Speeding in France is about to get a wee bit trickier to get away with now that the Gendarmerie are getting 70 Renault Megane RS police vehicles on the prow

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I'm a minivan guy. I don't own one and I don't want one, but in my prior career I helped design Chrysler's second-gen minivan, and that exercise involved a whole lot of benchmarking and voice-of-the-customer research. That experience sticks with me when I do minivan comparisons like the one we ran last December, and I still stand by our finishing order. But because this was one of those rare holiday seasons that had the families from both sides of our household visiting over two weeks, I reckoned a real-world rematch of the top-finishing Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna might be in order.

Download Minivan Rematch: 2011 Honda Odyssey vs. 2011 Toyota Sienna

As the old saying goes, having kids can be a blessing and a curse, and what to transport the little ones in is of the many issues John and Jane Doe have to address as the family expands. Once upon a time, the minivan and station wagon were the usual suspects. Today, there's a multitude of options for modern families, with updated 2011 Dodge Journey one of several choices on Dodge lots alone.

Download First Test: 2011 Dodge Journey

Seeing as both brands fall under the BMW umbrella, it wasn’t really a far-fetched idea to have British luxury automaker, Rolls Royce, and German carmaker, MINI, tie up for a special edition project. The question wasn’t so much if these two highly regarded brands could collaborate, but more of when they would do it.

Download 2011 MINI Cooper S "Inspired by Goodwood" by Rolls-Royce

Pininfarina and Ferrari are two companies in the automotive industry that live and breathe pure excellence. Match them up with one of the most luxurious events of the year - the Villa d Este Concorso D’Eleganza - and the outcome is a one-off model based on either the 599 GTB Fiorano or the P540 Superfast Aperta (pictured).

Download 2011 Ferrari Super America 45 by Pininfarina

BMW has announced the name and the date of its two all-new alternative-powertrain high-tech carbon-bodied cars. The plug-in diesel-electric AWD supercar, based on the Vision EfficientDynamics concept, will reach dealers as the i8. The artist formerly known as the Mega City Vehicle, a pure-electric city car, will be called i3. Both will be launched in 2013.

Download BMW Efficient Dynamics and Mega City Get Real

Back in 1986, the Taurus was heralded as the car that would save Ford Motor Company. And it did. Now, 20 years later the same monumental responsibility has been thrust upon the 2006 Ford Fusion.

Download First Drive: 2006 Ford Fusion

"It's getting crowded in here," was a common thought as we glided up the 101 freeway between Ventura and Santa Barbara in our 2006 Bentley Continental GT test car.

Download Full Test: 2006 Bentley Continental GT

The designers have tailor-made an outfit for the new SLK which emphasises its classic roadster proportions and puts them in the spotlight to thrilling effect. Behind the long bonnet is a compact passenger compartment positioned far back, and a short tail end. The SLK will tempt potential customers with the key attributes that characterise all the classic roadsters from Mercedes-Benz, and that have also made many of them automotive icons.

Download New Generation SLK Roadster Design Journey

The new Mercedes-Benz Viano Avantgarde Edition 125 embodies three terms like no other large-capacity vehicle, dynamism, comfort and sportiness. It combines an unmistakeable exterior style with select equipment and appointments as well as a dynamic drive system, making it the top model in its class. The Edition 125 Viano Avantgarde represents the perfect blend of MPV, saloon and sports car.

Download Mercedes-Benz Viano Avantgarde Edition 125 Overview

The Mercedes F-CELL World Drive will be travelling across North America until March 18, demonstrating the potential of fuel cell technology. In addition, with what is to date a unique undertaking, Mercedes-Benz is reaffirming the need to develop a comprehensive global hydrogen infrastructure. “We will have reached market maturity with fuel cell technology by 2015 at the latest. From that point we would then be in a position to bring several 100,000 vehicles, in a variety of different model series, onto the roads. For example we are also planning a saloon model with fuel cell drive and will thereby expand our portfolio of local zero-emission vehicles. Therefore, by that time, an infrastructure which allows the everyday operation of such vehicles, needs to be in place.”, according to Dr. Thomas Weber, the Daimler AG Board Member responsible for Group Research and Development for Mercedes-Benz Cars. “Now is therefore the time to increase speed and consistently develop the hydrogen filling station network.”

Download Mercedes-Benz F-Cell World Drive Kicks Off Its North American Tour

We've said it in print. We've said it to Mercedes-Benz. We've told our friends. We've even admitted it to our therapist: The Mercedes-Benz R-Class has a weight problem. Tipping the scales (tipping them over, actually) at around two and a half tons, the R has no natural enemies in the automotive arena — it looks like a Sumo station wagon, but any BMW or Audi luxury wagon you'd try to put it up against would get lost in its massive shadow. And while the all-wheel-drive R-Class is built alongside the M-Class and G-Class SUVs in Alabama, nothing about it makes you want to even consider putting dirt under its wheels (a fantasy you might entertain with a Porsche Cayenne).

Download First Drive: 2007 Mercedes-Benz R63 AMG 4Matic

For the new 2011 Mercedes-Benz VIANO Van that came out in the fall of 2010, the German Mercedes-Benz tuning specialist A.R.T. has put together a large number of interesting components in a new program. The complete VIANO Tuning Program is scheduled to become available beginning January 2011.

Download 2011 Mercedes-Benz Viano Tuner by A.R.T.

There’s something about cargo vans that we love. Obviously, it’s not because they’re fun to drive (although there is something fantastic about pitching a self-propelled warehouse sideways, but we digress). Rather, it’s because of what they can become. As artists take to blank canvases, so do our imaginations to cargo vans. Cargo vans start out as nothing, but can become anything, from rolling billboards or innocuous delivery vehicles to clandestine command centers or mobile man caves. (Check out how we designed our own digital Ford Transit Connect.)

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Based on the Lexus GS?

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The 2010 Formula One season came to a dramatic end with Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and along with it the world championship..

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