The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series relish going to racetracks that have infield portions within an oval track. After all, the series' Rolex 24 at Daytona headliner race takes place on the Daytona International Speedway road/oval circuit; the series visits Homestead-Miami Speedway. So why not make...
After not making the field at the 100th anniversary Indianapolis 500 this past May, AFS Racing team owner Gary Peterson had to shut the garage door and re-think his priorities. Peterson's team had won a pair of Firestone Indy Lights Championship titles in the past and the team is accustomed to running up front in that ladder series. The IZOD...
Just because you own a Ferrari, that's no indication you actually know what you're doing behind the wheel. This 458 Italia owner proves that fact abundantly. After narrowly escaping a slide into the gravel traps, the black-striped 458 in the video below comes to the same turn--this time about 20 mph hotter--and fails to escape, sliding hard into...
We are thick in the between-show-season doldrums, but Infiniti just spiced up the summer with the first real shot of its new JX Concept following a teaser sketch revealed in April. Styled as a new seven-seat luxury crossover, the 2013 Infiniti JX is part of the "Power of 7" social media campaign. The full reveal will come at the 2011 Pebble Beach...
The 2012 Range Rover Sport has been updated for European sale, and while we won't get all of the new features here in the U.S., we should get the core upgrades, including a new ZF eight-speed gearbox, a dual-view touch screen, and upgraded entertainment systems. For 2012, the engine lineup in the U.S. stays the same, though the UK and Europe will...
Fire. It's one of the biggest fears of many race car drivers, as even with the best of fire-retardant clothing and suppression systems, there's so much flammable material on board, things can go very wrong. Worse, when fire goes wrong, it happens quickly. Credit Tuka Rocha's quick-thinking to roll out of his moving fireball of a race car at a...
The Mercedes SL was and is the first and only choice for a buyer of a certain kind of car: one that married the dichotomy of sporty yet rock-solid quality, with a sort of quiet ostentation. The R107 was the longest lived, being sold from 1971 to 1989 Starting life as the 350SL, the R107replaced the trim little 280SL in 1971. It reached the United...
Over the holiday weekend, reports that Jaguar had confirmed the construction of an XF Estate (wagon) emerged. Today, it's the hotter brother, the XFR, that gets the long roof treatment, again according to chief designer Ian Callum. This time around, Callum spoke with Dutch-language Autovisie, noting that the estate wasn't part of the original plan...
Every car fan should make the pilgrimage to Pebble Beach at some point in their lives. It's an unbelievable playground for some of the very best cars in the world, from their earliest stages right up to the present. Once particularly sweet slice of the past will be up for sale via Gooding & Company this year: vintage coachbuilt Ferraris. These...
When you start talking about AMC cars, you often have no choice but to move right from Kenosha to Boulogne-Billancourt. Yes, when the government bailed out AMC in the early 1980s– that's the French government, of course, since the US government didn't think AMC was too big to fail— AMC dealers suddenly had a sporty, front-drive...
BMW's renewal of the M2 trademark sparked the idea of a smaller M car back to life just a few weeks ago, and now a whole slew of new details have emerged from M Division managing director Dr. Friedrich Nitschke. While we take them as speculation only at this point, the figures point toward a very interesting car. If you're wondering what the heck...
Business plans are often little more than optimistic future-oriented language wrapping stuff we already know in a new gloss, and most of Subaru's "Motion-V" plan is no different--but there are a few nuggets of prime info nestled in its predictable prose. The best? Three new models, plus a hybrid. Due to awkward and imprecise phrasing, it's not...
Those of you that own an E90 BMW 335i and are looking enviously at the 335is model, perhaps even wishing you'd waited to buy, worry no more: BMW is reportedly planning a new 335i Performance Edition, and it can be retrofitted to existing cars. The benefit? 20 more horsepower and 32 more pound-feet of torque, just like the 335is engine. That...
It's been almost a year and a half since talk of a John Cooper Works version of the MINI Countryman made the rounds, but a recent sighting on the Nurburgring by our photo sleuths shows it's not out of mind at MINI. If the MINI Countryman JCW does come to fruition, it could pack as much as 225 horsepower, sent through all four wheels--and, in John...
It's been two years since Hyundai's rear-wheel-drive Genesis sedan and coupe launched, and now it appears sister company Kia might be following Hyundai's lead. According to What Car?, a British car magazine, Kia chief Hank Lee has said that the company needs a flagship car, and to that end, will be showing a rear-wheel-drive sports coupe concept...
