One of the star performers at this week's Worthersee Tour 2011 in Reifnitz, Austria, the stunning Audi A1 Clubsport Quattro Concept is a track-focused exercise in pure possibility thinking.

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Photos courtesy of Cars In Depth Serious Civil War reenactors have a term for folks who don’t measure up to those activists’ high standards for authenticity. They call them “farbs”, as in “far be it from me to criticize another enactor but if they want to be authentic they should be wearing hand stitched woolen [...]

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State of Charge: We examine the battery technology that makes hybrids and EVs go. To most, the automotive battery is a 25-pound, 12-volt brick that needs to be jumped when the family truckster won?t start. To hybrid owners, a battery is an ersatz fuel tank that reduces the number of trips to the gas station. [...]

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Did you hear the one about the pranksters who put sunscreen on a sunbathing Jeremy Clarkson's face so it spelled out "TWAT" across his forehead? Have you seen the picture? It's not real. But it's also not wrong. More »

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VW?s bland corporate face is headed for the swoopy CC. When it was introduced for 2009, the Passat-based Volkswagen CC brought a sense of upscale fashion to its brand, the beauty of the Mercedes-Benz CLS for those on a Macy?s budget. (With the 2011 Sonata, Hyundai would then bring that style down to those on [...]

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This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important? More »

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It?s more fun, but Mini won?t tell us exactly why. ?With a car like this,? Rauno Aaltonen says, ?sportier is a bad word. Because the extreme, if you take it too far, would be wipers on the sidescreens.? Keep Reading: 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe – Prototype Drive

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Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. In Germany, rumors abound on a possible sale of GM’s money-losing daughter Opel. GM’s denials are [...]

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Mazda has expanded its CX-9 lineup in Australia with a less expensive front-wheel-drive variant.

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M-badged BMWs are fairly common on Germany?s famous Nürburgring. But perhaps no single M-car spent more time on that hallowed ribbon of asphalt than the white E60 M5 known as the ?Ring-Taxi.? For anyone not familiar with the Ring-Taxi, it is used to give hot laps around the ?Ring?s legendary Nordschleife to those who score [...]

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