I recently had the pleasure of attending the Volkswagen Racing Cup 2011 at Donnington Park, which was an absolutely great day out (article to follow shortly). Whilst there, I heard a rumour that a unique car would be on display. The vehicle in question was the BAC Mono. Just before the lunchtime break, I turned [...]
Ferrari has released a video called “Duel for the Crown – 599 GTB Fiorano Official Video,” and if it weren’t so cool we would probably expend more words on the fact that the clip has come out several years after the 599 first went on sale. But this isn’t some boring walkaround of a 599GTB [...]
Early on a Sunday morning, the massive Nissan plant in Sunderland echoed to the sound of screaming engines and tortured tires, as the British Drift Championship 2011 came to a climax with the final round. Practice and qualifying had produced some surprise...(read more)
Lincoln will refine, rather than abandon, the corporate waterfall grille. In our September 2011 issue, we presented an in-depth feature about how Ford intends to turn the Lincoln brand around, noting that the plan will begin in November with the debut of the updated MKS and MKT. We now have spy photos of the former, [...]
: . skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Doiron Battles to a 16th Place Finish in Mr . DIRTcar 358 Series Event at Cornwall By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design When Joel Doiron last visited Cornwall back at the beginning of the month , he has set fast time in his time trial group , and was to start on the front row for his heat race before Mother Nature stepped in and the event was . rescheduled On Sunday afternoon the event picked up where they had left off , and Doiron started up front in his qualifying heat , and was able to grab the win in the eight lap qualifier , giving him a spot in the redraw for one of the top 12 starting spots in the 125 lap Mr . DIRTcar Series Canadian Nationals Series main . event The redraw took place in front of a packed grandstand: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Kyle Kosir Q The car is already being worked on for 2012 We caught up with Risok Motorsport owner Kyle Kosir , and asked him about next season . So far Marek is still racing next year , as well the team home to be regular podium contenders in GT Sprints . New Sponsors are coming in , as well as new Partnerships with a big company . So far little has been said : Q Kyle so far how has the season shaped up for you and your team Kyle Kosir : The season has defiantly had its up’s and downs . First of we have learned a lot about the RM01 Rabbit . We did not expect anything coming into this season . The guys have done an amazing job to the car . : Q Are you satisfied so far KK : Very , like I said we were not expecting anything coming
General Motors has announced that it will introduce a front center airbag in the 2013 Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia, and Chevrolet Traverse crossover models. The airbag deploys between the two front seats in the event of a side impact to prevent the driver and front passenger from colliding laterally and better protects occupants on the [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Vlok captures Rookie of the Year for BGR Team Grote New Zealander Chris Vlok is the Formula Tour 1600 Series rookie of the year driving his BGR Team Grote Van Diemen . He finished fourth overall in the points narrowly missing 3rd with his 5th podium of the year at the final round at the Le Circuit Mont Tremblant . Entering the final weekend the rookie driver was still in contention for a top 3 placing in the Championship but a tough race on Saturday which saw him spin but recover to finish 10th meant it was a long shot to overtake 3rd in the points . The Sunday race was run under perfect fall conditions with temperatures in the high 70's , Chris made his best start of the year and vaulted to 3rd from his 5th starting spot . He: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Sarah Cornett-Ching Ends 2011 Season With Another Podium Finish in West Coast Sportsman Series Finale at Motoplex Speedway By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design PENTICTON , BRITISH COLUMBIA The 2011 racing season has been one filled with exciting opportunities and challenges for 20-year-old Sarah Cornett-Ching , of Summerland , . BC It all began with the Race 101 program in North Carolina back in January and has taken her through the full season in the OK Tire ARCA West Series , and her first career win in the West Coast Sportsman . Series The productive season produced 4 top five finishes and 9 top ten finishes in just 12 races , including two podium finishes and a victory at Motoplex Speedway on August 13 th Cornett-Ching: . skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Ladouceur Claims Mohawk Racing Parts Pro Stock Series Championship With Fifth Place Finish at Cornwall Mr . DIRTcar Pro Stock Chase Heats Up By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design It was a long wait for the inevitable for Joey Ladouceur this week , as all he needed to do was just start the 50 lap Mohawk Racing Parts Pro Stock Series main event on Sunday afternoon to get his third consecutive series . title