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Next time you bring your expensive German-made car to the Düsseldorf Airport, it just might be parked for you by a robot. Known as RAY, the system is built by Serva Transport Systems and is currently operational.

With 550 horsepower and 502 lb-ft. of torque, there’s no question the Jaguar F-Type Coupe R is a real beast. While it’s not always the most compliant car in the corners, it’s still tremendously fun and can powerslide with the best of them.

If you’d like to spend a lot of money on a Porsche 917 or vintage Camaro Z28 and not drive them on the road – but instead drive slot cars around inside them – then Hammacher Schlemmer may have just the thing for you.

If you fancy yourself a hacker and are going to be attending the 2014 SyScan security conference in Beijing, you might want to try your hand at cracking a Tesla. The SyScan security contest holds a different hacking contest each year, oftentimes centered around cracking the security badges used for entry to the event.

Filmmaker Damon Ristau is planning to make a full-length documentary movie about one of the most iconic and best-loved cars in history, the Volkswagen Beetle. This film will follow along the lines of his prior movie which focused on the VW Bus, aptly named The Bus Movie.

Students at the Technical University of Eindhoven and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences have teamed up to create a car to break Stefan Bellof’s Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record of 6 minutes, 11.13 seconds, set by Bellof in 1983 driving a Porsche 956.

Sam Moores is a professional photographer whose work usually involves taking stunning photos of  automobiles, including a lot of supercars. But he also enjoys manipulating images to render photographs of tiny, fantastical supercars. Some of his cars include the Koenigsegg One:2 shown above — a tiny version of the monster One:1 along with a Porsche 918 Mini Single Seater shown in stunning Martini livery, the Brabus 6×6 MINI, and the Mercedes-Benz AMG SLS Mini.

Do you want to get your car showroom clean? Then look no further than the awesome car care products of Dr. Beasley’s. Their premium car care line includes a comprehensive lineup of specialized cleaning, protection and detailing products hand-created to keep your car looking amazing inside and out.

In one of the more daring demonstrations of automotive automation, Hyundai put together a convoy of its new 2015 Genesis sedans and let them drive down the road without drivers in them. A team of stuntmen and stuntwomen started off driving the cars, and then escaped through the sunroofs, leaving the cars to drive on their own, following a single lead driver.

Does the car you drive increase your chance of getting a speeding ticket? CJ Pony Parts put together this infographic based on a study of 924 speeding citations collected at four intersections in two countries to provide some insight.

It’s been a long time since we played with Hot Wheels cars, but the little toy cars are just as popular with kids today as ever. But now that we’re adults, we prefer cars that we can actually drive.

Cruise Automation is a startup that purports to have the technology to convert an existing car to a self-driving, autonomous vehicle for just about $10,000 per car. Their current system, dubbed the “Cruise RP-1” is a highway autopilot that controls a car’s steering, throttle, and braking, making sure your car remains safely in its lane and a safe distance from the car in front of you.

Artist Jacob Munkhammer has taken images of some classic Citroëns, with their retro-yet-futuristic styling that is so easily recognized, and combined the vehicles with the technology of Marty McFly’s hoverboard. Floating quietly above the street, the Citroëns look well suited to a world in which cars glide effortlessly down the road, flying just a few inches off the ground.

(NSFW: Language) While most of us consider the car chase sequences from Bullitt, The Blues Brothers and The French Connection to be the best ever put on film (and no the CGI enhanced Fast & Furious flicks don’t count) it turns out there’s another little known candidate, in the form of a dark comedy from 1990 called Short Time. 

Typically, once you spin your car out in a race, your chances of pulling back into first place are slim to none. But you can never keep a good man down, as driver Denny Stripling proved during a recent SCCA Spec Racer Ford competition at Texas World Speedway.