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Toyota has announced an upgrade to their top-selling 86 sportscar, consisting of refinements to the suspension and updates to the interior.

As part of their "Innovation Partnership" with Team Sky in the recently-completed Tour de France, Jaguar built a one-off F-Type support vehicle, specifically for the team to use during stage 20 of the competition.

At last month's International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the US, Kia scored two awards, with the GT4 Stinger concept vehicle and 2014-model Soul earning Silver and Bronze honours, respectively.

A stunning and highly collectable Ford Skyliner Retractable Convertible that would shade even the latest Porsche 911 Targa with its crowd-pulling disappearing roof is one of the standout lots going under the hammer at Shannons Melbourne Winter auction on Monday, July 21.

Nissan Australia and Sony Computer Entertainment Australia have confirmed the six Australian gamers that will compete at the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy International Final at the Silverstone circuit in the UK this month.

With a life that revolves around peddling an array of desirable machinery and wooing fans at meet 'n' greets across the country, John Bowe is certainly living the dream!

With much of the world's attention now switching from the World Cup in Brazil to France for the Tour de France cycle race, it's fitting that some of the stars of Shannons upcoming Melbourne auction are French.

Previously a Sydney-only showcase of custom and modified cars, bikes and hot rods, Meguiar's MotorEx is expanding to Melbourne in 2014, with the first event in the southern capital to take place this July 19-20.

A Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTEC HYBRID has travelled 1,968 kilometres from Tangier in North Africa to Goodwood in England without having to refuel.

With the opening race of the FIA Formula E Championship for electric-powered race cars little more than two months away, Renault has announced an expansion of their involvement in the series.

From the mid-1950s until (roughly) 1970 the pursuit of horsepower and automotive escapism captivated America. Known broadly as the "muscle car era", this term ignores the fact that Mustangs, 'Cudas, Camaros, Javelins and their ilk aren't actually muscle cars -they're 'pony cars'.

Nissan chose last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed event in the UK to unveil a concept car they describe as "a new design vision for gamers who traded their consoles for real cars".

Powerful, compact and convenient, the PowerAll not only keeps your smart phone or tablet battery charged, but also acts as a flashlight, as well as having the power to jump start your car.

A decision has been made on what to do about the sinkhole that opened up under the Skydome section of the National Corvette Museum (NCM) in Kentucky, but the fate of the cars damaged in the February 12 event is still far certain.

Australia's premier automotive exhibition, Motorclassica, has been confirmed for 2014, with this year's fifth annual running of the event to take place at Melbourne's historic Royal Exhibition Building for 24-26 October 2014.

In the 60th Anniversary year of the iconic D-Type, Jaguar has confirmed they will produce a limited number of production versions of the 'Project 7' concept revealed last year in honour of Jaguar's seven wins at the Le Mans 24 Hour race.

Originally built to thunder around super-speedways at 200mph, not all 1970 Plymouth Superbirds wound up bangin' fenders on NASCAR's high-banked ovals.

A rust inhibitor and penetrant that's been the first choice of classic car enthusiasts and restorers in the UK, Ankor Wax is now available in Australia, through Busnbug.

Like a fine wine, 1960s performance cars seem to only get better with age and Andrew Conway's immaculate 1969 SS 396 Camaro is proof.

To mark the 30th Anniversary of the Variety Bash, six State and Territory Bashes will hit the roads across the country consecutively this August with the colourful convoys converging for a spectacular grand parade in Sydney.

On the weekend of July 19-20, Meguiar's MotorEx Melbourne will be the epicentre of Aussie horsepower! The groundswell of prominent performance businesses that have stepped up to take a stand in the show's massive Liqui-Moly Performance Garage is proof positive of that.

Built to thrash five-litre Trans-Am racing, Ford's Boss 302 Mustang showed everyone muscle cars aren't just about the standing 400m sprint. Earlier in the 1960s, the focus of the major American manufacturers had been on drag strip-destroying big-block muscle cars, but late in the decade, a new form of motorsport competition rose to prominence, one where cars were required to stop and corner, not just go fast.

At Mecum's Seattle auction on June 13-14, a restored 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda reset the benchmark for American muscle cars, selling for a staggering US$3.5 million (AU$3.72M approx).

Supported by JUST AUTO, the Kids Under Cover charity's Donate Your Car program has received another classic, in the form of a 1966 Humber Sceptre MkII.