Contests
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If you want to learn how to race cars, having NASCAR’s Tony Stewart or Formula One’s Lewis Hamilton as a coach is a pretty solid way to start. If you could actually hire either superstar driver, you’d pay a staggering amount to be told that your lines are sloppy, you’re braking too early and you’re not looking far enough through the corner. Now, thanks to the Mobil 1 Racing Academy computer game, you can actually step into the shoes of a young Tony Stewart or Lewis Hamilton and work your way up from club racing to the pros. Each driver has three levels of...
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This Time, Carlisle Is Giving Away A Corvette
In the past few months, we’ve told you about giveaways at Carlisle events ranging from a vintage Fiat X1/9 to a classic Chevy 409 V-8 or a 5.7-liter Chrysler Hemi V-8. In keeping with tradition, Carlisle will again partner with www.AllVette.net to give away a Corvette at the 2012 Corvettes at...
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Want To Win A Chance To Drive A Lotus F1 Car?
Climbing behind the wheel of an F1 car generally requires years of racing experience, the reflexes of a fighter pilot and a sixth sense for car control that few people possess. Failing that, you could be the host of a very successful BBC automotive show, or you win a contest sponsored by watchmaker...
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Classic Fiat X1/9 Up For Grabs At Carlisle Import Show
When Fiat launched its new Fiat 500 in the United States last year, the Italian automaker had just a nine-percent brand recognition. While ads featuring Romanian supermodels, Charlie Sheen and Jenny from the block have upped that to around 40-percent, the fact of the matter is this: most Americans...
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Volkswagen Wants To Give You An Unforgettable Trip To Germany
Are you a fan of Volkswagen? Would you and a companion like to spend a week in Germany, on Volkswagen’s tab, touring its Wolfsburg plant and taking in the sights of Berlin? Would it sweeten the deal if VW threw in two days of performance driving instruction on the Nürburgring and $750 in...
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Coming Soon: The Sport Of Electric Car Drifting
Like it or not, electric cars will begin making inroads into mainstream motorsports, probably in the not-too-distant future. Electric drag racing is already an established sport and the benefits of electric propulsion (like peak torque at zero rpm) work well here. Range certainly isn’t an...
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Audi is bringing back last year's successful #WantAnR8 Twitter campaign, and entrants can win the use of an Audi R8 for the day.
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Drive To The Summer X Games In A Ford Focus ST...Simulator
Ford's latest contest will pit drivers against one another in a Ford Focus ST simulator, with the fastest drivers earning prizes and a chance for a trip to the ESPN summer X Games.
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The Worst British Celebrity To Take On A Road Trip? Clarkson, Of Course
Continental Tires asked British drivers which celebrity they'd least enjoy taking a thousand-mile trip across Morocco with.
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Jeep Reveals New 2012 Grand Cherokee Package, "Name My Ride" Contest
Jeep is launching a new trim package for Grand Cherokee models, and letting fans name it.
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Chevy Giving Away 20 New Cars During The Super Bowl
Chevy's Super Bowl-themed "Game Time" app gives users the chance to win thousands of prizes, including 20 new Chevrolets.
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Porsche Announces 'My Daily Magic' Contest Winner: Video
Porsche Cars North America has picked a winner in its "My Daily Magic" contest, which seeks to show the merits of Porsche vehicles as daily drivers.
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Matthew Foster of Portland, Oregon, was the winner in a MINI-sponsored contest to describe the best test drive, in just six words.
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MINI Wants To Put You On Ice
If you're a fan of winter extreme sports, MINI has the contest you've been waiting for. It's giving away two tickets, plus transportation and accommodations, to the opening event of the Crashed Ice World Championship.
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Ford Bringing Its 'Octane Academy' To Fuel TV In Early 2012
Due to the overwhelming popularity of its 'Octane Academy' contest, Ford will be working with Fuel TV to create a reality TV show from the Octane Academy sessions.
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Win A 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 In Pennzoil Sweepstakes
Are you feeling lucky? If so, you should zip over to Pennzoil's "Join the Pursuit" sweepstakes page, where you can enter to win a very special 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392, inspired by Penske Racing. "Join the Pursuit" is a marketing campaign that celebrates the partnership between Pennzoil and...
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MINI Builds Its Two-Millionth Car
Just ten years after the modern MINI went into production, the two-millionth car has rolled off the assembly line at MINI's Oxford plant in the UK.
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MINI's Tenth Birthday Celebration Is Out Of This World
To celebrate a decade of MINI sales in Britain, the company is launching a space-themed celebration, complete with a grand-prize trip to Cape Canaveral, FL
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This Friday auto enthusiasts and racing fans in Los Angeles and New York City will have the opportunity to see the the documentary we have all been waiting for: SENNA. Now that the time is nearly here, we want to know why you are excited to see SENNA. A quick refresher about what SENNA is about: The 104 minute documentary gives us a deeper look into the personal and professional life of Ayrton Senna da Silva. Sadly, his ten-year reign in Formula One ended on the bloody race weekend of May 1, 1994, in San Marino, Italy. The film eschews many standard documentary techniques in favor of a more...
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Citroën Sponsors Nationwide Game Of Hide-And-Seek For The DS4
U.K. readers: how'd you like a brand new car? Well as it turns out, Citroën is running a nationwide game of hide-and-seek, and if you play your cards right, you could drive off in a Citroën DS4. To participate, all you need is a computer, Android, or iPhone and a heaping helping of...
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Block, Foust, Gittin Jr., Deegan Launch Octane Academy With Ford
Want to be a motorsports hero? Think you can hang with some of the best rally, drift, offroad, and gymkhana drivers in the world? Get your video camera out and try out for the Octane Academy. Four high-profile drivers will put on a four-day driving camp for the people chosen through the video...
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Peugeot 3008 Launches Out-Of-This-World Space Flight Contest
If you live in the U.K. and you've got some time to kill this summer, Peugeot has launched a new contest that might be of interest. And if you win, they'll shoot you into outer space. (Well, almost.) The contest is called "Spot3008", and it's designed to hype the automaker's 3008 crossover. The way...
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Toyota Announces 'Ideas For Good' Finalists: You Can Help Pick The Winners
Last fall, we told you about Toyota's "Ideas for Good" competition. If you read about it or saw the TV commercials (including the controversial one that was censored by the NFL), you know that the contest encouraged folks to envision new applications for five Toyota technologies, like the company's...
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This Week's Challenge: Stop Cars In Their Tracks, Win $25,000
Last week, we told you about the Connected Vehicle Challenge, a contest sponsored by the Department of Transportation that aims to find creative, useful applications of short range communications technology. The DOT isn't ponying up any money for the six finalists of that challenge, but they're...
Richard Read