Nelson Ireson, Senior Editor
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Audi's Q3 has been a long time coming--we caught spy shots of it, learned it would be built in Spain by Seat, and even chased reports that it would eventually head to the U.S. Today, the smallest of...
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Former Mets Star Dykstra Charged In Luxury Car ScamFormer New York Mets baseball star Lenny Dykstra was charged with dozens of felony counts today in relation to a luxury car theft ring. Drug charges were also levied. Dykstra is charged with three counts of grand theft auto, five counts of attempted grand theft auto, eight counts of filing false...
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Mazda 6 Walks Out On Michigan, Ford Plant, Next One Made In JapanLast week we heard talk of the further separation of Ford and Mazda, with the end of Mazda's U.S. production at the forefront. Today, Mazda has announced that the next mid-size sedan for the U.S. will be built in Japan. The car, of course, will be the follow-up to the Mazda6. It will likely...
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Bumblebee Camaro Back For Transformers 3: VideoThe latest promo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro features yet another tie-in with the Transformers franchise. Surprised? Neither are we. Interested? Of course. Chevy's involvement with the Transformers movie series has been nothing short of intensive, but we have a hard time arguing with sports cars...
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Gumball 3000 Lamborghini Fearless In Water Crossing: VideoThere are Lamborghinis and then there are Lamborghinis. Many, if not most, are coddled their whole lives, living decadent lives of garage- and trailer-bound pampering, rarely, if ever, seeing the kind of use for which they're ostensibly built. This one, however, has gone well beyond the usual...
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2012 BMW 1-Series Hatchback M Sport ImagesThe official unveiling of the 2012 1-Series Hatchback, still, unfortunately, not for U.S. consumption, took place last week. Now we have an image of the M Sport package for the car, showing a more aggressive styling package, and perhaps explaining these spy shots we published back in March. There's...
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You're pulling onto the freeway, merging with late-evening traffic, when suddenly your new 2012 Volvo S60 stumbles and dies. What do you do?
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Kansas Speedway STP 400 Weather ForecastIt's race weekend, folks, and it's rapidly becoming summer even though the calendar says it's still technically spring. If you're headed to the Kansas Speedway for the STP 400 this weekend, you'll want to bring your sunscreen. High temperatures are set to hover in the low-90s through the weekend...
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STP 400 Drivers: Harvick, Edwards, Johnson, Who Else?Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, and Kevin Harvick look to be breaking a bit of a gap on the rest of the NASCAR Sprint Cup field at this stage in the season, but with about two-thirds of the racing left, it's anyone's game. Matt Kenseth, for example, has two wins to his credit now, while contenders...
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Kansas STP 400 Race ScheduleNow one-third of the way through the season, the NASCAR Sprint Cup is heading to Kansas for the STP 400. Friday's final practice session is just finished, but qualifying remains ahead, scheduled for 11:10 a.m. local (noon Eastern) Saturday morning. Each car will put in two laps to determine the...
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2012 BMW 1-Series Image, Details LeakedUpdate: The official details and images on the 2012 BMW 1-Series Hatchback are out. Click here for our latest post. The current BMW 1-Series is, despite its late arrival in the U.S., growing long in the tooth, 1-Series M Coupe notwithstanding. Accordingly, a new model is in the works, due as a 2012...
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Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet Production Crippled By Earthquake, TsunamiIn what may be the only silver lining of the horrific earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan in March--though Nissan certainly won't see it this way--production of the 2011 Murano CrossCabriolet was cut just as it began, halting its assault on our eyeballs just as it was about to...
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Earlier this week, the news of the Cadillac SRX plug-in hybrid's pre-production demise spread quickly, followed a few days later by talk of why, including a source that blamed the battery and a lack...
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Jaguar XKR-S Gets Some Official Track Time: VideoJaguar's latest XK family member, the XKR-S, isn't a 240-mph hypercar, and it's not the lightest, nimblest, or even the prettiest of the more run-of-the-mill super sports cars. But it does sound spectacular while offering a sampling of the best, and last, of the current XK. This video shows the...
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Audi A1 clubsport quattro Concept Build VideoIt's hard to get too excited over Europe-only concepts for shows like Wörthersee, where the A1 clubsport quattro concept was unveiled this week. In this case, however, there's a taste of tanatlizing production car lying just beneath the surface. Which production car is that? Why, the RS1, of...
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Formula 1 Heading To Bahrain October 30 As FIA Gives Green LightThe civil (and not-so-civil) unrest in Bahrain had put the race's presence on the 2011 Formula 1 schedule in doubt this year, and until today, most had assumed the race would be skipped. Instead, the FIA voted to hold the race despite the violence and political turbulence. Since Bahrain was...
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2012 Chevrolet Impala LeakedThe first semi-official images and details on the 2012 Chevrolet Impala have leaked to the web via a 2012 model-year preview PDF on the GMFleet.com website. In addition to the photo above comes confirmation that the Impala will be powered by a 3.6-liter V-6 engine with E85 capability, but only that...
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Hyundai Fielding Two Cars, Two Millens For 2011 Pikes PeakRhys Millen and Hyundai have done a lot together, including a tricked-out Equus, a drift car, a few rounds of the Rallycross Championship, and, of course, Pikes Peak. This year Rhys is bringing his father into the act with a two-car assault on Pikes Peak. Rhys will tackle the mountain and its more...
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Volkswagen's Golf range is already set to get a lot more exciting here in the U.S. with the impending release of the Golf R, but VW may be adding to the mix with an American version of the Edition...
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1978 AMX Showdown Is Hilarious: VideoGiven enough time, a whole set of doctoral theses could probably be written about the content of this 1978 AMC AMX ad, from gender roles to car design to the evolution of marketing. But we're not concerned with all of that: the video is simply hilarious. Whether it's the Fonzie clone in the one car...
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2011 Woodward Dream Cruise Gets Chevrolet SponsorshipDetroit is dying, fading into a cheap reproduction of its one-time Motor City greatness. But that doesn't stop the city's sprawling suburbs from hosting one of the biggest, most impressive displays of cars anywhere: the Woodward Dream Cruise. This year, it's sponsored by Chevrolet. Chevy's...
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2012 Mosler Raptor To Pack 650 HP, Just 2,500 LBSThe mixology for a seriously capable exotic is simple: take plenty of horsepower, add as much lightness as possible, give it a boutique name and a aerospace-inspired body and serve to anyone with $500,000 or so in their pocket. But even so, Mosler's newly announced Raptor is impressive. Packing...
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Cadillac SRX Plug-In Hybrid Cancelled Due To Inefficiency?Nearly a year ago, buzz about a plug-in hybrid Cadillac SRX stirred the automotive Web, and early this year GM CEO Dan Akerson said a plug-in SRX was "likely." Then this week Cadillac, seemingly out of the blue, reportedly killed the program. Why? According to Nick Saporito at GM Inside News, the...
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BMW Z3 Set To Make A Comeback?Rumors of BMW model proliferation continue to spread like wildfire, with the latest being a resurrection of the Z3 roadster. It's a somewhat convoluted chain of development and re-development that gets us there, too. Consider this one highly speculative for now, but plausible at the same time. BMW...
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