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New cars will now NOT get any bigger!

A Vauxhall executive has made a bold statement – from now on, cars are not going to get any bigger. General vehicle dimensions across each sector of car are roughly now set to be fixed. “You can put a pin in a chart now,” explained the firm’s marketing director Stuart Harris.

Win a Cannonball Run book signed by Brock Yates Jr

Forty years after the race was founded, CAR's just reenacted the Cannonball Run with an unusual companion: Brock Yates Jr. It's an epic two-parter in the new January 2011 issue of CAR Magazine, with the sequel following in the February 2011 issue. Want to know everything about the original Cannonball Run?

Ford's automotive assembly line celebrates 100th anniversary

A mere century ago, on Oct. 7, 1913, Henry Ford rigged up a rope tow to get Model T chassis across the floor of his Highland Park assembly plant -- essentially winching cars across the factory floor and adding a set schedule of parts at certain intervals. The implementation may have been a bit primitive, but Ford was on the cusp something big: applying the concepts of the moving assembly line to the complicated, costly process of automobile production.