Ladouceur however had hoped to end the series in style with yet another feature win on the final night of the season at Cornwall . Speedway Sunday’s race , which was originally scheduled for Labor Day Weekend began with qualifying heats , and Ladouceur started the race from third place and advance to second in the eight lap : skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Fowl Mood Racing Gets top Five Finish in Brighton Speedway Season Finale Finishes Fifth in Brighton Point Standings By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design Going into the final night of racing at Brighton Speedway for the 2011 season , Phil Potts and the Fowl Mood Racing team knew they were going to finish fifth in points , they could not advance their position , nor could they fall any further . back With that in mind , they wanted nothing more then to end the season with a strong performance to get them through the upcoming . off-season After not finishing his qualifying heat , Potts had to start the 25 lap feature from the rear of the . field It didn’t take long to realize he had a fast car , as he steadily maneuvered his way
We published our full rundown on the 2012 Ferrari 458 Spider and show-floor photos from its Frankfurt auto show debut a couple of weeks ago, but now Ferrari has released a passel of new studio shots of the sultry droptop and its small flip-back roof. We’ve slapped a few of Ferrari’s latest images in this [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Whitteker Closes Out 2011 Season With Mid-Race Crash at Cornwall Opts out of Super DIRT Week to Focus on 2012 Season By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design Luke Whitteker and his Iroquois , Ontario based Whitteker Motorsports team made their final start of the season at Cornwall Motor Speedway this past Sunday afternoon for the rescheduled Mr . DIRTcar 358 Modified Canadian Nationals Series event held over from Labor Day . Weekend Before the rain came back on September 4th , Whitteker had posted the third fastest speed in him time trial group and was set to start his heat race from the third . position Racing continued on Sunday afternoon and picked up where it had left off earlier and Whitteker started from third . place He: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 29, 2011 Atlantic Stock Car Championships kick off at CFS this Saturday September 29, 2010 Shediac N.B . Drivers from throughout the Atlantic region will converge on the Centre for Speed CFS Atlantic Canada’s Super Speedway and Metro Moncton’s Playground of Power’ , for this weekend’s 12th Annual Atlantic Stock Car Championships , which will feature drivers in four divisions , Sportsman , Mini Stock , Four Fun and for the first time at CFS , Bandoleros . This Saturday’s event is weekend two of three of the CFS Atlantic SpeedWeeks , the final events of the 2011 stock car racing season in Atlantic . Canada A number of current and former track , nbsp tour and defending Atlantic Champions , will be competing in Saturday’s stock car racing
Early this morning, Saab-parent Swedish Automobile agreed to sell its Spyker sports car business to a private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The deal, worth 33 million euros ($45 million at today’s exchange rates) will be done entirely in cash. But what motivated a group of American investors with no history owning or managing [...]
The C7 Corvette will be more of an evolution, although you can expect a smaller V8. America’s sports car. A brutally effective track weapon. A favorite of hairy-chested, gold-chain-wearing old dudes. Or simply one of the world’s best dollar-for-dollar performance bargains. The Corvette is at least a little of all of those, and that’s why [...]
We here at C/D really like the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor—it’s huge, you can jump it, and it looks awesome—and courtesy of Ford’s consumer site, we now know that for 2012 it gets a few key upgrades designed to improve the Raptor’s abilities in its natural habitat (anywhere that isn’t paved). According to Ford’s website, [...]: : skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , September 28, 2011 BROCKVILLE : Fall Nationals will crown 3 DIRTcar champs BROCKVILLE , ON All roads in the DIRTcar world lead to Brockville Ontario Speedway . nbsp The annual Northeast Fall Nationals will once again crown 3 DIRTcar touring series champions on October 14, 15th and 16th in Thousand Islands . region The October stretch run is in full swing with Super DIRT Week in Syracuse , just a week away and all three crowns still up for grabs . nbsp 10 time Brockville track champ Danny O Brien , for the umpteenth straight year , is in the midst of the 358 Modified championship chase . nbsp Heading for central NY next week , the Pocket Rocket finds himself 2nd in the points standings , after falling behind Carey Terrance for the first time last
To most folks, semi trucks are merely society’s beasts of burden—the unemotional, unwieldy, and unsexy polar opposites of race cars. This is why we so dearly love the FIA’s truck-racing series, which sees purpose-built rigs comically (they can’t help it) duking it out on track, and it is precisely why we can’t stop watching the [...]
