| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Thursday, October 11, 2012 |  | A 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series mule recently caught fire while testing on the Nürburgring.... | | Mercedes-Benz has been hard at work cooking up an even hotter version of their wonderful SLS AMG for some time now. If the steady stream of spy photos is to be believed, development of the 2014 SLS AMG Black Series has been moving... |
|  | | NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: As far as shapes on wheels go, the Nissan Cube is diminutive and demonstrative, and from a glance—it clearly lives up to its name. The styling is a measured risk. It is different...
|  | | AJ Allmendinger will be back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Sprint Cup car, and it is happening much sooner than...
|  | | Ford Motor Company announced that its C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid achieves an EPA-certified 108 miles-per-gallon-equivalent (MPGe) city and 100 MPGe combined. The rating makes the C-Max Energi the most efficient plug-in hybrid...
|  | | The Lamborghini Countach is not a comfortable, practical car. It's low, loud, uncomfortable, expensive—and did we mention low? And that's why we love it. This video, from
|  | | The first of Matt Kenseth’s 23 wins with Roush Fenway Racing came in May of 2000 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This weekend, six days after his Talladega win, the...
|  | | On Thursday, several Formula One drivers met with the press to talk about the weekend's race in Korea. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes), Romain Grosjean (Lotus), Pastor Maldonado (Williams), Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing), Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) and Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing) were all on hand. The ...
|  | | Troubled Lotus driver Romain Grosjean said today in Korea that he’s doing his best to avoid the sort of controversy that has blighted his season. Grosjean has been involved in a string of first-lap incidents this year, to the frustration of both his rivals and his own team. After being ...
|  | | Sebastian Vettel is hoping to carry the momentum he’s gained from winning the past two races into Korea. Vettel has achieved two wins and a second in the four races since the summer break, and has edged close to Fernando Alonso. The German triumphed in Korea last year after passing...
|  | | Fernando Alonso says that he doesn’t have to change his approach now that the title battle has closed up. The Spaniard’s lead in the championship has dwindled to just four points after his early retirement in Japan, but he doesn’t concede that he will be changing from a...
|  | | Peter Sauber is handing the reins of the team that bears his name to Monisha Kalternborn, and the Indian-born Austrian thus becomes F1’s first female team boss. Having been CEO since 2010, Kalternborn will now officially hold the title of team principal, in addition to already being a 30%...
|  | | Dale Earnhardt Jr. will not compete in Saturday night's Bank of American 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway or the Oct. 21 race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. He was diagnosed on Wednesday afternoon with a concussion, the result of his last-lap accident in last weekend's Good Sam 500 at Talladega, ...
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|  | | The U.S. Department of Transportation’s NHTSA issued a safety warning about counterfeit airbags on Wednesday. The agency has become aware of a problem involving fake airbags used for replacement parts.NHTSA says the bags can look identical to the real thing. According to NHTSA, malfunctioning ...
|  | | The pack is apparently here to stay, and NASCAR drivers don't like it one bit.That includes Dale Earnhardt Jr., who earned seven of his 19 career victories slicing and dicing his way through traffic in restrictor-plate races. NASCAR's most popular driver called pack racing...
|  | | Autocar in the U.K. reported on Wednesday that Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Honda's head of research and development, said that the manufacturer is evaluating Formula One's new 1.6-liter turbocharged-engine rules that will be introduced in 2014, with eyes on a possible return to the series.“On a...
|  | | IndyCar has a couple of gaping holes in its 2013 schedule, and apparently there's still time to do something about them—contrary to comments made by IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard on Sept. 30.One of the spots is between the Aug. 4 race at Mid-Ohio and the Aug. 25 race at Sonoma. Officials in...
|  | | This Texas vanity plate, spotted on what appears to be a lightly modified Lexus IS 250, is a real head-scratcher.Is it meant to be sarcastic? Does the owner of the vehicle intend on driving in a manner that will attract law-enforcement attention? Perhaps he or she is sincerely grateful for the work ...
|  | | Australian racer David Calvert-Jones will make his American Le Mans Series debut in next week's 15th annual Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, sharing the No. 24 Norton by Symantec Porsche 911 GT3 with co-drivers Bob Faieta and Michael Avenatti with Competition Motorsports. The team will compete in the ...
|  | | Porsche, in its quest to find next-generation sports-car stars, held a program evaluating young motorsports talent at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. The new program, which was the first of its kind held in North America, was patterned after Porsche's European Junior selection. The...
|  | | Mini driver Paulo Nobre, who is set for a career change next year, could be suspending his World Rally Championship participation in 2013. Nobre is running for the presidency of the Palmeiras Football Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil, having previously held the vice president's post for the team. And if...
|  | | Also in this episode: GM names Robert Ferguson its “vice president of global Cadillac,” Toyota turns to the Home Shopping Network to sell cars, and race-car constructor Lola succumbs to its financial troubles. TRANSCRIPT-- Cadillac gets a new boss.-- Toyota hawks hybrids on HSN.--...
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