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Ginetta developing all-new G40 for the road and track

Race cars are usually designed one of two ways. Either a company's engineers take an existing road car and adapt it towards racing (as with most touring, GT racing and rally cars, for example) or they start with a clean sheet of paper and design a race car from the ground up (as they do for Formula One and Le Mans prototypes). Ginetta appears to be taking a different approach, however. The British sportscar manufacturer has announced the development of a new product, dubbed G40, to slot below the G50 in its road car lineup – but there's ... Read more →

VIDEO: Premature Ejaculation - When fire suppression systems attack Jonny Lieberman

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/Premature_Ejaculation_When_Fire_Suppression_Systems_Attack'; My my, this is embarrassing. During a full course yellow, Jonathan Adam is all set to ...

Johnny Herbert switches to driving Honda Civics in the UK Noah Joseph

Most F1 drivers fall off the map once they leave the pinnacle of motorsports, but they have to go somewhere. In Johnny Herbert's case, that somewhere has been sportscar racing. The former Grand Prix ...

VIDEO: Fifth Gear pits Ford Focus RS vs. Mitsubishi Evo X Chris Paukert

Yesterday, we showed you Fifth Gear's take on the new Audi R8 V10 - notable more for their footage of the gorgeous blue test car than for much in the way of actual performance driving and ...

Vauxhall withdraws from British Touring Car Championship after 20 years Noah Joseph

By most accounts, the mantra of "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" hasn't worked for a long time. In fact, we're not sure it ever worked. But there were certainly happier times for motorsports fans when ...

VIDEO: Jason Plato makes epic save during BTCC race at Brands Hatch 8 months ago on Autoblog

Those of you familiar with Fifth Gear have undoubtedly enjoyed Tiff Needell and Jason Plato's powersliding shootouts, and at this weekend's British Touring Car Championship, Plato had the opportunity to show off his sideways skills at Brands Hatch. At the beginning of the second lap, Plato was ...

K for UK: SEAT Leon Cupra K 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a hi-res gallery of the SEAT Leon Cupra K¹ Every so often, we wish that Volkswagen's SEAT brand was available here in the US. Sure, the Spanish automaker's vehicles are badge-engineering exercises that raid the corporate partsbin for powertrains, switchgear, and the like, but ...

Jason Plato injured when Caparo T1 bursts into flames at 150 mph 2 years ago on Autoblog

Jason Plato, BTCC champion and Fifth Gear presenter, found himself in the midst of a Caparo T1 barbeque while testing the new supercar at the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire. According to Plato, he noticed a loss of power while traveling upwards of 150 MPH. He checked the outside ...

Look Ma, no hands! SEAT develops world's first driverless touring car 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image to see high res gallery of this unbelievable car! The Seat Leon is a holy terror on the European touring car circuit, but bad luck and driver error can often mean less than perfect results. So the team has been hard at work creating a virtual interface for the vehicle to take the human ...






Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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