When the RS5 finally arrives in the U.S., it’ll look like this. Considering that the number of cars Audi debuted at this year’s Frankfurt auto show actually reached double digits, we forgive you for losing track of one or two. But one of the minor debuts—the updated RS5 coupe—deserves a second look. After all, this [...]
UPDATE: We’ve got an interview with the new owner! Check it out here. Swedish Automobile, the troubled company that owns Saab and Spyker, has sold the Dutch half of its business to a Connecticut-based private equity firm, according to news just posted on the Financial Times website. At this point, neither Swedish Automobile nor the investment [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , September 28, 2011 Rick Young's Rick at the Races' September 24-25, 2011 www.RickAtTheRaces.com Thanks Rick 24 Sept Kawartha Speedway , Ontario 24 Sept Brighton Speedway , Ont 25 Sept Cornwall Motor Speedway , Ont This past weekend was a busy one for me , where I attended three events in two days . It should of been four events in three days , but Mother Nature decided otherwise . My original plan was to head straight from work on Friday night for the Brighton Speedway for day one of their weekend Applefest' . races Once a year , Brighton opens it's doors to the DIRT style Modifieds and it's an event I don't like to miss . The Modifieds always headline the Saturday night show , while the DIRT Sportsman do their thing on Friday . This years
It weighs 2654 pounds, is built on a flat aluminum undertray supporting an internal matrix of yellow bricks, blue bricks, and black bricks, and features the ever-popular gray-brick trim option on its red-brick (not brick-red, mind you) body. It’s a life-size Lego Ford Explorer. After its debut at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, the eight-bit SUV [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , September 28, 2011 NASCAR Announces 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Schedule DAYTONA BEACH , Fla . Sept . 28, 2011 NASCAR announced today the 2012 schedule for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series , with a line-up featuring a number of adjustments from the 2011 . edition We believe the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule will once again provide fans with what they’ve come to expect every season the world’s most exciting and competitive form of motorsports , 8221 said Brian France , NASCAR chairman and CEO . Next year’s schedule has a few adjustments that we think will be good for the fans and good for the overall flow of the season . One thing will remain constant , however , and that’s the intense competition we see week in and week out from our drivers
Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife has turned into the rope in a figurative game of tug of war among automakers. The prize for pulling the other team over the line? The production-car lap record. But like the back-and-forth in a tug of war, the Nürburgring prize switches hands more times than we can keep track of. In [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , September 28, 2011 Antoine L'Estage and Nathalie Richard in British Columbia to claim the 2011 Canadian Title Montréal Québec September 28, 2011.- Recent winner of the Norh American Rally Cup for the fourth time in his career , Québec driver Antoine L’Estage of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu , QC is set to contest the second last round of the Canadian Rally Championship this weekend with his longtime co-driver Nathalie Richard of Halifax , NS With a 41 point lead over their closest title rivals , the duo’s objective is to clinch the 2011 Canadian Rally Championship at this event . nbsp In their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X , the team has won every single Canadian Rally Championship event since September 2010, including all of the events already held this year .: skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , September 28, 2011 Blok wins 2011 Formula Tour 1600 Championship PEMBROKE , ONTARIO Nathan Blok , the 17-year old racing driver from the Pembroke area , has won the 2011 Formula 1600 Championship with two podium finishes at the final race weekend . Returning to the famed Circuit Mont-Tremblant track , Blok raced his 5 Boston Pizza Mr . Lube Van Dieman F-1600 in the Formula Libre class as part of the Autumn Classic on the historic track north of Montréal . Blok was leading Olivier Bonnet by two points going into the . weekend On Saturday , Blok qualified his car 3rd out of a field of 30 competitors , directly behind some slightly quicker Formula Libre cars , a good position on the grid for this hilly . racecourse After qualifying , Bonnet was taken
