| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |  | The Mercedes-Benz GLA concept previews a production version, which is set to be unveiled at the upcoming... | | Mercedes-Benz's new-model surge continues at the Shanghai motor show later this week, when the German automaker unveils a high-riding concept car meant to preview the sharp appearance, contemporary interior and mechanical package of Benz's upcoming GLA. The compact... |
|  | | Development of the next Subaru WRX is well underway -- at least if spy photos showing a dazzlingly camouflaged, wing-wearing Subie prototype at the Nürburgring are to be believed. Certainly, whatever we're seeing is a long way from that mysterious,
|  | | We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- KERS, the kinetic-...
|  | | Here's the television broadcast times for this weekend's racing action, which includes Formula One at Bahrain; NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series at Kansas; IndyCar at Long Beach; Grand-Am at Road Atlanta; America Le Mans Series (one-day, tape-delayed) at Long Beach, NHRA...
|  | | Unlike most people, when Michael Doyle drives past a herd of cattle grazing in a field, he doesn't see future tenderloins or T-bones. He sees fuel. The company Doyle co-owns, North Star Biofuels, is about to start production of biodiesel at ...
|  | | Sports Car Club of America vice president of marketing Eric Prill used to race a Lotus Seven, until Lotus stopped supporting it. Now, he races the venerable Mazda Miata -- and if Mazda already seemed to be the de facto car of the SCCA, now it officially is. At a media day in its Irvine,...
|  | | Automakers will test China's huge appetite for crossovers and SUVs with introductions this week at the Shanghai auto show. Acura, BMW, Citroen, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen plan world debuts for compact crossovers, while Jeep -- which...
|  | | Heikki Kovalainen has been given a Formula One development testing duty by Caterham after being on the sidelines since the end of last year. Meanwhile Alexander Rossi has landed a race seat with the sister GP2 team. Kovalainen, who spent the Malaysian GP weekend with his former colleagues,...
|  | | NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: The 2013 Nissan Murano has done a nice job of carving its own stylistic identity in the crossover segment. I personally don’t go for the styling, but I appreciate the lines and curves, which give it an individual character. The Murano provided steady sledding ...
|  | | A new survey shows that young drivers think it’s socially unacceptable to drive distracted. This data is among the results of tiremaker Bridgestone Americas Inc.'s annual survey that polls more than 2,065 drivers aged 16 to 21 nationwide. Of those drivers, 80 percent said sending texts...
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