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F1 teams will test an evolution of Pirelli's 'hard' tire compound in Turkey on Friday.

Italian investigators have finally cleared both the Polish driver and his team in the wake of Robert Kubica's horror rally crash in February.

Nick Heidfeld is sure Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel will not walk away with the 2011 world championship.

F1's owner CVC Capital Partners has confirmed that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and the Ferrari-linked Exor company have made a "friendly" approach.

During a meeting held in Sao Paulo, Brazil IZOD IndyCar Series team owners asked the series' CEO Randy Bernard to delay the introduction of aero kits until the 2013 season.

Unable to pay its suppliers and faced with an important financial crisis that forced it to shut down its assembly lines twice and for a long period of time, Saab's ordeal may be coming to an end thanks to the help of its owner, Spyker Cars.

We sometimes say that a bad driver got their drivers' license from a box of Cracker Jacks. We are obviously referring to the fact that there is always a fun prize at the bottom of the box.

No city in the United States has more taxis than New York, where they represent the transportation method of choice.

When Volkswagen opened the doors of its electronic research lab to the media last week, our friends over at CNET got a glimpse of the German automaker's most recent innovations. Of all the gadgets they admired, the 2012 A7's navigation system using Google Street View really got their attention.

Brennan Poole fought back from one lap down in the Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 at Salem Speedway to take his first ever victory in the ARCA Racing Series.

The pressure to get back into the winner's circle has now resulted in another pit crew change. This time at it is on Michael Truex, Jr. car at Michael Waltrip Racing.

Stefano Domenicali, the boss of the Scuderia Ferrari is calling for a "discussion" in Formula 1 about the disproportionate influence of aerodynamics.

Sam Schmidt Motorsports and Dragon Racing have announced that Chinese driver Ho-Pin Tung will have a chance to drive and earn a spot on the starting grid for the upcoming Indianapolis 500.

If you could sum up the new Ram ''Long-Hauler'' Concept in just one word, it would be ''titanic''. Built to suit the needs of anyone who tows multiple or heavy trailers, drives long distances or small business owners looking for a workhorse, this truck truly is one of a kind.

Unless you're a total dork or nothing short of uncool, you like the MINI brand. The MINI brands wants to be liked and they knew that for that to continue, they needed to broaden their appeal. They have.

It'll be a cold black day in post-apocalyptic frozen-over Hell when someone will convince me that this car does not have one of the most appealing shapes in automotive-dome.

The pressure to get back into the winner's circle has now resulted in another pit crew change. This time at it is on Michael Truex, Jr.'s car at Michael Waltrip Racing.

When satellite radio started to appear in our cars, two big players, Sirius and XM, fought to corner their share of the new market, then later decided to join forces. This induced several changes that made navigation and searching for channels pretty complicated. Hair Nation, for instance, was accessible on Sirius 23 or XM 44.

The new McLaren MP4-12C GT3 will make its race debut on May 22nd at Navarra in the second round of the Blancpain Endurance Series.

Every part of an automobile serves a purpose. Engineers and designers aren't sitting around for months -- years even -- at a time discussing the ins and outs of a vehicular design if those ins and outs are only going to be a useless accessory in the end. Of course, some bits and pieces are more important than others; take the steering wheel versus the trunk cover on an SUV, for example. However, as a whole, the pieces that make up a car are all largely important to the vehicle and integral to driving it.