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We’re just days away from the official launch of the eagerly-awaited Jaguar F-Type at the 2012 Paris Auto Show, so the British automaker is pulling out all the stops to get the car noticed. Yesterday, Jaguar released a video showing glimpses of the F-Type testing at Gaydon in the U.K...

Audi’s latest-generation S3 has finally been revealed, with the initial three-door hatchback bodystyle so far the only version Audi has announced. The German automaker has decided not to bring its new A3 Hatchback to the U.S., so it’s likely this S3 Hatchback won’t be coming...

In 1968, Chevrolet replaced the shortest-lived Corvette (the C2, produced for model years 1963-1967) with what would turn out to be the longest-lived variant, the C3. Still iconic in its shape, the C3 Corvette remained in production from model years 1968 through 1982. In performance terms, those...

If you're a typical car owner, or even an enthusiast, you probably don't know what QNX is--but you should. Or at the least, you should know about the company's work in the field of in-car technology, because chances are good you use it every day. In the near future, you'll use it to do new things...

Talacrest is a name best known in the classic Ferrari world, but this time around, it's peddling the 1959 Le Mans-winning Aston Martin DBR1/2 driven by Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby. To call this car priceless is to ignore the whole point of a sale--but it's certainly a piece of motorsport...

If you’ve wondered why Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t had much face time on the big screen of late, the answer is simple: from 2003 until January of 2011, the bodybuilder-turned-action-film-star was busy with another job, namely running the state of California. Now that his political...

Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima remains a legend on Pikes Peak despite Rhys Millen's record run this year--after all, Millen went just five seconds faster than Tajima's 2011 run despite an additional two-plus miles of pavement in place of dirt. But this year, Tajima's run for the record was cut short...

April Fool’s Day may have been four months ago but today we have a story worthy of being a great prank, only it’s real. Mercedes-Benz has enlisted none other than MacGyver, played by actor Richard Dean Anderson, to help sell its latest commercial vehicle, the Citan van. Anyone familiar...

The open-source minds behind the Local Motors Rally Fighter have joined forces with Domino's pizza to conceive the Ultimate Delivery Vehicle. And you (or people like you) are the brains that will imagine it. Domino's is "reinventing the way pizza is delivered, and [they] want your help," according...

With everything from the likes of the Banks Power/Dallenbach 1,400-horsepower beast to Monster Tajima's electric prototype to smaller privateers like the Evolution Dynamics Mitsubishi Evolution IX piloted by Jeremy Foley, the action at Pikes Peak is already underway. Qualifying is in the books, and...

Despite having just unveiled a 2013-spec Dodge Charger for NASCAR Sprint Cup competition, the brand will be leaving NASCAR at the end of the 2012 season. The news was confirmed on an official conference call with the media this afternoon. Ralph Gilles, president and CEO of SRT, said, "Dodge has...

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...

Rubbing, it’s said, is racing, and that may hold true in certain forms of motorsports. Punting your competitor because you don’t want to finish second, however, isn’t racing unless we’re talking about demolition derby. A Pagani GR, as far as we can tell, has never been...

Toyota competed in its first 24 Hours of Le Mans race in more than a decade earlier this year, using its new TS030 hybrid prototype developed primarily by the automaker’s independently run racing division Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) based in Cologne, Germany. After such a long break from Le...

Gumpert’s Apollo supercar is known to be both stunningly quick and utterly unforgiving of mistakes, as British Touring Car Championship driver Tony Gilham found out at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. During what was supposed to be an exhibition run up the Goodwood hill, with...

If MINI Cooper models were Mexican food, the Cooper would be mild, the Cooper S would be spicy, and the Cooper S John Cooper Works (JCW) would be extra-spicy. The limited-edition MINI Cooper JCW GP would be “Diablo,” with a heat level that required the signing of a liability waiver...

We can vouch, first hand, just how incredible an aural experience Le Mans Classic is. It's also a visual experience to rival anything set in the modern era. In these videos, we get an angle on the experience that only a relative handful of those at Le Mans Classic get to taste: the actual in-car...

Designing an F1 car might seem, in some respects, kind of simple: read the rule book, build to fit, bam!, race car. Of course, there's the picky bit about setup, tuning, power, and aerodynamics, but the core of the car--the things that make it all work together--should be pretty straightforward...

Just yesterday, Lincoln released a configurator and estimated pricing for the 2013 MKZ, so we expected a bit more of a wait before final pricing figures were made public, but Lincoln decided today is the day: the 2013 MKZ starts from $35,925, plus $875 in destination fees. That puts the new MKZ...

The 2012 running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was delayed from its original July date due to the severe forest fires plaguing the area surrounding Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rescheduled for August 12, the event is shaping up to be a memorable one. Purists will cry “foul,”...