| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | The S63 AMG storms into town with a 5.5-liter twin-turbocharged V8 developing 577 hp and 664 lb-ft of torque... | | Mercedes-Benz's AMG performance-car division has officially revealed its new 577-hp S63 AMG ahead of the rapid sedan's public Frankfurt motor show debut in September. Several traditional AMG styling mods distinguish the S63 from recently... |
|  | | A million-dollar show car vanished from Oklahoma. Why aren't the police right on it? Because the “crime,” if it was in fact a crime, happened half a century ago. The car was a Cadillac Le Mans, a two-seat...
|  | | ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAKE LINGEMAN: Wow, this 2013 Subaru Impreza
|  | | A Russian-financed “young driver” development program has taken a significant step by embarking on an LM-P2 sports car racing project, aimed at winning the category in the Le Mans 24 Hours with its own car and Russian drivers. The backers are the Russian Automobile Federation in Moscow...
|  | | Facing down a buying public more interested in gargantuan chrome barges than frugal Swede-boxes, Volvo had to think out of the…box to peddle its wares. One of the results? This charmingly self-deprecating ad for the sleek...
|  | | Out of all the movies about a snail who enters the Indy 500, this is probably one of the better ones. We recently got the chance to watch "Turbo," which opens today in theaters nationwide. Before you head over to the Cinerama, be sure to...
|  | | We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- We all know the new BMW ...
|  | | Volkswagen is bringing back the yellow-and-black Beetle GSR for 2014, more than 40 years after the “Yellow Black Racer” (Gelb Schwarzer Renner) debuted for the first time. That car had around 50 hp; the new one...
|  | | Ford said on Monday that it would recall its 2013 Fusion, C-Max and Lincoln MKZ hybrids, but not for the reason you might think. Like your cell phone...
|  | | On Wednesday, IndyCar team Andretti Autosport became the third of 10 teams to sign up to the FIA Formula E Championship -- the world's first fully electric global racing series, beginning in 2014. The launch, held at the team's...
|  | | The toughest opponent for the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show has never been the weather, which is always perfect, nor the location, in car-crazed Southern California. It's been the calendar. After decades of being run on the exact same...
|  | | Citroën Racing, which has announced a 2014 track racing program in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, is targeting former WTCC champions to partner with Sébastien Loeb, its nine-time World Rally champion, in the series. Team principal Yves Matton is known already to have approached a...
|  | | Mike Conway will replace the injured Ryan Briscoe in the Level 5 Motorsport LMP2 entry for this weekend’s American Le Mans Series race at Mosport. Briscoe fractured his right wrist in an IndyCar Series race in Toronto last weekend. Conway drives full-time in the World Endurance...
|  | | They say everything is bigger in Texas. ESPN is hoping that the 2014-16 X Games follow suit. On Wednesday, the sports network announced that Austin, Texas would be the host for the extreme sports event. Austin beat out three other finalist cities: Charlotte, N.C., Chicago and Detroit....
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|  | | At most dealerships nowadays, there aren’t that many differences in terms of how domestic and import dealers are set up and run. Flashback a few decades and things were a bit different. Back in 1988, we covered some vital tips for saving money on your next car purchase and how each type of...
|  | | So, Arlen Ness has this motorcycle, right? This wicked-looking silver thing. Mach Ness, he calls it: Ness loves puns; it's a recurring theme in his life. Painted rivets, burnished faux aluminum panels. Fully enclosed rear wheel. Vents that resemble the Sydney Opera House. The front end extends...
|  | | You've probably seen 100,000-mile and 200,000-mile badges on the grilles of some Volvo cars, perhaps on a 240 sedan or wagon. But we're betting you haven't seen a car that had a 1million- or 2 million-mile badge. Irv Gordon's red Volvo P1800, which he bought new back in 1966, is rapidly approaching ...
|  | | What is it?The Volvo S60 Polestar is a Volvo S60 that's been heavily modified by the company that handles their surprisingly extensive racing operations, Polestar. Every moving part of the suspension has been upgraded, along with the brakes, and of course the engine. The brakes are carbon-ceramic...
|  | | The second-generation Porsche Cayman debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2012. It brought more power -- 275 hp as opposed to 265 -- but a tad less torque. The S model also grew, from 315 hp to 320, and torque was up 5 lb-ft to 270. These numbers were intentionally suppressed, so they wouldn't...
|  | | Andersen Promotions LLC, the new promoter of the Firestone Indy Lights series, the IndyCar companion racing series, hopes to have a race-tire contract partner for the series signed by Aug. 1, according to Tire Business. Palmetto-based Andersen Promotions, which already owns and operates the Cooper...
|  | | Pat Symonds has left his role as technical consultant to Marussia to take on a new job as chief technical officer of the Williams Formula One team.Symonds replaces technical director Mike Coughlan, who is no longer with the team.Neither Marussia nor Williams has scored a point in this year's...
|  | | Imagine, if you will, a Hollywood studio filming a racing-related remake of "The Sound of Music."Only in this modern-day version, instead of Mother Abbess (Mother Superior) having to deal with the wayward novice nun Maria in the convent, we have devout Christian and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs, a...
|  | | It's a given that part-time drivers Mark Martin, Brian Vickers and owner/driver Michael Waltrip won't qualify for NASCAR's upcoming 10-rece, 12-driver Chase for the Championship. That's because none of them runs often enough to be top 20 in points: Martin is 29th after 19 of 26 regular-season races,...
|  | | What is this newfound bravado we're seeing in NASCAR's Jeff Burton?Fresh from his first top-three finish since July 2012 at Daytona—and his first at a non-restrictor-plate race track since the 2010 Chase race at Dover—Burton strides into the media center at New Hampshire Motor Speedway...
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