| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Thursday, December 06, 2012 |  | A new Corvette always draws big crowds. This is the 2005 Corvette, the first of the C6 generation, on display ... | | How deep does some people's passion for the Chevrolet Corvette run? Deep enough that 150 of them paid as much as $995 each, plus travel expenses to Detroit in early January, to be among the first to see the redesigned 2014 Corvette.... |
|  | | Everyone likes to think they've got the smartest pooch on the block, Autoweek editors included. Even so, few of us have tried teaching our canine Einstein to drive. Well, Mini has teamed up with the New Zealand Society...
|  | | In any roomful of Detroit auto executives, the man most responsible for the dramatic interior improvements of Chrysler Group's vehicles stands out dramatically. Klaus Busse is tall and lanky with giant hands and an outsized smile. His standard attire is a light-gray windbreaker worn over a faded ...
|  | | EDITOR WES RAYNAL: What a great little commuter car this 2012 Ford Fiesta SES Hatchback makes. It's perfect for zipping back and forth to work and getting 30-plus mpg doing it. Compared to the
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|  | | Longtime, hardcore fans may not like it, but two of Richmond International Raceway’s three spring NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races will be sponsored by Toyota. RIR, one of NASCAR’s most venerable and popular tracks (its first Cup race was in 1953), recently announced its multi-year...
|  | | Nearly three months after capturing his first IndyCar championship, Ryan Hunter-Reay and his
|  | | This much we know: Takuma Sato is negotiating with A.J. Foyt Racing to ...
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|  | | Episode six of Nissan GT Academy premieres Thursday night on Spike TV at 11:30 p.m. If you missed episode five last week, not to worry, we have the video and the recap right here.Episode four ended with judges Danny Sullivan, Boris Said and Maryeve Dufault putting three drivers on the bubble of...
|  | | Tony Stewart passed up a chance to race for Roger Penske in the Indianapolis 500.The three-time NASCAR champion said Wednesday at the International Motorsports Industry Show that he wouldn't attempt to race in both the Indy 500 and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 on the same day."As much as I would like to...
|  | | Millions of Americans awoke the Monday before Thanksgiving to read or hear that 28-year-old Brad Keselowski just the day before gave team owner Roger Penske his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season championship. Perhaps surprisingly, the immediate reaction of many may have been one of doubt, then...
|  | | Zora-Arkus Duntov, the first chief engineer for the Chevrolet Corvette, is among 10 people who will be added to the Bloomington Gold Corvettes USA's Great Hall next summer.The Great Hall is a form of hall of fame started by Bloomington Gold, an annual Corvette restoration and car show event that...
|  | | Sure, everyone has heard of Nash Motors, but how many of you have lusted after an old Rambler? Nash's reputation for building eminently sensible vehicles means that their products are often overlooked by the modern-day enthusiast. After all, the forward-looking Kenosha,Wisc., automaker advertised...
|  | | The power junkies over at Hennessey have uploaded a YouTube video of the company's Venom GT hypercar. The Lotus-based GT sprints from 0-to-228 mph in 19.96 seconds, or the time it takes to update your Facebook status.Behind the driver of the Venom GT is a Corvette ZR1-sourced LS9 V8. It makes 1,244 ...
|  | | BMW is celebrating its domination of the 2012 DTM series with a special edition M3. Canadian driver Bruno Spengler claimed the driver’s title; BMW Team Schnitzer finished top in the team standings and BMW claimed the manufacturer’s title.Only 54 examples of the BMW M3 DTM Championship...
|  | | Circuit of the Americas officials in Texas say they hope Formula One will change the date of the 2013 U.S. Grand Prix to avoid a conflict with a University of Texas home football game the same weekend.The track near Austin opened last month to rave reviews with more than 260,000 attending the three-...
|  | | Logistics company DHL will return as the primary sponsor of the Andretti Autosport Chevrolet of Ryan Hunter-Reay in the Izod IndyCar Series. DHL has sponsored Hunter-Reay's car each of the past two IndyCar seasons. The company announced a multi-year sponsorship deal on Wednesday."We couldn't be...
|  | | Former World Rally Champion Petter Solberg, who won the WRC title in 2003, has confirmed that he will not be taking part in the global series next year after 15 years at the top of the sport.Solberg was in the running for the second seat in the M-Sport Ford Fiesta squad, but the Norwegian has not...
|  | | The FIA World Motor Sport Council says that the 2013 German GP will be moved to July 7 in order to free up space for a 20th Formula One race.The change has been made to free up July 21 for what it terms “another European event.” Bernie Ecclestone admitted recently that France is looking ...
|  | | Ryan Hunter-Reay has decided to use No. 1 for the next IndyCar season, forgoing the No. 28 that is emotionally important to him.No. 28 represents the 28 million people battling cancer at any time in the world. Hunter-Reay's mother, Lydia, died of colon cancer in 2009.Andretti Autosport had the...
|  | | Also in this episode: Lexus is bringing the new IS sport sedan to the Detroit auto show, and General Motors struggles with surplus pickups.TRANSCRIPT-- Rory Carroll is still held hostage by Tesla.-- The new Lexus IS is coming to Detroit.-- And GM has too many pickup trucks.I'm Jake here with a...
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