| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Thursday, August 22, 2013 |  | The 2015 Audi S8 and its A8 brothers hit the web ahead of its Frankfurt Motor Show debut.... | | At the upcoming Frankfurt motor show, Audi will announce a new A8 with more powerful engines, lighter-weight construction, new assistance systems and Matrix LED headlight technology. Audi says the new A8 will put the German automaker among the innovation leaders in the ... |
|  | | ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: A few thoughts on this 2013 Acura TL SH-AWD Advance. I did like the smooth 3.7-liter V6 a lot. In “S” mode it was actually quite snappy. Steering was a bit light, and I would have liked more feedback. One of the big selling points of this $46k-...
|  | | BMW is on a roll when it comes to electric-car technology, and the German automaker will be showing a new X5, dubbed the BMW Concept X5 eDrive, at the...
|  | | Back in March we brought you news of Nissan's plans to revive the Datsun nameplate for emerging markets. The new models are expected to ride on Nissan's global V-platform for low-cost small cars, and the...
|  | | - A 1970 Marcos 3.0-liter V6 GT is attracting some pretty strong bidding on the eBays. While it's still possible to find Marcos cars in just about any condition in this U....
|  | | What is it? Visualize the future of racing: The competition lasts 20 minutes at a stretch, with 30-minute pit stops in between. That's the ratio offered by the Nissan Leaf Nismo RC. The RC stands for race...
|  | | Perhaps surprisingly, some readers of racing blogs don't think Mark Martin is worthy of consideration to eventually make it into NASCAR's Hall of Fame. (Of course, smarter minds will prevail and the long-time racer will be a...
|  | | From postwar Packards to Beetles old and New, there are no shortage of cars that vaguely resemble the armadillo. Yet none, so far as we...
|  | | After almost a month off, Formula One will be back in action this weekend in Spa with the Belgium Grand Prix. The race in Belgium will have current points leader Sebastian Vettel trying to increase his lead over his fellow drivers. Check out the...
|  | | With speculation over his future at a melting point, Kimi Räikkönen called in sick on Thursday. Earlier, as Formula One's media spotlight prepared to shine on the Finn as he chooses between Lotus, Red Bull and Ferrari for...
|  | | The Nissan ZEOD RC electric experimental racer that will compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014 is on schedule to test for the first time next month. The target of a September test debut for the car, which will fill the...
|  | | IndyCar has targeted an expansion outside of North America in 2015 with a series of off-season races around the world that could be in the form of a winter championship. The aim of the races would be to give IndyCar teams a new revenue...
|  | | Twenty-five IndyCar Series drivers completed 1,058 incident-free laps Wednesday at Sonoma Raceway in the open test leading up to this weekend's GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma. Dario Franchitti, who won the 2009 race and added four more podium...
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|  | | Neither likely will admit it, but you can bet that Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski will be keeping an eye on each other this weekend. How can they not since both have entered the three major NASCAR races at the half-mile, high-banked bullring that is Bristol Motor Speedway? Busch, in a Toyota, and...
|  | | In the wake of the announcement of Ford's pullback of its support for NHRA Mello Yello Series professional drag racing teams following the 2014 season, Autoweek asked Mopar CEO and president Pietro Gorlier his thoughts on announcement and how Mopar's participation may be affected going forward....
|  | | Kyle Busch is one-third of the way to another “Bristol Sweep,” but even he didn’t fathom the first of his three NASCAR races this weekend to end like this. Once hopelessly behind with time running out, he rallied late and led only seven of the last eight laps of Wednesday...
|  | | A couple weeks ago, we asked you if you were interested in a Holden Ute SS from down under, a beast of a truck (or is it car?) that combined the flexibility of a small pickup with the luxury and convenience of a sedan. Oh, and that Holden Ute SS had a 6.0-liter V8 in one of its milder forms; more...
|  | | Two-time NASCAR K&N East champion Ryan Truex will make his Sprint Cup debut in Saturday night's Irwin Night Race 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Although he's a developmental driver for Ford-based Richard Petty Motorsports, the 21-year-old brother of Cup regular and Chase hopeful Martin Truex Jr....
|  | | NBC Sports Group has scheduled 21.5 hours of motorsports coverage this weekend, highlighted by live Formula One coverage from Belgium and the IndyCar race from the road course at Sonoma on NBCSN on Sunday. NBCSN's Sunday doubleheader of live-race coverage begins at 7:30 a.m. ET with the Shell...
|  | | We're entering Formula One's silly season, a time when most drivers get linked to most seats and speculation mounts about who will be on the F1 grid in 2014.Now is an era when even more rides on performance than before -- the threat of another driver who brings a budget is more real than ever among ...
|  | | Sergey Sirotkin will have a taste of Formula One power when he goes through a demo run for Sauber at future F1 venue Sochi on Sept. 27.Sirotkin, who turns 18 on Aug. 27, is set to race for the Swiss team next year, thanks to a massive commercial deal. He visited the team's Hinwil base this week....
|  | | Veteran Formula One engineer Pat Symonds started work as chief technical officer of the Williams F1 team earlier this week, having earlier quit his last job with Marussia.Symonds, formerly with Betton/Renault and who won titles with Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, is now charged with the...
|  | | Volkswagen’s Sébastien Ogier has a chance of lifting his first World Rally Championship title this weekend -- but in spite of that, he says that he’s taking a relaxed approach to his team’s home event: Rally Deutschland.In order to clinch the title, Ogier has to score 22 points...
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