| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | The Cadillac ATS has the chops to challenge the BMW 3-series. So why not an M3-fighting ATS-V?... | | The Cadillac ATS was conceived as a BMW 3-series fighter, so it stands to reason that a hotter version of the rear-wheel drive sedan -- a Cadillac ATS-V -- would be called forth to challenge the mighty M3. New spy photos seem to show just that. Of course, this could be a case of a privately owned BMW M3... |
|  | | The 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek won't win any beauty contests. It probably won't even come in second, which would net you 50 bucks from each player. But as far as utility goes, for the money, it's near the top of the heap....
|  | | It's no secret that Tony Stewart views NASCAR media with the same fondness he views, oh, say, an emergency roadside root canal or a dinner of live vipers. And, truth ...
|  | | If the current BMW X6 M is too subtle for you, then German tuner Hamann has just what you're looking for with its new Tycoon II M. Starting on the outside, the tuners...
|  | | 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. -- Robert Tate takes a...
|  | | Brabus added the Mercedes GL63 AMG to its Widestar lineup on Monday. In addition to the wild body kit, Brabus adds 70 hp to the mix and a handful of twist at the wheels to create the B63-620 Widestar. The visual upgrades...
|  | | Rising demand for Ram pickups, large SUVs and cars helped Chrysler Group's sales increase 11 percent in May. The company's car sales rose 16 percent while light truck deliveries advanced 9 percent, Chrysler said Monday. It...
|  | | WEST COAST EDITOR MARK VAUGHN: Abusing the Acura RLX is a national pastime among the automotive press. Lawd knows it's an easy target: it still has a V6 when everything else has a V8; it has front-wheel drive instead ...
|  | | If NASCAR is consistent with its penalties for minor technical rules violations, Ford driver Brad Keselowski will hear today or Tuesday that he's lost six Sprint Cup points. The reigning series champion's car measured too low across the entire front after
|  | | We'd call this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/McLaren MP4-12C body-double pairing our most ironic yet, but the animated turtles weren't really known for being slow. It's a good one anyway. Thanks to Keith Verges for the...
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|  | | Welcome back, Honda. A day after Mike Conway dominated the first Detroit race at Belle Isle Park, Simon Pagenaud gave the engine manufacturer a second consecutive weekend race win.Honda did more than that. It got a podium sweep with James Jakes finishing a career-best second and Conway in third.The ...
|  | | Ryan Hunter-Reay and Justin Wilson gave IndyCar fans an insight Saturday into what it's like to drive one of their cars on a bumpy street circuit like the one at Belle Isle Park.And to think, they have to do a second consecutive race Sunday in IndyCar's Dual in Detroit.“Anyone that hasn't...
|  | | A.J. Allmendinger had a weekend on Belle Isle that he would just as soon forget. After getting an opportunity to drive for team owner Roger Penske in Detroit, Allmendinger managed to crash out in the first lap of both races at the Dual in Detroit.Allmendinger gave Penske -- Detroit's biggest...
|  | | Nobody except perhaps Jimmie Johnson himself thinks he didn't jump the final restart and thus gift-wrap the FedEx 400 for Tony Stewart on Sunday afternoon at Dover. On a day when Johnson was the class of the field and had the race in-hand, he simply choked it away with a controversial -- to him,...
|  | | Panther Racing has moved into a new era with its release of driver J.R. Hildebrand.Team owner John Barnes has Ryan Briscoe in the car for this weekend's IndyCar Series race at Belle Isle Park, but Briscoe isn't available for the next two events due to 24 Hour of Le Mans preparations with Level 5...
|  | | Ten years after making his debut on the Acropolis Rally as a fresh-faced teenager, Jari-Matti Latvala has claimed his maiden victory on the World Rally Championship's toughest event. Latvala's success over the rock-strewn gravel stages west of the Greek capital Athens was his first since joining...
|  | | After a short-lived protest of Volkswagen's win by Citroën, the results of the Acropolis Rally have become official.Citroën submitted a protest to the event stewards following Sunday's final stage of the rally against the three factory Volkswagen Polos of rally-winner Jari-Matti Latvala, Andreas...
|  | | Shawn Langdon won the NHRA Summernationals on Sunday for his third Top Fuel victory of the season, beating teammate Khalid alBalooshi in the final at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.Langdon had a run of 3.853 seconds at 316.38 mph in the final. He took the season points lead with his second...
|  | | Randy Pobst, of Gainesville, Ga., and Dean Martin, of nearby Westland, Mich., took home wins in the second race of the Pirelli World Challenge Cadillac V-Series Challenge at Belle Isle, part of the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix, in the GT and GTS classes, respectively. Pobst, who started...
|  | | IndyCar has targeted the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 in 2016 as the place to break a record that's stood since 1996.That point was driven home Sunday as Derrick Walker, the new president of competition and operations, laid out a gradual plan to get speeds at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in ...
|  | | The TRAXXAS USAC Silver Crown Series visited the 1.25-mile oval at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Ill., Saturday in the first race at the track since 2010. It was also the first Silver Crown race at the facility since 2001.Bobby Santos III held off Kody Swanson by .04 seconds to win the 80-...
|  | | New IndyCar president Derrick Walker gave a state-of-the-series address at Belle Isle in Detroit on Sunday, a few hours before the second race of the historic Dual in Detroit weekend doubleheader.Walker talked about his vision for the future of the cars, the speed and the series. The following is...
|  | | Hoonigan Racing's Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino took their first overall win of the season at the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally (STPR) -- round four of the 2013 Rally America National Championship -- held May 31-June 1 in Wellsboro, Penn. The victory marks the duo's second STPR Rally overall ...
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