The new Aston Martin DBS is seen at the Frankfurt International Auto Show IAA in Frankfurt September 11, 2007. Aston Martin nudged out Apple’s iPod music player and video Website YouTube in the 2007 list of the top 500 coolest brands in Britain from consulting firm Coolbrands.

A model displays the Eclipse AVN2210p, an auto in-dash navigation and entertainment system at the 2007 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Portable navigation devices are poised to take off this holiday shopping season as market leaders Garmin and TomTom race each other to make deeper inroads into the mass market by […]

The Japanese Grand Prix is always a memorable weekend for the team and this year presents a new challenge with the race moving from its traditional Honda-owned home of Suzuka to the newly re-opened Fuji International Speedway.
“The Japanese Grand Prix is always a very special weekend for the whole Honda Racing F1 Team as it […]

BMW Sauber’s F1 driver Robert Kubica (front) leads Honda’s driver Jenson Button during the Belgian Formula one Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps race track.

Spanish MotoGP riders Dani Pedrosa on his Honda negotiates a curve during a free practice session of the Grand Prix of Japan motorcycling race at Twin Ring Motegi Circuit in Motegi, north of Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007.

This computer-generated image shows how the new BMW Z4 Roadster could look when it is launched in 2009.
The Porsche Boxster and Mercedes SLK-Class rival is expected to be launched with three petrol engines: an 185bhp 2.0-litre, a 231bhp 2.5-litre and turbocharged 321bhp 3.0-litre.
Insiders say that a fourth engine option, a 450bhp 4.0-litre V8, may be […]

Scientists have shown that what begins as a game of soft touches between two people quickly becomes a game of moderate pokes and then hard prods, even though both participants do their level best to respond in kind. Each would be convinced that he was responding with equal force and that for some reason, the […]

Toyota attacks in three key fronts: power, equipment and safety. It’s not often that BMW find themselves outmuscled but in this instance the Munich company must give best to Toyota, the T180 featuring a 27bhp power advantage over the X3. That’s not the long and short of it though. There is a trade-off in terms […]

“It was a ghastly thing, truly horrible to look at. I could barely even take pictures of it.”
This quote could easily have been overheard at, say, the scene of a terrible crime or a tragic accident. Unfortunately for Mercedes-Benz, I overheard this little gem in the press lounge when the subject turned to the technology-laden […]

Mercedes-Benz is offering drivers what it calls a “flying carpet” experience — and that doesn’t mean it has started making airplanes.
A new luxury car — the F700 — offers passengers a bump-free experience thanks to laser-based sensor technology that lets the suspension adjust to road conditions on the fly.
Unveiled at the 62nd International Auto Show, […]