Kirk Bell, Senior Editor
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Big Willow at Willow Springs Raceway is a daunting 2.5-mile stretch of undulating asphalt in California’s Mojave desert. It provides a bumpy, off-camber, high-speed rollercoaster ride that...
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How the military jeep became today’s Jeep WranglerThe Jeep Wrangler has a long and illustrious history. Trace its ancestry back to its lowercase-”jeep” forefathers, and it goes back to before America entered World War II, through at...
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2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport spy shotsVolkswagen's 3-row Atlas is about to spawn a smaller, more rakish model with only two rows, a preview of which came last year in the form of the Atlas Cross Sport Concept.
The 2-row Atlas made its...
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2020 Cadillac CT4-V and CT5-V, Ferrari SF90 Stradale deep dive, McLaren Senna dyno test: Today's Car NewsCadillac is splitting its V strategy by adding lower-priced, lower-powered models to the traditionally high-performance name. The brand unveiled both the 320-horsepower 2020 CT4-V and the 355-hp...
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Down power 2020 Cadillac CT5-V arrives as part of split V seriesThe 2020 Cadillac CT5 hasn't even launched and the luxury automaker has already juiced it, albeit modestly with a CT5-V. No, it's not the 650-horsepower CT-5-V we were expecting. It's the lower end...
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Pininfarina Battista testing to begin early next yearNick Heidfeld signed on as the test and development driver for the Pininfarina Battista, but he's never turned the wheel in anger. In fact, he hasn't driven the car at all because there's no car to...
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Ford will launch an electric crossover SUV boasting a 300-mile range in 2020. The model will be a performance-oriented offering with a design inspired by the Mustang and previewed in the teaser above...
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First drive review: 2019 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 gets a grip on its missionThe logo is a snake. The engine sounds a rebel yell upon startup, and from there only shouts more, more, more. The tires are steamrollers meant to provide grip on a racetrack. It sits low and lean,...
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First drive review: 2020 Toyota Supra is fast and freneticIt’s late in the day at Summit Point Raceway, the warm sun of a late West Virginia spring is starting to pack it in for the day, and I’m still working on smoothing out my hamfisted ways...
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Review update: 2019 Audi A8 L takes it easyJust as winter has arrived in Westeros, spring attempts to gain traction in Chicago, but winter won’t let go. A trip to Wisconsin during a mid-April snowstorm gave me more time to learn more...
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Live out your open-wheel dreams in the BAC MonoBAC is a startup sports car company from Liverpool, England, which views driving as a sport. The company, started by Ian and Neill Briggs, has offered its Mono single-seat open-wheel sports car...
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2020 Cadillac CT5 coming with big shoes to fillSomewhere between Cadillac's inability to convince buyers it's a luxury brand on par with the Germans and buyers' increased preference for crossover SUVs, the Cadillac ATS and CTS have languished as...
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator brings all the right hardware to the mid-size pickup truck fight. It’s even dressed for battle.
Pundits might argue that the 2020 Jeep Gladiator is a Wrangler with a...
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First drive review: 2019 Volkswagen Jetta GLI channels GTI better than everThe Tail of the Dragon sits at, or near, the top of any list of great driving roads in America. This 11-mile ribbon of U.S. Highway 129 between Tennessee and North Carolina entices enthusiasts with...
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Aston Martin DBS GT Zagato, Dodge Charger Widebody, C8 Chevy Corvette spy shots: Today's Car NewsAston Martin is teaming up once again with Zagato to bring us another future classic. This time the basis is the already striking DBS Superleggera. In an interesting twist, Aston Martin will only...
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Audi will launch 13 performance cars and SUVs in 2019Audi Sport fans have a lot to look forward to this year as the brand announced on Thursday at its annual General Meeting that it has 13 performance cars in the pipeline for 2019.
"The brand is...
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Porsche's 8 goals for the 2020 911Automakers often use focus groups made up of current owners to help them develop the next model of any given vehicle. They want to know what works and what doesn’t, so they “clinic...
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2020 Cadillac XT6 SUV cuts $23,000 off the price of a three-row CaddyWant a three-row Cadillac? It'll cost at least $53,690 for the 2020 XT6 crossover SUV. That's about $23,000 less than the other three-row Cadillac, the Escalade, but about $10,000 more than the...
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Move over Ferrari, 1,877-hp Pininfarina Battista promises to be most-powerful Italian car yet Kirk BellBattista "Pinin" (little brother) Farina always wanted to build a road car of his own. The man who founded the design firm Pininfarina 90 years ago never achieved his goal, but on Monday his...
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$35,000, 220-mile Tesla Model 3 now on saleTesla on Thursday announced that the base Model 3, the $35,000 electric car that buyers have been waiting for since the mid-size model was announced in 2016, is now on sale. Tesla revealed the Model...
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2020 Bentley Flying Spur spy shots and videoBentley has redesigned its Continental, with both coupe and convertible body styles already available.
Next in line will be the related Flying Spur sedan, which is expected to arrive later in 2019...
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Mercedes-Benz SLC Final Edition and SL Grand Edition to be droptop swan songs?Mercedes-Benz will show two special-edition roadsters at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show next month and each will likely signal the end of the line for their model lines.
On Tuesday, Mercedes unveiled...
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2020 BMW X3 M and X4 M arrive with 503 hp and 177 mph top speedIt's the new reality: A sporty crossover SUV is as important as a sport sedan from an automaker that makes performance one of its talking points. So it was only a matter of time before BMW released...
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The Mazda Miata and Acura NSX debuted 30 years ago to take on the sports car establishmentIn a twist of fate, the 1989 Chicago Auto Show marked the debuts of the production version of the Mazda Miata and the concept of the Acura NS-X, both with a mission to take on more established...
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