Chris Paukert
2017 Jaguar XE First Drive
Jaguar is leaping back into the compact premium sport sedan ring at a unique moment in history. Does it have what it takes to grab the crown? We headed to Portugal for an early prototype drive to find out.
2015 Land Rover Discovery Sport First Drive
We travel to Iceland to see if Land Rover's new Discovery Sport is just another premium CUV, or if it's got the off-road goods to wear the Green Oval proudly.
How feasible is Hyundai's HCD-15 Santa Cruz pickup?
Hyundai's HCD-15 Santa Cruz concept confirmed that the company is keeping an eye on America's pickup market. But how likely is the Korean automaker to get into the game?
2015 Ram 1500 Rebel drops the crosshairs, muscles in with new snout
Ram is introducing the 1500 Rebel, a 'lifestyle' pickup, at the Detroit Auto Show. It features a lifted suspension, bigger tires and lots of attitude.
Jaguar working on windows that open when you touch them
Jaguar is working on windows that activate with just the touch of your hand (because we're all going to be a lot lazier in the future).
Buick Avenir concept struts into Motown [w/videos]
The doors at Cobo Hall haven't even opened yet, and already the Detroit Auto Show is yielding surprises – in this case, the Buick Avenir sedan concept, revealed at an off-site event this evening.
Ford Detroit stand map clearest evidence yet of new GT, Mustang GT350R, SVT Raptor
An anonymous tipster has leaked a map of Ford's display stand plans for next week's Detroit Auto Show, and it supports the idea of a Ford GT revival, as well as a Shelby Mustang GT350R and F-150 SVT Raptor.
Autoblog's top 100 photographs of 2014
We've taken some pretty great snaps of all things automotive this year, and we've got our top 100 photographs of 2014 to prove it.
2015 North American Car and Truck/Utility of the Year finalists revealed [w/polls]
Tuesday afternoon at the Detroit Athletic Club, the finalists for the 2015 North American Car and Truck/Utility of the Year awards were announced at a press luncheon. The selected – three in cars and three in trucks/utilities – will vie for the coveted Tiffany crystal, which will be presented at the Detroit Auto Show on Monday, January 12. The finalists are:
2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata is a knight in white satin
We're not going to lie to you. The reason you're seeing the fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata on these pages again is solely because this is the first time we're seeing the roadster displayed in a color other than the ruby shade it was first shown in. Okay, okay, so this is the first time the Miata is being displayed at a North American auto show other than SEMA, and we'd say that this is the f
2016 Jaguar F-Type debuts available manual transmission, AWD [w/video]
If you're like us, you fell in the deepest, darkest sort of love with Jaguar's F-Type the
2015 Chrysler 300 looks to recapture its mojo in LA
Chrysler's 300 sedan has never been a shrinking violet, but it arguably lost a bit of swagger when its second-generation model bowed. There was no way that an evolutionary design could ever upend the automotive establishment the way the original 2005 model did, but even so, something was clearly left on the table when the 2011 model bowed.
How GM's OnStar is building a better Check Engine Light
Soon, OnStar will be used to mine your car's systems and compare its findings against vast pools of data in the cloud.
Corvette's Performance Data Recorder headed to other cars, will Cadillac ATS-V be first?
For 2015, the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray gained a novel piece of high-perf
Audi wiring cars with cameras to see how ferret-like creatures tear them apart
In this German-language video, we see a batch of Audi engineers wiring up an A3 Cabriolet with a network of small cameras. The goal? To help identify where and how stone martens – small, ferret-like animals – attack cars. The idea is to observe the animals' behavior around the vehicles, see where they go, what they chew on, and work to develop solutions.
2015 BMW i8 sets everyone's tongues wagging in Northern Michigan
Like few other cars we can remember, people want to talk about the 2015 BMW i8. Drive one, and
Nissan teases Sao Paolo CUV concept, production future likely
Back in 2012 at Brazil's São Paulo Motor Show, Nissan showed off an angular subcompact crossover concept, Extrem, that seemed to to portend the future of the Nissan Juke. Now, the Japanese automaker is teasing an as-yet-unnamed CUV concept
2015 Ford Focus First Drive
Sitting down at the pre-drive briefing with Ford engineers ahead of sampling the refreshed 2015 Focus, water bottles clinked as we wet our whistles before Q&A. While pouring a glass, we noticed something stamped on the bottle label: "1L." One liter. We were palming the exact displacement of the EcoBoost engine our group was about to drive. This