Fiat North America is rolling out a special 500 Pink Ribbon edition this October; it’s being done for Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Fiat will make a $1000 donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each car sold. Fiat has committed to a $50,000 donation at the minimum, a goal it should easily exceed [...]: . skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 Tim O’Brien Scores Applefest Shootout Victory at Brighton Speedway Top Ten Finish in Mr . DIRTcar 358 Modified Series at Cornwall By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design It is safe to say that Tim O’Brien is quite fond of Brighton Speedway posting second place finishes in 2008 and again in 2010. This year , he was hoping to finish one spot higher as he returned to Brighton Speedway on Saturday night for their annual Applefest Shootout for the 358 . Modifieds O’Brien also had a Mr . DIRTcar Series event on the schedule for Sunday afternoon at Cornwall Speedway that was originally set on Labor Day Weekend and was postponed after time trials due to . rain The 358 Modified make just one appearance a year at Brighton Speedway , and
Toyota revitalizes its bestseller’s core qualities. Like the late Rodney Dangerfield, the Toyota Camry could reasonably complain that it don’t get no respect. Keep Reading: 2012 Toyota Camry SE V6 – Short Take Road Test: skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 Belyea Earns First Career Track Championship at Brighton Speedway By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design The 2011 season has been a good one for Greg Belyea and the Excel Tower Service racing . team Belyea has posted seven feature wins so far this year , and capped off the terrific season with the track championship at his home track , Brighton . Speedway Saturday night was the final night of points at the track , and Belyea entered the evening with a sizeable 155-point . lead Belyea won his qualifying heat , and just needed to start the feature to earn his first ever track . championship Belyea went on to finish the 25 lap main event in seventh place and was honoured in victory lane at the end of the night for his championship .: skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 Billings Gears up for Super DIRT Week XL Disappointing 20th Place Finish at Cornwall Caused by Early Race Flat Tire By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design At the beginning of September , Matt Billings and his team had a great beginning to the Mr . DIRTcar 358 Modified Series event at Cornwall Speedway , setting fast time in time trials , and getting a front row starting spot for the main . event Not long after that the rain came , and the race was . postponed On Sunday afternoon at Cornwall , they continued where they left off , and Billings took advantage of his front row position and won his qualifying heat , making it into the redraw for one of the top 12 starting spots for the 125 lap Mr . DIRTcar 358 Modified Canadian
As the Facebook fiends among you are already aware, we recently announced a partnership with the game Car Town. Our first in a series of monthly contests has now concluded, and here are the results! September’s challenge was to wrap a Honda Accord in a “Back to School” design. Last week, our editors chose their [...]: . skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 Flamboro Oktoberfest Classic Weekend Oct . 1 2 This weekend , Flamboro Speedway hosts its annual Oktoberfest Classic Weekend Oct . 1 2 Posted by GREGM at 2:56 PM Labels : APC Late Models Flamboro Speedway Hurricane Midgets Lucas Oil Sportsman Cup Mini Stocks Oktoberfest Open Wheel Modified Thunder Cars 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Inside Track TV LIKE' Inside Track on Facebook READ INSIDE TRACK ON YOUR COMPUTER OR IPAD Subscribe 9.99 for 12 issues or purchase a single issue 99 cents The new issue of Inside Track is available right now . Click on the image above to find out . more inside_track on Twitter ITMN Slideshow : F1 Montreal Atmosphere' by Paolo Pedicelli Loading: skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 BGR Team Grote Closes in on Championship It was a very productive weekend at Mosport International Raceway for the BEMC Indian Summer Trophy weekend which also featured the Gord Lowe Memorial Race for the OFFC grid . BGR Team Grote represented by top rookies Trent Hindman and Dalton Kellett took home 4 podiums and ran under the unofficial lap record held by BGR alumni Conor Daly . nbsp Saturdays event was a superb battle for the win between Trent Hindman and fellow rookie Garett Grist with Dalton in hot pursuit . Trent who started second twice passed Grist for the lead , once around the outside of turn four in spectacular fashion and again in turn five but each time was passed on the long uphill Mario Andretti