| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | Hyundai sold its fair share of these Santa Fes. We don't imagine Bonhams will ever be able to say the same.... | | With Pebble Beach upon us and its attendant gaggle of curios, new-model reveals from fancy-pants automakers and of course, stratospheric auction prices for collector cars, Senior Editor Davey G. Johnson and contributor Brett Berk got to wondering what the least collectible cars of the century (so far) might be.... |
|  | | In Finland, they have a saying that goes like this: "If you want to win, get a Finn." The ice-cold denizens of the north have a point. Fourteen times the small Scandinavian country has won the World Rally Championship; countless times her sons, across rallying and Formula One alike, have...
|  | | Grid girls are not just for the pit lane of Formula One, as our team of Autoweek correspondents found out at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, on Aug. 4. Enjoy the team's in-depth photo essay of grid girls of the
|  | | ASSOCIATE WEST COAST EDITOR BLAKE Z. RONG: This 2013 Ford Focus ST is a joy, an absolute blast to unwind. Where to begin? Well, the steering is direct, communicative, well weighted. It feels best taking high speed sweepers, like the ones at Malibu Canyon -- or, if you prefer, on the freeway: ...
|  | | Kinda smiled when I heard Tony Stewart broke his leg in a Monday night sprint-car race. This bit of indiscretion will snap his 521-race NASCAR Sprint Cup start streak, and mean he's effectively out of the 2013 NASCAR...
|  | | Before it was known as the microbus, the Volkswagen Type 2 was called a station wagon. And before VW switched over to clever photograph-based magazine...
|  | | Infiniti has announced that the G37 sedan, which has been with us for a while, will continue alongside the all-new Q50 sedan until the 2015 model year. ...
|  | | Sometime on Tuesday, after the mainstream sports media takes a moment to digest the Monday night sprint car crash in Iowa that resulted in a broken right leg for NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and team owner Tony Stewart and will cost him at least one Cup start, some pundit will look in the archives and...
|  | | Somehow, you can accept the noise. It's a racing car, after all. It's the smell that gets you. It's as though there should be a lawnmower nearby. Or a leaf blower. Or a dirtbike. Perhaps a moped. But certainly not the first-generation
|  | | Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber, retiring from Formula One at the end of the season, has admitted he will not miss his teammate Sebastian Vettel. The Australian appeared on the BBC's popular British show "Top Gear" this week, where he admitted the sport is now "very different" to when he...
|  | | -- Isdera Imperator 108i. If those words mean anything to you, you've likely already clicked this link. If they don't, watch the video and get...
|  | | General Motors is cutting the Chevrolet Volt's price by $5,000 amid price pressure from rival electrified vehicles. The sticker price on the 2014 Volt, which will arrive at dealerships this month, will be $34,995, including ...
|  | | Tony Stewart will miss this weekend's Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen after breaking two bones in his right leg in a Monday night Sprint Car wreck in Iowa. The three-time NASCAR champion, 42, broke his right tibia and fibula, and underwent surgery. The DNS will mark the first Cup race he's missed...
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|  | | Daniel Ricciardo and Kimi Räikkönen are both "good options" as Red Bull looks to replace the departing Mark Webber for 2014.That is the view of former Formula One driver and Red Bull consultant David Coulthard, who thinks reports Fernando Alonso is yet another option for the world champion team are ...
|  | | NASCAR driver Kurt Busch now says it's “a good possibility” that he will race an Indy car in October to prepare himself for a run at next year's Indianapolis 500.Busch wants to compete in at least one pre-Indy race so he feels more comfortable for the high-speed pressure that comes with ...
|  | | Hail to the Beaver! That would be IndyCar Series driver Alex Tagliani, who played his role of fundraising loser perfectly Monday at the Indiana State Fair.Tagliani and Scott Dixon had a bet over raising money for charity over a two-week period. Dixon raised $1,130 more; they combined to raise $13,...
|  | | The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Edition 2014 Ford Mustang GT has just sold for $398,000 at the EAA Young Eagles Auction, which took place last week at the annual EAA Air Venture event in Oshkosh, Wisc. James Slattery of San Diego, Calif. was the winning bidder for this unique car, and proceeds from ...
|  | | This week in 1992 finds us piloting Honda's CRX replacement, the Civic del Sol. Built on a shortened Civic platform, the car weighed 2,266 lbs. Powertrain options included two I4s, a 1.5-liter mill (102 hp), and a 1.6-liter (125 hp). When we drove it back in 1992, we loved the steering position and ...
|  | | 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 traces the Porsche family tree and highlights their contributions to Automotive history....
|  | | There are quite a few changes in Volvo's lineup for the 2014 model year, perhaps representing the most serious model shakeup for the automaker this decade. For starters, almost all the cars in Volvo's current U.S. lineup have been facelifted with the notable exception of the XC90 SUV, which enters...
|  | | Kyle Petty, the driver-turned-analyst with the unfiltered opinions, has angered someone new.Petty didn't mean to make Denny Hamlin mad with his televised comments before Sunday's race at Pocono. Hamlin, who saw the segment on Speed, tweeted before the race "Kyle Petty is a moron," and was still...
|  | | Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has fired yet another warning at Formula One driver Fernando Alonso, insisting Ferrari has never had trouble filling its race seats."Even if I have lots of problems," the Maranello team's president told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, "finding drivers...
|  | | J.R. Hildebrand could be on the verge of returning to the IndyCar Series. The former Panther Racing driver who nearly won the Indianapolis 500 in 2011 confirmed Monday that he is “working toward” a deal to drive Barracuda Racing's No. 98 car later this month at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway....
|  | | With perhaps a five percent fudge factor, you can move Kasey Kahne from the “on the bubble” list to the “lead-pipe cinch” list of NASCAR drivers who'll make the upcoming Chase for the Championship playoff field. His win on Sunday at Pocono Raceway moved the Hendrick...
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