| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | Porsche celebrates 50 years of heritage with its new 1963 inspired 911... | | The year 1963 was the first for the Porsche 911. To celebrate 50 years, the German automaker has announced that it will build a limited run of air-cooled 911 classic replicas. Just kidding. They are, however, offering a special, limited-edition 50th anniversary model. The rear-wheel drive vehicle is based on the 911 Carrera S, but it gets a wide body -- typically reserved for the... |
|  | | This may be the beginning of a golden age of affordable electric cars: There are now or will soon be three electric cars available in California leasing at $199 a month, one for $249 and one for $259 a month. They are all perfectly wonderful...
|  | | Supercar maker Pagani introduced the Zonda Revolucion at its yearly international Pagani meet up. The Revolucion will be the last version -- for now -- of the Zonda. The company also said the R would be the last version, and then said the same thing about the Tricolore. The Revolucion has a...
|  | | ROAD TEST EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: I spent a lot of time in our long-term 2007 Audi S6 during road trips crisscrossing the state of Michigan and going to a World Challenge race at Mosport (now known as Canadian Tire Motorsport Park). The darn thing was also a V10 snowmobile with a set of...
|  | | 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. -- It's Tesla Model S...
|  | | “Is sipe even a word?” read an editor's comment on an (as-yet unpublished) article for this magazine. “Is sipe even a word?” I thought to myself, scratching my scalp for inspiration before turning to worthier sources: Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia and...
|  | | The Izod IndyCar Series heads to Texas this week for what has traditionally been one of the wildest, fastest races on the schedule. The Texas Motor Speedway media relations staff sat down recently with driver Marco Andretti. In the video, which was made available to Autoweek by the TMS staff,...
|  | | Buick had used the name “Riviera” to denote its trailblazing hardtop
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|  | | Leave it to the city bordering two countries to deliver an IndyCar doubleheader with international flair.The Dual in Detroit, as Roger Penske's people called the weekend's event at Belle Isle, saw race winners from England and France and two different races.The Saturday show, dominated by British...
|  | | Ford Motor Co. said it is recalling more than 465,000 vehicles in several popular models -- including the 2013 Ford Fusion sedan -- after discovering problems with fuel-delivery modules, engine-block heaters and missing steering-gear parts.A Ford spokeswoman said today that three different recalls...
|  | | Detroit Electric will delay the SP:01 EV roadster for at least a month, according to a company executive who talked to the Detroit News. The company still hasn’t finalized a manufacturing location in Wayne County. Production was scheduled to start in August, now it’s slated for...
|  | | Rain plagued the 1976 Indy 500, sparking a near temper tantrum from A.J. Foyt as McLaren's Johnny Rutherford was named the winner when officials voted to stop the race at just 102 laps.Also, Niki Lauda continued his domination of the 1976 Formula One series as he won the Monaco Grand Prix, months...
|  | | Tony Stewart won in Dover on Sunday (his first win in 30 starts), and NASCAR nation seemed to lose its collective mind.For some reason NASCAR fans are shocked that Stewart was able to win. The victory has breathed life into the notion that “Smoke” may even make the Chase this year, a...
|  | | The future of Acura's TSX appears uncertain as Honda Motor prepares to abandon the platform used for the compact sedan.Acura boss Jeff Conrad says the TSX will remain in the lineup "for the foreseeable future." But when Acura moved into the entry-luxury segment with the ILX last year it jammed up...
|  | | Spouses beat out mothers and children as the worst backseat drivers, according to 500 drivers recently polled by Insurance.com.For men, 40 percent said their wives were worst, followed by friends at 17 percent and mothers at 15 percent. Thirty-four percent of the women ranked their husbands worst,...
|  | | On Sunday, Tony Stewart picked up his first win in 30 tries, winning in Dover. And with the win came more speculation on whether or not the three-time Sprint Cup champ would make it into the Chase. With Sunday's win, he moved into one of the two wild card spots, but he still needs to make up 33...
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