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2011 Ford F-150 powertrain lineup overhauled

WITH VIDEO -- A V6 in America's best-selling pickup? Ford enthusiasts know there has been a six-cylinder engine available in F-Series pickups most years since the truck's debut in 1948. But never has so much combustion efficiency been seen in any of them until now.

BMW Art Car collection on show in the UK

An exhibition of the famous BMW Art Car collection is coming to the UK for the very first time – just in time for the Olympics. The Art Drive! exhibition is taking over the London Great Eastern Street car park from 21 July 2012, bringing a chance to see the BMW cars transformed by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists.

New Mercedes A45 AMG has 105 years of 4WD on its side

With the new Mercedes A45 AMG on the horizon – complete with 4WD – Mercedes chart the history of all wheel drive on their vehicles. We tend to think of 4WD road cars as a modern innovation, and certainly very few 4WD road cars hit the road in a mainstream way much before the 1980s (the Jensen FF was hardly mainstream before someone points out that was in the 1960s). But the history of 4WD goes back, certainly in the case of Mercedes, a surprising 105 years when Daimler built the Dernburg-Wagen, a 4WD vehicle that not only got all-wheel drive but all wheel steering too.