– Each year, the Volkswagen Group goes insane. No, we are not talking about corporate drama at the board level. This is even more fun: The legendary all-things-Volkswagen festival at Lake Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria, serves as a launching pad for new technologies and sporty derivatives from VW, SEAT, Audi, and Škoda. – This year, Audi is first to unveil its Wörthersee project. Meet the TT Clubsport Turbo, a glimpse
-The sixth annual Southern Discomfort 24 Hours of LeMons was one of the most exciting contests we’ve ever seen at Carolina Motorsports Park in South Carolina, with four teams staying within striking distance of the overall win for most of the weekend. Lots of lead changes, lots of fast laps, and the whole weekend of racing came down to the difference in fuel consumption between a Detroit pushrod V6 and
Last time we reported on the 2015 Roush Stage 3 Mustang, a.k.a. RS3, the company had just opened the order banks and hinted to us that the final output figure of the RS3’s supercharged 5.0-liter Coyote V-8 could be in excess of 630 horsepower. Now we know that Roush was being rather coy with that figure, revealing today that the RS3 pumps out no less than 670 ponies at its
– What It Is: Chevrolet’s next-generation Cruze compact sedan, seen here in final, U.S.-spec form after a yearlong parade of covered-up test mules and Chinese-market siblings. Our spy photographers were able to capture this Cruze in the middle of a video shoot, so we get to analyze a sparkly clean car without a trace of camouflage in sight. READ MORE ›› –
– – Lamborghini may be on the verge of constructing a new factory to build the Urus SUV if a deal with the Italian government comes through. – According to Bloomberg, Italy is willing to fork over €100 million ($113 million) in tax incentives if Lamborghini agrees to hire “as many as 300 people.” The details were leaked from a meeting in Rome on Tuesday, although there is no
