(November 9, 2012) DEARBORN, Mich. — The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has named the all-new 2013 Ford Fusion a Top Safety Pick. To earn a Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must receive a rating of “Good” in the following evaluations: offset frontal impact, side impact, dynamic head restraint and roof strength testing.

(November 9, 2012) TOYOTA CITY, Japan — Toyota and Mazda announced today that Mazda’s plant in Mexico, currently under construction, will produce a Toyota-brand vehicle for sale mainly in North America. The sub-compact Toyota-brand vehicle, to be based on the Mazda2, is to start production around the summer of 2015 at a pace of 50,000 units per year and will be sold through Toyota dealerships.

(November 8, 2012) LONDON — Maharaja of Mysore’s 1825 State Carriage — to be auctioned in the UK on Nov. 24 — has British royalty credentials. Horsepower takes on a very literal meaning at the forthcoming sale in Surrey, UK, by specialist classic vehicle auctioneers, Historics at Brookland when an extremely rare Indian artifact — a magnificent horse-drawn State Carriage owned by the Maharaja of Mysore, Southern India — comes to auction.

(November 8, 2012) LONDON — Following the airing of Top Gear’s 50 Years of Bond Cars special, fans of the show visiting Beaulieu’s World of Top Gear can now see the actual Top Gear Lotus Excel Submarine driven by Richard Hammond into a lake.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise and the release of the 23rd Bond film Skyfall, Richard Hammond paid tribute to some of 007’s greatest moments on wheels with an hour-long Top Gear special, looking at some of the famous, and not so famous, cars used by the world’s favorite spy.