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Analysts say use of ‘flexibilities’ to avoid penalties shows that zero-emissions mandate does not need to be relaxed

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a wonderful tool, allowing aerodynamicists a way to visualize and optimize airflow in a way impossible in the real world. It can also be used for sillier aims. Like comparing the aerodynamics of a 40-series Toyota Land Cruiser to a loaf of bread. 

Toyota's 2JZ engine is an incredible feat of engineering. Sold in a slew of vehicles in the Nineties and Aughts—including the legendary Mk. 4 Supra—it's gained a reputation of being the most robust internal combustion engine ever built. The venerable straight-six is capable of holding huge power numbers with the…

M-Sport has taken the covers off its newly liveried Ford Puma that will contest the 2025 World Rally Championship, ahead of next week’s Monte Carlo opener.

New technical regulations and a change of tyre manufacturer has made preparations for the challenging Monte Carlo Rally among the most demanding for World Rally Championship teams in recent times. Not since the introduction of the Rally1 cars in 2022 has the WRC undergone such significant changes, heaping even more…

It’s fair to say Honda’s been behind the ball when it comes to electric vehicles. Chevrolet launched the Bolt EV in 2016, Ford introduced the Mustang Mach-E in 2020 and Tesla’s been doing its thing for far longer than that. Aside from compliance-car experiments like the Honda Fit EV, any Americans who…

Yet another major automaker has been fined for cheating on diesel emissions. Hino Motors, a company within Toyota Group, agreed to a settlement totaling $1.6 billion resulting from "false and fraudulent CO2 emissions test data" submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The fine includes a $236.5 million…

The World Rally Championship will expand to 12 Rally1 cars for the second round of the season in Sweden next month.

The Honda Accord was a great car when it debuted as the brand’s first upmarket vehicle in 1976. It was a great car when it became the first Japanese vehicle built in America in 1982. It remained a great car for the next eleven generations of production. Now, in its…

That's kind of a wild question, when you think about it. What could the biggest automaker in the world learn from a company that barely existed 20 years ago?

The Dakar Rally has been held in several countries since its inaugural edition in 1979, but no driver had managed to lift the Touareg trophy on home soil until Yazeed Al-Rajhi this year.