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Feb
9th

INTERVIEW: BMW’s sales chief puts faith in stimulus package

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As the world's automotive industry braces for a tough year, BMW's sales and marketing chief Ian Robertson tells Dave Leggett that he believes BMW is well placed to meet the challenges ahead. Moreover, he's also expecting to see improvement for the whole industry in the second half of this year and is convinced that recovery is coming on the back of government stimulus packages. Full story...
Feb
9th

NASCAR: A deep look at a Sprint Cup car

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The 51st running of the Great American Race - the Daytona 500 - is only days away. We take a close look at a NASCAR Sprint Cup car. Full story...
Feb
9th

NASCAR: A deep look at a Sprint Cup car

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The 51st running of the Great American Race - the Daytona 500 - is only days away. We take a close look at a NASCAR Sprint Cup car. Full story...
Feb
9th

F1: Mark Webber had leg surgery last week

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Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber will race away from the Melbourne grid next month still carrying the evidence of his broken leg. Full story...
Feb
8th

F1: Sebastien Bourdais to combine F1 with Le Mans

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Sebastien Bourdais will buck the trend in 2009 by combining his formula one campaign with the Le Mans 24 hour race. Full story...
Feb
8th

ARCA: James Buescher wins the ARCA Remax 200 at Daytona

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The first important stock-car race of the year is not the Daytona 500 or the Bud Shootout. No, it's the annual ARCA 200 race held on Saturday afternoon before the Bud Shootout at the Daytona International Speedway! Full story...
Feb
6th

Alpina to debut B6 GT3 race car at Geneva motor show:

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Alpina has been tinkering with BMW vehicles for close to 50 years and has a rich motorsports history that includes campaigns in European touring car, hill climbing, rally and endurance racing that it stepped away from 20 years ago. Full story...
Feb
6th

BMW Z4 Coupe – Hot BMW Z4 Coupe is go, go, go

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We've seen the concept - now take a look at the real thing... BMW's new showroom-ready Z4 M Coupé. And it has more than a dash of the firm's Formula One racer about it! Full story...
Feb
6th

F1: Toro Rosso finally confirms Sébastien Bourdais

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The Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula 1 team has confirmed that Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais will again race for the Red Bull-owned team in 2009. Full story...
Feb
6th

NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson says injury is healing well

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Reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson's cut finger is "healing well," and he plans to test several braces on his left hand when Daytona International Speedway opens on Friday. Full story...
Feb
6th

The Ford F150 SVT Raptor R to run the ”Best in the Desert”

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Ford's special development team, the SVT, intends to race its ultimate Raptor R pickup in the 2009 "Best in the Desert" endurance race series. Based on the regular versions, the Raptor is a true off-road monster. Full story...
Feb
6th

NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson says injury is healing well

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Reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson's cut finger is "healing well," and he plans to test several braces on his left hand when Daytona International Speedway opens on Friday. Full story...
Feb
6th

F1: Toro Rosso finally confirms Sébastien Bourdais

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The Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula 1 team has confirmed that Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais will again race for the Red Bull-owned team in 2009. Full story...
Feb
5th

1999-2005 Audi A2 – By Design

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1999-2005 Audi A2 - By Design
1999-2005 Audi A2 - Design Analysis - Automobile Magazine
Efficient design in an agreeable package.

So Honda has a new Insight hybrid, and almost every comment I have seen says that Honda "copied the Toyota Prius" shape. Not really. What both four-door hatchbacks do is follow the tenets of Reinhard Koenig-Fachsenfeld, a sometime motorcycle racer who lacked the academic credentials so important in German engineering circles. The talented German professor/doctor/engineer Wunibald Kamm, whose name is commonly applied to the truncated tail featured on both the Insight and the Prius, headed the Research Institute for Motor Vehicles and Engines (FKFS) in Stuttgart from 1930 until the end of WWII and lent his prestige to the development of Koenig-Fachsenfeld's aerodynamic patents. Together, they built and tested a series of experimental, Prius-like "K-cars" that were a far cry from the eponymous little boxes that saved Chrysler in the early 1980s.


Photo Gallery: 1999-2005 Audi A2 - Design Analysis - Automobile Magazine


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Feb
5th

F1: Renault likely to use KERS in Australia

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The Renault Formula 1 team will probably begin the 2009 world championship with a functioning KERS system aboard the R29, according to the team's Spanish race driver Fernando Alonso. Full story...
Feb
5th

F1: Renault likely to use KERS in Australia

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The Renault Formula 1 team will probably begin the 2009 world championship with a functioning KERS system aboard the R29, according to the team's Spanish race driver Fernando Alonso. Full story...
Feb
3rd

INDIA: Tata execs brace for pay cuts

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Senior executives in several Tata Group companies are bracing themselves for a 10-15% salary cut according to an Indian newspaper report. Full story...
Feb
3rd

Report: Fiat races to review Chrysler operations

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Italian carmaker Fiat is racing to review the operations of Chrysler LLC before Chrysler must meet a U.S. government deadline in two weeks, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told the Wall Street Journal. Full story...
Feb
2nd

2009 Nissan GT-R vs 2009 Porsche 911 GT2 – At the ‘Ring

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2009 Nissan GT-R vs 2009 Porsche 911 GT2 - At the 'Ring
2009 Nissan GTR vs 2009 Porsche 911 GT2 - Nurburgring Nordschleife Racetrack- Automobile Magazine
After the trash talking: the audacious Nissan GT-R goes toe-to-toe with Porsche's heavyweight GT2 on its home circuit.

It was a throwaway statement, but once it was reported and widely quoted, it caused quite a controversy. Oh, how we all love a tempest in a teapot.


Photo Gallery: 2009 Nissan GTR vs 2009 Porsche 911 GT2 - Nurburgring Nordschleife Racetrack- Automobile Magazine


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Feb
2nd

Japan’s Toyota Prius Cup showcases hybrid car:

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With steely stares and clenched hands, the drivers peer from their crash helmets as the race marshal slowly raises the green flag. Then the flag drops. Full story...
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