger-and- better brother to the existing 2.4-liter will match excellent mileage-maxing skills with world-class levels of quietness and refinement.

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Citing a Bible verse could save you big at one Texas quick lube.

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This special edition of the Clio R.S. will be limited to 666 cars.

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If you were ever curious as to the origins of Ferrari?s prancing-horse logo, today is your lucky day. Ferrari has released an informative video that explains where the pony came from, and how it begat the small rectangular badge found on the hood of Ferrari?s cars. Our guess is that the clip, based on Enzo [...]

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Rumor has it Nissan might bring Datsun back to life, possibly focused on Toyota's Scion.

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With this 535i-based gas-electric, BMW finally moves toward mainstream hybrid appeal. BMW?s earlier steps into hybridization haven?t been the most decisive. The hybrid vehicles it has offered so far start at nearly $90,000 and don?t quite have the impressive fuel-economy numbers commonly associated with hybrids. The hybrid 7-series is rated by the EPA at 17 [...]

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It started with a four-cylinder, graduated to six and then eight cylinders, and now might be settling back down to six. The next-generation F80 BMW M3, caught testing around the homeland, has let its voice be heard, and the suspicions are that a V6, not a BMW-traditional inline six, rumbles through those pipes.

Bimmerfile posits that a V6 could be "loosely based on the M5′s S63 twin-turbo V8, but with even greater high-end power and efficiency." Whatever is under that hood - and whatever is handling that lightning-quick gear change, don't quite sound like anything that's come straight from the factory before, at least to our ears. Follow the jump to watch and listen for yourself and make a guess in Comments.

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Video: yet another demonstration that bike racers are utterly mental

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Early this morning, Saab-parent Swedish Automobile agreed to sell its Spyker sports car business to a private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The deal, worth 33 million euros ($45 million at today’s exchange rates) will be done entirely in cash. But what motivated a group of American investors with no history owning or managing [...]

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As a general rule, new cars are expensive, especially the performance models that car lovers lust after. Even if you can't afford to purchase the car you lust after when it's brand new, as long as it's not something super rare or exotic, chances are eventually you might get a chance at owning your dream car for a reasonable price. More »

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