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Rosberg mounts a valiant effort but was a tenth too slow

Sebastian Vettel has racked up yet another pole position despite stiff competition from Mercedes, especially Nico Rosberg. Vettel led the Q2 and Q3 qualifying sessions with ease and seemed constantly able to find time on the track where other driv...

It says the delays are due to emissions testing

When Mazda introduced the new Mazda6 in the United States earlier this year, it promised that there would be a diesel in the engine lineup before the end of 2013. It now says that the diesel will not launch until late April 2014 due to issues with...

The video is the first in a series looking at each aspect of the car

Infiniti is trying to make its ties to the Red Bull Racing team as close as possible with there even being rumors that Red Bull may help Infiniti work on a car. Sebastian Vettel is already Infiniti's "Director of Performance," and he...

It is the company's bestselling model in Russia

Toyota will begin building the Rav4 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2016 and double production from the factory to 100,000 units a year. The factory will get a €135 million upgrade and add 800 employees to build the Rav4. The Russian-built mo...

Its production reduces energy use by 50% and water use by 70%

The first, production-ready BMW i3’s are leaving the company’s Leipzig factory and deliveries will begin before the end of the year. The factory got a €400 million upgrade to build the electric car that is made from carbon fib...

The team is the priority, not the drivers

Since the days of Enzo Ferrari, the Scuderia Ferrari F1 team has been run with the concept that there would be preferred driver and a secondary driver, but the signing of Kimi Raikkonen to the team for next season shows for the first time that thi...

The cars will begin production in 2015 from locally sourced parts

Audi is adding another production facility in the Americas with the announcement that it will build the Q3 and A3 Sedan in São José dos Pinhais, Brazil. It will invest €150 to build the car and plans to begin production in 2015....

For now, it uses Caterham's CSR platform wrapped in a carbon fiber body

Caterham revealed its entry-level Seven 165 at the Frankfurt Motor Show with its tiny Suzuki three-cylinder engine, and during the Singapore Grand Prix it has revealed the first images of the AeroSeven Concept, which is meant to show the company&r...

There are also races from NASCAR and the WTCC

If endurance racing is what you like, then this might be the best weekend since the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ALMS and WEC share the weekend at the Circuit of the Americas, and the Asian Le Mans Series is at Fuji. If endurance racing is not your th...

It was a close finish

Skoda lined up a challenge with two-time Olympic gold-medal-winning cyclist Ed Clancy and a Skoda Octavia vRS to see which was faster. It would be unfair for them just to have a drag race, so to make things fair Clancy raced down a mountain with a...