2011 Kia Sportage SX AWD Long-Term Test Intro: One 40,000-Mile Sportage, Coming Up

The turbo Kia crossover joins our fleet for 40,000 miles. Kia is full of surprises lately, from the company?s first motorsports victory with its first proper race car to its impressive reinvention of showroom wallflowers like the Optima sedan. We were caught off guard yet again when an all-wheel-drive 2011 Kia Sportage SX posted a [...]

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Jaguar C-X16 Concept teased --- Frankfurt Auto Show preview

Offering a first look at the design thinking that will shape its upcoming future production sports car, Jaguar has released this sketch of the C-X16 Concept, which will roll into the world spotlight next month in Frankfurt.

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Matt Farah And ?The Car Show? Salute TTAC

Matt Farah may be the bigshot star of Speed’s The Car Show, but he got his start on the web, running a little site called The Smoking Tire. And since he’s clawed his way up from the internet’s hurly-burly, he knows how web promotion works: you check out my stuff, I’ll check out yours. As [...]

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2012 Volkswagen Up! Official Photos and Info: How VW Hopes to Realign the Small-Car Segment

VW hopes to redraw the map of the small-car segment. Finally, here’s a production car that looks like the concept from which it was derived. The Volkswagen Up! (yes, it includes the exclamation point) doesn?t deviate much at all from the show car that surprised the industry four years ago?at least not visually. Like that [...]

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Steve McQueen's Porsche brings $1.25 million at auction [Car Auctions]

We told you back in March the Slate Gray 1970 Porsche 911T that appeared in the opening scenes of Le Mans and was owned by the movie's iconic star would cross the block during auction week in Monterey this month. Back then RM's pre-sale estimate for the famous Porsche was between $950,000 and $1.3 million. More »

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Watch awesome Tom Cruise drive awesome F1 car awesomely [Star Cars]

WHOOO! YEAH! Gooooood morning America! Hey, why the sad faces? You look like you're not getting your recommended daily allowance of pure awesome. Thank the volcanic aliens that Red Bull and Tom Cruise are here to top you off with America's greatest action hero doing laps in an old Red Bull F1 car on a closed circuit. Come for the hot laps, stay for the helicopter stunts! More »

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A Ride in the Hyper-Exotic, U.S.-bound Pagani Huayra

When Horacio Pagani migrated to Italy from his native Argentina, he lived in a tent with a bicycle for transportation. Two months later, he landed a job in Sant’Agata Bolognese as a junior mechanic at Lamborghini. Three decades later, he was standing in a ritzy hotel parking lot in Monterey, California, still wearing the boyish [...]

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Aston Martin Lays Out Specifications for 2012 V12 Vantage GT3 Race Car, Prices Start at $490,000

Today, we bring you our most pressing consumer news this week: pricing and specifications for Aston Martin?s new 2012 V-12 Vantage GT3 race car have been released. We know you all have been pining for your Aston GT3 cars, and now the 2012s are finally here. The Vantage GT3 succeeds the DBRS9 and packs a [...]

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