Hit play for an audio recording of a mystery car’s exhaust note, and then share your guesses or get a few hints from other visitors in the comments below. Be sure to check back on Thursday for the answer! No related posts.  Read More →

An old-fashioned Mercedes convertible is no bad thing. At the launch of the new 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-class convertible , the German carmaker brought along some classics from its past. We were thus reminded that golden oldies such as the 1971 280SE 3.5 were great four-place convertibles that could be hustled at reasonable speeds, but couldn’t be considered sports cars. Keep Reading: 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-class / E350 /  Read More →

I don’t know if you saw Carl Edwards punting Brad Keselowski off at the end of the Atlanta race yesterday, but it was both a dumb move and an exceedingly dangerous one. Keselowski was lucky his car landed on the passenger, rather the driver’s, side and NASCAR was lucky the car didn’t vault the fence. The worst of it was that Edwards admitted on his Facebook page that it was a deliberate act of retribution. NASCAR’s vice... 

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Audi opens the R8 to the sky and sacrifices little in doing so. It’s well-documented that chopping the roof off of a car usually includes a list of sacrifices made in exchange for open-sky motoring. This is not the case with the 2011 Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro Spyder . The biggest compromise is doing without the kidney you’ll have to sell to afford the estimated $165,000 base price when the car arrives here in late fall. (Or you can wait an... 

While in Italy to learn about the Ferrari 599 hybrid concept , I got a look at Ferrari’s biggest engine, located in the company’s so-called “trigeneration” plant. This is not, as the name might suggest, a place where Ferrari has been building cars for three generations, but rather a new sustainable energy plant located in a nondescript building on the edge of the Maranello campus. The hearts of the plant, a joint venture between... 

A V-8 911 is something Porsche would never do, which makes us like Ruf even more. If you only glanced at the small Ruf display in a forgotten corner of the Geneva auto show , you might dismiss it as just another European tuner, although the German government actually classifies Ruf Automotive as a manufacturer. A closer look reveals one of the hidden gems from this year’s Geneva show. In the rear of Ruf’s latest creation, the RGT-8, sits... 

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On Tuesday, we posted an audio recording of a mystery car’s exhaust note. To hear it again, click play above. A whole bunch of you got it right this week. If you guessed 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor , you were right. (And a special congrats to those who identified it by the sound of the starter.) We must admit that this one sounds a lot better (louder) in the recording than it does from the truck’s cab. Like it? Download the MP3 and quiz... 

The USB stick has pretty much taken over as the preferred method of disseminating press-kit information at auto shows and press events. Most of them have a capacity below 1 GB and, once culled of useful images and press releases, end up forgotten in a desk drawer. Every once in a while, though, an automaker hands out an extra-useful or large-capacity USB drive. Both of those attractive elements…  Read More →

You know what’s awesome? This Focus RS WRC car on Ford’s Geneva show stand. You know what else is awesome? The rally video game/simulator Ford had on its stand behind the rally-fied Focus. (Full disclosure: This guy is some random European dude and not us.) Built by a New York–based company called Force Dynamics , Ford has been toting the rig—said to cost $65,000—to auto shows all over the world to entertain both media …  Read More →

Unintended acceleration first. We bumped into GM vice chairman Bob Lutz right by the Toyota stand. Inevitably, the conversation strayed onto the subject of the Japanese company’s safety recalls in the U.S. Lutz, who’s never shy in coming forward, pointed out that while Toyota has one instance of unintended acceleration reported in 50,000 vehicles and Ford has one in 73,000, GM suffers one in 500,000. “I used to get so…  Read More →

Toyota’s mini-ute gets visual changes across the pond. European customers will see some revisions and upgrades to the 2010 Toyota RAV4 , set to go on sale there this spring. The changes are essentially visual: new front-end styling as well as leather-and-Alcantara seating. Keep Reading: 2010 Toyota RAV4 Face-Lifted for Europe – Auto Shows Related posts: Face-lifted Mazda 6 to Debut at Geneva Auto Show 2009 Toyota RAV4 – Review... 

The angry 500 drops its little top. The cute Fiat 500 is slated to go on sale in the U.S.—it’s one of the cars with the genuine potential to create positive buzz for the curious liaison between Auburn Hills and Torino. We like this 1:0.7-scale version of the original 500; it’s small, practical, and fun around town. But a sports car it isn’t. That’s why Fiat  Read More →