| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Monday, November 19, 2012 |  | Carroll Shelby with a 1966 Mustang GT350.... | | Carroll Shelby, the wild-spirited 89-year-old racing icon and king of thundering garage hot rods, lay on his deathbed last May struggling to talk. He urged his younger friend and business partner John Luft to lean closer. "Keep Shelby American alive," Shelby strained to tell Luft in his final hours. "I know that sounds ... |
|  | | The slow-selling Honda CR-Z hybrid hatchback gets a new lithium-ion battery pack and more-powerful electric for the 2013 model year. The change from a nickel metal hydride battery pack helps boost output from the...
|  | | SENIOR ONLINE EDITOR RORY CARROLL: So, I'm first. I am not a huge Prius fan, but I did appreciate that the plastic surfaces in the Prius interior aren't meant to look like leather. Instead, Toyota seems to have tried to...
|  | | Historically, the SEMA Show has been a hotbed of automotive atrocities. Interestingly enough, this year, while nothing reached out, grabbed us, and shook us by our teeth, neither were the terrible cars all that terrible. With a few exceptions of...
|  | | Last time we saw the KAR electric vehicle it was just a drawing at KleenSpeed Technologies, a startup that had rented r&d space at the NASA Ames Research Center in Palo Alto, Calif. Now the KAR is off the...
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|  | | There is a fine line, if any, between axiom and cliché, and I despise the use of either. But on Sunday, Nov. 18, at the new Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas, the first United States Formula One Grand Prix in five years is described no better than the following, which is familiar to...
|  | | McLaren Racing CEO and McLaren Group COO Martin Whitmarsh, 54, sat down with Autoweekracing.com during the USGP weekend at the new Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas. Among the topics discussed by the 24-year veteran of the sport were Formula One's return to the U.S., which driver he would...
|  | | Formula One front runner Sebastian Vettel heads to the Brazilian GP with a 13-point lead over Fernando Alonso after losing out to Lewis Hamilton in Austin.Vettel led for most of the race until Hamilton passed him on the 42nd lap, and thus added only three points to his previous advantage over title ...
|  | | Christian Horner smiled inside the Red Bull tent on Saturday when it was brought to his attention that the music was blaring out of Red Bull Racing's Formula One garage louder—and later—than any other garage at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Friday night.The Red Bull...
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