Nelson Ireson, Senior Editor
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The rules of Fireball Run are, on their face, pretty simple. Two people per team minimum, four maximum. The car that runs the rally must actually run the rally--no trailering or support vehicles. The...
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Fireball Run: What Is It?
The Fireball Run might sound like one of the gonzo cross-country outlaw runs like the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (better known as the Cannon Ball Run) but it's actually a very above-board affair. Its core mission is not just to have fun or drive across the country...
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High Gear Media Does The Fireball Run
Seventy-five teams, 3,500 miles, 8 days, with track events, missions, and one common goal: to help find missing kids. The Fireball Run kicks off September 23 and runs through October 2, and High Gear Media is taking part. We're in it to win it, and we'll be covering the event as we go. Joel Feder...
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Video: Gymkhana THREE, Part 2--This Time, With HoonageThe first part of the third round of Gymkhana videos was a bit of a disappointment for people interested in cars, hoonage, and general mayhem. This time around, there's no music video. Just a whole lot of smoking tires, turbo Fiesta growling and popping, and some fantastic camera work. We could...
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2011 Hyundai Genesis Coupe R-Spec Priced From $24,500As Hyundai attemps to scale the heights of the luxury sector with the new 2011 Equus full-size sedan, it's also still pushing in the sports car arena with its Genesis Coupe. The 2011 model sees some shuffles in the trim levels, and today we finally get pricing for the R-Spec, in both 2.0T and 3.8...
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2012 Audi TT RS Confirmed For U.S., Late 2011 ArrivalThe hottest of Audi's TT lineup will finally be making its way to America, due here in the third quarter of 2011. The credit is due in part to a Facebook petition called "Bring it to the U.S." which saw 11,500 signatures over the course of a month. If you're not up to speed on the TT-RS, you ought...
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Ford's own 2011 Mustang GT is no slouch, rated at 412 horsepower and delivering every bit of it. Then there's the Mustang Shelby GT500, with a massive supercharged 550 horsepower and 510 pound-feet...
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Video: Travis Pastrana's Record Run Up Mt. WashingtonIt's one thing to see a rally car and its occupants flying through a stage at breakneck speed. It's wholly another to see how they prepare for the feat, running the recce, making pace notes, figuring out their own language for each element. This video covers it all. If you missed the announcement...
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2011 Fiat 500 Sport: First LookThe Fiat 500 is just over two months from retail sale here in the U.S., and now Chrysler has revealed the first image of the new car in Sport trim. We've already known the 500 would get an upgraded platform for the U.S., and that up to four different models would be sold, but this is our first...
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Aston Martin To Return To 24 Hours Of Le Mans With New Prototype CarCiting new regulations for 2011 that allow its car to be competitive against the diesels of Peugeot and Audi, Aston Martin is planning a re-entry to Le Mans next season. The car they'll be campaigning is a new LMP1 prototype. Even with new rules enforcing performance parity, or at least attempting...
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Leaked: Ford Mustang Boss 302 Production Limited To 8,000 Over 2 YearsWe know most of the key details of the 2012 Mustang Boss 302 from its unveiling at Pebble Beach last month. But until now, we haven't seen Ford's plans for production quantities. The source of the leak? Borders book store, if you can believe it. A description for a book to be published next year...
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Lexus Drops MPG, Performance Details On 'Sporty' 2011 CT 200hIt's hard to envision a portly hatch with a total output of 134 horsepower as "sporty," but that's the ostensible "dark side" to the 2011 Lexus CT 200h, and today we have the full details on the car, including acceleration, efficiency and emissions figures, courtesy of Lexus. Zero to 60 mph comes...
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John Z. Delorean and Pontiac: two names lost to the vagaries of time but which still live on through their sometimes awkward, sometimes brilliant progeny. Today, one car up for auction ties both...
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Report: Next Nissan GT-R Will Be Pure Electric, Other Sporty EVs PlannedNissan could be going all-electric with its flagship Nissan GT-R. Call it keeping up with the German Joneses or wild speculation, but a new report claims Nissan's Cheif Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga has hinted at the possiblity of turning Nissan's already heavily electronic sports car into a...
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2010 Paris Auto Show Preview: Audi Planning 2011 S1, 2012 S7 Unveiling?Every other year the Paris auto show packs in some of the world's most impressive concepts and new model debuts, and this year is shaping up to be no different, despite the tepid climate in the global market. Audi in particular is expected to have some hot concepts on display, with the latest...
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Video: Audi Airlifts Camouflaged Concept (R4?) To Ski SlopesIt's summertime even in Western Europe, but that doesn't mean you can't hit the ski slopes--in an Audi, at least. This video, claiming to be a behind-the-scenes capture of an Audi promo shoot, shows what may be the Audi R4/e-tron on a dry Olympic ski jump near the Austrian border. It's a two-part...
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More BMW 1-Series M Details Leaked?BMW's 1-Series M car has made so many laps around the Internet you'd think it was running the world's biggest endurance race, but thanks to a post from an insider at the BMW Power of M 2010 event, we may have some new details on the upcoming smallest M car. Postings on Internet forums are typically...
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MINI Paris Teaser Nothing But A Countryman?It looks like MINI UK has pulled a big about-face on the Paris design concept and related competition for tickets to the September 23 unveiling, pulling the photo from the Facebook page and saying the car is nothing but a standard Countryman. The move was made to "avoid confusion." Of course...
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There's not much mystery left to the 2011 Audi A7, but that doesn't mean we're not up for some slow-pan ogling of the car. Almost every detail is exposed, from the multi-stage tail lights to the...
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Pastrana Breaks Mt. Washington Climb Record By 20 SecondsOne of the nicest and craziest guys in motorsports just laid down a record-setting run on his first attempt up the Mt. Washington Climb in Vermont. Pastrana got to the top of the 6,288-foot mountain in just 6:20.47, almost 22 seconds quicker than the previous record, set in 1998 by Frank Sprongl...
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Porsche Panamera Notches Sales Belt 22,518 Times In First YearHumpback proportions aside, Porsche clearly did a lot of things right with the Panamera. No fewer than 22,518 buyers agreed during its first year on the global market. Think Porsche's not proud of that figure? Check out all the uses of "Gran Turismo" to describe the car in the press release on page...
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Style Your 2011 Continental GT: Bentley Visualiser LiveClassing up the usual configurator with Bentley style, the Visualiser (note the British spelling) for the new 2011 Continental GT. Gear up your best champagne wishes and caviar dreams, and hit up the site to build your own dream Bentley. Well, you can style your Bentley, but you can't really build...
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Will Your Dealer Get The 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302?Chances are good that if you've got Mustangs moving off local lots, you'll see the 2012 Mustang Boss 302 early next year. But a good chunk of you will have to travel to find one on the lot. Ford's plan for allocating the new Boss 302 to its dealers has leaked onto the Web, revealing a two-tiered...
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Name Your All-Time Favorite Fast Or Fancy FordThe era of social media is fully upon us when even 100-plus-year-old carmakers are adopting outlets like Twitter and Facebook as part of their efforts to build brand reputation. Sometimes it's even interesting. Take this tweet for @Ford, the official Ford Twitter account: @Ford: In 1953, Ford...
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