Nelson Ireson, Senior Editor
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Ray Horton, ex-secondary coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers and new defensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals, did a pretty generous thing recently: he sold his 1999 Mercedes-Benz SL 500 to a...
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Government-Mandated Autonomous Cars: Science Fiction Or Coming Soon?The idea of an iRobot (the movie, not the book)-like future where only the renegades drive their own cars may be fast approaching. BMW's i range of cars offers some ready-for-prime-time autonomy, and VW's recent Auto Pilot demo shows just how close we already are to production driverless cars...
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1931 Duesenberg Model J Owned By George Whittell, Jr. At Gooding & Co. Pebble Beach AuctionGeorge Whittell, Jr., was sort of the early 20th Century's male version of Paris Hilton--the son of a rich family, he never worked, instead spending his days with fast cars and equally fast women. One of his fantastic Duesenbergs is coming up for auction at the Gooding & Co. Pebble Beach event...
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Formula 1 Looking At New Jersey In Addition To Austin?So, F1 fans, after spending four years without a U.S. Grand Prix, we'll finally get another in 2012, thanks to the Circuit of the Americas in Austin. But could a New Jersey street circuit join the party, too? According to the Wall Street Journal, it's on the table. We're not looking up air travel...
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Cop Run Over By Criminal, Gets Up And Chases, Arrests Him: VideoThis English cop must have eaten his Weetabix one fateful morning: while attempting to setup a road block to stop a fleeing criminal, the officer is sent flying when the crook's car rams the police vehicle. That's not the end of the story for this British cop, however. Surrey, England police...
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Fire Up Your Sim Rigs, iRacing 2.0 Is Out: VideoWhether you use it to sharpen your skills between events, to keep your edge over the off-seasons, or just to get in some realistic motorsports action without the expense and time commitment of running a real car, iRacing is a great tool, and a great game. It just got better with version 2.0. The...
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The 2013 Audi A4 is soon to join the 2012 A5 with a fresh new face, revised to keep the model fresh as it reaches mid-cycle status. These images, the first to capture the facelift, show LED running...
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Maserati's 2012 GranTurismo Convertible Sport In Action: VideoThe 2012 Maserati GranTurismo Convertible Sport--or GranCabrio, as it's known elsewhere--isn't the fastest convertible around. It's not the most expensive. It's not even the most exclusive. But it is beautiful, and sounds just as good, and this video expresses those traits wonderfully. Settle in...
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AMG Driving Academy Takes You Drifting: VideoIf you haven't been following the AMG Driving Academy Performance Series with Tommy Kendall since we brought you the first episode, you should have been. This is an example of why: TK and and AMG driving instructor Nick Kunewalder walk you through some of the basic how-tos of drifting. From...
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2012 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup: The (Next To) Last HurrahWith an all-new Porsche 911 on deck for the 2012 model year, the 2012 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup factory racer is very likely the last of the current model's progeny, and it's a good one. Powered by an engine that's "largely identical" to the production 911 GT3 RS unit, meaning a 3.8-liter...
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2012 Tesla Model S Testing On Track: VideoJust yesterday we brought you spy shots from what appeared to be a hot-weather testing session, and which has the same setting as this official video released today of three Model S Alpha build cars testing on track. The track is partially banked, enabling easier high-speed testing, but also has...
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Infiniti GT-R Rumors Spring FreshTheme of the day: the BMW 1-Series M Coupe and rumors that just won't die. This story fleshes out the second of those trends with some Infiniti-branded GT-R postulation. Call us pessimistic, but until we see an Infiniti badge on something Nissan GT-R-derived, we're not going to hold our breath...
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BMWs on the ring are anything but a rare sight, even the newly-minted (and frequently crashed) 1-Series M Coupe. A 1-Series M Coupe filmed from the cockpit in pursuit of a track-prepped M3 CSL,...
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2014 Jaguar XE To Rival Boxster: ReportAs the subject of literally years of speculation and rumors, Jaguar's XE sports car is one of the most hotly anticipated arrivals of the next few years. It is expected to draw ideological, if not literal, inspiration from the classic E-Type, and will "blow the rest of the industry away" according...
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BMW 1-Series M Coupes Face Rough Weekend, Two More CrashesSwitzerland and South Africa now get to join South Korea and Poland among the nations with owners of wrecked 2011 BMW 1-Series M Coupes. The Save The 1Ms campaign can't start soon enough. Once again, the cause of the accident appears to be driver overconfidence under wet conditions, at least in the...
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RallyCross At X Games 17: Video, GalleryThis weekend, the sport of European-style rallycross headed to the streets of Los Angeles, but unlike road racers on a city street circuit, the rallycrossers faced the challenge of dirt and gravel strewn in strategic locations among other obstacles. The action was pretty intense, but if you were...
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2012 Tesla Model S Spy ShotsThe Tesla Model S, as new cars go, is the opposite of a secret project. In fact, in the interim between the soon out-of-production Roadster and the Model S's debut next year, Tesla likely hopes we'll all keep talking about the upcoming car--they won't have anything to sell, which is an odd position...
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2013 Lexus GS Hits The Autocross Course: VideoQuestion: what does a 2013 Lexus GS look like attacking an autocross-style course in full camouflage? Answer: see below. Despite the rather weak music overlaid on the video, we do get to hear some sounds of mild tire scrub in the video below, though the engine/exhaust note is too muted to make it...
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We were the first to bring you news of AMS Performance's Alpha 12 Nissan GT-R, with its brutal 1,318 horsepower at the wheels, capable of rocketing from 60 to 130 mph in a mere 3.46 seconds. Now we... -
2012 Bentley Continental V-8 Coming To 2012 Detroit Auto ShowWe've known for a year that Audi and Bentley will soon be sharing a new turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8, and we've known as well that it will be coming to the Continental GT first unveiled for the 2011 model year as well. Today, we get confirmation that the V-8 version will make its official debut at...
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BMW Introduces i3, i8 Range With Official VideoWith its introduction of the concepts for the BMW i3 and i8 this morning, BMW has launched in earnest its attempts to define a new brand, centered around themes that sound a bit like double-speak, but which really boil down to efficient driving with a bit of style. Terms like "sustainability,"...
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McRae Electric Dakar Buggy In The Rain: VideoMcRae Buggy and Tim Coronel are working on the first electric buggy for the 2012 Dakar Rally, and it finally got the chance to test in some real race conditions at the 2011 Spanish Baja, running as the opening car for the Super Special stage. With a base weight of just 1,440 pounds for the McRae...
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Second BMW 1-Series M Coupe CrashedJust a week ago, we brought you images and info on the first 2011 BMW 1-Series M Coupe crashed, then on Korean soil, and now we unfortunately have the second, this time in Poland. This one looks much less serious, however, with an apparent backwards off on yet another wet road sripping one tire off...
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Czech Tuner Wraps Corvette In Chrome: Not Quite AwfulWe normally shy away from the more mundane and gaudy of the tuning world's creations, but we occasionally take a minute to look at the worst, and, in some cases, the best. We're not 100 percent sure which category this chromed Corvette by Czech firm Tintek falls into, but there's something...
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