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One Lap of the Web: Peking to Paris Rally, classic car inspection guide and pointless cars

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- Join the Hooniverse debate as they ask: What's the dumbest car sold on the market today?

Spanish Grand Prix (2012) RESULT

Spanish Grand Prix (2012) Result The 2012 Spanish Grand Prix is another muddled grid with Williams driver Pastor Maldonado on pole. Surely it can’t stay that way? With yet another new pole sitter at the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix - Pastor Maldonado in the Williams – there’s no question that the 2012 tyre deal is having a profound effect on F1; a playing field leveler, no doubt.

BMW takes the Active Tourer Outdoor outdoors this weekend

This weekend BMW will be taking its BMW Concept Active Tourer Outdoor to the annual OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany. We first saw the concept last September, noting that it was a departure for BMW in more ways than one -- with the German automaker stretching itself into segments in which it previously had no foothold. The BMW Active Tourer is meant to preview a whole new generation of small cars from BMW, but one of the biggest changes underneath is a transverse layout of the engine -- a setup that BMW has traditionally shunned in favor of a longitudinal layout.