After an uncharacteristically public spat, it’s over: Volkswagen Group chairman Ferdinand Piëch has resigned, The Wall Street Journal reports, effective immediately. His wife, Ursula Piëch, a member of the board, has also resigned. – It’s an unexpected bold move from the man who was slated to head the VW Group’s supervisory board for at least another two years, but it comes on the heels of a terse falling-out. This month, Piëch rocked
-The 24 hours of LeMons rolls into the heart of America’s Rust Belt this weekend for “The Cure for Gingervitis” at Gingerman Raceway, located just across Lake Michigan from Chicago. Midwestern LeMons racers have come to expect a few things from Gingerman races in the five years since the series started going there, namely that the weather will at some point turn foul. With bad weather looming— albeit not snow
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-There’s nothing wrong with old cars except the fact that they’re old. Bodies rust, suspensions creak, and most engines eventually eat themselves. Ford Mustang specialist Classic Recreations in Yukon, Oklahoma, has a solution—albeit an expensive one—for those who want a ’68 fastback with an invigorating dose of modern vitality: the Villain, by CR Supercars. This reborn Mustang has substantial body changes, a new suspension, a 5.0-liter DOHC Coyote V-8 from
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Ford just announced a recall affecting 389,585 2012-14 Ford Fiestas and 2013-14 Ford Fusions and Lincoln MKZs, after three incidents caused by faulty or broken door latches, The Detroit News reports. It’s the fourth door-latch recall the automaker has enacted in the past year. – Ford says the affected vehicles “may experience a broken pawl spring tab, which typically results in a condition where the door will not latch. If a customer is
– It looks like Chevrolet may be taking a page from Nissan’s how-to manual on keeping its GT-R fresh, having announced the second spat of updates for the Corvette Stingray in as many years. After the current, C7 Corvette debuted for 2014, it received a series of minor running changes—and a new transmission—for 2015; now, the Vette is getting additional minor changes for the 2016 model year, and most of the
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The long-awaited, much-hyped Apple Watch is officially here. As with most things Apple, the Watch is neither the first such device nor is it a segment leader in any meaningful way (aside from price, which can rocket into five figures depending which options you select). But as is so often the case with Cupertino products, the Apple Watch stands to move smartwatches from the tech-obsessed fringe into the middle of
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