Daily Drive: We drive the 2014 Chevy Impala

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTO SHOWS   |   VIDEOS   |   COLLECTOR   |   SUBSCRIBE Monday, July 15, 2013                  The times have changed from the old rear drive V8 cars. And the 2014 Chevrolet Impala 2LTZ is more than an... 2014 Chevrolet Impala 2LTZ review EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I like big American cars. Normally I like my big American cars with rear drive and a V8. This 2014 Chevrolet Impala 2LTZ has neither though one could argue that 305 hp is more than those old rear drive V8 cars had anyway. The times are indeed changing… It's nice looking to my eye. John Cafaro, ...   Here's how to get a Courtney Force ESPN the Magazine cover NHRA fans who can't get enough of Funny Car driver Courtney Force can now get her ESPN the Magazine cover. Force, one of several professional athletes featured on covers of the latest issue of ESPN the Magazine, will be on the ...   Kyle Busch calls Ryan Newman an idiot, Twitter laughs at him: What's the buzz? On Sunday, Kyle Busch raced to a second-place finish at Loudon, but it's his comments after the race that have everyone buzzing. During a post-race interview,   Sauber F1 team saved by new Russian funding, announces new driver for 2014 Sauber Formula One has forged crucial new partnerships with three Russian entities -- and says that it will employ Renault 3.5 driver Sergey Sirotkin in 2014. Sirotkin, 17, finished third in Auto GP (featuring the ex-A1 GP cars) last year, and currently lies eighth in the Renault 3.5 series....   Rare air: The CL65 AMG I spent last weekend in a 2013 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG. With 621 hp and a gobsmacking 738 lb-ft of torque on tap it's about as close as I'll ever get to taking advantage of something...   Crashing the Pixar Motorama car show The animated film studio Pixar sits behind newly aged brick walls on a sprawling campus in the East Bay that looks and seems a little like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, especially since you can't get inside. But we've been inside, and it is a pretty wonderful place. On July 12 Pixar's Jay...   2014 Acura MDX video review We drove the new 2014 Acura MDX a few weeks ago, liking it for its sporty ride and ample availability of power. Arriving at dealerships this month, the   Ferrari takes over Goodwood Festival of Speed Ferrari brought some heavy metal to the 20th Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend. The Prancing Horse was well represented by two cars from its 250 series: a 2010 Formula One car, the new F12 Berlinetta and Eric Clapton's SP12. Lucky for us, they got it all on video.   Russian financier thinks teen son is ready to drive in Formula One for Sauber Sergey Sirotkin's father says that his teenage son is not too young to make his Formula One debut later this year for the Sauber F1 team. Sergey Sirotkin Sr. reportedly is at the helm of one of Sauber's new Russian partners...   One Lap of the Web: World's strangest Edsel Pacer, racing Corvettes and 10 automotive missteps 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. -- The Edsel didn't win...   Volkswagen Taigun poised for production Volkswagen has moved a step closer to joining the small-SUV ranks -- it will produce its compact Taigun, VW sources told Autoweek. Looks like it won’t head to the U.S., though. Volkswagen officials suggest they don’t think the new model’s compact dimensions and three-cylinder... 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