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It's called the Iron Schoeckl, and it's the 30-foot high steel rack Mercedes-Benz uses to showcase some of the capabilities of the Mercedes military-esque G-Wagon – that boxy SUV that people either love or hate. (Really, calling it military-esque is unfair, as many armies around the world buy the G-Wagon in one form or another.) Last week, I got a chance to visit Gratz, Austria, home of the G Wagon factory that pumps out 54 all-new G's every day. (Overall, it takes 10 days to hand build these powerful machines that have mind-stretching capabilities.) And after touring the factory, it seemed somehow fitting, in that German sort of way, that all of the journalists were collected in a ...

The 2013 Scion FR-S is part sports car and part time machine. On the sports car part, this 2+2 coupe looks aggressive, rides well and handles like it's ready for the track. It may not have tons of power, but most boy racers will enjoy the front-engine, rear-wheel drive, sport car. Get it? Front + Rear + Sport = FR-S And they should. A joint development project between Toyota and Subaru (they get the BRZ) this Scion is the best driving Scion ever – which isn't necessarily saying much. In the past, Scion relied on the front-wheel drive tC to anemically hoist its sport banner. That was a sport car for poseurs who think a fart-sounding coffee can on the exhaust is thrilling. No, the ...