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Pastor Maldonado's victory at the Spanish Grand Prix underlined that the only certainty in Formula One this year is its uncertainty.

Under the lights of the Geneva motor show in March, Europe's top auto executives boasted about the new features of their latest models and tried to out-hype their rivals.

New Zealand has long been a breeding ground for motocross talent and just as much for aspiring young women as it has been for the men.

The design, technology and capability of Land Rover's current model range has been reflected in the brand's emphatic success in the 2012 Diesel Car Awards.

Pastor Maldonado won a Spanish Grand Prix thriller on Sunday to take his first Formula One victory and hand former champions Williams their first triumph in 132 races and nearly eight years.

Alex Kelsey, who last month became the youngest driver to win a round of the New Zealand Rally Championship, has been awarded the top seed for this month's Drivesouth Otago Rally.

Driving from Dunedin to Auckland on a tank of fuel would be quite an ask of even an eco-optimised small car, so should be a challenge well beyond a two-tonne luxury sports utility.

Google's self-driven cars will soon be appearing on Nevada roads after the state's Department of Motor Vehicles this week approved the nation's first autonomous vehicle licence.

Formula One's European season fires up in Spain this weekend with Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber leading a fistful of drivers jostling to become the fifth different winner in five races.

Suzuki is contacting almost 3400 Swift owners in New Zealand as part of a worldwide recall because of a faulty fuel pipe.

Russia is ending its long love affair with a car that was once prized by the nation but has come to symbolise the decline of its automobile industry and, for some, the country itself.

Australia's MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner powered back to the top of the overall standings by a single point on Sunday after fending off Spanish rival Jorge Lorenzo to win in Portugal for the first time.

A shootout is the hallmark of a classic western and it proved the case again when Ford's Will Davison survived a thrilling V8 Supercars finish to claim back-to-back wins in Perth.

Consistency, versatility and reliability - not to mention a huge helping of rider talent - could see Yamaha make it back-to-back national enduro titles this season.

Once it ruled with a 5-litre V8; for a long time now the mainstay engine has been a 4-litre six - and now it's coming out strong as a 2-litre four.

Masterton's Richard Mason has won the Trusthouse Racetech Rally Wairarapa, the seventh time the defending New Zealand rally champion has won his home event.

If watching two ultra-high horsepower cars drifting within 50cm of each other at about 150kmh sounds exciting, the 2012 Drift Battle of the Islands at Timaru International Raceway is the place to be.

At a time when interest in small cars is on a rapid rise, David Thomson gets behind the wheel of the flagship variant of Toyota's prime contender, the new Yaris YRS.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has called for a federal law to ban talking on a cellphone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country.