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  • Carroll Shelby with 3 Cobra roadsters in 1963

    There’s no denying that Carroll Shelby permanently etched his mark on the American landscape with big, bold strokes. Over the course of his career, Shelby worked as everything from a farmer through a Formula One driver, but he was perhaps best known as the mad genius who shoehorned a Ford V-8 into an AC Ace roadster. You can’t recap the legend of Carroll Shelby in a single hour, so the Velocity Channel is producing a three-part miniseries covering the highlights of Shelby’s extensive career. The episodes are scheduled to air back-to-back, beginning at 8:00 PM Eastern on...

  • Top Gear USA, now on BBC 3
    Top Gear USA Season Three Premiers On February 14

    Top Gear USA returns for its third season on Tuesday, February 14. Expect more of the same antics from hosts Tanner Foust, Adam Ferrara and Rutledge Wood.

  • Top Gear season 18 preview images
    Top Gear Season 18 Mega-Gallery

    Season 18 of Top Gear begins on Sunday evening, and we've got a mega-gallery of images to hold you over until then.

  • The 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 used in filming "Happy Days."  Image: Bonhams Auctions
    'Happy Days' Triumph Motorcycle Hits The Auction Block

    The last remaining Triumph Trophy TR5 used in the filming of the hit sitcom "Happy Days" will be auctioned off at an upcoming Bonhams event.

  • 1957 Chevy 150 sedan from 'Pawn Stars'
    1957 Chevy From 'Pawn Stars' Catches Fire, Gets Restored Within Hours

    Unless you're a fan of the TV series Pawn Stars, you might've missed the news on Friday that a 1957 Chevy 150 sedan belonging to the "Old Man" overheated and burst into flames. But there's a follow-up piece that might interest you: the classic car was restored in just a matter of hours, and it's...

  • Justin Bell in 'World's Fastest Car Show' from eBay Motors
    eBay Motors Debuts 'World's Fastest Car Show' With Justin Bell

    eBay has had a tough go of it since former CEO Meg Whitman stepped down, but what change a week can bring: now, Whitman's been tapped to help the sinking ship known as HP, while eBay Motors has just launched an impressive new series for the web and mobile devices called "World's Fastest Car Show"...

  • Block, Foust, Gittin Jr., Deegan launch Octane Academy

    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.

  • Can fast online translate to fast on track? That's what GT Academy hopes to find out.
    Nissan/Playstation 'GT Academy' Show Debuts On Speed

    TV's newest reality show pits 16 Gran Turismo 5 champions against one another in real-world, track driving challenges. The prize? A chance to win a ride with Nissan's endurance racing team.

  • Velocity TV logo
    Discovery's Velocity Channel Debuts October 4

    Earlier this summer, we brought you news of Discovery's plans to launch a new channel targeting "upscale men" called Velocity, with part of its focus being custom, classic, and vintage cars. Today, the channel officially announced its launch date: October 4. The first night's programming will...

  • 2012 Audi A6
    Audi Signs On As Sponsor For 63rd Annual Emmy Awards

    The deal between Audi and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organizer of the Emmy awards, is multi-year one.

  • Richard Hammond
    Richard Hammond To Feature On BBC America’s New Car Show ‘Hard Drive’

    Hard Drive with Richard Hammond will feature the popular Top Gear host traveling around the U.S. and driving an assortment of oddball vehicles.

  • Top Gear USA hosts mug during "Donut" trailer
    Top Gear USA Season Two Starts July 24

    We’ve known for some time that HISTORY was planning to air a second season of Top Gear USA, after the show’s first season, which comprised some 10 episodes, managed to pull in a total of 60 million viewers. Now, thanks to the show’s Facebook page, we know that the first episode of...

  • Peugeot 403 Cabriolet

    As Columbo, Peter Falk played one of the more memorable detectives ever to ply the airwaves, but his trademark fedora and trenchcoat weren't his only distinctive calling cards. Can you imagine Elliott Stabler driving...a 1959 Peugeot 403 Convertible? As a fan site describes it, Columbo's Pug was "battered and unbeautiful, eccentric and woeful looking, but still a classic. " Just like the actor, who died today at the age of 83, in California, after suffering from years with Alzheimer's disease. Falk is said to have picked the Peugeot out himself, after seeing one in a parking lot at Universal...

