Another week, another batch of jaw-dropping screen shots from Microsoft's Forza Motorsport 3. This weeks travels brought back all the best from the JDM so they could do battle on the famed Suzuka Circuit — in a Toyota Yaris? Yes.
The U.S. House narrowly passed the scaled-back version of the "Cash For Clunkers" bill giving consumers cash vouchers of between $3,500 and $4,500 if they trade in their cars for newer vehicles.
Over the weekend, the developers from Turn 10 released these gorgeously detailed, high-resolution images of their new Forza Motorsport 3 racer, all but confirming the inclusion of the Le Mans famed Circuit De La Sarthe. [Update: one lap video]
Microcars are often chosen for urban driving because they're affordable, fuel efficient and easy to park. With fender-benders the largest urban driving hazard, the IIHS tested bumpers on seven popular microcars, None earned top marks and five were...
Rolls-Royce is contemplating a lawsuit over the Geely GE, which debuted at the Shanghai Auto Show and looks conspicuously like a Rolls-Royce Phantom. This case has a lot of merit... anywhere but China.
This morning's IIHS report on the shocking finding that little cars don't take well to colliding, at speed, with bigger cars? Now we have the crash videos. Let's take a look at all three below.
This just in from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Minicars like the Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit and Smart ForTwo perform poorly in 40 MPH frontal oncoming crash tests. Also, water is wet. [Automotive News]
Toyota officials have announced they're working on a Toyota Yaris hybrid to take on the new Honda Insight hybrid for cheap hybrid supremacy. Muscle Car Wars? Ha! Let the Hybrid Car Wars begin.
The Tramontana R is a bitchin-fast, cottage-built, ultra-exclusive V12-powered supercar. It's also Quasimodo-level lumpy and ugly. Would you trade one for the other? Tis a choice which would confound even King Solomon.
Toyota reported January, 2009 sales of 117,287 vehicles, a decrease of 34.4% from last January. Even the new Venza sold only a mere 1,394 units in January.
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