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Diesel Wins Respect

Think diesel is stinky and slow? This history-making 220mph racecar aims to prove you wrong. Click inside for video

See a cool promotional video put together by Audi, featuring a time-lapse construction of the R10 TDI. Click here

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9 Horses, and You Feel Like A.J. Foyt

Competitive karting is CART for the rest of us. And the kids can kick your butt.

So I spend my life playing with fast cars, and the first time I'm on a track with my 23-year-old daughterthe backpacker with the Ivy League sociology degreeshe blows me into the bulrushes. Almost literally: The downhill chicane leading onto the main straight at Oakland Valley threatens to launch you right over the rumble strip into a cattail-bordered pond if you don't get the kart rotated and the power down early. That's right, go-karts.

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