British company Cosworth has won the tender to supply a low-cost engine and transmission package in 2010 and beyond, formula one's governing body announced on Friday.
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Penske Racing today announced that the organization would campaign the No. 7 Penske Porsche Riley Daytona Prototype in the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
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One year after the launch of the Karma Concept, Fisker will unveil the production model at the 2009 NAIAS, in Detroit. The revolutionary Karma becomes the world's first premium sports sedan to use a hybrid powertrain. Performance promises to be outstanding with a 260-horsepower, 2.0-liter, 4-cylinder engine mated to 22.6-kW lithium-ion battery. Total output exceeds 400 horsepower (408) while accelerations from 0 to 100 km/h are completed in 5.8 seconds.
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KV Racing Technology's general manager, Mark Johnson, has told the Indianapolis Star that the team's co-owners, Kevin Kalkhoven and Jimmy Vasser, have expressed their desire to be back in the Indycar series and to be on the starting grid at St. Petersburg.
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Jari-Matti Latvala emerged from the Welsh forests this evening as overnight leader of Wales Rally GB, with a 12.9sec lead over second placed man Sebastien Loeb.
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KV Racing Technology's general manager, Mark Johnson, has told the Indianapolis Star that the team's co-owners, Kevin Kalkhoven and Jimmy Vasser, have expressed their desire to be back in the Indycar series and to be on the starting grid at St. Petersburg.
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Penske Racing today announced that the organization would campaign the No. 7 Penske Porsche Riley Daytona Prototype in the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
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The 2008 battle for the manufacturers' championship in NASCAR's Sprint Cup started in a very unusual way last January.
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Jari-Matti Latvala emerged from the Welsh forests this evening as overnight leader of Wales Rally GB, with a 12.9sec lead over second placed man Sebastien Loeb.
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TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. withdrew full-year earnings and sales forecasts on Thursday due to the upheaval in global automotive markets that has forced vehicle producers to cut production.
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It's official: The Ford Taurus X crossover and Mercury Sable sedan will die early next year. Ford Motor Co. has notified dealers to prepare their final orders for the two vehicles before production ends in the spring.
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Toyota Canada Inc. cut the ribbon on a new C$1.1 billion ($859 million) assembly plant in Woodstock, Ontario on Thursday, bringing about 1,200 new jobs to a sector that has been losing jobs rapidly.
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Chrysler LLC CEO Bob Nardelli told a U.S. Senate committee today he would support a merger with General Motors if it became a condition for government support of the Detroit 3 automakers.
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Minneapolis auto dealer Denny Hecker was hospitalized last night after an auto accident in Plymouth, Minn. Hecker, 56, is in fair condition at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbindale, Minn.
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UAW President Ron Gettelfinger declined today to say the UAW would accept additional concessions on retiree health care.Responding to questions from Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
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A Tennessee senator today drove a wedge between Chrysler LLC and its Detroit rivals General Motors and Ford Motor Co. when he charged that Chrysler is only asking for money to tide it over until it is bought by a partner.
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Ford has created a position overseeing worldwide development of performance vehicles. Jost Capito, who most recently spearheaded development of the Focus RS, will fill the post.
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A bankruptcy of even one of the Detroit 3 would cause an already distressed supply base )x("",to implode, Johnson Controls Inc. President Keith Wandell told Congress today.
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U.S. senators raised the possibility today of getting bailout loans to the Detroit 3 by having the federal government guarantee loans that would be made by private banks and financial institutions. Sens. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, and Tom Carper, D-Del.
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