| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | With 622 hp and weighing just 3,417 pounds the Black Series has a power-to-weight ratio somewhere near a... | | For some reason I've been AMG'd to pieces lately. But what a way to go. Let's start at the end first. I just got off the track -- and not just any track, Paul Ricard in The South Of Freaking France -- having driven the AMG SLS Black Series. The South Of France is already a pretty nice place to be under any... |
|  | | Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series will later today confirm the name of their newly merged series: “United SportsCar Racing” will replace the “Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series” and “American Le Mans Series” monikers when the
|  | | Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone says he would like to lure Danica Patrick to the sport but acknowledges she would be unlikely to make the move. As the pre-eminent female driver in motorsports, firstly in
|  | | Mecum is returning to Houston April 4-6 for an auction of more than 1,000 cars at the Reliant Center. Its second year promises to be 30 percent bigger than the first. Highlights of the Houston auction include 25 cars from the Gerald Byrd Collection and 30 from the Lynn Wardley Collection. The...
|  | | The Jeep Cherokee is one of the vehicles that jump-started the entire SUV phenomenon. One of Jeep's best-selling models for more than 20 years, it has been nine years since we heard from the compact SUV. Recently, however, the iconic Cherokee nameplate has been resurrected.
|  | | The 2014 Acura RLX goes on sale Friday with a starting price of $49,345 including a destination charge of $895. The top trim with the Advance Package starts at $61,345. All RLX sedans will get Acura's new 3.5-liter V6...
|  | | SENIOR ONLINE EDITOR RORY CARROLL At $33,607, I’d have a hard time calling this 2013 Subaru Outback 2.5i Limited a bargain, but the price doesn’t seem unfair. Especially when you consider that if...
|  | | Here is a video that fans of both sports car racing and medical dramas can enjoy. Check out this 15-minute featurette on race car driver and actor Patrick Dempsey, who is entering a team in the 24 Hours of Le Mans....
|  | | Rebellion Racing held the top two spots at the end of Wednesday's final test session for the 61st Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Only 0.531 seconds separated the team's pair of Lola-Toyota coupes with the No. 13 of Mathias Beche, Congfu “Frankie” Cheng and Andrea Belicchi going...
|  | | DeltaWing Racing Cars is pressing ahead on development not just with its open-top version, but also is revealing a coupe version that will premiere this week at Sebring International...
|  | | Formula One driver Fernando Alonso says that Ferrari is in much better shape than it was this time last year, and adds that the...
|  | | Sebastian Vettel may have won three World Championships in Formula One, but the
|  | | Formula One team McLaren has confirmed that it will part ways with title sponsor Vodafone at the end of the 2013 season, ending a seven-year partnership. The team says that it will announce its new title sponsor in December, after the last race of ...
|  | | On Wednesday several Formula One drivers met with the press to talk about this weekend's Australian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing), Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso), Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Kimi Raikkonen...
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|  | | By now, most race fans know that Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series will merge into one sports-car series in 2014, however, the new series' name has been the subject of much conjecture.Now, though, even that bit of mystery may have been revealed today.According to NASCAR reporter Bob Pockrass,...
|  | | Jeff Gordon and his sponsors at Pepsi may have made one of the most entertaining commercials to ever feature a NASCAR driver.The ad, which since its release yesterday has gone viral, has a disguised Gordon taking a supposed Chevy salesman on a test drive that can only be described as"wild."After...
|  | | In February, we saw the 2014 Range Rover in a leaked internal document sent to us by a dealer. Over the past few weeks, the company has been teasing the new Range Rover Sport, which will debut at the New York auto show. But on Wednesday, Facebook community page VMax 200 gave us a sneak peek,...
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|  | | Not all valuable cars are rare, and not all rare cars are particularly valuable. Take the infamous Bricklin SV-1. Sure, it had all the attributes of a sleek sports car: gullwing doors, a low profile, an aggressive wedge shape and V8 power. But the roughly 1,100 SV-1s were better known for...
|  | | Porsche has upgraded its 911 GT3 R race car for the 2013 season.For starters, the GT3 R, based on the 997-generation 911, receives wider fender flares front and rear. This means that the successful customer racer, fielded in GT3 classes, looks considerably brawnier than its predecessor. According...
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|  | | For the second consecutive day at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Ala., Will Power topped the time chart in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet.The Australian recorded his best lap of 1 minute, 7.1329 seconds on his final flying lap. The lap was more than three seconds quicker than the 2012...
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