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A Nissan Z SUV concept will be presented next month at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon, but it wasn’t developed by Nissan. Instead, students at the Nissan Automobile Technical College in Japan created it. The concept is called the Nissan Fairlady X, and was built by students learning how to repair crash damage and add

The 2023 McLaren Artura has already been recalled for potentially loose nuts that could cause a fuel leak, although the problem only affects a small number of cars in the U.S. High pressure fuel pipes on the recalled vehicles are equipped with cold formed nuts with rolled threads, which can loosen from the connection with

The 2024 Cadillac Celestiq EV flagship is a step toward the future for the General Motors luxury brand, but it also resurrects a bit of the past in the form of the Cadillac Goddess mascot. A relic of the days when hood ornaments were fashionable, the Cadillac Goddess appeared on the hoods of various models from

Legendary Italian coachbuilder Zagato revealed a one-off coupe based on the platform of the Alfa Romeo Giulia sedan. The coupe was developed to mark 100 years of Zagato’s work on Alfa Romeos, and it features a body made almost entirely of carbon fiber. Bertone GB110 Another legendary Italian design house in the headlines this week

We drove the 2023 Kia EV6 GT, the two-row Jeep Grand Cherokee lost its V-8 engine option, and Acura teased images of the 2024 ZDX Type S. It’s the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. We got our first stint behind the wheel of the 2023 Kia EV6 GT. Far from perfect but

Nissan will use the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon in January to present a varied collection of cars, with the new Z sports car among the highlights. One of the Zs will be fitted with a collection of official accessories that Nissan previewed in prototype form at this year’s Auto Salon. Unique elements include a new

There’s a revival underway of Stile Bertone, the legendary Italian design house that succumbed to bankruptcy in 2014. And that revival starts with a supercar called the GB110. Just 33 examples are planned, and according to the new Bertone, the car will be able to run on fuel produced from waste plastic. The fuel will

Can Honda usher in its next-generation hot hatch and win the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy award for the second time? The latest Honda Civic Type R just might have what it takes. Just like the millennials who grew up dreaming about the Type R coming to America, Honda’s hot hatch has grown up,

Everrati is quickly growing its EV conversion portfolio into one of the most diverse in the business. The 964-generation Porsche 911, Ford GT40 (replica only, thankfully), and the original Land Rover are among the vehicles eligible to be converted by Everrati to run on batteries, and now the company has also added Land Rover’s original

The Chrysler 300 was on hiatus in 1993, but a prototype reviving the name was built. That car is still around, and is currently listed in the Hemmings classifieds with an asking price of just $35,000. The 300 is one of Chrysler’s most recognizable nameplates, with an original production run stretching from 1955 to 1971

This week we took a spin in the redesigned 2024 Mercedes-Benz AMG C 63 E Performance. The new sports sedan has traded in the previous V-8 for a 4-cylinder hybrid powertrain generating up to 671 hp, which is hard not to love. 2023 McLaren Artura McLaren’s Artura plug-in hybrid supercar was another car we tested

The Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray leaked, the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq’s price decreased, and we drove the McLaren Artura. It’s the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. The Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray hybrid leaked on the automaker’s website, revealing a planned market launch for the electrified sports car of summer 2023. Featuring a similar wide-body design

Popular car auction website Bring a Trailer never fails to impress with the variety of vehicles that show up in its listings. Take for example this Acura ARX-05 DPi race car, which at the time of publication has a bid of $175,000 and eight days left to go in its sale. First spotted by Jalopnik,

Shelby Trust, the owner of the Shelby trademark, has won a court case which the trust claims finally allows it and other builders to create Mustangs that resemble the Eleanor-named gray Mustangs in 2000’s hit movie “Gone in 60 Seconds,” as well as the yellow Eleanor Mustang that featured in the original 1974 version of

The 2024 Mazda CX-90 due for a reveal in January will offer a plug-in hybrid powertrain, Mazda said on Tuesday. The CX-90 is a three-row SUV based on Mazda’s newly developed rear-wheel-drive platform with longitudinal engine mounting, which debuted in March in the Mazda CX-60 compact crossover sold overseas. Both vehicles are part of Mazda’s

