| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTOSHOWS | SUBSCRIBE | MARKETPLACE |  Thursday, August 19, 2010 |  | The Nissan Rogue provides a good ride with decent cargo space.... | | I like the shape of the Nissan Rogue and similar crossover-type vehicles. They're not as large as traditional SUVs but often are roomier and offer more cargo space than a four-door car. The Rogue fits this model, with decent cargo space, good legroom in the front and back seats, and the drive character is similar to that of a car. To me, that's a plus, because I'm not a fan of the hulking... |
|  | | Jeep's iconic Wrangler is getting a light update for 2011 with a new interior and a body-colored roof. The subtle changes are part of Chrysler's plans to dramatically upgrade some vehicles while refining its already solid products. In this case, that means the Wrangler gets a redesigned...
|  | | The Phaeton large sedan is coming back to Volkswagen's lineup in the United States, according to the head of the German plant that builds the car. VW pulled the $85,000 Phaeton from the U.S. market in 2006 after four years of falling short of sales expectations. The new Phaeton for the States ...
|  | | NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: It was fitting that I caught glimpses of two iconic 1960s Ford Galaxies on local roads during my weekend in the 2010 Taurus. The Galaxie really spoke car (as Ford's marketing people like to say), and the modern Taurus is a true spiritual successor, with power and...
|  | | Racing legend Parnelli Jones was on hand for the reveal of the 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302. AutoWeek news editor Greg Migliore interviewed him at Laguna Seca. Produced by Brian Berris....
|  | | Mazda plans to recall about 514,000 vehicles to repair power-steering systems that fail suddenly. The recall will affect the Mazda 3 and the Mazda 5 manufactured in Japan from 2007 to 2008, according to a report in Reuters. Currently, Mazda has filed recalls for 215,000 vehicles in the...
|  | | A redesign for the Bentley Continental GT is nearly ready to be unveiled. We'll get a first full look on Sept. 7 via the Internet, then get up close and personal at the Paris motor show in early October. To help stoke the fires of anticipation, Bentley has posted a teaser video. The clues from...
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|  | | NASCAR opens one of its busiest weekends of the year on Wednesday night with two races at the half-mile, high-banked Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. Both the Whelen Modified Series and the Camping World Truck Series have two practice sessions and qualifying throughout Wednesday. The Modified...
|  | | Ryan Newman, Jamie McMurray, Kasey Kahne and Dale Earnhardt Jr. won't be happy with this stat: No driver who is more than 50 points outside the top 12 in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points with three regular-season races left has ever raced his way into the Chase for the Championship.Clint Bowyer,...
|  | | It's been a quiet couple of weeks for Grand Prix racing, thanks to the summer break. Officially, the point of the layoff is to cut costs for each team by having a factory shutdown. What it really does is guarantee that everyone working in the sport has a chance to have some holiday time when kids...
|  | | Kyle Busch kicked off his three-race weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway by winning Wednesday night's O'Reilly's Camping World Truck Series 200. As he's often done before, Busch is running all three NASCAR races at the half-mile, high-banked track in eastern Tennessee. He'll run Friday night's...
|  | | NASCAR released its 2011 schedules for all three series on Wednesday. As we predicted, the Sprint Cup season ends with a furious 17-race stretch through the final three months.Kentucky Speedway will finally get a Sprint Cup race in July. Track owner Bruton Smith has promised improvements in the...
|  | | General Motors Co., moving to unwind itself from government control, on Wednesday filed plans to go public and begin selling common shares as early as this fall.The filing--anticipated for weeks--came just 13 months after GM was restructured in bankruptcy with $50 billion in direct aid from the U.S....
|  | | 4Wheel Parts has donated $10,000 toward the families of the victims killed in the Aug. 14 crash at the California 200 off-road race in the Mojave Desert.4Wheel Parts donated the funds through Fast-Aid, a nonprofit dedicated to the support of injured racers and their families. Fast-Aid already has...
|  | | Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., has added two strobe lights and a set of light-emitting diodes at the blind corner where Will Power plowed into Nelson Philippe in practice for last year’s Izod IndyCar Series race.That should be helpful in alerting drivers of impending danger, but Power...
|  | | Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports team has signed Aric Almirola to a multiyear deal to drive its No. 88 Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series. The 26-year-old Floridian has 30 career starts in the Sprint Cup Series, 32 in Nationwide and 64 in Camping World Trucks, where he's currently second in...
|  | | NASCAR officials on Wednesday announced that they had fined Mike Boerschinger, crew chief of the No. 87 NEMCO Motorsports Chevrolet, $5,000 and placed him on probation until the end of this year for rule violations in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Michigan International Speedway on Aug. 14....
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