2013
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The 2013 Honda Accord sedan and Accord Coupe go on sale in the fall of 2012.
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Audi FSI Technology: From Le Mans Victory To The Latest RS 5
Audi FSI technology helped lead Audi to victory in Le Mans in 2001 and now it's also helping the latest RS 5 dominate in the sports car segment.
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MINI Talks Development Of Its John Cooper Works GP: Video
MINI has already made it perfectly clear that its new MINI Cooper John Cooper Works GP will be the fastest production car its ever built, and a new series of videos gives us a good idea of how much MINI is sweating the details. While the original MINI Cooper John Cooper Works GP, sold only in 2006...
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Nissan Juke-R Production Sketches Revealed
The first sketches of the upcoming production version of the Nissan Juke-R have been revealed, depicting--as expected--a crossover with a decidedly sporty and agressive look. Just as insane as the prototype Juke-R, based on the Nissan GT-R's powertrain and intended for exhibition racing duty, the...
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Audi TT RS Five-Cylinder Sounds Off With Quattro Heritage: Video
The five-cylinder engine in the Audi TT RS traces its history back to the brand's racing 90 Quattro of the last 1980s.
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Audi Teases RS 5 For 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb: Video
Colorado wildfires delayed the 2012 running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, but it's getting underway this week--and it looks like Audi has something up its sleeve. An image posted to Facebook teases us, saying there will be a surprise "to pay homage to [Audi's] record-breaking past" at...
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The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) has a long history of creating rules for classes that ensure parity between all entrants. While the organization makes an effort to ensure its rules are fair for all and promote competitive racing, sometimes it misses the mark. This gets more complex when you consider that certain series are sanctioned by the SCCA, but not governed by them. The World Challenge series, for example, is sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing, but governed by rules established by WC Vision, which oversees the World Challenge series. A group of teams running the Mustang Boss 302S in...
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Official 2013 VW Beetle Convertible Fuel Economy Numbers Published
If you’re counting down the days until you can take delivery of your very own 2013 Beetle Convertible, there’s some good news to report on its official fuel economy. According to the EPA (via Motor Trend), the 200-horsepower Volkswagen Beetle Turbo Convertible will deliver 21 mpg city...
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Speedhunters Present 800-Horsepower Scion FR-S Drift Car
This 800-horsepower version of the Toyota GT 86, the Scion FR-S' twin sold overseas, features a heavily worked engine from a Toyota Supra.
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2013 Nissan Pathfinder Preview
The 2013 Nissan Pathfinder is 500 pounds lighter than the outgoing 2012 model, helping it deliver a fuel economy of 20/26 mpg city/highway.
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Cadillac Uses Brooklyn Bridge To Refine Radar Safety Tech For ATS, XTS
The 2013 Cadillac ATS and XTS will get some advanced radar-based safety technology, but first, the company had to weed out bad data.
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2013 Mercedes GL63 AMG Ensures Your Kids Won't Be Late To Soccer Practice: Video
If you need to haul six other passengers at maximum velocity over both paved and dirt roads, regardless of weather, the Mercedes-Benz GL63 AMG should be near the top of your shopping list for 2013 models. Blessed with AMG’s 5.5-liter twin-turbo V-8 (one of the best-sounding engines on the...
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We've seen the near-production Porsche 918 Spyder in several different forms, including its most recent Martini Racing livery, for months now. The official releases have all but given away what the production version of the car will look like, but in this video, we see what purports to be the real deal, dressed in simple silver rather obfuscating racing stripes. While we can't vouch for the authenticity of the video, found via Biser3a, the car itself looks identical to the liveried versions we've already seen, with the exhaust mounted on top of the engine cover as you'd expect, but in its...
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2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Special Editions: Alpine, Vapor
The 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 gets a handful of interior upgrades and two new exterior special editions.
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WRC Finland Helmet Cam With Ken Block: Video
If you're not already intimately familiar with the wondrously insane human-car activity known as rally, this video should get you hooked. If you are familiar, it's just a great two-minute break in your day. Having gone through something similar--though much slower--ourselves, we'd gladly repeat the...
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BMW Teases Its Not-For-North-America M135i: Video
We’ll admit it: we’re smitten with BMW’s M Performance hatchback, the M135i. It’s the right size, it offers hatchback sensibility and it looks to be a whole lot of fun on twisty roads. In fact, there’s only one problem with BMW’s hot hatch: it’s not for...
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2013 Ford Focus ST Throws Down Against The Competition: Video
Just in case you haven’t read our “First Drive” report on the 2013 Ford Focus ST, let us sum it up by saying we loved the car. Editor Bengt Halvorson praised its performance, handling and refinement before calling it “tough competition” for others in the hot hatch...
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Ford To Donate Another Custom Mustang Boss 302 For Charity
Ford plans to auction off a custom 2013 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca to help raise funds for the American Cancer Society.
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The 2013 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Convertible will join its hardtop sibling in showrooms later this year and in the lead up to its arrival GM has announced that pricing on the car will start at $60,445, including a $900 destination charge. That represents a $5,450 premium over the Camaro ZL1 coupe, but considering the performance available we still consider it a bargain. How much performance? Well all Camaro ZL1 Convertibles come with a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 engine rated at 580 horsepower and 556 pound-feet of torque. Matched to either a six-speed manual transmission or six-speed automatic...
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2013 Shelby GT500 Super Snake Continues Construction: Gallery
The 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 begins its transformation in the the 2013 Shelby GT500 Super Snake.
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2013 Camaro 1LE Laps VIR Within Six Seconds Of Camaro ZL1: Video
The first salvo in the current affordable-pony-cars-you-can-track wars was fired by Ford, with the launch of the 2012 Boss 302 Mustang. For little more than the price of a loaded Mustang GT, you could buy a car already set up for track driving, that didn’t punish you on there way there and...
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Driver Totals New Ferrari FF In Nashville
To make Ferrari’s FF shooting brake more civil for everyday driving, the automaker incorporated its first-ever all-wheel-drive setup in the 651-horsepower grocery-getter. Combined with its sophisticated electronic stability control systems, the Ferrari FF is arguably one of the most forgiving...
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2013 Chevrolet Camaro 1LE Priced from $37,035
The 1LE package for the 2013 Camaro is available on 1SS and 2SS coupe models.
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Is A Hotter Hyundai Veloster Turbo R-Spec In The Works?
If you’ve had a chance to sample the new Hyundai Veloster Turbo, you’ve probably come to the same conclusion that we have: as a sporty car it’s fine, but it’s still not ready to run with the big dogs of the hot hatch world, performance-wise. Put another way, the Veloster...
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