backstraight . Never: skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 Raabe has Long Day at Kawartha in NASCAR Season Finale Three Race Run is Still a Huge Success for the 01 Team By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design If you were to tell Chris Raabe and the 01 team just three weeks ago that they would have two top ten finishes and win top rookie of the race awards in their three starts in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series it would have far exceeded their expectations going into a brand new series , in a car that Raabe is not used to , on tracks that he had never even seen . before With that being said , the disappointment on the final race was evident , when a problem with the right rear sidelined Raabe for about 30 laps early in Saturday’s Kawartha 250, and eventually forced him out of the . race: . skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 Danny O’Brien Charges From the Back to Get Second at Brighton Tough Night at Cornwall in Mr . DIRTcar Series Action By Craig Revelle Finish Line Web Design After a 13 th place finish last week in the 358 Modified DIRTcar Series at Mohawk Raceway , Danny O’Brien was looking to have a solid weekend , and build some momentum going into the final few weeks of the 2011 racing . season Danny had a pair of events on his weekend schedule beginning with the annual Applefest Weekend at Brighton Speedway on Saturday , and then to Cornwall Speedway on Sunday for their rescheduled Mr . DIRTcar Canadian National Series 125 lap season . finale O’Brien got off to a great start at Brighton Speedway winning his qualifying heat . race In the main
Now that the Ford Crown Victoria is dead, the cop-car market is up for grabs. Departments and posts nationwide make their cruiser-buying decisions based on evaluations performed by the California Highway Patrol and the Michigan State Police, and Michigan has just concluded its testing. This year’s field was crowded: Ford’s Taurus Police Interceptor and Explorer [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , September 27, 2011 Johnston Gains in Championship Standings Caitlin Johnston , 23, of Orangeville , Ontario , made huge gains in the championship at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville , Connecticut in the F1600 Formula F Championship Series September 16th and 17th . Going into the weekend 5th place in the points , the goal was consistency . We had a tough weekend at Mid-Ohio back in July , and wanted to bounce back from it . Lime Rock is one of my favourite race tracks ever since we raced there in 2009 in the F2000 Championship Series and I was really looking forward to being back . 8221 With the qualifying sessions on Friday , and the races on Saturday , strategy played a huge part in the weekend . Once Friday’s qualifying was in the books , Johnston: : . skip to main skip to sidebar Monday , September 26, 2011 NCATS : Don Thomson Jr . rebounds in season finale at Kawartha Don Thomson Jr . in his 8 Farmers Feed Families Dodge started out well on Saturday night at Kawartha Speedway during the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season finale , aiming for a podium finish . nbsp Lady Luck had a few challenges to throw the Team’s way before the night would be over , however . After a tough run at Riverside Speedway , Thomson as hoping to make a last race run in the 2011 Driver Points Championship . nbsp Practice for the team went well and Thomson qualified a solid 6th . nbsp Thomson planned to waste no time when the green flag dropped on the 250 lap event . nbsp Thomson’s car was fast , but was held up on track by slower cars trapping him for a: : skip to main skip to sidebar Monday , September 26, 2011 NCATS : True teamwork helps Hathaway at Kawartha Jason Hathaway , in this 3 Snap on Tools Rockstar Energy Drink Vortex Brake Pads Dodge had high hopes of finishing up the 2011 NASCAR Canadian Tires Series schedule at Kawartha Speedway with a strong showing and capture the highly contested 8th place in the Driver Points . Championship The car practiced well and Hathaway was comfortable with his race machine heading into the 250 lap event . nbsp We like this track and it has been good to us in past years . We are starting from a good spot in the field tonight and we are looking forward to the race tonight , 8221 said Hathaway during the fan favourite autograph session . trackside Starting 9th in the deep 26 car field , in true
BMW hopes to duplicate the success of the X6 with a smaller, X3-based crossover. Ask BMW executives their favorite success story among the company’s current products, and they’re likely to say “X6.” Combining the disadvantages of an SUV, a coupe, and a performance car, the X6 has nevertheless been a smash hit. It’s not hard [...]
