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Warm up for Cars 2 with new preview

Lightning McQueen, Tow Mater and a new cast of characters get back on track this Friday as Cars 2 hits theaters. We've already given you some early info. But now our friends at Disney and Pixar have posted a five-minute clip from the movie on the Internet.

Autoweek archives: Ferrari reveals its new flat 12-cylinder

This selection comes from Autoweek Competition Press from January 1963, featuring a lead story on the reveal of Ferrari's at-the-time latest--a 1.5-liter, flat 12-cylinder engine designed for Formula One applications. Its speculated output was 225 hp. Ferrari also pulled the covers off the latest 2+2 touring car, the 330 GT, the successor to the famed 250GT.

Alfa Romeo 4C convertible likely for 2015

Conventional wisdom holds that if you want to take on Porsche's 911, you need a convertible variant. And although Alfa Romeo's often marched to the beat of a wonderfully idiosyncratic drummer, it sounds as if it's hewing to general sporting-car rules of thumb with the 4C. According to a report in Britain's Autocar, sources have confirmed that a 4C convertible will follow the launch of the coupe by about a year.