Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Daily Drive: We drive the 2014 Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013                 
The refreshed 2014 Porsche Panamera lineup, including the S E-Hybrid model....
What is it? The first of Porsche's facelifted Panamera models, the S E-Hybrid. The gasoline-electric hybrid holds the honor of being the first luxury car to offer plug-in...

  Aston Martin has unveiled the Vanquish Volante -- a new luxury sports car bringing open-top motoring to the super GT class. Alongside the Vanquish...

  I had an amazing weekend off in between races, back home in sunny California. Being that my birthday is June 20, and I'm not home the rest of the month, I decided to celebrate my birthday a little early with some friends back home. We headed down to Huntington Beach for some boating, beach...

  Derek Jenkins arrived in a dune buggy. A vicious little Meyers Manx street rod, snarling and popping from dual Webers and a Yoshimura motorcycle exhaust, sinister in semi-glossy gray paint -- it's a Lamborghini color in fact, Grigio Telesto. Jenkins had built it from the ground up, hand-fabricating ...

  EDITOR WES RAYNAL: A while back I visited the largest Jaguar/Land Rover dealer in the country, Prestige in Paramus, N.J. I remember a sales guy telling me he couldn't wait for the all-wheel-drive Jags. “At least they'll give us a chance. Right now, with rear-drive only, we don't have...

  We here at Autoweek agree: Vannin' needs to make a comeback. But until science and the dark arts achieve a way to resurrect

  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 all know most movie...

  Last week it was widely reported that Brad Keselowski made some pretty inflammatory comments about Rick Hendrick and Joe Gibbs and their respective racing teams. The reigning Sprint Cup champ and Penske Racing driver basically blamed his team's slow start on the other two teams. "Gibbs stole...

  NASCAR has long been a spectator sport that has walked the line of being fully fan-friendly. There are the good parts—most tracks allow coolers full of beer, drinks or food; fans can listen directly to the strategy and emotion of teams and drivers with radio scanners—that help


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