| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Thursday, February 21, 2013 |  | The 2013 Porsche Panamera GTS is one heck of a car.... | | SENIOR ONLINE EDITOR RORY CARROLL: I used to count myself among those in the curmudgeonly Luddite subcategory of Porsche enthusiasts. I had empathy for the old codgers who grumbled when the 911 went water-cooled. I didn't necessarily share... |
|  | | A production version of the Volkswagen XL1 plug-in hybrid, which the German automaker says can get up to 270 mpg, will debut at the Geneva motor show in March. VW will put...
|  | | A Danish-built motorcycle designed by Manchester United and England soccer star Wayne Rooney sold for $66,454 at Bonhams sporting- and golf-memorabilia auction. That price was enough to make it the top-selling lot at the event, which took place in Chester, England on Wednesday. Rooney, well...
|  | | The broadening of Volkswagen's seventh-generation Golf lineup continues with the unveiling of the GTD ahead of its public premiere in March at ...
|  | | For sale! Made-for-TV premium ad space on the hood of the car of NASCAR's most popular driver. Believe it. Even Dale Earnhardt Jr. has coveted sponsorship up for grabs. In fact, his No. 88 Chevrolet lacks a primary sponsor for about one-third of the 36 Sprint Cup races this season....
|  | | While many 14-year-old girls spend their time swooning over the boys of One Direction, Kathryn DiMaria is different. She dedicates her free time to rebuilding her 1986 Pontiac Fiero. Yes, you read that right, she is a...
|  | | When it comes to advertising in the racing world, NASCAR usually gets the nod as the series most likely to blind you with corporate branding, however, the folks at Infiniti seem to be taking a page out of the NASCAR playbook. Look at the photo ...
|  | | Danica Patrick has already made history by becoming the first woman to ever claim the pole position on NASCAR's premier circuit. She has a chance to break more...
|  | | There's a section on the perpetually under-construction 405 Freeway that will literally throw you out of your seat. Right past the hell-cluster that is the 10 interchange, and before Santa Monica Boulevard, the perpetually spotted,...
|  | | Antron Brown flew home to Indiana for a doctor visit this week following his frightening accident at the NHRA Winternationals in California. The reigning NHRA world champion went for a wild ride after his engine exploded...
|  | | He is presently known as one half of "Stenica" or "Danicky" or whatever nickname NASCAR's power couple has been given. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., of course, is far more than Danica Patrick's boyfriend. He is the two-time Nationwide Series champion, and he is making the move to the big league this...
|  | | Few things fit into the Los Angeles social strata more perfectly than the chance to impress neighbors, clients and agents alike behind the wheel of something that's just been driven off a rap-video shoot. What better way is there to tell people -- nay, shout at them from an
|  | | Eight of the 10 fastest drivers in Thursday morning's first Nationwide Series practice in Daytona Beach are full-time Sprint Cup drivers or former Cup drivers, and seven of the 10 have won Cup races. In the second session, only six of the...
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|  | | Le Mans winner Dan Gurney will be among the racing experts appearing on a panel celebrating 50 years of the Ford GT40 at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance next month. In 1967, Gurney and his co-driver A.J. Foyt won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the Carroll Shelby-Ford GT40 team, and set the...
|  | | Having decided to focus solely on their Pirelli World Challenge GT effort involving Volvo's S60, K-PAX racing has decided to sell off their two-year-old C30s. Given that 2013 is the production car's last hurrah, it makes sad sense that Volvo's not too interested in campaigning a machine that will...
|  | | Buyers are lining up to put the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette in their garages, but we're already looking ahead to the hopped-up versions Chevrolet is likely to unveil down the road. There will be a new Z06, of course, but we're talking about the Stingray version of the beastly, supercharged Corvette ...
|  | | Toyota has unveiled a revised version of the successful TS030 Hybrid, which it will run in this year's World Endurance Championship. The 2013 TS030 gas-electric LMP1 challenger is built around a new monocoque that Toyota says is an improvement upon last year's version. The 2012-spec version of the...
|  | | There was an interesting mix of experience, youth, great success and unfulfilled potential near the top of the speed charts at Wednesday's first Sprint Cup practice session at Daytona International Speedway. And there was a pretty interesting mix jammed near the top after the second practice...
|  | | Five minutes, eight robbers; that's all it took to haul off $50 million in diamonds from a Belgian airport on Monday evening. Well that, a few police uniforms, machine guns and some “official looking” vehicles, according to reports. With one of the biggest heists in history banging...
|  | | Sometimes it pays to be a lightweight.That doesn’t mean, however, that a 40-pound weight advantage will help Danica Patrick significantly at Daytona International Speedway.Yes, a lighter car is generally viewed as a better car. And, yes, the total weight of Patrick plus her race car is 40...
|  | | Sergio Perez has spent his first few test days for McLaren feeling his way into his new team, but today the Mexican Formula One driver earned himself a few headlines by topping the times on the second day of the Barcelona test.The pace began to heat up in Spain as drivers tried Pirelli's softer...
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