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Mercedes-Benz’s parent company Daimler has continuously denied allegations that the German carmaker knowingly fitted their diesel vehicles with defeat devices to cheat emissions testing. Despite this, however, they continue to cooperate with authorities and pay off fines and compensation, and recall affected vehicles.In 2020, the company promised to pay £1.2 billion (or $1.5 billion) to US authorities to settle diesel emissions claims involving Mercedes-Benz. Around 250,000 cars and vans were al...

Believe me, I get it. Unless you are a monumental car bore, getting emotional about a car is probably the most uncool thing you can think of. After all, what kind of person forms an attachment to bits of metal, plastic and oil? But you see, us car guys know that that exists and it’s real. Many of us have experienced it. So is there something wrong with us? No. Well, yes, maybe. Everyone has faults and flaws. But as far as your emotional attachment to your car goes, it is only natural. Humans grow fond of people and things because those people and things satisfy certain needs they have, be it material or spiritual. I’m not saying you fall in love with your car because it gets you from A t...

Right now there is a lot of brouhaha in the automotive world about the autonomous vehicles and how advanced they are getting. But we can’t help thinking it is very much like the buzz created by fuel cell technology when it first came into focus a decade or so ago. No one is taking the time to research if the real world is ready for an influx of robot cars. And there is yet another new thing on the horizon: brain-controlled cars. Although the concept ofbrain-controlled cars may seem at first glance an even more outlandish idea than having an electronic brain driving the vehicle, when one thinks about the basics of it, it actually makes more sense. The whole thing about autonomous vehicles...

Whenever you tu on the news these days, all you hear is war and chaos and silly tweets by politicians. It makes you think the world is on the verge of collapse, and it very well may be. But that is only a matter of conce for us regulars, you see. The top one percent mind it not one bit, as seen by the spike in the number of hypercars they bought this year. Bugatti alone has delivered 70 Chirons, meeting their production plans as though they are making family sedans! As theultimate production super sports car, Bugatti Chiron is a must-have accessory for the billionaires the world over. We are prepare to bet next year’s salary not one of them ever uses the full potential of the 1,500 ...

Not wanting to jut hand over the competition to the rivals, and also to avoid being hated on by half the population of the world’s football watching crowd, Audi decided to give FC Barcelona footballers brand-new cars as well. A week or so ago they delivered a fleet of the latest models to Real Madrid players. This ought to level the playing field. It appears, though,FC Barcelona players have less extravagant taste than their Madrid-based rivals. Their chosen Audis are less diverse, and most have gone for the more practical models than the really sporty ones. Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Gerard Piqué selected the Audi RS 6 Avant, while five other,including Ousmane Dembélé, Sergi ...

Every time some new technology becomes the main trend in the automotive world, manufacturers scramble to get their hands on it and, if possible, position themselves at the forefront of the game. In doing so they often forget to take into account the more important parts of developing a new technology, like is the real world ready for it? It happened with the whole hydrogen fuel cell thing, and now it’s happening again with autonomous cars. It was in early 2000s when when fuel cells became all the rage and everybody in the business was convinced they were the saviors of our fragile planet and the answer to all the problems we face with fossil fuel cars. They used hydrogen as fuel an...

As if the mega-rich superstars ofReal Madrid FC needed a free car, team sponsor Audi delivered a fleet of brand-spanking-new models to them to drive in the new season. The players must be under some kind of obligation to be seen in pubic in these Audis, as they normally would not drive them, what with all the exotics in their garages. Take Cristiano Ronaldo, for example. The dude has multiple Ferraris and Lamborghinis, and recently bought a Bugatti Chiron. A pre-facelift Audi RS7 probably doesn’t float his boat, even considering the fact that most other players got lesser models! [embedded content] While 14 of the players went for theAudi Q7e-tronquattro plug-in hybrid model so...

So yesterday Tesla revealed a new version of their Roadster sports car, giving us all a 2020 Volt jolt. It isn’t just how much more advanced the new Roadster is compared to its predecessor, but how much of a game-changer this thing is for pe...

Like it or not, China is on its way to dominate the world’s car market. Well, they’re on their way to take over the whole world, but that’s a subject for another discussion. Here we are interested in cars, and we are worried that buying Chinese migh...

Technology now touches every part of daily life, whether it’s from our smartphones monitoring our health to our home appliances which make washing and cleaning easier. In recent decades technology has also advanced our vehicles, making them safer an...

