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Video: 17-year-old Zach Veach shows us around Infineon

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Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Specialty , Racing We’re not sure what you were into at 17, but if you’re anything like us, odds are it wasn’t bombing around Infineon Raceway in a Renesis-powered race car. This would be the primary difference between young hot-shot driver Zach Veach and the rest of us goons. Despite his tender young age, Veach has made a name for himself as one of the more talented personalities in the current Formula Car Challenge.

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Video: Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2 debuts, someone called the cops

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Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Ford , Motorcycle We all know sideways is slow. Kicking the tail out and sending the rear tires blazing may take a heaping helping of skill, but it won’t win you any races. That doesn’t make it any less awesome, however

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Life After 8000 RPM: Lotus Elise and Mazda RX-8

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Life After 8000 RPM: Lotus Elise and Mazda RX-8 As they make a quiet exit, we push these underappreciated, incomparable sports cars to redline one last time. The auto industry moves too fast to fully appreciate the cars it builds. We haven’t even driven the 580-hp Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, and the mere announcement of a 650-hp Ford Shelby GT500 has already hijacked the Chevy’s supercharged, eight-cylinder thunder.

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Study: U.S. diesel auto sales up 27% in 2011 while hybrid share shrinks

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Filed under: Car Buying , Hybrid , Technology , Diesel A plethora of new diesel offerings is driving sales, according to a new report from the Diesel Technology Forum. Sales of diesels rose 27.4 percent in 2011, according to numbers from HybridCars.com and market researchers Baum and Associates. The Diesel Technology Forum pegs the overall market growth in 2011 at 10.2 percent, putting diesels’ increase considerably ahead of the curve.

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Official: 2013 Mazda CX-5 achieves best-in-class 26/35 mpg EPA rating

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Filed under: Crossover , Mazda Mazda has released the official EPA fuel economy figures for its 2013 CX-5 , and as anticipated, the new compact crossover has achieved an all-important best-in-class designation. The front-wheel-drive, six-speed manual-equipped CX-5 is rated at 26 miles per gallon city and 35 mpg highway, thanks to Mazda’s efficient Skyactiv direct-injection 2.0-liter inline-four. In fact, Mazda claims the CX-5 actually gets the best fuel economy rating of any SUV (read: crossover) sold in America, full stop. CX-5 models equipped with front-wheel drive and Mazda’s new Skyactiv six-speed automatic transmission are good for 26/32 miles per gallon city/highway.

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Official: 2013 Mazda CX-5 achieves best-in-class 26/35 mpg EPA rating

These are your top 10 worst-selling vehicles of 2011

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Filed under: Car Buying , Sedan , SUV , Truck , Crossover , Acura , Cadillac , Hyundai , Mitsubishi , Subaru , Suzuki , Toyota , Luxury Where there are winners, there are inevitably losers. Last year was exceedingly kind to big pickups, sprawling family sedans and SUVs, but not every model came out of 2011 with big sales figures. We took the time to dig through the low-selling models of the past 12 months to find out which vehicles produced throughout the year were the biggest duds. Since we aren’t interested in how few Lamborghini Aventador models rolled off of dealer lots in the U.S

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