The complete geek’s guide to the BMW range
When I first became interested in cars, sometime around the mid-90s, the BMW range was easy to understand. Three models, two transmissions and four engines. It allowed you to pick-and-mix these basic...
View ArticleTech beefs up the muscle car: meet the all new Ford Mustang
The first Ford Mustang was unveiled at the New York World’s Fair on April 17 1964. Just a few months shy of its 50th birthday, Ford has unveiled the 10th generation Mustang. This will be the first...
View ArticleChristmas comes early as BMW unveils new M3, M4 models
Christmas has come early for petrol heads. The latest version of the world’s best-selling sports car — nearly 40 000 of the last generation of M3s were built — has been unveiled along with the new M4...
View ArticleHere’s everything you need to know about the Lamborghini Huracán
Having had the current version of the ‘baby Lambo’, the Gallardo, on the market for almost 10 years, Lamborghini needed to update the range to take on rivals like the Ferrari 458 Speciale, McLaren 12C...
View Article5 cars that redefined the term ‘geeky’ in 2013
2013 saw its fair share of technologically advanced cars revealed and launched. Electric and hybrid cars were a major theme, marking out the mass movement of manufacturers to alternative energy...
View Article5 analogue cars that wowed us in 2013
At MotorBurn we celebrate the technology that is found in cars. It can be a new safety technology, gadget or an all new idea for a car (BMW i8 anyone?). What is important to a lot of petrol heads,...
View Article4 cars to geek out hard to in 2014
2013 saw some incredible cars launched. The McLaren P1 has Matrix levels of race technology and the Mercedes-Benz S-Class is possibly the safest way to travel on Earth. 2014 sees a number of incredibly...
View ArticleNeed For Speed Review: promises lots, falls seriously short
Need For Speed is legendary in the video gaming world. According to Wikipedia there are 20 titles in the series. And, joy of joys, it’s made a movie. Starring Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul as Tobey...
View ArticleMicrosoft takes aim at Apple’s CarPlay with Windows in the car
A few weeks after Apple announced plans to introduce iOS into cars through its CarPlay technology, arch rival Microsoft has shown its intent to take on in-car entertainment with a Windows Phone-centric...
View Article5 cars ideally suited to the newly minted tech millionaire
You’ve built the next greatest thing in IT and just listed your IPO, or made that all important exit, and now you’ve got some cash. To reward yourself for all your hard work, you should buy yourself a...
View ArticleThe VÄTH A45 AMG may just be the most mental hot-hatch ever [Gallery]
Mercedes-Benz specialist tuner VÄTH has officially released details of its tuning program for the already mental Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG. The result…PHWOAR! Power from the 2.0 litre turbo-charged four...
View ArticleTesla partners with Panasonic to bring Gigafactory into reality by 2020
Tesla’s proposed Gigafactory promises to revolutionise the electric motoring industry, providing seemingly endless capacity for a huge reduction in cost. But automakers, like Nissan, will not be the...
View ArticleGearbox gripes: Should we hate the CVT as much as we do?
Bundle a bunch of random people into a cramped room, surreptitiously lock the door and quietly introduce the topic of automobile transmissions. Chances are, the group will immediately fracture into two...
View ArticleStudents bring hydrogen to the racetrack with Lotus-based Forze VI
Motor racing pushes the absolute limit of car performance, speed and technology. While hydrogen is not a staple fuel in the automotive arena yet, it’s a realistic future prospect for motorsport and in...
View ArticleMeet the 2015 Porsche Cayenne [Gallery]
Porsche has given its Cayenne a midlife makeover (spicing up?) for 2015 with a relatively minor cosmetic facelift. Apart from the nip and tuck the biggest news is the introduction a new 3.6 litre...
View Article5 pieces of car tech that failed at exactly the wrong time
Here at Motorburn, we love car tech. The increasing intersection between our wheels and our gadgets is something that just makes us tingle every time we think about it. That does not however mean we’re...
View ArticleBugatti-killer Hennessey building a 1400 horsepower, 466km/h monster
Hennessey’s cars are the Texan equivalent of Pagani, Bugatti and Koenigsegg wrapped in a carbon fibre hotdog, and as one can therefore imagine, the company is also three times as bonkers. Following up...
View ArticleCheck out Navdy, the portable HUD with a sense of humour
When it comes to head up displays, you now have a few more options than you did a few years back (buy a really expensive car or make your own), with a number of the players entering the space,...
View Article5 of the coolest online car configurators around
You’re slumped over at your mercilessly cramped office desk, a mug of lukewarm coffee seemingly glued to your non-mousing hand. The woman in the cubicle alongside yours is STILL nattering away on her...
View Article5 incredibly important automotive technologies that owe their existence to...
World War One remains one of the grimmest periods in human history. With an estimated 37-million killed during its four year duration, you’ll be hard pressed to find any kind of positivity harking from...
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