A downsized engine and upsized visual presence. Identical or otherwise, twins tend to find a way to separate themselves. Romulus killed Remus. One of the Sklar brothers wears glasses. Mary-Kate Olsen has a hyphenated first name. Until now, the Audi S5 coupe had a V-8 and the S5 cabriolet was the one with the blown [...]
Dodge’s compact squeezes into some new Italian genes. When Fiat and Chrysler tied the knot, we knew that the brands would extensively share products, parts, and platforms. Cases in point include almost the entirety of the Lancia brand, the Maserati Kubang SUV, and the Ram version of the Fiat Doblo van. Most critical as far [...]
When one considers Caterham, “technology” is not the first thing that comes to mind. After all, barring its recent track-only collaboration with Lola, the company makes its bucks continually refining Colin Chapman’s venerable Lotus Seven. Admittedly, today’s Cat is a far cry from Chapman’s original, including such niceties as fuel injection and modern brakes, but [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Monday , September 26, 2011 Lapcevich ends 2011 NASCAR schedule with top-10 at Kawartha Speedway PHOTO BY SYLVAIN LAUWERS September 26, 2011, GRIMSBY , ON Jeff Lapcevich capped off his 2011 race season with a ninth place finish in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series Kawartha 250 Saturday night . The team fought handling issues on the Tim Hortons-sponsored Dodge throughout the practice session , but by race time the car was much . faster We’ll take a ninth place finish after the day we had , 8221 said Lapcevich . We chased the handling of the car , and I think we finally got it right for the race . 8221 Lapcevich qualified just outside the top 10 to start the race , and he was able to move forward in the early laps . Contact on the race track forced the team to
Motorpoint is offering some fantastic deals on vehicles that are appropriate for the terrible winter we are likely to be facing this year. Here are the details below: Being stuck in adverse weather is ‘snow joke’, but the trusty 4×4 Chevrolet Captiva, with its seven seats, should help to keep your whole family mobile even [...]
Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. The Volkswagen-Suzuki alliance has collapsed. In December 2009, VW took over 19.9 percent of Suzuki; the [...]
In 1985, BMW created the M5, nothing less than a supercar in disguise. That first model was powered by the outrageously muscular, 24-valve, 3.5-liter inline-six taken (albeit slightly modified) from the M1. The result was extreme performance in the perfect camouflage. Only later did BMW add cladding and spoilers or even alter the body of [...]
Hyundai turns up the heat under its mid-size crossover. The Santa Fe, Hyundai’s innocuous entry in the ultra-competitive mid-size crossover segment, has received numerous subtle improvements over the years but has never garnered much attention. Come 2013, though, the Santa Fe should turn more heads, trading its dreary duds for Hyundai’s dramatic new styling language [...]
If you were ever curious as to the origins of Ferrari’s prancing-horse logo, today is your lucky day. Ferrari has released an informative video that explains where the pony came from, and how it begat the small rectangular badge found on the hood of Ferrari’s cars. Our guess is that the clip, based on Enzo [...]
The 2012 Tesla Model S is set to go on sale by the middle of next year, but there has been only a smattering of pricing and production news about the electric sedan since we got our first look at the car two years ago. Then, out of the blue, a reader snagged these shots [...]
Honda calls it a concept, but this is the next CR-V. Honda has released pictures of the concept version of its next-generation CR-V, and it looks, well, pretty much like we expected based on recent spy photos. The vehicle seen here is, as is typical with Honda’s concepts, a loosely disguised version of the production car. [...]
