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Volvo Car Corporation has paved the way for implementation of communication between cars by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.

Winter is nearly here and if you live where snow, sleet, or worse are common, this will serve as a little reminder to keep you safe on the road.

Children of the 60s, 70s, and 80s will remember some of the fashionably cool, but often questionable "features" and common modifications made to cars back in the day. Here's some favorites.

The HLDI has released insurance claims data showing which vehicles have the highest and lowest overall insurance losses, showing the vehicle size still plays a big role in crash survival.

The 2015 Ford Mustang is reported to be getting a 4-cylinder EcoBoost and now the technical specs are becoming clearer.

The battery industry and its electric car market is extremely difficult to predict. Have our governments made the right choices?

Users of CARFAX’s vehicle history reports between certain dates in the states of Oklahoma, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee, California or North Carolina are entitled to claim a settlement voucher.

If you own a Jeep and like to take it off the beaten path, testing the limits of your ability and those of the vehicle, you’re going to love the chance to win a Smittybilt XRC 8 winch with 8,000 pounds of pulling power.

Professional BMW race driver Augusto Farfus scares his wife in a BMW M3 Coupe while taking her on a fast lap around the Nurburgring Nordschleife.

In what may be the world’s first such deal, the Tullibardine distillery in Perthshire has contracted with a spinoff company from Napier University, called Celtic Renewables, who plans to employ microbes to convert the byproducts from distilling whiskey into butanol to be used to fuel vehicles.

Future Flow Media is a provider of hyper-targeted email advertising that has come up with a way to track the effectiveness of the kind of marketing they do, in terms of how many buyers resulted from their service.

Simply put, drivers in 2040 won’t need a license because cars will drive themselves and identification will have transformed into a device, perhaps worn on your wrist, that functions as your key to everything, your passport, plane ticket, video phone and heads up display computer.

Nissan unveils more data in the battery capacity loss controversy, saying that the culprit is total driving distance, not heat, and that the battery packs are behaving as expected considering the heavy use.

Gilt.com is an unabashed purveyor of the most self-indulgent guilty pleasures and by midnight tonight will have sold one lucky acolyte of conspicuous consumption an incredible automobile and experience in a Polaris White XJL Ultimate.

MotorWeek, the longest-running automotive show on American television, begins its 32nd season with a chance for auto enthusiasts to enter the MotorWeek Ultimate Automotive Experience Sweepstakes.

Brandon Nozaki Miller, riding a modified Zero Motorcycles made Zero S ZF6 electric motorcycle, sets a new land speed record for lightweight electric motorcycles.

Would an electric vehicle make more sense if a rentable two-wheel battery pack ebuggy from e-Mobility could be hooked up when you need to extend range beyond a daily commute?

The Worldwatch Institute predicts that automotive production will top 80 million units this year, continuing a steady rise of annual production for the past several years.

The 2015 Ford Mustang will be getting some major changes when it finally arrives in Europe.

A just published study says some people would rather spend their free time with their vehicle than their partner or family and exemplify this by washing, waxing or driving it in their leisure time.

Historically, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations have had many negative consequences, many of which even supporters of green transportation and environmental issues will find appalling.

The next wave of cars is coming in, after the onslaught of hybrids and while waiting for more range from electric car, plug-in hybrids offer the best of both worlds. Where is Toyota positioning its long-awaited Prius plug-in hybrid?

A new optional Speed Pack for the 2013 Jaguar XFR includes new performance enhancements that will produce a new top speed for the sports saloon.

In the season finale to the TTXGP North American Championship, Steve Atlas won the title for the second year running, with team-made Eric Bostrom winning todays race.

A lot has been said about how great the new efficiency standards set by President Obama are and how much money will be saved and how much fuel won't be used because of them. Rhetoric is one thing, reality is another.

While we haven’t heard much from the folks at Volkswagen in terms of hybrids and even less when it comes to plug-in hybrid, the German manufacturer has been testing its intriguing diesel plug-in hybrid.

Subaru has plans to broaden the STI performance brand to include more cars in its lineup.

Hyundai has announced the addition of a new option for 2013 Veloster and Veloster Turbo models that will increases performance even more for driving enthusiasts.

While Toyota has decided not to offer a convertible FR-S in the U.S., Subaru will be offering a BRZ convertible here in 2014.

The new 54.5 miles/gallon (equivalent) CAFE standards are set to cause a dramatic reduction in fuel consumption, reducing dependency on foreign oil, reducing environmental pollution, and saving the American Economy over a trillion dollars, what's not to like about it?