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Toyota Reveals 2013 NASCAR Camry, We Sit Down with the President of TRD Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 1:36 am

And then there were three: Toyota Racing Development debuted its 2013 Toyota Camry that will be competing in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup series, beginning with the Daytona 500 season opener next February. Read full story »

Car and Driver Blog | Steven Cole Smith

2012 BMW M6 Convertible Test: 0 to 60 mph in Four Flat Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 11:36 pm

The 2012 BMW M6 convertible is a puzzling machine. Two conundrums, for example, present themselves immediately upon use of the primary controls. The first is trivial: the presence of a narrow, three-pedal-style brake-pedal pad in a car with no clutch pedal. The second is of infinitely more import to an enthusiast, being that this is [...]

Car and Driver Blog | Michael Austin

Mercedes-Benz May Be Planning C300 and E300 with 248-hp V-6, Documents Show Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 10:44 pm

Mercedes-Benz is preparing a light late-in-life face lift for the E-class, and that may include an entry-level E300 for the 2013 model year. Paperwork the company filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration includes entries for an E300 and an E300 4Matic. Each is described as a sedan with a 3.5-liter V-6 gasoline engine. [...]

Car and Driver Blog | Justin Berkowitz

2013 Chevy Camaro ZL1 Convertible Stops By, Shows Off New Retro Rearview Mirror Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 9:40 pm

Al Oppenheiser sweats the details. The Camaro chief engineer pulled the frameless rearview mirror off of his ’68 and told those responsible for the modern car’s reflective surfaces to “make me one like that.” This throwback element will be standard equipment on all 2013 versions of the retro-futuristic Camaro; we saw it in person as [...]

Car and Driver Blog | David Gluckman

2014 Ford Fiesta ST Five-Door Spy Photos: A Six-Speed Manual, Rear Disc Brakes, and MyFord Touch Are Headed to the Hottest Fiesta Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 4:01 pm

What It Is: A covered-up 2014 Ford Fiesta ST five-door prototype; we saw the car in near-production-spec “concept” form at last year’s Frankfurt and Los Angeles auto shows, and the three-door version already has been fully revealed for Europe. (As is the case with the three-door Fiesta, the three-door ST will stay in Europe. (more…)

Car and Driver Blog | Alexander Stoklosa

This Week on the C/D YouTube Channel: Jumping Cars, Beater Drifting, a Chronic Speeder, and a Doorless Nissan Leaf Monday, 21 May 2012, 9:20 pm

It’s a new week, which means new episodes of Full Hoon, Battle of the Beaters, Driver Rehab, and Car and Driver: Tested on our YouTube channel. Today’s installment of Full Hoon explores car jumping, interesting motorcycle use, and inappropriate taxi drivers. Tomorrow, two teams will attempt to build drift machines from crapcans for a fresh [...]

Car and Driver Blog | Car and Driver

Italian Fashion Editor Creates One-off Mini Cooper S Roadster to Benefit AIDS Charity Monday, 21 May 2012, 8:49 pm

Provided with a Mini Cooper S Roadster as a blank canvas, Franca Sozzani, chief editor of Italian Vogue, created a rolling work of art to mark the 20th anniversary of the Life Ball charity event and auction held annually in Vienna. After coating the Roadster’s exterior in a custom matte finish named “Deepest Purple,” Sozzani [...]

Car and Driver Blog | Andrew Wendler