Sacrificing progress at the altar of cost. The ongoing belt-tightening in America has seen small cars move upmarket, with many boasting attractive designs and premium features unheard of in the segment as recent as five years ago. But just as other manufacturers are moving onward and upward, Nissan has taken a few steps back with [...]
Meet the TEEWAVE AR.1, a one-off, two-seat electric sports car designed by Gordon Murray’s design company. The car, which weighs just 1878 pounds, has been designed by Murray for Toray Industries, a Japanese company that specializes in carbon fiber and lightweight material production. As such, the small roadster’s all-new monocoque chassis, crash structures, seats, and [...]
BMW has priced the new six-cylinder 640i coupe at $74,475, with the convertible commanding $81,975. Those base prices are a substantial $9400 less than the cars’ eight-cylinder 650i counterparts. With BMW’s recent addition of the all-wheel-drive 650i xDrive coupe and convertible to the 6er lineup, it’s worth mentioning that the six-cylinder cars will be rear-drive [...]
We have been assured that Subaru’s next-generation WRX and STI models—based on the all-new 2012 Impreza, which goes on sale in November—will happen. While we couldn’t squeeze out an exact intro date for the performance versions, you’re going to have to wait a while if you want one: We’ve heard from people who ought to [...]
BMW has priced the 2012 528i sedan from $47,575—$1650 more than the 2011 model. For 2012, the BMW 528i’s naturally aspirated 3.0-liter inline-six has been replaced with a turbocharged 2.0-liter four; the hp rating remains the same at 240, but torque increases 20 lb-ft to a total of 260. On the fuel economy front, the [...]
We have it on good authority that Subaru finally will show a version of its new BRZ sports car—with sheetmetal!—at November’s Los Angeles auto show. It won’t look like the final product, however, and neither do Toyota’s two FT-86 concepts: The companies have an agreement not to show a single production body panel until the [...]
Allroads will lead to Rome (New York) once again, as Audi tells us that the Allroad, its jacked-up all-wheel-drive station wagon, will return to the U.S. The only Audi Allroad model offered in the U.S. was an A6, last seen here in 2005. Since then, Audi has canceled the A6 Avant here altogether, making a lower-volume [...]
European Honda lovers are singing in unison with Americans now that their Civic, like our new 2012 car, has been toned down. Each market received its own positively radical single-box shape in 2006. In redesigning both this year, Honda opted for slight evolutions rather than second helpings of futurism. On the Euro car, the continuous [...]
Middle Class Acts: Can VW’s Passat satisfy the mainstream without pandering to it? We bring along two 10Besters to find out. Volkswagen has big plans for the United States. Big, as in 800,000-sales-by-2018 big, which is more than three times what it sold here in 2010. First came the Jetta, price-cut for the American market, [...]
The original 1966–1976 Jensen Interceptor was a British-built, Detroit-powered four-seat grand tourer. After a few on-again, off-again production blips in the 1980s, the Interceptor was dead for good—or so we thought. The owner of the Jensen brand rights has decided to make a run at resurrecting the half-century-old GT for 2014. Healey Sports Cars Switzerland [...]
Unstoppable until it runs out of fuel. Which might be often. “In California, I was standing in line at the DMV, and I was, you know, sort of beginning to lose it,” recalls Dave Harriton. “That’s when I resolved to move where people weren’t and to build cars that would take me places people weren’t.” [...]
This past summer, BMW released a dealer-installed $550 Performance Edition package for new 135i and 335i models, and now the company has announced pricing and details for the retrofit version of that package. Interestingly, the retrofit Performance Power kits are dealer installed just like the Performance Edition package, but are intended for existing single-turbo N55-powered [...]The Honda Civic Type R Mugen is a supremely hot hatch with serious credentials. There’s a new limited edition version which will be extremely rare on the roads (only twenty will be made in fact), but for those lucky owners they will have a whale of time. Here’s the skinny on this properly fettled car: [...]
Audi is releasing a new vehicle into the frantic action of the German touring car series, the DTM. It’s the A5 DTM and it is sure to provide some mighty performance! I’ll add more information as soon as it is available. In the meantime, enjoy this brief interview below with a current DTM driver: A [...]