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Triumph and TAG Heuer honor Steve McQueen with special Bonneville

Triumph and TAG Heuer have joined forces to create a one-of-a-kind Bonneville Heuer motorcycle. Inspired by Steve McQueen and the Porsche 917 K that the famous actor, racer and motorcycle rider piloted in the classic film Le Mans, the Bonneville Heuer is painted up in the classic Gulf Oil blue and orange scheme and will be used for promotional purposes. McQueen famously wore a Heuer Monaco watch in the aforementioned silver screen race drama and was a renowned Triumph enthusiast. Says Neil Morley, Triumph's Head of Brand Communications: ... Read more →

ESPN: Danica Patrick close to two-year NASCAR Nationwide deal Alex Nunez

Rumors of IndyCar's Danica Patrick dipping a toe into the stock car racing pool have been swirling for months, but a new report suggests that an end to the rumors is near. ESPN says that Patrick ...

Autoblog Podcast #151: With Eddie Alterman of Car and Driver Dan Roth

Abuelsamid, Lieberman, Roth and Shunk. Sounds like a law firm, but it's this week's podcast crew. Car and Driver editor-in-chief Eddie Alterman bravely wades into the pool and joins us for ...

SEMA 2009: Jay Leno Camaro a pre-emptive strike against EcoBoost 'Stang Frank Filipponio

What do you get the guy who has everything? For SEMA 2009, GM decided to go with the less-is-more approach and built Jay Leno his own special Camaro... with less. Less cylinders at any rate, as ...

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien welcomes 2010 Taurus SHO tonight! John Neff

If Jay Leno were a Ferrari McLaren F1, Conan O'Brien would be a Ford Taurus SHO. Now hold on, that's not an insult to Conan, who just took over Jay's hosting duties on The Tonight Show. It's an ...

First shot of A-Team cast released, GMC van included [w/VIDEO] 9 days ago on Autoblog

The A-Team was a pop culture phenomenon of the Eighties on par with Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazard. And since Hannibal, B.A., Face and Murdoch hold a special place in the hearts and minds of Gen-Xers, it was only a matter of time before the super-fake action show hit the silver screen. ...

2009 Race of Champions heads to Beijing 9 days ago on Autoblog

Most of this year's major motorsport series are winding to a close. Champions are being crowned. Teams are preparing for next year. You know what that means: it's time for the Race of Champions. The international event has been held for the past twenty years, and it always offers a real ...

REPORT: ESPN analyst suspended over "inappropriate" comment about racer Montoya 10 days ago on Autoblog

Bob Griese, ESPN analyst and two-time Superbowl winning quarterback with the Miami Dolphins, has been suspended for one week following an inappropriate comment he made during a live college football broadcast last Saturday. After showing a graphic of the top five drivers currently vying for the ...

REPORT: Mad Max emerges from Thunderdome on Fury Road 10 days ago on Autoblog

It costs too much money to make all those original Hollywood flops that no one pays to see, so new movie news these days is mostly a succession of "We're rebooting/remaking/doing a sequel for [insert any movie made before this year]." So even though Paranormal was shot for $10,000 and made $22 ...

Tanner Foust headed back to the 2009 Race of Champions, now at Beijing's Bird's Nest 10 days ago on Autoblog

There's our buddy and rally/drift/stunt maestro Tanner Foust (on the right), arm in arm with some guy Michael Schumacher at the 2008 Race of Champions (ROC) held in Wembley Stadium, London. Tanner went as a last minute substitute after Travis Pastrana broke his hip (and ankle) trying to flip a ...

Top Gear reports Stig arrested in both Dublin and Mojave Desert 13 days ago on Autoblog

Some say he has a problem with authority. Others say he's actually capable of being in two places at the same time, and getting arrested in both. All we know is that Top Gear is making less sense with every passing day. One of the BBC car show's myriad blogs reports that the enigmatic test ...

STUDY: Jeremy Clarkson has world's best job. In other news, grass is green, sky is blue. 17 days ago on Autoblog

We'll be the first people to admit that we find ourselves in a pretty cool line of work, but if we were offered the chance to swap jobs with any one person in the world, it very well might be with Jeremy Clarkson. Not surprisingly, it turns out we're not alone. According to a survey of over ...

