Could This be the First Teaser of Ferrari's New F70 Flagship Supercar?

A shadowy image of a red sports car displayed on a large screen, which some believe could be previewing the new Ferrari flagship codenamed F70, has been making the internet rounds in the last 24 hours.

At the time being, we can neither confirm nor deny the authenticity of the F70 picture that first appeared on a Ferrari fan page on Facebook.

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Consumer Reports’ First Drive of 2013 Honda Civic: Did They Change Their Mind?

In the 100-plus year-old history of the motoring press, countless cars have been panned. Their makers have reacted in one of three ways: they have either refuted the verdict, often trying to “punish” the offending reviewer, ignored it and went on with their business as if nothing happened or made improvements when the time came to revamp the car.

Honda got pretty upset about the press’ reaction to its 2012 U.S. market Civic to the extent that it gave it a makeover just in time for the 2013 model year. Introducing a significantly improved model 18 months later must be an industry first – but then again, reviews like the one published by Consumer Reports apparently were too much to bear, even if sales soared.

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Euro NCAP Find that Dacia Lodgy Dissapoints while 14 Other New Cars Score Five Stars

The safety gurus at the European New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP), an independent organization that assesses and scores vehicle safety, have released a new round of scores for 15 new models, many of which were presented at the recent Paris Motor Show.

With one exception, the new Dacia Lodgy minivan that Euro NCAP said "budgets on safety" as it was rated with a mediocre three stars out of five, all other cars tested were awarded five stars.

Euro NCAP criticized the Renault Group's decision to not offer the electronic stability control (ESC) as standard equipment on the Lodgy, while also noting that the Dacia model scored poorly for pedestrian and child protection.

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Oh Mon Dieu! French Motor Journalist Hits Metal Post, Crash Lands Into a Boat!

Ladies and gents, prepare yourselves for what could very well be the mother of all motorcycle accidents caught on film – well, at least for the year that will soon be coming to an end.

And what a way to end the year for French magazine Moto-Journal and one of its testers, who we come to know by the name Lolo.

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2012 LA Auto Show in a Mega Gallery with More than 400 Photos

The press days of the 2012 edition of the LA Auto Show during which carmakers presented their newest automotive goods are done and gone, but the show has just opened its doors to the public and will remain open until December 9 for those of you who would like to see the cars up, close and in most cases, personal. Read more »

Someone Created a Monster Out of a New 2013 Fiat Panda 4x4

We haven't had the opportunity to drive the new 2013 Fiat Panda 4x4, yet – we have, however, tried out the previous generation model and it was surprisingly capable off the road, but something tells us that this here custom project discovered by CarScoop reader Tommaso in Italy, is way, way better.

"Yesterday I saw this Fiat. I don't know what is it, but I like it so much!" Tomasso told us. "It's a Panda with really big wheels. It's strange because it seems a brand new one! Have you ever seen something like this? Do you know something about?"

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Spied: Meet the New VW Golf Variant or Jetta Sportwagen

One of the first derivatives of the seventh generation Volkswagen Golf family after the launch of the three- and five-door hatchbacks will be a more practical and roomier estate body style, a prototype of which was nabbed by our scoop photographers testing on European roads.

Volkswagen will likely release the new station wagon model under different names in various markets, such as Golf Variant in mainland Europe, Golf Estate in the UK and Jetta Sportwagen in North America.

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