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Beauties and beasts, the AW list of 13 challenging routes

Everyone has an opinion about the worst road in America--usually it's one in their neighborhood. We poked around and compiled our own list of the 13 roads, highways and interchanges that you should pay attention to--for good or bad reason. Good traction and four-wheel drive can't shield you from falling rocks or shoulderless mountain passes.

Jaguar XF Sportbrake: Geneva 2012

Jaguar XF Sportbrake at Geneva The Jaguar XF Sportbrake – Jaguar’s new XF Estate – has debuted officially at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. After an age of expectation that Jaguar would build an XF Estate, we finally got the XF Sportbrake revealed in its Twitter camouflage last year, and a full reveal (finally) about a week ago. But now we get the chance to see the XF Sportbrake in the flesh at Geneva - and it doesn’t disappoint.

First Corvette Stingray Convertible sells for $1 million

The first Chevrolet Corvette Stingray to be built has been auctioned for charity by Barrett Jackson  and bought by Rick Hendrick for $1 million. The new Corvette Stingray Convertible was offered for sale this weekend at Barratt Jackson’s auction in Palm Beach, Florida, with GM donating the healthy proceeds of $1 million to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. The Stingray Convertible was bought by wealthy NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick, who can now add the Stingray Convertible to his collection of cars, which also includes the first of the new Stingrays for which he paid $1.1 million.