Mercedes has opened its app store for customers in Europe driving cars fitted with “Comand.” Though the app store turned a tech head or two when it was previewed earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, there is still a lot of work to be done before it is ready for the U.S. market. [...]

The good folks down the way at Jalopnik have at least one photographer who has some pretty cool pull. This unnamed photo-guy or gal somehow got access to an underground tunnel leading to an even more-underground supercar garage, a top-secret supercar garage. Displayed in a series of photos of a Ferrari, a McLaren and a [...]

Just over a month after rolling onto dealership floors, the 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth has sold out. Supplies are so low, that Fiat has stopped accepting deposits for this model year’s model. The automaker is accepting deposits though for the 2013 Fiat 500. The Abarth’s short and limited history has been purely golden. At first, [...]

Volkswagen and the IG Metall union have worked together to come up with an agreement that will give the automaker’s German workers a 4.3 per cent pay increase over the next 13 months. This agreement mirrors in many ways the recent contract signed between VW and the union representing the nation’s industry-wide engineering employees. This [...]

Rumors leaking out of the Motor City are saying the Chrysler Group LLC is going the put down the Chrysler Town & Country minivan, while at the same time continue to pump out Dodge Caravans.   The move, which will take place in 2014, should be a money saver since the two vehicles tended to compete [...]

German tuning house Gemballa has done it. Using the ancient art of alchemy, Gemballa has made diamond auto paint. Tired of the long-ago cliché metal flakes that impressed us back in the 70s, the tuner has instead mixed crushed diamonds with paint to come up with the world’s most expensive car coating. Gemballa says that [...]

Luxury sports carmaker Porsche has announced that it too will enter the luxury sports mid-sized sedan market when it begins selling the Pajun in 2017. Being engineered and designed to compete with the likes of the BMW 5-Series, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and the Audi A6, a base Pajun will hit showroom floors demanding a solid [...]

A stock 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has laid down a supercar-demolishing 11.9 seconds on a quarter-mile track. The chill-inducing runs were done twice, once by a stock-trim Camaro with automatic transmission and once by one sporting a stick shift. The cars reached 116 and 117 miles per hour during their runs. The stick-shift Camaro ZL1 [...]

Carroll Shelby, the man who rose to fame as a racecar driver before going on to build one of the most iconic of production sports cars of all time, has died at the screaming-into-the-finish-line age of 89.  Though his body has finally been retired, his cars and his legend roll on. As a racer, he [...]