Ford has become the first automaker to offer U.S. law enforcement pursuit-rate hybrid police cars. The Fusion-based sedan and F-150 truck hybrid Police Interceptors were confirmed byMichigan State Police after32-lap police vehicle testing at Grattan Raceway and made officers of law, set to enter service over the next couple of years. In order to become a pursuit-rate cruiser a vehicle must ...

Even though it has only one seat and no roof or doors or any other luxury amenities, the BAC Mono starts at around£125K. That means a lot of people will never get to drive one, and that is why they have come up with a digital version now. The Mono is now available inProject CARS 2 video game onXbox One and PlayStation 4. Granted, driving a car in a video game compared to real life is like s...

Pizza giant Domino’s has teamed up with Ford as they test their autonomous vehicles to evaluate an idea they have. They want to trust the job of delivering their pizzas to self-driving cars, and Ford’s Fusion researchvehicle seems like the ideal platform. Granted, if self-driving pizza delivery cars become mainstream they will put a large number of young people out of work. But autonomous ca...

Volvo believe the end of the reign of inteal combustion is (almost) upon us and they want to begin phasing them out with a bold plan. Begiing from 2019 every single production Volvo will have an electric motor attached to its combustion engine. That means an entire range of hybrids and pure ...

When the designer were trying to come up withPrior Design Mercedes C-Class Coupe body kit, we suspect, they thought about what Megan Fox would look like in a lingerie, because the result is just as hot! This is hands down one of the best looking car...

As the more hypercar savvy among you must be aware,Vanishing Point is the cool name Pagani has come up with for their customer driving tours. In it they assemble a large convoy of Zonda and Huayras and hit the road, with stops are race tracks and fine restaurants along the way. WhenVanishing Point came to the United States for the American Pagani customers to get the treat, the Italian super exoticas got kind of overshadowed by all the other hypercars that tued up for the event. The number, the variety, and the sheer hyper-ness of these cars beggars belief: [embedded content] It is at events like this that one is humbled to know that no matter what multi-million dollar hyper machine one...

The latest tricked-out BMW the guys from the car maker’s Abu Dhabi showroom want to show you is a Melboue Red BMW 4 Series Convertible featuring a number of extras that will melt the heart of any Bimmer lover in the land. This is car has the sweetest 4 Series specs short of an M4. The unique and Individual paint job aside, the Melboue Red BMW 4 Series Convertible boasts a full carbon fiber M Performance package that contrasts with the exterior color and adds to the visual drama of this car. You have the chin spoiler with the large intakes and carbon surrounds, the blacked-out grille and smoked lights, carbon side skirt inserts, carbon mirror caps, rear diffuser insert, and carbon tailpi...

If the liter supercharged V8 engine under the boet of GeigerCars Dodge Charger Hellcat is its muscle, then the custom KW coilover suspension it has must be its joints. And together they create one helluva athlete that is not only quick the in the straight line, it can also shift around those coers with poise and elegance. Before we tell you more about the high-end suspension system on this car, though, we should point out that GeigerCars Dodge Charger Hellcat is even more of a monster than you would imagine. The German tuner of American cars took this bad boy in with 707 horsepower and through a series of upgrades, such as a stainless steel exhaust system with valve control, airbox and ...

If that Ivory White SLR Roadster we showed you yesterday wasn’t unique enough for you, or maybe you just didn’t dig the color, take a look at this one. This Royal Blue Brabus SLR Roadster is currently on sale at Alain Class Motors, and it is quite possibly the coolest looking McLaren Mercedes SLR in the world. Interestingly, the soft top on the Brabus SLR Roadster is the same shade of maroon as was featured on the Ivory White special edition. But this car has the edge over that model on account of it being a Brabus-tuned model, although the only clues as to this car’s uniqueness is a set of massive Brabus wheels, Brabus logos out back, and a Brabus plaque on the dashboard. The carbon fi...

What do the livery of a British tobacco company made famous by Porsche in Le Mans and Group B rallying and a rather prissy sports coupe like Audi TT have in common? Well, not much really. But the fact is the colors of the iconic livery and the lines of the mode car make this Rothmans Audi TT one helluva an eye candy and that is enough of a reason for its existence. The choice of livery for the Rothmans Audi TT by EAH Customs of Germany is actually an interesting one. The Rothmans colors are among the coolest motorsport liveries ever created – up there with Martini and Gulf – but because it’s from a tobacco company no one uses it anymore. So Kudos to EAH for bringing it back and remindin...