The Williams Formula 1 team announced on Monday the departure of its CEO and Team Principal, Jost Capito. The motorsports veteran and brains behind Ford’s original Focus RS and F-150 Raptor only joined Williams at the end of 2020, having postponed retirement plans to join the squad following its sale to U.S. investment firm Dorilton

A water-cooled Porsche 911 was once unimaginable, but the automaker has now been making them for 25 years. Porsche started introducing water-cooled road cars in the 1980s in the form of the 924, 944, and 928. Yet the automaker’s flagship 911 continued with water cooling, which was considered an important part of its identity. Porsche

Mercedes-Benz AMG revealed a redesigned S 63 this week. The car is now called an S 63 E Performance, with the additional designation indicating that the gas engine is  augmented by a sophisticated plug-in hybrid system that uses technology similar to that found in Formula 1. 2023 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT2 race car Another AMG in

Following 2022’s mid-cycle update, the GMC Sierra 1500 enters 2023 with few changes. They include a new AT4X AEV Edition that was first shown in July. The truck was developed with off-road specialist American Expedition Vehicles and makes the AT4X even more capable when heading off the pavement. Among its unique upgrades are additional underbody

Mid-engine hybrid supercars and the upcoming Purosangue crossover SUV are the Ferraris garnering the majority of headlines these days, but don’t sleep on the Roma coupe. This V-8-powered 2+2 is more than just an entry point into the House of Scuderia. It’s a grand tourer that comes alive in unexpected ways. Sure, it starts at

From electric luxury vehicles to crossover SUVs and off-road-capable SUVs (gas and electric), the field of nominees for Motor Authority’s Best Car To Buy award only continues to widen. Once again for the 2023 award we find a supercharged pickup truck making the nominee list while a barrage of electric vehicles claw their way onto

As the move to electrification continues, some automakers are leaping toward the future while others are looking to the past for one last final hurrah. These trends are clearly evident in this year’s crop of finalists for Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2023. Last year marked a first for our award. A clean-sheet-design electric

Bentleys and sneakers don’t normally go together, but they do when we’re talking about the one-off 2022 Flying Spur Hybrid developed by Bentley in collaboration with Dominic Ciambrone, or better known to fans as The Surgeon. Ciambrone is a custom shoe designer who launched a line of Bentley-inspired sneakers, and he was recently picked by

Travis Pastrana’s “Family Huckster” packs the guts of a gymkhana car into the body of a 1983 Subaru GL wagon. Pastrana unveiled this unusual build earlier this year, and the wagon makes its gymkhana video debut on Dec. 6.  Inspired by Subaru GL wagons used as a marketing tie-in with the U.S. ski team, the

BMW this week revealed a modern take on its legendary 3.0 CSL. The new version is based on the 4-Series platform and combines BMW’s most powerful production inline-6 with rear-wheel drive and a 6-speed manual transmission. Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo concept Ferrari revealed a Vision Gran Turismo concept. The design is a wild single-seater with

The limited-edition Bentley Batur coupe is undergoing testing ahead of a planned start of deliveries in mid-2023. Two development cars are undergoing more than 120 individual tests, totaling 58 weeks of testing time between the two vehicles, Bentley said in a press release. Those tests will evaluate things like high-speed stability, aerodynamics, cabin noise, durability,

It’s not every day that you see a Bugatti Chiron drifting, but to celebrate reaching the halfway point of production of the Chiron Pur Sport, Bugatti sent a driver out in one to smoke some tires. On Thursday, Bugatti released the footage.  Focused more on road-course readiness than top speed, the Pur Sport was unveiled

Audi next year will launch a new electric crossover positioned between the mid-size E-Tron and compact Q4 E-Tron. It will go by the name Q6 E-Tron, and prototypes have been out and about for more than a year (shown below). Now we have the first spy shots of a prototype for a coupe-like version to

De Tomaso has revealed a follow up to its stunning P72 supercar in the form of the equally stunning P900 hypercar. The newcomer packs a V-12 good for 888 hp, and just 18 examples are destined for production, priced at $3 million apiece. Lewis Hamilton recently visited Japan where he was able to sample one

Ferrari is the latest in a long line of automakers to reveal a concept for the “Gran Turismo” video game series. The concept is part of the Vision Gran Turismo series, the challenge put forward to car design teams around the world last decade by Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of Gran Turismo. His challenge was