Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short. Dense, succinct, and quick, TDS gathers the latest automotive headlines from around the globe and puts them in one place. Stories are ...

BMW V12 top end restoration returns to the E32 750iL as the M70 engine is reassembled after the teardown in the previous ...

Rolls-Royce once promised a whisper-quiet electric future. Turns out, its customers still prefer a different kind of whisper. The kind that comes from a silky V12 under a mile-long hood. The British ...

The Mercedes-Benz brand was founded in 1926, but its origins stretch back 40 years prior to that date, when Carl Benz created ...

In an era when all carmakers have downsized or electrified their cars (well, not Bugatti, of course!), Mercedes-Benz is keeping the V12 alive. However, it won't survive in Europe. Its German rivals, ...

Toyota built Japan's only production V12 engine, used for 20 years in the Century sedan. A new Century brand could see the V12 return. It might be hard to believe, but in all of Japan's automotive ...

Toyota's dirty little secret is that Japan doesn't really need Lexus. Toyota was already seen as a high-end brand in the ...

The Ferrari FXX K Evo comes as a track-focused hypercar with extreme performance and Ferrari’s racing character. With its ...

Restomods, even high-end ones, feel increasingly common these days; the ranks of Porsche-based reimaginings alone could fill a book. RENNtech’s new one, however, has managed to capture our attention ...

Apollo's new EVO supercar features a 3D-printed titanium exhaust with dragon scales. Only 10 track-only models planned at $4M each. Remember Apollo? That would be the company playing on our intense ...

These five engines are not just impressive in terms of the output figures they deliver, but also the unmistakable symphony that their cylinders sing. The automotive internal combustion engines are ...