  • Le Mans Live On-Board with Audi
    Don't Get The Le Mans 24 Hours On TV? Get An Audi Eye View

    As we speak the Le Mans 24 Hour sports car race at Le Mans in France has been underway for just under an hour. If you're not lucky enough to be enjoying a beer by the side of the circuit or at least don't have access to a television feed for the race, fear not. Front-running team Audi has their own...

  • Tom Stuker
    Car Sales Guru Tom Stuker Gets A Reality Show On Spike TV

    Tom Stuker may be the most famous person you've never heard of -- unless, of course, you're in auto sales. Stuker is to car dealerships as Tabatha Coffey is to hair salons: a highly sought-after consultant with the plainspoken, proven power to get stalled businesses moving again. Now, Stuker may be...

  • Stefano Langone
    American Idol's Stefano Langone, Nearly Killed By Drunk Driver, Has DUI Of His Own

    We're not going to sit here and pretend to hang on every word that drops from the mouths of American Idol contestants. We're not even going to pretend that we've watched a full episode of the show. But when it comes to competitors hiding portions of their past...well, we're all ears. During his...

  • 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid
    Hyundai Returns As Exclusive Auto Sponsor Of The Academy Awards

    In case you haven't been paying attention, this Sunday is the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, and it promises to be, well...interesting. The organizers have hired two young hosts, one of whom still lives on the fringes of superstardom and neither of whom is a comedian. In a bid to draw back younger...

  • Jennifer Aniston on The View
    Jennifer Aniston, The Accidental Honda Spokesmodel

    Jennifer Aniston dropped by The View several days ago, and the interweb has been in a minor tizzy every since. Not because of anything she said, of course; Aniston isnt' exactly the kind to raise eyebrows with wacko pronouncements. (You want that, you book Jennifer Love Hewitt. Even better...

  • Top Gear China pilot

    There have been rumblings that a new edition of the Top Gear franchise, one filmed in China, was in the works, and today we have news that a pilot for the new show has been produced. Carrying the title of Top Gear China, if successful the pilot will eventually lead to a full series. Top Gear China will follow a similar format to the original British production, with a trio of male hosts and plenty of antics involving cars. However, as we’ve seen with similar attempts, such as Top Gear Australia and Top Gear USA, the latter just being approved for a second season, matching the original...

  • Print ad for GM's Inside the Vault TV show
    Video: General Motors Launches A Manly New TV Show

    To the casual observer, it might seem that there are plenty of TV shows for Manly Men to watch. Need explosions? Try any of CSI's 31 flavors. Detective sleuthing? There's an entire Law and Order franchise waiting. Hunting and sports are featured on dozens of cable channels (plus the new The Drivers...

  • Top Gear season 16
    Video: Top Gear Returns For Season 16

    The lads are back for yet another season of all out hilarity on four wheels, this time with a brand new Stig and plenty of new antics. Some of the goodies we can expect include a comparison between two classic supercars, the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959, a test of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost as well...

  • Adam Carolla in Toyota GP gear
    Adam Carolla Takes On Top Gear USA. We Have Some Suggestions.

    Look, we know that Top Gear USA just launched, and we know that sometimes it takes a few episodes for a show to get warmed up (e.g. Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, Facts of Life). But as much as we (pretend to) hate jumping to conclusions, in this case, there's only one we can reach: Top Gear USA is...

  • Top Gear gets a new Stig
    Video: Top Gear Breeds A New Stig

    The BBC's Top Gear is perhaps the most well-recognized and widely-watched motoring program on earth, and the series' dependence on a hired gun that plies the world's best supercars at the show's test track is equally well-known. This hired gun, commonly referred to as the Stig, came to be almost as...

  • Hawaii Five-0 Remake
    VIDEO: Mercury Lives On--In Hawaii Five-O Remake

      Hollywood doesn't call them remakes--they euphemize 'em as "reboots" these days. But with this fall's new version of the CBS classic, Hawaii Five-0 is trying to stay as authentic as possible with a raft of new Fords on screen--and at least one old one. CBS may be the only place you'll see a...

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