| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Thursday, October 04, 2012 |  | The 2013 Volkswagen Golf on a drive review.... | | What is it? The Volkswagen Golf is one of those cars that never seems to go out of fashion. Launched in 1974, the popular hatchback has now racked up an impressive 29 million sales worldwide, making it one of the world's most successful cars of all time—in the process surpassing the sales of that... |
|  | | For the season finale of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld picks up old friend and TV neighbor Michael Richards. This episode has the pair cruising around in a 1962 split-window
|  | | On Sunday, Sept. 23 Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino won Rally America’s Olympus Rally. By Friday, Sept. 28, the Block’s team had the car ready for round five of the Global...
|  | | Filed under: “Too cool for the United States.” Caterham launched the fastest Seven in company history for its exclusive race series, the Superlight R600 Championship. The latest Seven is powered by a...
|  | | EDITOR WES RAYNAL: Still in house-moving mode for the second week with many more likely to come. So another pickup truck request and the 2012 Avalanche LTZ assigned. Didn’t know Chevrolet still made the...
|  | | At any local car show, the veterans can be found looking around for the more unique, rare, special and peculiar cars, leaving more common cars by the wayside. Spotted anywhere else, a nice looking, plain-jane early 1960's Ford Mustang would get plenty of attention. But in a sea of cool old...
|  | | In 1977, four tweaky ragamuffins with bad skin hopped onto a Thames riverboat to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The result was chaos. Which, in a sense, was appropriate. The United...
|  | | Michael Schumacher on Thursday announced that he will retire from Formula One for a second time, at the end of this season. The seven-time world champion joked that this time it would probably be permanent, and said that he just wants to enjoy the last six races of the season. His final race...
|  | | The convertible version of the Volkswagen Beetle gets a debut at the Los Angeles auto show in late November, shortly before the car goes on sale. The...
|  | | Toyota and Subaru are grappling with reports of rough idle and stalling conditions on their new sporty coupes. The problems on initial batches of the
|  | | Cadillac will deliver a sporting luxury coupe with Chevrolet Volt-based technology for 2014. Called
|  | | Few things excite Autoweek's racing enthusiasts and video gamers as much as the anticipated annual installment of Codemasters' Formula One series. For F1 2012, the U.K.-based developers added a list of new features, beginning with the young drivers' test designed to give players a...
|  | | I made an all-too-rare appearance at my local gym the other day. I could tell it was too rare because people looked genuinely surprised to see me. Got there around 7 a.m. Did a half hour of weights and a half hour on the elliptical machine—better than nothin', I figured. Then I drove home to...
|  | | There are perhaps as many strategies for surviving Talladega Superspeedway as there are drivers on the 43-car grid for Sunday afternoon’s Good Sam 500. It seems like...
|  | | Though the rules package on NASCAR's 2013 race car is still a work in progress, Kasey Kahne is convinced that the new-generation car will lend itself to more exciting ...
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|  | | The reason I haven't been able to get my 1951 Packard 200 back on the road is very simple, and it has little to do with laziness or the diminishing number of daylight hours I have to work with as the seasons change. Reviving a car is like solving a mathematical equation, and the equation that I'm...
|  | | The Museo Ferrari in Maranello, Italy, will celebrate the late Sergio Pininfarina with an exhibition of his greatest Ferraris on Oct. 26. The exhibit will be housed in three halls. The first hall is for Pininfarina and his racing Ferraris. There, visitors will see the 250 LM that won at the 24...
|  | | Izod IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay will be off to Thailand to compete against some of the word's top race car drivers. Hunter-Reay is the third driver to commit to the Race of Champions, where he will join Formula One champions Michael Schumacher and Sebastien Vettel later this year. It...
|  | | IndyCar driver Tony Kanaan will ride in two stock car races in Brazil this year, competing against former Formula One driver and fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello in one of them.Kanaan will race in Brasilia on Nov. 11 and in Sao Paulo on Dec. 9. Barrichello, Kanaan's KV Racing Technology teammate,...
|  | | The racing merger the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am Road Racing took another step forward on Monday as officials from both series and representatives from 12 automobile manufactures met in New York City.The two sanctioning bodies announced a merger in September, and will run a combined...
|  | | Action Express Racing announced today that Christian Fittipaldi will join their full time line-up for the 2013 Grand-Am series. Christian has been a familiar face with the Action Express Team and was one of the first to drive the Corvette DP at the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 this past January....
|  | | What's the maximum storage capacity of a pickup? If this moving miscue is any indication, it depends on how high you can stack your cargo and how much string you happen to have on hand. Note that Autoweek reader Austin Davis had to position himself directly behind this tower of terror to capture...
|  | | Also in this episode: Scion sets its sights on the heavy metal demographic, and a dispute with a Chevy dealer lands a customer in jail. TRANSCRIPT-- Toyota hits the 'Ring with their Radical EV.-- Scion plans to target heavy metal fans.-- And a Chevy dealer's accidental discount lands a customer in ...
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