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Thursday, May 30, 2013                 
2014 Chevrolet Cruze diesel review, specs, photo gallery and price....
What is it? As the name implies, the Cruze diesel is, well, a Chevrolet Cruze with a diesel engine. It’s the first diesel car GM has sold in the U.S....

  The third-generation 2014 BMW X5 has arrived, and its big news is an optional rear-wheel-drive variant. Those models will have a 300-hp turbocharged 3.0-liter in-line six-cylinder gasoline engine in the U.S. We're expecting a ...

  Sebastian Vettel is not only the reigning Formula One champion, but he also might be the owner of one of the most interesting helmets on the circuit. For the Grand Prix in Monaco, Vettel wore this helmet that featured a pinup model drawn with heat-activated paint. When cool, the pinup model...

  Petrol heads, continue to rejoice: Car manufacturers have not ignored your cries for high-powered cars and trucks. Despite tightening emissions regulations and rising fuel costs, automakers are building an increasing number of vehicles putting out at least 500 horses. Based on our research,...

  Before Carozzeria Ghia was absorbed by the Blue Oval, it had a nearly six-decade run styling automobiles as diverse as the humble Fiat Jolly and the...

  The Audi A1 is just one of the cool European city cars we don't get here in the United States. It shares a platform with the VW Polo, Skoda Fabia and Seat Ibiza. Audi saw fit to drop the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder...

  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. -- Blood pumping,...

  The driver of Panther Racing's No. 4 National Guard-sponsored Chevrolet figures to be revealed Thursday when IndyCar Series teams arrive at Belle Isle for the Detroit Grand Prix. J.R. Hildebrand has been that driver since the beginning of the 2011 season, but he has had a difficult start to this ...

  EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This is one of those cars I liked more than I thought I would. The 2013 Infiniti FX37 is a good size, looks cool and swoopy and different -- and it’s very well built. I had a guy pull up ...

  Road-racing ace Mike Conway is returning to the Izod IndyCar Series this weekend in Detroit. Conway is taking the seat held for the first five races this season by Ana Beatriz. She finished 15th in Sunday's Indianapolis 500. Conway is a...

  Dempsey/Del Piero Racing announced today that factory Porsche driver Patrick Long will join team drivers Patrick Dempsey and Joe Foster at the wheel of the Dempsey Del Piero Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR for next month's 90th Annual 24 Hours of Le Mans. Long was asked by team principal and lead ...

  While the main focus has been on the Pirelli Formula One test conducted by Mercedes at Barcelona, a session conducted by Ferrari has now come into the spotlight. Ferrari conducted the test on Pirelli's behalf at Barcelona between the Bahrain and...

  Here's the racing TV listing for the weekend of May 31-June 2. And, no, that's not a missprint. There are two IndyCar races on Belle Isle in Detroit this weekend as the Izod IndyCar Series kicks of the first of three scheduled doubleheaders for...

  Williams will use Mercedes Formula One engines in the turbo era after signing a “long-term” deal with the Stuttgart manufacturer. The deal is logical given Toto Wolff’s relationship with both parties, as shareholder of Williams...


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  IndyCar driver Simona De Silvestro christened the first 2014 Cadillac ELR to roll off the line at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan on Wednesday. The Volt-based electric-gas hybrid will go on sale next year. We assume De Silvestro is in town for the Chevrolet Indy Duel in Detroit, two races...

  In 1987, Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro predicted the next great automotive trend would be minivans with luxury trim, and high-performance engines. The first Honda Odyssey debuted in 1994, and the Corvette's 300 hp-LT1 engine was introduced in 1992. Why no one has yet combined the two, we're...

  Michael Bay's sure-to-be blockbuster "Transformers 4" comes out next summer and the director has snapped a few photos of new robots in disguise shooting on set near the Arizona/Utah border. Bay posted them to his website on Wednesday.A redesigned Optimus Prime sets the tone with a more aggressive-...

  Sébastien Loeb put his Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak through a dress rehearsal of sorts at the Mont Ventoux in the south of France ahead of June's trip to the United States for the 2013 Pikes Peak Hill Climb in Colorado.The Mont Ventoux is famous as a stage of the Tour de France bicycle race. It has...

  Danica Patrick left the first racing rough patch with boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on the track. At home, the relationship is still smooth sailing.Patrick and Stenhouse escaped for some relaxation on a boat after their first dust-up on the track since the NASCAR rookies announced in January they...

  Several years ago Kyle Busch created something of a PR furor by saying he wanted to win 200 NASCAR races before retiring. Not Sprint Cup races, he quickly pointed out, for surely nobody will ever approach Richard Petty's unreachable record of 200. Rather, the younger of the Busch brother wants to...


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