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Autoweek in review: What you may have missed

It was a slower week in the newsroom as 2012 winded down. On Monday, we learned how motorcycles were coming back and got some ideas for last-minute holiday gifts. In the racing world, the Trans Am Series announced that it’s expanding the 2013 race schedule.

Hottest 911 ever!

A few weeks back, we revealed spy shots of the next-gen Porsche 911 GT2. But now the Web is awash in reports from a Porsche dealer meeting in Germany where the company revealed the even-hotter GT2 RS. Reportedly pushing 620 hp from its turbocharged boxer-six engine, the track- and street-legal GT2 RS is said to be 200 pounds lighter than the GT2.

Win tickets to the 2010 Goodwood Revival

The 2010 Goodwood Revival is just around the corner, and CAR has teamed up with Singleton single malt Scotch whisky to give away two weekend tickets to this great British motoring event. Click here to enter our competition This year’s Goodwood Revival takes place from 17-19 September, and in conjunction with Singleton, we’re offering you the chance to take a magical step back in time and revel in the romantic time capsule of the golden era of motor racing and glorious air shows at one of the world’s most authentic circuits. Staged entirely in the nostalgic time capsule of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, the Revival relives the glory days of the Goodwood Motor Circuit.