Maserati sure seems to be milking the GranTurismo franchise for all its worth these days. In addition to plenty of limited editions and sport models for both the coupe and convertible, Maserati recently launched the MC version of the hardtop. Now, ahead of its debut at the Paris Motor Show, the Modenese automaker has dropped details on its latest iteration of the GT platform, the GranCabrio MC. Funk Flex
Auto Talk: Cheaper baby NSX back under consideration at Acura
Back in the salad days before the financial upheaval of 2008, Honda’s Acura division was reportedly planning to build not one, but two new NSX models. The first was/is the on again off again heir to the NSX throne (then a V10 rear-drive supercar, now the much ballyhooed hybrid all-wheel-drive affair revealed at January’s Detroit Auto Show). The second was to be a smaller, less expensive version, creatively dubbed by Honda internals as the “Small NSX.” Never let engineers name your pets, folks. Funk Flex
Auto Talk: 2013 Honda CR-Z facelift revealed in Indonesia
We fully expected Honda to reveal its facelifted 2013 CR-Z hybrid at the Paris Motor Show next week, but instead, the Japanese automaker has brought its updated three-door to the Indonesia International Motor Show, and the people over at PaulTan.org were on hand to get the details. Funk Flex
Auto Talk: Honda butching up Crosstour for 2013 because ‘people weren’t exactly sure what it was’
When the Honda Accord Crosstour launched back in 2009 as a 2010 model, we didn’t quite know what to make of it. We weren’t exactly taken with its styling and we didn’t get its value equation, either. It drove well enough, but fell behind the segment’s fierce competition in terms of space, amenities, visibility and pricing. The market seemed to agree, and the model never got near Honda’s (traditionally conservative) sales projections of 40,000 units per year. Funk Flex
Innocent Man Jailed for 17 Years Sues Detectives And Prosecutor For $120M
A scathing $120 million lawsuit accuses two police detectives and a Manhattan prosecutor of railroading an innocent man jailed for nearly two decades in a 1989 double homicide ordered by a murderous druglord. Click below to find out more. Funk Flex
Navy Investigators Say Submarine Commander Faked His Death To End Affair
Told that her lover had died, the young woman drove for hours to the man’s home in Virginia, traveling with her mother and sister to offer condolences. But the man who answered the door said her friend, Navy Cmdr. Michael P. Ward II, was alive and hardly ailing: He had moved to Connecticut to take command of a U.S. Navy submarine. Funk Flex
