| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Wednesday, October 23, 2013 |  | DOUBLE SLS DRIFTING. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?... | | Mario Spitzner is a man who loves motorcycles, loves his job, and loves America. Spitzner is the current director of branding and marketing at Mercedes AMG, a role he started 24 years ago working for Hans-Werner Aufrecht -- the "A," quite simply, in "AMG." He is thin and wiry, always eager, always grinning -- a font of AMG lore and knowledge that he never ceases to dispense. "It's just so... |
|  | | The first car Mazda ever sold in America was the R100, a cute lil' two-door fastback that was, unsurprisingly, rotary-powered. The year was 1970. Iggy Pop had made that much explicitly clear with "1970." Just imagine how weird ...
|  | | EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This is my second drive in the new-for-2014 Chevy Impala. It's a nice, big, relaxing-to-drive sedan. It looks good to my eye inside and out. The interior is a little controversial, but I like it and...
|  | | During the past two months, two events have shone a spotlight on the finances of the FIA -- the worldwide motorsports governing body. Most recently, at the end of September, the FIA announced that it struck a new deal with Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone that is believed to give it more mon-...
|  | | The 2014 Jeep Wrangler Polar Edition first made its debut at the Frankfurt motor show this...
|  | | In the last installment of Project Car Hell, we went with a pair of early '70s style Detroit forward-control custom vans. Those...
|  | | There's one bit of advice that prospective old-car buyers can't hear enough: When hunting for a vehicle, always buy the nicest example you can afford. Unless your pockets are bottomless or you're a glutton for punishment, you'll be better off paying a little more for a complete, drivable car...
|  | | Hyundai continued its SEMA effort on Wednesday with the most powerful street-focused Veloster Turbo yet. It will be on display in Las Vegas, Nov. 5-8. Hyundai said its new-...
|  | | -- This has been a busy week for 'Ring records, and it's only Wednesday. The latest unconfirmed report is that the McLaren P1 may have set a time of 6:47 around the course. That would make it the fastest car to ever lap the...
|  | | The question is fair even if it is premature and, at the moment, a bit awkward: Will Dario Franchitti, who was injured in the IndyCar Series' Oct. 6 street race in Houston, walk away from driving these high-speed open-wheel...
|  | | Extreme Speed Motorsports has announced that Ryan Dalziel will co-drive with Scott Sharp in the No. 01 Tequila Patrón Honda Performance Development ARX-03b (HPD) in the Prototype class of 2014 Tudor United SportsCar Championship. Joining Dalziel and Sharp will be Johannes van Overbeek, who...
|  | | Just like any publicly accredited middle- and high school, Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto, Fla. -- just south of St. Petersburg -- serves up the usual menu of reading, writing and arithmetic. More exciting, it also offers a class called “Physics of Motorsports,” part of a...
|  | | Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali made some interesting observations in a specially arranged interview with two Italian fans noted for their criticism of the Scuderia on social networks. Ferrari invited the pair to ask the boss anything they wanted, and one mentioned Fernando Alonso's...
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