Friday, May 3, 2013

Daily Drive: McLaren mysteries uncovered

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Friday, May 03, 2013                 
The McLaren P1 was priced at $1.15 million....
The McLaren P1 is one of the most spectacular supercars in the world, and it's been an object of fixation for enthusiasts since it debuted as a concept last fall in Paris. The basics are well known: a 903-hp hybrid powertrain, carbon-fiber for almost everything, and taut, ...

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  Volkswagen's 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine is getting a 10-hp boost; the engine is now rated at 210 hp while torque remains unchanged at 207 lb-ft. The engine will be available on the Volkswagen Beetle Turbo...

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  EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: This 2013 Aston Martin V8 Vantage is one of those cars that I feel like I’m supposed to automatically love, and in some ways, I do. But not enough to endorse it over near-...

  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. -- Whoopsies. Jalopnik...

  Josef Newgarden, at just 22, is one of the new young guns of the Izod IndyCar Series. See some of the excitement of an IndyCar race weekend in this video produced by sponsor Oakley and One Icon Productions during IndyCar's recent trip to Long...

  Honda Motor Co. plans to build a $470 million factory in Celaya, Mexico, to assemble continuously variable transmissions. The factory will operate alongside a plant under construction that's scheduled to build the next-generation

  Cruz Pedregon is scoring a point, make that a lot of points, for the little guy in the NHRA Funny Car class this season. That's not to say that Pedregon hasn't been there before -- he's a two-time NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series champion ...

  Like the Oscars of the Otto cycle, the Grammys of gasoline, the International Engine of the Year Awards are a big deal in the industry. For 2013, the awards will continue to focus on green technology, pitting gasoline, compressed ...

  For a couple of weeks, the most important people in NASCAR -- at least to two of the top teams -- may be names you have never heard: The people who are hearing the appeals of major sanctions against Penske Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing. So...

  Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn believes that it has gotten to the bottom of its poor race performances thus far in the 2013 Formula One season -- although that knowledge might not fully translate to the track for a while. The team has earned...


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