Viknesh Vijayenthiran

2 days ago | carbuzz.com | Viknesh Vijayenthiran

Mercedes-Benz is the latest in a growing list of automakers to make recent announcements about moving more production to the U.S. CEO Ola Källenius has confirmed that Mercedes will build its popular GLC-Class compact crossover in the U.S., just days after the automaker said it planned to build a “core segment” vehicle here.

2 days ago | carbuzz.com | Viknesh Vijayenthiran

The new crop of ultra-exclusive supercars like the Aston Martin Valhalla and GMA T.33 will soon have competition from De Tomaso, which is close to unveiling the production version of its P72 supercar. It's been six years since the revived Italian performance marque first showed a concept of the V8-powered stunner, so you won't be blamed if you've forgotten it. The good news is that the wait for the production model is almost over. The covers will come off tomorrow.

2 days ago | carbuzz.com | Viknesh Vijayenthiran

Swedish hypercar marque Koenigsegg stunned the automotive world at 2022 Monterey Car Week, when it unveiled the CC850 to mark 20 years since the start of deliveries of its debut model, the CC8S. The design was simple, like an evolution of the original CC8S, though the complete opposite was true for the mechanical package, which debuted some novel technology that even today, three years down the road, still seems like some kind of black magic.

3 days ago | carbuzz.com | Viknesh Vijayenthiran

Cadillac is in the early phases of its strategy to bring American luxury to the global stage, a strategy that includes entering Formula 1 with its own team next year. However, a flagship sports car twinned with the world-class C8 Chevrolet Corvette and leveraging that F1 presence isn't part of the plan.

3 days ago | carbuzz.com | Viknesh Vijayenthiran

The idea of using a turbine to power a car is just so awesome that multiple automakers have spent years trying to bring it to the masses, most notably Chrysler with its Turbine Car and General Motors with its Firebird concepts. While earlier turbine cars could boast sounding like a jet on taxi, they were loud even at idle. Unsurprisingly then, they also struggled with poor fuel efficiency, and their engines were expensive to produce and maintain.