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The MG Icon concept takes cues from the MGB GT from the 1960s and '70s....
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MG Motor has revealed sketches of its latest concept car, the Icon. The compact SUV, set to be unveiled at next week's Beijing motor show, is said to preview an upcoming production model to be introduced to the Chinese market in 2014. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) owns MG. Taking styling cues from the legendary MGB GT ...
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“Life is valuable—protect it.” That's the pithy motto of the Texas Armoring Corp. (TAC) in San Antonio. It builds about 200 armored vehicles per year for foreign diplomats and other high-ranking individuals. TAC can covert big sedans, SUVs and even sports cars into armored...
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What is it? Ford's first foray into modern mass-market electric vehicles arrives in late spring, sporting 23 kilowatt-hours of battery and an EPA range of 76 miles. Your mileage will vary, probably for the better, unless...
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Last November, Autoweek introduced you to Japanese tuner Akira Nakai, his company Rauh-Welt Begriff and their first U.S. project, the Pandora One. The Pandora One's owner, Mark Arcenal,
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Ladies and gentlemen, you have three more days to register for the Autoweek VIP Race Weekend Experience. The entry gives you and a guest a chance to win a trip to Detroit, June 1-4—including round-trip airfare—for the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix. You’ll relax in style...
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EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I was a decided nonfan of the last generation X3--I thought it was far too unrefined to be a BMW. I do like this 2012 BMW X3...
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News wire reports in Europe on Tuesday said Audi is poised to buy Ialian motorcycle maker Ducati from owner Investindustrial for about $1.1 billion (860 million euros). Audi has reached an agreement with Investindustrial to buy...
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Will Power is happy to have won Sunday’s Izod IndyCar Series Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. He isn’t happy with race control over a decision not to penalize Simon Pagenaud for hitting Power’s tire on a pit stop. “We were coming in and [the Schmidt Hamilton Racing crew]...
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Some enterprising gentlemen decided to build a six-wheeled Chevrolet Lumina with a full-custom stagecoach seating arrangement. Then they proceeded to take it for a spin. That is all we are going to say about it, for the revelation of the vehicle's true powers is part of what makes this lo-fi clip a ...
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Four years ago, your author was standing on a balcony in the Monterey Bay fog, a calm, midnight moment during the manic event-to-event scramble of Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance week. In the distance, an engine rumbled--throaty, big, Italian-sounding, but not immediately identifiable.A 246 Dino...
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Travis Pastrana has done absolutely nothing in NASCAR, a harsh fact that he's more than happy to acknowledge. But nobody is blaming him for becoming what appears to be the sanctioning body's third-favorite (and third most important?) driver, behind Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick.Pastrana,...
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Also in this episode: The end is near for the Chevrolet Avalanche, we go for a spin in the Dodge Charger SRT8 Super Bee, and Mercedes-Benz gets a Formula One win in China.TRANSCRIPT-- The next Ford Mustang won't be a retro design.-- It's last call for the Chevy Avalanche.-- The usual suspects did...
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IndyCar wanted attention in this season of high expectations but failed to get very much for its first two races of the year.A new car, a manufacturer battle and the best competition in 15 years was supposed to re-energize a dwindling fan base. Instead, sagging television ratings showed no...
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Two of the most famous names in open-wheel racing collided on the track Sunday, and as expected, disagreed on who was at fault.Contact between Marco Andretti and Graham Rahal sent Andretti's car sailing over Rahal's in an early race accident at the Izod IndyCar Series Toyota Grand Prix of Long...
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Ford Motor Co. plans to make NASCAR history as the Focus electric becomes the first all-electric pace car to lead the field for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Richmond 400 on April 28.The all-new Focus electric will perform all pace-car duties at Richmond International Raceway on April 28....
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While luxury supercars have been a status symbol of the new upper class in Russia, owners often have resorted to buying secondhand or going out of the motherland for their latest top-dollar vehicle acquisitions.Automobili Lamborghini is betting on the continued strength of the Russian market by...
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Jari-Matti Latvala's troubled 2012 World Rally Championship season has taken another turn for the worse after his Ford team confirmed that the Finn broke his left collarbone and would miss the Argentina event at the end of April. Latvala, who crashed in Monte Carlo and Mexico and needed to exploit ...
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April 14 marked the 85th anniversary of the first Volvo ÖV4 rolling off the assembly line in Göteburg, Sweden. Today, the company sells almost 500,000 cars per year around the globe, 87 percent of them outside of Sweden.All of this milestone talk had us thinking about some of our favorites from the ...
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When Richard Childress sold his No. 33 Chevrolet team to Joe Falk, most of the talk focused on who would drive the car the rest of the year. Near the top of the list were the Sadler brothers--Elliott and Hermie--along with Nationwide Series rookie of the year candidate Austin Dillon and promising...
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Seven NASCAR drivers with 113 combined Sprint Cup wins will face some of the Southeast's best Late Model drivers in the April 26 Denny Hamlin Showdown. The fifth-annual event in Richmond, Va., benefits the Denny Hamlin Foundation, which supports victims of cystic fibrosis and donates to the...
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Fernando Alonso lost his Formula One world championship lead in Shanghai after finishing ninth at the Chinese Grand Prix. The disappointing finish dropped him from first to third place in points, eight behind series leader Lewis Hamilton.After starting ninth on the grid, Alonso made some good...
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