Autoweek in review: Everything you missed May 11-15

Top car news and reviews from the past week

Autoweek in review is where we bring you the biggest stories in the car world that you might have missed this week. Whether you were actually getting some work done or you stepped away from your computer for a moment, here's your chance to catch up and have something cool to talk about over the weekend.

Car Reviews Wait for the manual? 2015 Volkswagen Golf R review notes

EDITOR WES RAYNAL: When we named the GTI our 2015 Best of the Best/Car we said things like “At the heart of automotive enthusiasm sits a pantheon of vehicles most can agree define our sport, so ...

Car News Jaguar XE-R aims straight for the BMW M3

The 2017 Jaguar XE -- the automaker's BMW 3-series fighter -- isn't even on store shelves, but a hotter version is already in the works, Autocar reports. The Jaguar XE-R will take on the BMW ...

Events Bring the Most Apocalyptic Vehicle to the Denver premiere of 'Fury Road,' win a fabulous prize!

Last month, the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Denver had me select and introduce some car movies, and -- possibly because I was once known to my coworkers as "Mad Max" -- now they've ...

Car News Audi TT Clubsport Turbo concept is a 600-hp track monster

Audi and Volkswagen are once again taking their own concept cars to the annual Worthersee tuning festival in the Austrian city of Reifnitz, and the Ingolstadt-based automaker has created nothing short ...

Car News Report: Maserati Levante SUV coming to 2016 Detroit auto show

The Maserati Levante SUV will make its debut at the 2016 Detroit auto show next January, Autovisie reports. The brand's first SUV has been a long time in the making -- the first concepts debuted ...

Car Life Play 'Project Cars,' channel your inner James Hunt

We’ve been itching for a new racing simulation game to take on established players like “Forza” and “Gran Turismo” since we bought our next-gen gaming system. After ...

Car News The BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage brings a touch of 1972 to Villa d’Este

BMW will pay tribute to the classic 3.0 CSL coupe of the 1970s with the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage. It’s set to debut at the 2015 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’ Este on the shores of Lake ...

Car Life 'The Soup' host Joel McHale shows us how to start a Hollywood car collection

Most people can pretty easily name the car guys of Hollywood: Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman. But there are others.We ran into Joel McHale at a recent ...

Car Reviews Good, bad and ugly: 2015 Nissan Murano Platinum AWD review notes

ROAD TEST EDITOR JAKE LINGEMAN: Yikes. This thing has a face only a Nissan mother could love. It’s very…concept looking. I guess the ¾ view isn’t too bad because you ...

Car News Bare-bodied Ford GT supercar prototype looks great on the street

Yes, we realize the covers came off the 2017 Ford GT earlier this year, and there are plenty of gorgeous studio shots (and an increasing amount of technical information) for you to drool over ahead of ...

Car News Brilliance V3 is the poor man's BMW i3

Chinese knockoffs of foreign cars can be arranged into a couple of categories. First, we have very close copies that try to emulate the exterior and interior designs and engineering of their foreign ...

Junkyard Treasures Reliving childhood vannin' through a junked 1973 GMC Rally STX passenger van

Some Junkyard Treasures are rare and interesting machines such as this factory-hot-rod Geo Prizm GSi or dozens of Chevy Corvairs. Others are oddball vans such as this pre-minivan Plymouth ...

Car News Developing the Ford GT with science, psychology and secrecy

The Ford GT was introduced five months ago at the Detroit auto show. We can’t remember any car that received more attention in the following weeks. Ford is trying to keep that momentum high ...

Car Life 'Mad Max: Fury Road' movie review: So many cars, so little plot

The fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise, "Fury Road," could have been so good.Crikey.The design of the whole thing, from the cars to the characters to the magnificent sprawling sets ...

Car Life We drive three great classics from the Auctions America catalog

We walked into the darkness of the massive Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport not knowing what we’d find. Over the years we’d seen everything here from TV tapings to the launch of ...

Car News How low will Cadillac ELR prices go?

It's difficult to say whether now is the absolute best time to buy a 2015 Cadillac ELR. At some dealerships pricing, is starting resemble a Dutch auction, with some dealers reportedly offering the ...

Car News Will this new W12 engine power the Bentley Bentayga?

Amidst family drama back at Wolfsburg, Volkswagen unveiled one tiny engine and one huge engine at the Vienna Motor Symposium, as part of its gas and diesel engine lineup at the annual event held by ...

Car News It's out! 2016 Chevy Camaro leaks on CNBC

It really doesn't matter what auto manufacturers do, they can't keep the wraps on a good car for long. Case in point: the 2016 Chevy Camaro. It wasn't supposed to be revealed until May 16 ...

Car Reviews World class and gorgeous: 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe 2.0T RWD review notes

ROAD TEST EDITOR JAKE LINGEMAN: This is the best paint job I’ve seen on a luxury car in years. It’s called Majestic Plum Metallic and I love every fleck. It looks a little brown in certain ...

Car News Track-only 2016 911 GT3 R is lighter, faster and…cheap to operate?

We never thought Porsche -- creators of the $365 painted key fob -- would brag about how economical one of their cars could be to operate. But it’s right there in the 991 911 GT3 press release: ...

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