Best Auto Information
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Nov
The latest “spying” controversy between Renault F1 and McLaren (Competition, Nov. 19) has put a hold on two-time world champion Fernando Alonso’s possible return to his former team.
Renault admitted that former McLaren engineer Phil Mackereth brought three CD-ROMs of stolen McLaren technical data to Renault when he joined the team in September 2006. Renault fired […]
30
Nov
Cadillac could return to the American Le Mans Series in 2009 as part of a major reorganization of General Motors’ sports-car attack over the next two years.
Cadillac last competed in the series with its Northstar prototype in 2002. Its return hinges on Chevrolet graduating from the GT1 class to prototypes with a Corvette built to […]
30
Nov
OUR TAKE: This is a huge step forward for the General, which, while still making a few bummers (the Pontiac Torrent comes immediately to mind), is on a bit of a roll lately. The car looks nice and stylish outside, and the interior is superbly done with vastly improved materials. There’s good power from this […]
30
Nov
Consumers with a taste for expensive and exotic cars will get a shopping experience geared to them at the Detroit auto show.
The Gallery, an invitation-only event featuring luxury vehicles, live music and gourmet food, takes place from 8 to 11 p.m. Jan. 13 on the show floor.
Luxury automakers Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Maybach and Rolls-Royce […]
30
Nov
Nissan is bring a minivan concept to the Detroit auto show in January. Now, the automaker is giving a bit of a preview of the interior.
The sketch shows the instrument panel and front seats of the Forum concept. Nissan says the concept’s interior will have seat-mounted speakers for each of its three rows of seats, […]
30
Nov
Posted: 11.23am, 30 November 2007
Audi A3 cabriolet: the lowdownAudi today whisked the covers off the A3 soft-top - an intriguing car that’s arrived very late in the current car’s lifecycle. Audi hopes the Cabriolet will inject some new life into the A3 family, and this is the first glimpse we’ve seen of the minor facelift […]
30
Nov
A fully restored 1933 Duesenberg J Dual-Cowl Phaeton and a 2008 Concept ‘Cuda will be among the 1000 vehicles up for auction at Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in January.
The auction will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Jan. 12-20.
The restored ‘33 Phaeton has a three-speed manual transmission, 420-cubic-inch inline-eight-cylnder engine, rated at 265 horsepower.
“The ‘33 […]
29
Nov
Will anyone camp out at Dodge dealerships this weekend? Maybe, because Monday, Dec. 3, is the first day dealers can take orders for the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 coupe.
The price for that ticket? Just $37,995, including shipping charges, the Dodge boys said on Thursday. Cars will start arriving at dealerships next spring.
Dodge plans several trim […]
29
Nov
Comments by AutoWeek editorial staffers on a car that’s been in our fleet:
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT JONATHAN WONG: Infiniti did a great job redoing its G coupe. Besides sporting a good-looking wrapper with a wider, more hunkered-down stance, the new 3.7-liter V6 features a healthy horsepower boost (37 more in manual models and 55 more in automatics) […]
29
Nov
The PR guy was either having a heart attack or was about to kill us. Maybe both. In either case, someone was going to die. He walked up, leaned into the window of the fabulous Pontiac G8 sedan we had just driven and paused, searching for words–and for air.
“These are [huff, huff], these are [wheeze] […]