| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | No apologies: The 2013 Toyota Avalon is an outstanding full-size car.... | | ASSOCIATE WEST COAST EDITOR BLAKE Z. RONG: Evidently senior online editor Davey G. Johnson has fallen ill with a virus, one with symptoms including espousing the virtues of modest Toyota products. “Oh man, the Avalon!” he shouted with gleeful joy while we were gathered in Detroit for Fantasy Camp. “It's, like, one of the greatest cars ever.” “Seriously,... |
|  | | Porsche is entering the hybrid-hypercar market this fall with its pretty 918 Spyder. We saw the first concept
|  | | The 2014 BMW X5 was officially revealed by the automaker about a month ago, but now the pricing has been officially released. The rear-wheel drive...
|  | | EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 is your classic terrific all around grand touring car. There's terrific off-the-line acceleration, as I expected, but to me the beauty here is that the...
|  | | The 2014 Honda Odyssey minivan will start at $29,655 including destination when it hits dealerships in July. The upper echelon family hauler will sport a six-speed automatic -- replacing the five-speed -- and 3.5-liter V6...
|  | | 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. -- We covered the
|  | | The Trans Am Depot is adding to its lineup of converted classic muscle cars with the 2014 GTO Judge, based on the Chevy Camaro. The company already builds a “Smoky...
|  | | The cars shown above look perfectly normal, but they run on both compressed natural gas and regular, good ol' fashioned gasoline. They feature CNG tanks tucked away in the trunk -- you know, where spare tires used to go, before they went the way of the dodo. Out of sight, out of mind, alongside...
|  | | Porsche Motorsport has signed driver Neel Jani to a multi-year contract to race its new-for-2014 hybrid LMP1 sports-car prototype. Jani, 29, joins drivers Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas for Porsche's new Le Mans program, and...
|  | | Race week at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is full of team meetings and appearances that are all a part of the great buildup to the biggest endurance race in the world. The Larbre Competition team was getting us up early, and the driver teams for the No. 50 and No. 70 Chevrolet Corvette C6.Rs were doing...
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|  | | Drayson Racing Technologies and Michelin are joining forces to make a run at the FIA World Electric Land Speed Record on Tuesday with the Drayson B12 69/EV prototype. In addition to a record attempt this will be a real-world test for the car, which will also compete in the 2014 FIA Formula E...
|  | | When we think of Pininfarina-penned cars, our mind races to Ferraris and Lancias and Alfas (and, we guess, Allantes) -- sexy vehicles with timeless lines and roaring engines (and Allantes). Then there's the 1953 Nash Rambler. Now, the author has a soft spot for the tubby, practical products of Nash ...
|  | | When it comes to buying an old vehicle, the lack of a clean, up-to-date title is usually a huge red flag -- a sign that, in a best-case scenario, you'll have to run the vehicular registration gauntlet to get a road-legal car.Worst case, you might end up with an un-plateable vehicle good only for...
|  | | Three -- count 'em, three -- Honda S600 Roadsters are crossing the virtual auction block through eBay via our friends at Bring a Trailer. Three engines come with the sale, though they aren't all installed in the cars. For a current bid of $9,100, all three -- along with a ton of parts -- can be...
|  | | Rolls-Royce introduced the Flying Spur in 1994 as the fastest vehicle the brand had ever made.Its top speed was 140 mph and it flew to 60 mph in seven seconds flat with the help of the 6.75-liter turbocharged V8 under the hood.The only catch? The base price was $225,000.Read the story below and use ...
|  | | James Hinchcliffe didn’t score his first IndyCar Series victory until his third season. Now, it seems, he can't be denied.The Toronto native has a series-high three wins in 10 races this season after capturing the Iowa Corn Indy 250 Sunday at Iowa Speedway.His other wins came at the season-...
|  | | Welcome, Martin Truex Jr., to the Chase conversation. By winning Sunday's Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, Truex wrote his name boldly on the list of likely participants in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. With 10 races left before the Chase field is set at Richmond, Truex is 10th in the ...
|  | | After racing the new Gen 6 car for the first time on a road course, runner-up Jeff Gordon has a note for NASCAR's suggestion box.“There's one thing I'm going to talk to NASCAR about with this car,” Gordon said after posting a much-needed top-five finish on Sunday in the Sprint Cup...
|  | | Martin Truex Jr. has never really been searching for validation of his 2010 move to Michael Waltrip Racing. The quickly declining future—calling it a dumpster fire isn't far off—of former team Dale Earnhardt Inc. made any move for Truex seem akin to striking gold.But Truex never wrote...
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