| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Thursday, September 20, 2012 |  | The 2012 Toyota Prius Four hits the track in this edition of Autoweek's Autofile car review.... | | No one buys a Toyota Prius to get anywhere quickly. At least we haven't met any folks as such, and after running the car through our autofile paces, we have the quantitative data to back up why it would be stupid to do so. (Why the Prius isn't the most environmentally smart automotive choice one can make? Well, ... |
|  | | The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Turbo will go on sale this fall with a price of $27,710. Upgraded LTZ models will sticker at $30,925. Both include $995 in destination. This is the Malibu we've been waiting for. Though the base car and
|  | | Audi has revealed the second-generation A3 Sportback ahead of its world premiere at the Paris motor show....
|  | | In the early 1960s Enzo Ferrari wanted to beat the Jaguar E-Type on the race track and the 250 GTO was born. The car was styled by Sergio Scaglietti and just 39 examples of the legendary car were built. At this year's Goodwood Revival at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in southern England, 15 of those...
|  | | DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: As fate would have it, I was handed the keys to the 2012 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG immediately after I spent the evening in a disappointingly over-automated CL550. My hope was that the...
|  | | Break out a fresh pair of self-lacing Nikes and tune up your Mattel Hoverboard. We may be finally ready to head back to the future—one that has magnetically levitating cars. Autoweek reader Paul Fucito alerts...
|  | | Audi will swap to running two hybrid versions of its R18 coupe from the next round of the FIA World Endurance Championship in Bahrain. The German manufacturer has mounted a split campaign between the hybrid R18 e-tron quattro and the non-hybrid R18 ultra since bringing its 2012-spec LMP1...
|  | | British GP2 racer Max Chilton has landed the role of Marussia reserve driver for the last six races of the season. Chilton is well sponsored, and is being tipped for a race seat next year, which would see him following in the footsteps of Lucas Di Grassi, Jerome D’Ambrosio, and Charles Pic....
|  | | On Thursday, several Formula One drivers talked to the press about the upcoming race in Singapore. Timo Glock, Nico Hulkenberg, Bruno Senna, Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastian Vettlel and Sergio Perez all participated. The transcript of the press conference is as follows: Timo, obviously you...
|  | | The FIA has announced that Professor Sid Watkins will be honored with a minute's applause on the grid prior to the start of the Singapore GP. Watkins, who served as Formula One's doctor between 1978 and 2004, passed away last week at the age of 84. There will also be a book of remembrance in...
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