The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series relish going to racetracks that have infield portions within an oval track. After all, the series' Rolex 24 at Daytona headliner race takes place on the Daytona International Speedway road/oval circuit; the series visits Homestead-Miami Speedway. So why not make...
After not making the field at the 100th anniversary Indianapolis 500 this past May, AFS Racing team owner Gary Peterson had to shut the garage door and re-think his priorities. Peterson's team had won a pair of Firestone Indy Lights Championship titles in the past and the team is accustomed to running up front in that ladder series. The IZOD...
Just because you own a Ferrari, that's no indication you actually know what you're doing behind the wheel. This 458 Italia owner proves that fact abundantly. After narrowly escaping a slide into the gravel traps, the black-striped 458 in the video below comes to the same turn--this time about 20 mph hotter--and fails to escape, sliding hard into...
We are thick in the between-show-season doldrums, but Infiniti just spiced up the summer with the first real shot of its new JX Concept following a teaser sketch revealed in April. Styled as a new seven-seat luxury crossover, the 2013 Infiniti JX is part of the "Power of 7" social media campaign. The full reveal will come at the 2011 Pebble Beach...
The 2012 Range Rover Sport has been updated for European sale, and while we won't get all of the new features here in the U.S., we should get the core upgrades, including a new ZF eight-speed gearbox, a dual-view touch screen, and upgraded entertainment systems. For 2012, the engine lineup in the U.S. stays the same, though the UK and Europe will...
Fire. It's one of the biggest fears of many race car drivers, as even with the best of fire-retardant clothing and suppression systems, there's so much flammable material on board, things can go very wrong. Worse, when fire goes wrong, it happens quickly. Credit Tuka Rocha's quick-thinking to roll out of his moving fireball of a race car at a...
The Mercedes SL was and is the first and only choice for a buyer of a certain kind of car: one that married the dichotomy of sporty yet rock-solid quality, with a sort of quiet ostentation. The R107 was the longest lived, being sold from 1971 to 1989 Starting life as the 350SL, the R107replaced the trim little 280SL in 1971. It reached the United...
Over the holiday weekend, reports that Jaguar had confirmed the construction of an XF Estate (wagon) emerged. Today, it's the hotter brother, the XFR, that gets the long roof treatment, again according to chief designer Ian Callum. This time around, Callum spoke with Dutch-language Autovisie, noting that the estate wasn't part of the original plan...
Every car fan should make the pilgrimage to Pebble Beach at some point in their lives. It's an unbelievable playground for some of the very best cars in the world, from their earliest stages right up to the present. Once particularly sweet slice of the past will be up for sale via Gooding & Company this year: vintage coachbuilt Ferraris. These...
When you start talking about AMC cars, you often have no choice but to move right from Kenosha to Boulogne-Billancourt. Yes, when the government bailed out AMC in the early 1980s– that's the French government, of course, since the US government didn't think AMC was too big to fail— AMC dealers suddenly had a sporty, front-drive...
BMW's renewal of the M2 trademark sparked the idea of a smaller M car back to life just a few weeks ago, and now a whole slew of new details have emerged from M Division managing director Dr. Friedrich Nitschke. While we take them as speculation only at this point, the figures point toward a very interesting car. If you're wondering what the heck...
Business plans are often little more than optimistic future-oriented language wrapping stuff we already know in a new gloss, and most of Subaru's "Motion-V" plan is no different--but there are a few nuggets of prime info nestled in its predictable prose. The best? Three new models, plus a hybrid. Due to awkward and imprecise phrasing, it's not...
Those of you that own an E90 BMW 335i and are looking enviously at the 335is model, perhaps even wishing you'd waited to buy, worry no more: BMW is reportedly planning a new 335i Performance Edition, and it can be retrofitted to existing cars. The benefit? 20 more horsepower and 32 more pound-feet of torque, just like the 335is engine. That...
It's been almost a year and a half since talk of a John Cooper Works version of the MINI Countryman made the rounds, but a recent sighting on the Nurburgring by our photo sleuths shows it's not out of mind at MINI. If the MINI Countryman JCW does come to fruition, it could pack as much as 225 horsepower, sent through all four wheels--and, in John...
It's been two years since Hyundai's rear-wheel-drive Genesis sedan and coupe launched, and now it appears sister company Kia might be following Hyundai's lead. According to What Car?, a British car magazine, Kia chief Hank Lee has said that the company needs a flagship car, and to that end, will be showing a rear-wheel-drive sports coupe concept...
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