Motorsport Previews: 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series


The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series may not be the most prestigious series on earth (it's a distant second to F1, even though in my opinion both should be well behind the whatever the world's top sports car series is at any time, but that's the fault of the ACO and the factory teams of sports car racing, not those at NASCAR…

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A Helicopter Lets A Corvette ZR1 Win On Top Gear Korea By Spectacularly Crashing

Those Top Gear challenges where a car is shot with lasers from a plane or helicopter are almost always won by the flying aparatus. Top Gear's counterparts in Korea just beat a helicopter with a Corvette ZR1. And that's because the helicopter crashed. Whoops.

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Volkswagen WRC Team Claims Maiden Victory In Sweden

Volkswagen seems to be unstoppable. I had half on eye on the Polo WRC's progress from the start of its development, but never expected it to be able to win at only its second rally. And what a race Sweden was! With his eighth victory, Sébastien Ogier joins multiple world champion Sébastien Loeb as only the second winner of the race to come from outside of Sweden, Norway and Finland since 1950. Loeb was the first to break the Nordic countries' stranglehold in 2004.

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For $7,999, Be Dually Noted

In Kurosawa’s brilliant Seven Samurai, a village is saved from invaders by a septet of protectors. In case you need saving from this past weekend’s epic Nor’easter, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 8-tired Suzuki Samurai goes Kurosawa one better, but would its price take too much of your savings?

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This Museum-Grade Saab 900 SPG Is For Sale, So Bring Lots Of Cash

Attention, Saab owners. It doesn't get much more minty than this. This is a 1990 Saab 900 SPG that's so pristine, it used to be in a museum. And, to answer Patrick's Question of the Weekend from yesterday, it's the greatest hatchback of all time.

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No-Nonsense Widow Wants Her Husband's Alfa Romeo Stuff Gone

A woman out in Sierra Foothills, California recently dealt with the death of her husband. And while that's an unspeakably tragic event, she's using it as an opportunity to do something she's probably dreamed about for years: unload all of his Alfa Romeo project cars and parts.

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Will Increasing A Car's Search Engine Optimization Make It Sell Better?

We all know General Motors needs to do something about the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu, and it's vowed there's some kind of fix to make the midsize sedan remotely competitive among increasingly talented rivals. So while a hurry-up-and-fix-things refresh (in the style of the 2013 Honda Civic) is underway, the marketing…

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