| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  |  | Our finalists for Autoweek's Best of the Best/Car: The Jaguar F-Type, Chevrolet Corvette and Mercedes-Benz S-... | | Every year, as hundreds of new cars and trucks pass through our fleet for evaluation, we are always on the lookout for those dazzling few deserving more careful scrutiny for our top honors, the Autoweek Best of the Best. It's down to three cars and three trucks that our regular readers quickly will recognize in the video above, designed to whet your appetite as we get further along in the judging.... |
|  | | DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: Allow me a moment: It can be a real challenge to objectively review a vehicle for which I'm so far outside the target market it may as well be a lunar rover. I'm not talking about stuff I'll just never be able to afford, like the Ferrari 458 Italia or a Pagani or...
|  | | Last month's Lambrecht Chevrolet auction featured plenty of cars and trucks that were either too "new" to accumulate any more miles or too spent to...
|  | | Petrolicious is talking about artist Rene Jules Lalique and his famous “car mascots.” Lalique was a French designer known for his glass art, perfume bottles, jewelry and of course hood ornaments....
|  | | The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock-and-roll group that started off as a joke in the 1980s. Since then, it has evolved into a global musical phenomenon, thanks to innovative, balalaika-infused rockabilly/Soviet martial music-fusion covers of classics like “
|  | | The 2014 Honda Civic Coupe Si makes its world debut at the SEMA show next month. The Civic Si is being updated for the third time in recent memory, after journalists...
|  | | India's top court deferred a hearing on a tax case against the Indian Grand Prix on Friday to effectively give this week's Formula One race a go-ahead. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case after a public interest litigation pleaded the race should not be held since the organizers had...
|  | | The FIA has fined the Williams Formula One team €60,000 ($82,824) for the second time in two races as a result of wheel-related problems. During the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka two weeks ago, Pastor Maldonado lost a wheel during practice. The FIA regarded it as a “serious safety...
|  | | Ferrari Formula One star Fernando Alonso finished Friday’s second free practice session for the Indian Grand Prix with the fifth fastest time -- despite losing most of the session to a gearbox problem. The Spaniard ran...
|  | | The rumors and speculations surrounding the actual running of the Indian Grand Prix have been put aside, at least momentarily, as Formula One held its Friday press conference. Sebastian Vettel may appear well on his way to a ...
|  | | Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber finished practice in India on top of the times after a low-key day at the Buddh circuit. However, this might not be a straightforward weekend for anyone. Most drivers struggled to keep the soft-option tire alive for more than a few laps when they tried them in...
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