| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | Mind-blowing: 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R sells for nearly $30 million.... | | Mercedes-Benz W196R chassis 00006/54 roared to victory in the 1954 German and Swiss Grands Prix with none other than Juan Manuel Fangio behind the wheel. We don't imagine it roared across the block at today's Goodwood Festival of Speed Bonhams auction (a crowd simultaneously reaching up to cover its ears would cause quite ... |
|  | | No summertime car show is complete without a row of Chevrolet Chevelle Super Sports, but when was the last time you've seen a four-door pillarless Sport Sedan? Not a four-door sedan, mind you, but a four-door hardtop without a B-pillar? Ron Bousquet, the owner of this wonderful example from 1970,...
|  | | The depths of Sauber's financial problems are now beginning to emerge. The Swiss business newspaper Handeslzeitung reports that dozens of unpaid suppliers to the struggling Hinwil based team have filed claims in the amount that totals almost $1.3 million. The report said the suppliers have...
|  | | 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. -- ...
|  | | What's a nice gift between friends? When Robert Stack won an Emmy for Best Actor in 1960 for "The Untouchables," "I Love Lucy" star Desi Arnaz toasted him by giving him a present as a token of success. That present just happened to be a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, the one pictured above....
|  | | SENIOR MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: I'm surprised to find I have mixed feelings about this 2013 Audi RS5 Cabriolet, as I've always admired both the
|  | | A major piece in the 2014 and beyond NASCAR puzzle went in place Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. There, Stewart-Haas Racing confirmed that Budweiser will follow Kevin Harvick when he leaves Richard Childress Racing at ...
|  | | NASCAR opens the second half of its 36-race season this weekend with one of its shortest events. Sunday afternoon's Camping World RV Sprint Cup 301 covers only 318 miles at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, longer only than the short-track races at Martinsville, Bristol and Richmond, the mile track at...
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|  | | What is it?You'll have to forgive Mazda for tooting its own horn, but the company claims it “revitalized” the compact car segment back in 2003 when the first Mazda3 was introduced, a shark amongst beige Civic and Corolla minnows. We personally think the Ford Focus revitalized the...
|  | | He wants a sporty Fiat 1200 Spider. She wants a practical, economical Fiat 600. “Where will the children sit?” she asks. She's always so damned practical. It's hard to believe now, but when we were young, she could be a lot of fun…He's not having it -- the thought of carving up...
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|  | | Chrysler announced two recalls last week, both for the potential of improper airbag deployment.On certain model year 2013 Chrysler Town & Country minivans, Dodge Grand Caravan and Ram C/V Tradesmen models, a software error could result in the wrong airbag deploying in the event of a crash. For...
|  | | This week in 2007 found us exploring a 1967 Maserati 4000, a car we consider a lust-worthy contemporary exotic often lost in the masses of the more popular GTs from that era. Part of the reason was because of its 4.0-liter straight-six cylinder engine not having enough cylinders compared to its...
|  | | We made history in Chicago -- the first Ford Funny Car to break the four-second barrier! We ran a 3.988 to make the Three Second Club in Saturday qualifying in Chicago, with my dad on the starting line and our sponsors at the track. What a cool moment. We did it with JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes...
|  | | The average car/truck/SUV sold by the top eight brands in America makes almost one mile per gallon more than it did a year ago, according to sales-weighted data from the industry analysts at TrueCar.TrueCar's TrueMPG industry average of 23.7 mpg remains the highest the car market has seen, 0.7-mpg...
|  | | Honda on Thursday announced it will base its Formula One operations in the U.K. After a six-year absence from the paddock, the Japanese car maker is returning to the sport in 2015 as a supplier of works V6 power to McLaren.Honda will develop and manufacture the engines in Japan, but the trackside...
|  | | Formula One authorities have clamped down even harder on pit lane safety rules, in the wake of the Nürburgring incident in which a runaway tire injured a cameraman.After a television cameraman for Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Management operation was hospitalized by Mark Webber's stray tire...
|  | | British sports-car racer Johnny Mowlem will return to the American Le Mans Series with Dyson Racing at the end of the season.Mowlem, who contested two races with the team last year, will race Dyson's Lola-Mazda B12/60 in the second-to-last race of the ALMS season at the Virginia International...
|  | | The British Strakka Racing team, the highest-finishing LMP1 privateer team in this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans has withdrawn from the remainder of World Endurance Championship.The Silverstone-based team, which finished sixth overall at Le Mans, has decided to pass on the final five rounds of the...
|  | | There was a temptation before the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway to suggest 2013 might well become The Year of Matt Kenseth.He started that NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race fifth in points, with a series-leading four wins -- not too shabby for his first year in Joe Gibbs Racing's...
|  | | At the seventh Annual Art of the Car Concours, thousands of visitors -- including Sir Stirling Moss himself -- were able to closely examine icons of automotive history. Around 200 cars, trucks, motorcycles, and pedal cars were on display across the lawns of the Kansas City Art Institute. Unlike...
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