It may come as little surprise that Ron Dennis, chairman and head of McLaren supercars, had been caught speeding several times before he was recently nabbed running a red light, but his punishment might seem a bit harsh.
Dennis recently met … More
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Former Car and Driver editor-in-chief and Automobile founder David E. Davis Jr. has died near his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after complications from surgery related to bladder cancer.
Davis, 80 at the time of his passing, was considered the “dean of automobile journalism†by Time after founding Automobile in 1985 to much unexpected success  … More
A new supersonic car has been built that will have a speed of 1000mph. The car incorporates three power units: a rocket in its motor, a Formula 1 car engine, and a jet from a fighter plane.
The British design, named the Bloodhound rocket, is 45cm-wide and 3.6m-long (18in by 12ft) and has been built in the UK over the last two years.
To race the measured mile will only take … More
Electric cars may portray themselves as ‘zero emissions’ but the overall pollution they generate can be almost as great as a frugal conventional diesel car, consumer watchdogs said today.
Electric cars are a lot more expensive to buy – though they are generally cheaper to run as they plug in for their power from the domestic mains, say experts at Which?
The amount of carbon dioxide – the so-called ‘greenhouse gas’ blamed by scientists for global warming - created to generate the electricity powering an electric car, can be just as great as that created by the internal combustion engine, they say  … Details