What a comeback for veteran Mark Martin (Chevy No 5). As he is now driving full time for Hendrick Motorsports, Mark Martin is a man with a mission: to prove that at age 50, he still can drive a Sprint Cup car and win.
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Sebastian Vettel won his second race in career Sunday, in Shanghai. Once again, his victory was held under rain-circumstances.
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Daimler maker of Mercedes-Benz and smart vehicles will bring its innovative "car2go" mobility concept to the U.S. by fall of this year. The first international pilot will start in the Texas capital Austin with an initial fleet of about 200 fuel efficient smart fortwo cars.
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Ford Motor Company, continuing its rapid quality improvement, surpassed Honda in initial vehicle quality for the first time and reached new levels of customer satisfaction with vehicle quality, a new survey shows.
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My first question when I picked up this Subaru was "What is PZEV?" Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle or PZEV is an emissions category used in the United States to signify a vehicle that meets much stricter emissions than normal. Special equipment is added, such as a charcoal canister on the intake to make sure that no fuel vapors can escape from the engine when shut off.
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Bernd Pischetsrieder, ex-CEO of Volkswagen, could be a suitable head of a new Opel company independent of U.S. parent General Motors, an Opel dealer group in Germany said.
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The call from Jeff Bolton came at 2 p.m.: Get your gear together, pack your stuff, get your battle rattle in hand . . . were going outside the wire.
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Toyota Motor Corp will suspend production at its Russian factory for the third time this year, the automaker said. "In (view) of unstable car market conditions...
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The Obama administration has directed General Motors to prepare a new restructuring plan that would pay off bondholders and the automaker's major union in stock in exchange for $48 billion in debt, people briefed on the plan said on Friday.
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Carmakers are cutting any costs they can these days, but China is one place where they won't be skimping as they battle for customers in one of the world's few remaining growth markets.
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The Basha's Supermarkets 200 Nationwide race run Friday evening at the one-mile Phoenix International Speedway seemed to belong to pole sitter and series leader Carl Edwards (Ford No 60) but, after leading some 79 laps of the race, the engine of his Roush-Fenway Ford went sour and he had to call it quits.
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Sebastian Vettel got his second career Formula 1 pole position on Saturday, in Shanghai. He will start in front of Fernando Alonso's Renault and Mark Webber's other Red Bull car.
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Flavio Briatore has stepped up his attack on the Brawn team, after slamming the former Honda drivers in Shanghai.
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As feared by his McLaren team, Lewis Hamilton's first appearance for the media in Shanghai only sparked new controversy.
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Bruno Senna has turned down an opportunity to race with Mercedes-Benz this year in the German touring car series DTM.
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Shanghai pole sitter Sebastian Vettel has admitted he is concerned about the reliability of his car ahead of Sunday's Chinese grand prix. In the meantime, Fernando Alonso has the lightest car on the grid.
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Kimi Raikkonen has stated that neither he nor teammate Felipe Massa will be able to challenge for the 2009 world championship.
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Helio Castroneves, acquitted earlier in the day of tax evasion charges, will race in this weekend's Long Beach IndyCar Series event, Team Penske has announced and replacement Will Power will also compete with the team this weekend.
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We just posted a selection of photos from the IndyCar Grand Prix of Long Beach. Our photographer Charles Gauthier is on location.
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The results are in and North York, Ontario students Kevin Birchall and Eric Salb from Northview Heights Secondary School placed second overall at the 2009 National Automotive Technology Competition.
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