Yokohama announced that it would supply ECO racing tires to the FIA World Touring Car Championship from 2010.
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When Michel Deslauriers, my boss at Auto123.com, told me he'd booked me into a driving school, I was insulted. I, who have driven the most beautiful tracks around the world, from Monaco to Silverstone, who have won an Atlantic race on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve! What in the world could a driving course teach me, one that employs production cars no less?
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Rain caused problems to the Formula 1 teams and drivers during the first free practice session of the Grand Prix of Brazil Friday morning.
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On Friday, Nelson Piquet Junior's famous father revealed his son would currently be a Toro Rosso driver had he listened to his advice.
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Two-time World Champion Fernando Alonso put his Renault R29 on top the charts Friday afternoon when he set the fastest time of the second free practice session of the Grand Prix of Brazil.
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Car sales fell in Malaysia and rose in Thailand last month, media reports said.
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Toyota Motor sales in China last month rose 45% year on year to a record monthly high of about 72,000 vehicles as stimulus policies bolstered consumer confidence.
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Samara Region-based auto components manufacturer Plastic has signed an agreement to take out a RUB1.42bn three-year non-revolving credit line from Sberbank.
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Three months out of US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and in the process of finalising a deal to sell a majority stake in Opel, General Motors is now mulling the fate of its 51% owned South Korean unit GM Daewoo.
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The European carmakers' association ACEA has called on EU Member States not to ratify a free trade agreement (FTA) that the European Commission has signed today.
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German automotive and defence group Rheinmetall plans to buy a 51% stake in the military unit of truck maker MAN, Financial Times Deutschland reported.
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Israeli chip maker Tower Semiconductor has said it would be the preferred manufacturer of power automotive devices for C&S Technology in South Korea.
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Eighteen multinational companies and Chinese corporations, including a top autoparts maker, are guilty of violating a Chinese environmental regulation on publishing pollution information in the first year of the law's implementation, a report by the environmental group Greenpeace claimed.
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MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: A timeless top-down roadster to be sure, but with each passing year the Mia . . .
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Hundreds of workers at General Motors' Thai assembly plant on Thursday ended a 10-day strike after settling a pay dispute with the management, the automaker said.
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Chery Automobile plans to spend US$500m building a plant in Turkey, Chinese state media reported.
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British Formula One team Williams has confirmed it is ending its engine supply deal with Toyota at the end of this season and will seek a new supplier for the 2010 season.
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Russia's largest carmaker, Avtovaz, is on the verge of bankruptcy, according to the Kommersant business daily, which also said the company needs to cut almost 50,000 jobs if it is to have any hope of survival.
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With the current economy the last thing you need is for your vehicle to break down. Whether your driving a reliable car or a busted up