Rum Runner: Schumacher bides his time driving for Bacardi while plotting return to F1 17 days ago on Autoblog

So what is Michael Schumacher up to these days? Well, having retired as one of the highest-paid sports figures of all time, pretty much anything he wants. But even in retirement, Schumi makes more than most F1 drivers. Part of his ongoing sponsorship portfolio includes acting as a spokesman for ...

eBay Find of the Day: George Barris' rockin' 289 Cobra-powered 1967 Voxmobile [w/VIDEO] 17 days ago on Autoblog

Feelin' Groovy? Do you like guitars, speed and attention? If so, check out eBay Motors item number 260492703795. It's the one-and-only George Barris-created Voxmobile! Powered by a Cobra 289, it's said to be the fastest promotional vehicle ever created with an estimated top speed of 175 mph. Not ...

Cadillac CTS-V Challenge nets 120 applicants, Heinricy to stand in for Lutz if needed 18 days ago on Autoblog

We knew when General Motors opened up the CTS-V Challenge to any and all Caddy killers the response would be impressive, and according to Cadillac spokesman Nick Twork, it's been just that. Around 120 people applied for a chance to take on Bob Lutz in the CTS-V sedan later this month, but ...

Trouble in U.K. TelevisionLand: Has Fifth Gear been canceled? 18 days ago on Autoblog

News coming out of the U.K. today suggests that everybody's second-favorite British motoring television show may be facing the axe. According to the Daily Mail, Fifth Gear, which has never quite mustered the following of rival Top Gear, has been put on ice. Or has it? A quick check on ...

Review: 1967 Classic Recreations Eleanor Mustang is the real movie deal 19 days ago on Autoblog

H. B. Halicki was a used car salesman who wanted to make a movie. With a little money, one big idea, and a 1971 Mustang Mach 1, he made Gone in 60 Seconds. And in that particular way that movies, especially '70s movies, can be, it wasn't all that good, but it was awesome. Fast forward to Michael ...

Travis Pastrana reportedly plans to jump from bridge to barge on New Year's Eve 19 days ago on Autoblog

In the same way that just about anything under Sir Richard Branson's "Virgin" umbrella has come to mean hip and edgy, things affixed with the "Red Bull" stamp are coming to mean "That's frickin' crazy!" Last year for New Year's Eve Robbie Maddison took his motorbike and leaped on to the 96-foot ...

Donna Mae Mims, first female SCCA winner and Cannonball Run vet, dead at 82 [w/VIDEO] 23 days ago on Autoblog

The automotive world lost its iconic "Pink Lady" on October 6 as Donna Mae Mims died of complications from a stroke at the age of 82. To car enthusiasts of a certain age, Mims was best known for her early racing career and for her penchant for pink helmets, pink jumpsuits, and pink cars usually ...

Top Gear faces mounting criticism over costly new stunts. Again. 25 days ago on Autoblog

Top Gear fans greet each new season with more eager glee. Top Gear critics have taken to welcoming each new run with more criticism. According to the Belfast Telegraph, the latest "How dare they!" comes from a Minister of Parliament (MP) and Friends of the Earth, who want to run TG up the flagpole ...

Autoblog goes drifting with Tanner Foust in NASCAR-powered Scion tC! 25 days ago on Autoblog

"It feels like I'm down on power!" yells Tanner Foust in the general direction of the gathered throngs containing both his crew and assorted media. Tanner and myself are currently five-point bolted into his new stock car-engined Formula D Scion tC. We've just exited an aborted lap around the ...

Hammond says Top Gear crew's scariest moment was infamous Southern U.S. episode [w/VIDEO] 1 month ago on Autoblog

Seems like forever since we've run a Top Gear post, no? And hey, when the world's most popular car show is on hiatus we tend to get a bit... withdrawn. Because, well, we just love the antics. Like the time Clarkson had a Bugatti Veyron and Hammond was stuck in the back of May's Cessna as they ...

VIDEO: 2012 Trailer - When Cali crumbles into the sea, you want a Lincoln Town Car 1 month ago on Autoblog

Although the Summer Blockbuster season has officially ended (and not a moment too soon), on November 13, Hollywood is putting out yet another epic disaster flick produced by the same fertile minds that brought you The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and Alien vs. Predator. Like TF2, 2012 is ...

To Chuanfu! Thanks for Everything, Warren Buffett 1 month ago on Autoblog

Wang Chuanfu (above), the founder of Chinese battery manufacturer and automaker BYD is reportedly the richest man in all of China. Already a wealthy man, Bloomberg reports that Chuanfu has jumped a startling 102 places to land himself atop Hurun Rich List, an annual wealth index chronicling the ...

