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VIDEO: With F1 program scrapped, where will Toyota Motorsports land next?

As Toyota president Akio Toyoda announced the withdrawal of his company from the Formula One World Championship, he reiterated Toyota's commitment to motorsport competition. But while this may have been pure lip-service, the Japanese automaker has a long history in racing, leading to speculation over where Toyota could land next. According to Toyoda: Motor sports remain an important means of personalizing the automobile in the eyes of customers. Motor sports also remain an important means of cultivating human resources and our R&D ... Read more →

HD Theater to begin screening WRC in October 4 [w/VIDEO] Sam Abuelsamid

"Gentlemen, start your DVRs!" Anyone that has ever watched a major league rally event knows that this form of motorsports is perhaps the most engaging form of four-wheeled competition in the ...

Rumormill: Mini could be headed for WRC by adapting new crossover model Sam Abuelsamid

The original Mini Cooper earned its performance credentials back in the 1960s being flung about on the Monte Carlo rally. Paddy Hopkirk won the Monte in 1964 at the wheel of a Cooper S. While ...

Discovery Channel's HD Theater bringing WRC coverage back to U.S. Chris Paukert

For World Rally Championship fans living in the U.S., it's been tough to keep up on the action, as domestic television coverage has been virtually nonexistent for some time now. That's about to ...

VIDEO: Petter Solberg gets a Subaru boo boo Drew Phillips

We all have our embarrassing moments. Most, however, aren't quite as public as Petter Solberg's mishap last week at the Bettega Memorial Rallysprint in Bologna, Italy. The 2003 WRC champion was ...

WRC switching to S2000-spec car for 2010 season 11 months ago on Autoblog

For whom does the cost-cutter's bell toll? It tolls for Formula 1... and for the World Rally Championship. The FIA has announced that from 2010 the WRC will use Super 2000-spec cars, instead of the current championship's Group N racers. As with the FIA's moves in F1 to standardize components in ...

Go Rally! - Citroen rolls out the C2-R2 Max 1 year ago on Autoblog

If your inner rally driver lusts for something different than the run of the mill Subaru or Mitsubishi, there's a tasty new Gallic morsel to spice things up. Citroen is taking their C2 to the FIA Junior World Rally Championship this year, and the C2-R2 Max Rally kit is their ticket to homologation. ...

Video: Prodrive P2 handles so well, even Clarkson loses his lunch 3 years ago on Autoblog

Alright... so you've openly lusted after the performance envelopes of road-bound rally cars like the Subaru WRX STi and Mitsubishi EVO IX MR, but you can't get around their frump four-door roots, or their look-at-me aerodynamic addenda. So what's keeping the two firms from building a lighter, more ...

COBB Tuning takes wraps off supercharged Subaru B9 Tribeca 3 years ago on Autoblog

Given the somewhat lackluster response by consumers to Subaru's B9 Tribeca, the automaker's first 'real' crossover could probably use a little help. Enter COBB Tuning, a Subie-specific tuning house best known for ratcheting up the performance envelope of the WRX and Forester, has stepped in to ...

New York Auto Show - Subaru shows 2007 Legacy GT spec.B 3 years ago on Autoblog

Subaru is well-known for knocking out special edition models of their performance-minded lineup at the rate of about one every 15 minutes. Problem is, historically we haven't had access to them here in the U.S.-- they've largely been Japan-only, UK-only, or mainland Europe exclusives. For ...

New York Auto Show: Suzuki launches SX-4 compact crossover 3 years ago on Autoblog

Already available in Europe as the Suzuki SX-4 and Fiat Sedici after its Geneva Motor Show debut, the SX-4 crossover jumps the pond to U.S. showrooms later this year. The five-door hatch is targeted squarely at younger buyers (although it ought to be a popular tag-along vehicle for the RV ...

New York Auto Show: Mitsubishi EVO X North American introduction 3 years ago on Autoblog

You asked for it, and we're doing our best to listen. Chief on our readership's list was more shots of the Mitsubishi Evo X, which marked its North American debut with its New York appearance. This red-hot number impresses in person not with its beauty, but with its intimidating nose and ...






Autoblog Podcast #152: Paukert Enhanced!

Eddie Alterman wades in with Sam, Chris, Dan, and Jonny to talk about SEMA and other recent events.

 
 

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