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Breedlove's Back!

Craig Breedlove, the land-speed racer who set records at over 400, 500 and 600 mph has a new race car on the drawing boards and is the feature of a couple other projects. We caught up with him recently in Los Angeles. It seems Breedlove always had a car project in the works; most recently, he took the Spirit of America Formula Shell LSRV to almost 700 mph on the Black Rock Desert in 1996.

2012 SEAT Ibiza facelift arrives in the UK – and with a price drop

The 2012 SEAT Ibiza facelift arrives in the UK With the Geneva public debut for the SEAT Ibiza facelift, the titivated Ibiza arrives in the UK with a small price drop. SEAT revealed a facelift for the 2012 Ibiza in January and debuted it last week at the Geneva Motor Show. But with that out of the way it’s now time to get the order book for the new Ibiza buzzing, and a price drop is not a bad way to do it.

Concept Car of the Week: Pontiac Banshee (1964)

In 1964, the Pontiac Motor Division was headed John DeLorean, who would go on to become one of the automotive industry's most divisive figures. He believed that Pontiac needed a compact, exciting car to compete with the newly launched Mustang and approved funding for the experimental Pontiac two-seat sports-car program, codenamed XP-833. Inspired by another GM show car, the rear-engined Corvair Monza GT from 1963, the lines of the XP-833 were a perfect example of the Coke-bottle bodystyle: long hood, short deck and sweeping fender curves.