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The 2015 Audi R8 has once again been spotted undergoing performance testing at the Nurburgring, and this time around it isn't weighed down by as much camouflage as it previously has been. The car was spotted wearing a black and white swirly wrap at the infamous German track in late March, and now CarAdvice's spy photographers have caught the 2015 Audi R8 wearing minimal camouflage in a move that reveals a number of elements about the styling of the car.

A new six-speed automatic transmission will be the highlight of the updated US-bound Fiat 500 range when it makes its New York auto show debut next week.

A pair of eagle-eyed CarAdvice readers have sent through exclusive images of the all-new third-generation Kia Grand Carnival in full camouflage in Australia. A number of Kia Grand Carnival models are in the country for hot weather testing, with one of our readers spotting them in a holding yard in Sydney's western suburbs, and another catching the cars on the move in Victoria.

A spokesman from Subaru’s Japanese parent company says in-house tuner STI may evolve into a performance sub-division in the future to rival Nissan’s Nismo sports arm. Speaking with CarAdvice at the Geneva motor show, Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) corporate communications spokesman Masato Saito said creating a family of high-performance STI variants positioned at the top of a number of model lines was “a good idea”. “In the future, [there is] some possibility,” Saito revealed.

The first new-generation Alpine sports car due in 2016 will be to the reborn French performance brand what the 911 is to Porsche, according to its designer. The man responsible for developing Alpine’s 21 century design language, Renault corporate design senior vice president Laurens van den Acker, said he has looked to the past for inspiration for its cars of the future.