| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | The subtle, understated Ford Shelby Raptor... | | The other day some nice people from Shelby arrived at my doorstep with a 2013 Shelby Raptor... presumably sideways, doing a burnout down my street as long as the LAX runways they drove past. What do you do with a truck that, loaded with every... |
|  | | If you've ever been to Bonneville during Speed Week, you know what a thrilling corner of the motorsports world the place occupies: standing out on the endless, blazing-white expanse of salt, hearing the cars before you see...
|  | | Every driver who gets to compete in NASCAR is there because he or she has a tremendous amount of talent and is one of the best in the world. Whether he or she is a driver consistently running at the front of the field, or one who is asked ...
|  | | While the next new Jaguar model slated for dealerships is a BMW 3-series fighter rumored to be called the XS, Autoweek sources have confirmed the...
|  | | 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 recently drove the...
|  | | In advance of their exhibition "Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed," the North Carolina Museum of Art has released a gorgeous series of historical Porsche videos to whet visitors' appetites. This installment, called "Race on Sunday," includes interviews with designers, archivists and noted...
|  | | The 2014 driver silly season has taken yet another shocking twist. Germany's Bild newspaper claims Kimi Räikkönen, already wanted by Lotus next year and also in the running to switch to Red Bull, is now a contender to drive a...
|  | | DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: “Shoemaker, stick to thy last,” said no one in 70 years. But the sentiment is apropos: Focus on what you do well. For Land Rover, that would be the construction and marketing ...
|  | | Ferrari's Felipe Massa endured what he called a difficult Formula One race in Hungary on Sunday after damaging his front wing on Nico Rosberg's Mercedes on the first lap. The Brazilian eventually finished eighth, and was clearly very frustrated by his afternoon. He left Hungary seventh in the...
|  | | McLaren sporting director Sam Michael concedes that the Hungarian Grand Prix indicated that the team is making progress, but says there is still a long way to go. Michael also insists that last weekend's race could have been...
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|  | | A weeks couple ago we got a chance to attend the Microcar Classic at Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Mass. Every year the auto museum -- America's oldest -- holds more than two dozen lawn events on its scenic grounds in the greater Boston area, and the Microcar Classic is one of its most...
|  | | Ford has noticed quite a few interesting things by researching how owners use their Ford plug-in hybrids. It appears that Ford owners are driving their hybrids in electric mode nearly 60 percent of the time, using their cars' 21 miles of gas-free all-electric range. This figure contrasts quite a...
|  | | After enduring fender-benders and heat, Darrell Waltrip took home the Nashville 420 trophy in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.Waltrip led 300 laps out of the 420-lap, 250-mile race and led the final 251. Waltrip averaged a speed of 78.999 mph as he and his Chevrolet edged out second place Richard...
|  | | Quick show of hands: how many people here would sell their car, their kidneys, their child for a Mustang-powered Ford Ranger? Sounds appealing, right? Well, keep the child. Ford has another way for you to get access to a 5.0-liter, V8-powered Ranger. You just have to be on its Dakar team first. For ...
|  | | According to a report in Sports Business Journal, it wasn't until early this month that NASCAR executives in Daytona Beach realized that neither ESPN nor Turner Sports was going to bid on continuing to televise NASCAR content. The primary reasons were the declining ratings, leading both networks to ...
|  | | Ryan Briscoe isn't ready to drive an Indy car, so Oriol Servia will be. Servia was confirmed Tuesday to the Panther Racing seat at this weekend's event at Mid-Ohio. Briscoe was scheduled to drive the No. 4 car, a Dallara/Chevrolet, but he hasn't been medically cleared after having surgery to repair ...
|  | | Indianapolis Motor Speedway didn't draw much of a crowd for Sunday's NASCAR race, but apparently there was quite an audience on television.Indianapolis, the TV market, drew a 13.7 rating on ESPN, far and away the nation's No. 1 market for the Brickyard 400.Greensboro, N.C., was No. 2 at 10.9.All...
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Today at The Car Connection, we reviewed the 2013 Chevrolet Cruze and we spied a 2016 Mercedes-Benz MLC-Class prototype. Audi priced the 2014 RS 7, and the Nissan Leaf electric car just might be the perfect New York City taxi cab. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. The 2015 Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG might be...
The Highway Loss Data Institute recently reported on the Ford F-250 pickup's popularity among car thieves. But as nice as the F-250 can be, the National Insurance Crime Bureau knows that some brand-conscious baddies have a taste for high-end marques. And so, it's published a list of the ten luxury rides that car thieves love. To gather its data...
Ford announced today that it would offer an optional natural-gas readiness package the 2014 model of on its popular F-150 pickup truck, equipping the truck to be converted to natural-gas or bi-fuel operation by qualified third-party installers. It's the first half-ton pickup truck to be offered with such an option, although heavy-duty versions of...
