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It’s time to say goodbye to the gas-powered Alfa Romeo Giulia and the Stelvio. The automaker has announced that it will stop taking orders for the turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder models due to emission standards, but more importantly, the 2.9-liter V-6 Quadrifoglio models are gone, too. Only the 2.2-liter diesel with…

Ferrari is not the first to dream up an oval-piston engine. Honda actually raced and later sold an oval-piston V-4, with each piston having two connecting rods and eight-valve heads. Essentially, it was a kind of V-8 with two pairs of conjoined combustion chambers on either cylinder bank. AutoGuide uncovered…

Buying a Ferrari takes money. Lots of money. Typically, people with lots of money have worked many decades to acquire such funds, which puts them in a higher age group. That's true of most high-end brands. But more recently, Ferrari has seen a shift in the age of its buyers—and…

They say perfection takes time. SSC founder and CEO Jerod Shelby takes that phrase to heart.

The threat of tariffs on imported cars into the United States has automakers thinking how best to mitigate them. Prices are expected to rise on many makes and models when US President Donald Trump’s proposed 25-percent tariff goes into effect on April 2, and that could include Audi. The German…

I know, I know. Land Rovers are horrible cars and nobody should ever touch one if they have any sort of financial sense. For various reasons, the British-made SUVs are consistently at the bottom of almost all reliability reports.

This may sound ironic but don’t believe everything you read online. Images of a mysterious Alfa Romeo surfaced last weekend, sparking speculation about a new supercar. While many assumed it was an early leak of the 33 Stradale’s successor, the car is not an upcoming model. In fact, it predates…

These days, we rarely get to talk about newly developed gas engines. Automakers prefer to hype up their future EVs, while internal combustion becomes little more than a footnote. But some companies are bucking the trend. Mazda defied the downsizing agenda with its gas and diesel inline-sixes, and now it’s…

In 2021, Stellantis said that Alfa Romeo would become an electric-only brand in the Enlarged Europe, North America, and China regions by 2027. Well, that’s not happening anymore. Alfa Romeo’s new CEO has confirmed that the Italian brand will keep combustion engines for the long haul. The next-generation Stelvio and…

The cuts keep coming. Audi has announced that it will lay off 7,500 employees by 2029 with the intent of increasing the speed, productivity, and flexibility of its Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm facilities. The automaker says the move will achieve more than €1 billion ($1.1 billion at today's exchange rate) in…

The Grand Tour has driven into the sunset. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May's final episode, One For The Road, aired last September on Amazon Prime. Prior to that, the trio dissolved their production company, W. Chump and Sons. We've seen some occasional YouTube content of the presenters living…