| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |  | The Jaguar Project 7 is both stripped and embellished.... | | At the end of the evening at Traps in Spanish Bay, I turned to my companions and said, “I should get to bed. I've gotta get up in the morning to go drive the Project 7.” “What's that again?” “It's that Jag  |
|  | | Speed-crazed gearheads have been pushing their benzene buggies to ever-higher speeds on the Bonneville Salt Flats for more than a century now, and the
|  | | SENIOR MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: The latest M5 carries enough computing power to run Skynet, the Matrix and Starfleet Command simultaneously, but BMW's M division engineers managed to – impressively -- keep the car from feeling frigidly artificial like a six-figure video game....
|  | | Chrysler Group may have to share with Nissan Motor Co. the stylish chrome capital C and black block letter Turbo Diesel logo that has adorned Ram heavy-duty pickups for nearly a quarter century. It was unclear today if...
|  | | 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 ...
|  | | David Swig may have won his race at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion with a Scarab, but like any good employee, he was soon back in the office in business casual duds. He even left his Rolex trophy in...
|  | | - More than 80 unique cars are trucks have just finished Rally New England, traveling 1,300 miles through the northeast, all for a good cause. Hooniverse's Robby DeGraff took part in the rally as part of a film crew,
|  | | At Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, Jeff Gordon's car readily jumped between wild handling conditions. None of them ever seemed to be what the four-time series champion needed. The race itself was also far from...
|  | | Fans in several television markets will have to look around to find coverage of Saturday night's 500-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup race from Bristol Motor Speedway. Instead of carrying the Irwin Night Race 500 (ABC, 8 p.m. ET), a dozen markets will...
|  | | 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...
|  | | 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...
|  | | German car fans are spoiled when it comes to classic-car shows in the northeast, and every year the Larz Anderson Auto Museum holds at least four classic-car events that cater to specific German marques, or all of them together, which was the...
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|  | | Long-time sponsor Castrol is leaving John Force Racing. The announcement that Castrol is pulling its support of Force after 29 years follows Ford's announcement earlier this month that it was leaving the top levels of the NHRA, including it's support of JFR.Both Ford and Castrol are leaving Force...
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|  | | For the second time this summer, a full-time crewman at Michael Waltrip Racing has been suspended for violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy and fired by the team.In May, mechanic Lee Dodson of Clint Bowyer's No. 15 Toyota team was suspended. He was immediately fired by MWR, but completed...
|  | | James Davison said if he could get one chance at an IndyCar Series ride he'd be on the radar for another. He was right.The Aussie who delivered a spotless weekend earlier this month at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where he finished 15th, got an invitation to return to the No. 18 car from team...
|  | | The promoter of the Baltimore Grand Prix told the Baltimore Business Journal that it expects to have a contract extension with IndyCar within the next 30 days.But the event won't be on Labor Day weekend in 2014 as it will be this year (and has been for three years). That's because the inner harbor...
|  | | Pirelli has confirmed reports the size of its Formula One tires will not be changing for 2014. Earlier, it was suggested that because the torque produced by next year's new V6 engines will be much greater, Pirelli wanted to supply bigger and wider tires.Indeed, Pirelli motorsportsboss Paul Hembery ...
|  | | Stefano Domenicali told his crew that Fernando Alonso could still win the F1 title if the team can give him a quicker car for the remainder of the season. His speech, reported to the world via the Ferrari website, is clearly intended to rally the troops after the recent slump in form, which...
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