The Dodge brand is going the distance as the title sponsor of the "Dodge Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon presented by SunTrust." Approximately 30 employee runners are driving a caravan of Dodge vehicles that will grip the pavement from Auburn Hills, Mich., to Virginia Beach, Va., over the Labor Day weekend.
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A 1959 Cadillac S&S ambulance rescued from a Church in Maryland, USA, after being read it's last rights, has undergone a miraculous restoration as a tribute to the iconic Ghostbusters movie car, and is now being auctioned at Historics at Brooklands forthcoming sale on 25th September.
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The American Le Mans Series will be heading to Baltimore's Festival of Speed on Labor Day weekend in 2011.
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The American Le Mans Series has announced that it will not race on the same weekend as NASCAR is coming to Montreal next year.
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General Motors Co. plans to begin courting investors for its initial public stock offering immediately after the Nov. 2 U.S. mid-term congressional elections, two sources familiar with the plans said on Wednesday.
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Any way you look at it, August U.S. auto sales disappointed. Compared with 'clunker August' a year ago, sales fell 21 percent. Compared with the month before, volume dropped 5 percent.
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Chrysler Group recorded its fifth consecutive month of year-over-year increases, as August sales rose 7 percent.
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General Motors Co. posted strong August sales at three of its four remaining brands.
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Ford Motor Co. will hold fourth-quarter North American production at the same level as the third-quarter of this year and down slightly from the last quarter of 2009 because of the economy's modest recovery and lackluster consumer spending.
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Toyota Division sales may have fallen 34 percent in August -- and are now down 1 percent for the year to date -- but General Manager Bob Carter isn't panicking. Toyota was the No.
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In today's News Brake: Ford reveals an Explorer-based police utility vehicle, plans for Austin's Formula One track are revealed, and Chevrolet wants Cruze buyers to try the competition . . . But Wait, There's More!
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Volkswagen shut its South African plant for the second time in a month after workers in the auto-parts industry went on strike over pay.
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Rep. John Campbell, a California Republican who is a former auto dealer, said the House's independent ethics arm has recommended that he be investigated for possible violations involving fundraising.
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Car enthusiast Barry Meguiar has been released from the hospital in Monterey, Calif., after 17 days of treatment for a rare form of viral pneumonia.
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Ford Motor Co., which controls about three-quarters of the U.S. market for police cars, will begin selling a law-enforcement version of its redesigned Explorer sport-utility vehicle late next year.
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Fiat's main union FIOM has held talks today (1 September) in Rome with Serbian metalworkers colleagues ahead of planned transfer of work to the Balkans.
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Powertrain development specialist AVL Holding has signed a letter of intent to acquire NTC Powertrain Australia, USA and UK. NTC has vast experience in the development of transmissions for the high volume passenger car market and will form a key part of AVL's passenger car transmission division, AVL said.
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