VIDEO: RSD's DeLorean soap box racer consumes 1.21 gigawatts of Red Bull 1 month ago on Autoblog

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Only parking lots... plus a few small jumps and a high-banked turn. Oh, and we'll also need a bit of gravity, which is all that's powering Roland Sands Design's soap box derby racer. Built in the shape of a certain famous DeLorean time machine, ...

Mark Your Calendars: Michael Bay says Transformers 3 coming... on July 1, 2011 1 month ago on Autoblog

We may have found this summer's blockbuster, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen to be heavy on the sizzle and lean on the meat, but that doesn't mean we've written off the series – after all, it's hard to dismiss excellent CG work, the childhood toys of our youth... to say nothing of ...

VIDEO: Top Gear Live holding design-your-own-stunt contest 1 month ago on Autoblog

We love Top Gear for a lot of reasons, but we love the British motoring series most for its big-budget creativity. After all, how many shows are going to storm a beach in a Ford Fiesta? And from everything we've seen and heard, Top Gear Live takes the creativity to the next level with its gold ...

REPORT: Top Gear host James May crashes camper-dirigible near freeway, unhurt 1 month ago on Autoblog

No guts, no glory, and it wouldn't be a Top Gear episode without some kind of outrageous stunt or challenge. The propensity of autodom's favorite trio to flirt with danger has led to mishaps in the past, most famously, Richard Hammond (right) and his near-death tussle with a high speed rocket car, ...

VIDEO: Jay Leno explains his biodiesel-powered EcoJet, races a private plane 1 month ago on Autoblog

In a garage full of ultra rare, highly desirable cars and trucks, Jay Leno's EcoJet still manages to stand out as one of the coolest. Part of the vehicle's claim to fame comes from its ability to run on biodiesel fuel, putting out an impressive 750 horsepower and 700 ft-lb of torque at 48,000 ...

VIDEO: Rush Limbaugh runs Leno's Green Car Challenge, takes out Al Gore twice 1 month ago on Autoblog

As expected, Rush Limbaugh strapped himself behind the wheel of Ford's specially-prepped electric Focus hatchback as part of Jay Leno's Green Car Challenge last night. We don't mean to brag or anything (well, maybe just a little), but we totally predicted the outcome way in advance of the actual ...

Michael Moore screens new film Capitalism: A Love Story at GM RenCen [w/VIDEO] 1 month ago on Autoblog

As Michael Moore Tweeted, "Here's a video of my first official visit inside General Motors headquarters." For you youngsters out there, before Michael Moore made Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, and Sicko, twenty years ago, he made a little film called Roger & Me. That film, Moore's ...

VIDEO: Jay Leno inspects the Devon Motorworks GTX 1 month ago on Autoblog

Celebrity car-lover Jay Leno was up in Monterey this year, helping to auction off some charity items and checking out every car that caught his fancy. One such car was the newest all-American supercar, Devon's GTX. Jay spotted the car on the concept lawn at Pebble Beach and had development ...

Future Leno Show Green Car Challenge lineup leaked 1 month ago on Autoblog

Last week, actress Drew Barrymore kicked off the Jay Leno Show's Green Car Challenge segment with a bang. Literally. Canons shot streamers and ping pong balls at the Ford Focus EV while she zipped around the track. Although the whole thing was a bit hokey, we know the segment is here to stay, ...

eBay Find of the Day: Tim Allen's gruntworthy "Licorice Streak Special" 1 month ago on Autoblog

When television funnyman Tim Allen rang up Steve Moal and asked for a custom Tracknose roadster, his response was the car you see here. It's known as the "Licorice Streak Special" and it's won numerous awards in the 10 years since the Home Improvement star was handed the keys. The gang at Moal ...

The A-Team van spied in action on set in British Columbia 1 month ago on Autoblog

Joe Carnahan's big-screen adaptation of the '80's TV classic, The A-Team, is apparently coming together up in British Columbia. That's where Splash News caught the movie version of the familiar black GMC van in action kicking up dirt for the cameras. The film's slated for a 2010 release, starring ...

VIDEO: Drew Barrymore takes Jay Leno's Green Car Challenge 1 month ago on Autoblog

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that NBC, apparently incapable of producing compelling scripted television not named The Office or 30 Rock, has nuked its entire 10 PM primetime lineup (and effectively thrown Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show under the bus) on the gamble that Jay Leno ...

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Autoblog Podcast #151: With Car and Driver's Eddie Alterman

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

 
 

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