Spirit of Daytona, SunTrust Racing and Action Express Racing continued to work with the new Corvette Daytona Prototypes Wednesday as a two-day Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series test concluded in preparation for the 50th Anniversary Rolex 24 at Daytona, set for Jan. 28-29, 2012.
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Do hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius have to be consigned to modest cars with pokey speed? Toyota’s Prius GT300 rumors suggest otherwise.
Rumors have surfaced that Toyota is planning to enter the Super GT race series with a Prius. While hardly known as a speedy car, Toyota perhaps wants to burnish the Prius’s image by taking it to the races.
The, largely based in Asia, Super GT race series uses cars based on FIA’s GT classes. Manufacturers, like Toyota, build cars to meet specifications of the class, providing cars to race teams. The GT300 class targets 300 horsepower, and … More
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A Subaru WRX owner went to sleep at this weekend’s 25 Hour of Thunderhill race with a complete car. This is what he found when he woke up a few hours later. Resident racer and gearbox theft-culprit Robb Holland explains why you shouldn’t trust a racing team with your car. — Ed.
In our second year of running the USAF NASA 25 Hour of Thunderhill, Team Racing Bacon/ Continental Tire was poised for a really good result. Running in 6th place at the14 hour mark  … More
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The third-generation Porsche Boxster is now just four months away from a planned debut at next year’s Geneva auto show. But before the German car maker’s boss Mathias Muller granted the mid-engined roadster a definitive production go-ahead back in October, Autocar joined a team of development engineers in California as they put the final test miles on prototype versions.
Codenamed 981, the new Boxster represents a  … Pictures and more
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