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The 40th running of the Nürburgring 24 Hours begins this Saturday at 4:00pm local time. The race will challenge the endurance of 190 cars for 24 hours around the longest permanent race course in the world. Plus, close to 100,000 mostly drunken Germans will be cheering them on all night long. Even though there were 250 cars entered last year, the Nürburgring 24 Hours is still the ...

Chevrolet has just announced that it is bringing a Holden Commodore-based performance sedan to the US, and it will be called the SS. The sedan will race in Nascar in 2013 and debut to American buyers in late 2013 as a 2014 model.  At the moment, not much is know about the SS. It will be a rear-wheel drive, V8-powered sedan. Chevrolet says that it will offer the car in limited numbers. ...

Volkswagen Group's brands Audi, Seat and Skoda revealed the cars that they would bring to the Wörthersee GTI Meet from May 16 to May 19. Today, Volkswagen itself revealed the five cars that it could be bringing to the show. They are the Golf GTI Cabriolet, Polo WRC Street, Polo R-WRC, GTI Black Dynamic and Golf GTI 'White Concept.' While we have already seen the GTI Cabriolet ...

Take a look at this video of a twin-turbo, 2,000hp Ford GT setting the world record top speed in the standing half mile of 212.9mph on May 12. The car was built by Hennessey who are well known for building powerful Vipers. The car also holds the standing mile world record of 257.7mph that it set in March, 2012.  The first 1:30 of the video shows the actual run. While the rest of ...

The current Renault Espace has been available since 2002 and has already received three facelifts, the most recent in 2010. The Espace is going under the knife again for a new nose to match the current Renault look.  The facelift adds a larger, more upright Renault emblem situated on a wide, black grill. Renault is not going into any other details about the facelifted Espace including ...

Audi will have several R8s racing in the Nürburgring 24 Hours this weekend, but the real race that it is getting ready for is the R18 E-Tron Quattro at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 16 and 17. It will be the first time since 1998 that an all-wheel drive wil have competed at Le Mans “Soon after the TDI phase had begun we started to think about the hybridization of a Le Mans ...

Gazoo Racing Meister Nürburgring might be the worst name ever for a tuning company but between fielding three cars in the Nürburgring 24 Hours this weekend and creating a turbocharged and supercharged version of the Toyota GT-86 they are rapidly becoming one of the elite tuners of Toyotas.  The twincharged GT-86 pumps out 316hp and 310.5lb-ft of torque. That is an ...

Gazoo Racing and  the Toyota Swiss Racing Team are entering a total of four Toyota GT-86s - two each- into the 40th Nürburgring 24 Hours this weekend. Gazoo is also entering an LFA for the fourth time in four years.  The GT-86 is in the SP3 class that has it competing with cars like the Opel Manta, Honda S2000, Renault Clio and Volkswagen GTI MK3. Some of the four cars will ...

Volkswagen's brands are bringing a host of concepts to the Wörthersee Tour in Reifnitz, Austria, on May 16. Audi, Skoda and Seat will all have concepts at the show. Wörthersee started as a car show purely for GTI enthusiasts in 1981, but it has grown since then to be the largest VW show in the world. It is a place Volkswagen goes to interact with its most hardcore ...