Thank You, Chris Bangle! Thank you for... nothing! I've always hated Chris Bangle. I've hated him to death without even knowing why. Maybe because everybody did? Because it was the trend? Every Bayerische Motoren Werke fan on the Internet was saying that he's just destroying the BMW image. So I jumped on ... Continue reading >
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Daimler Aims to Cut Costs by 1.6 Billion Euros
One of the few to have coped well with the crisis until now, Daimler is expected to announce today its financial performance for 2008. Maybe as a result of this, the company plans to cut 1.6 billion euros ...
BMW 320d xDrive Touring (E91) - 2009 - "New Ca ...
A BMW that's neither a sedan, nor does it have rear wheel drive, there's less than an inline six-cylinder under the hood and it uses the same kind of ...
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How Self-Parking Cars Work
Parking a car in a crowded city can prove to be your worst nightmare sometimes, especially when you're in a hurry and the only parking spot ...
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Criminals and How They Choose Their Cars
We, not being criminals and all, have no idea what drives a person who commits a crime to choose a car over another. Whatever those reasons may ...
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17.02.2009 | 10:17 GMT
Tom Cruise Meets Keith Urban at Daytona
How would it be like to meet your ex-wife's current husband at the same event you take part at? Not very pleasant, we suppose... However ...
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17.02.2009 | 09:54 GMT
Richard Branson to Purchase Honda F1 Team
The chances of Honda's F1 team making the grid at Melbourne seems 50 to 50 right now. At least that's what has been suggested by British ...
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17.02.2009 | 09:49 GMT
Lamborghini Murcielago LP650-4 Roadster Detailed
Although a little sketchy and with only few details leaked, the information about the Murcielago LP650-4 Roadster, the offspring of the LP640, is ...
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Although nothing is yet official about a future cooperation between Mercedes-Benz and BMW, the story is already bringing some profit.
According to Autonews, BMW shares increased by 2 percent yesterday after a report published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
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Designing the fastest car in the world seems to be one of the main tasks for several automakers, without taking into account the economic downturn which obviously brings interest for such a high-performance vehicle close to zero. But even so, companies compete in ...
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IndyCar to Welcome F1 Drivers for Lower FeesF1As far as we know, only 3 drivers have signed the new Superlicense agreements for the upcoming season of Formula 1. For the 15 other drivers (17, if we count Honda F1's Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello) Formula One should not remain the only option out there. At least not according to IndyCar's official site! Following FIA president Max Mosley's suggestions earlier this month that “a driver who does not want, or even cannot afford to pay for, a Formula One super license thus has many alternatives”, an open letter to all F1 drivers out there (under the signing of Indy Racing League management) appeared on the IRL official site. The fictitious letter goes like this: “Dear sirs, Know that IndyCar Series teams would welcome your participation in the 2009 ... >> Read more |
Of course we all do an embarrassing mistake at least once in our lives. Since the evil has been already done and nothing could be changed about that, all we can do is apologize for the situation.
That's exactly what Michael Phelps is trying to do after the ...
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Aligning production with the market demand and adapting the features a specific model provide to the exact options of the customers is one of the main marketing tasks nowadays when people are no less interested in buying new cars. That's why Rolls-Royce today ...
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The Chicago Auto Show debuted on Friday, February 13, and despite what you might think, that did not jinx the overall performance of the show. So far, that is. Set to last until February 22, it would seem that the event is to have some degree of success, even if ...
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Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo insisted that there are other priorities in the world of Formula 1 at the moment than hosting a Grand Prix on the streets of Rome. The Scuderia supreme revealed that the Rome Grand Prix would only be considered as an F1 event if it ...
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The creepy future when people will be replaced by robots seems closer than we have expected. Keeping that in mind, Audi and PDM, Australia’s number one Out-of-Home Digital media company, have recently launched the country’s first ever life-size ...
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Following yesterday's announcement that the American automaker may close the doors of about 3 production facilities in the near future, General Motors today said the restructuring plan might continue with even more cost-cutting measures, including job layoffs at ...
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A1 Team France will be represented by Nicolas Prost in the upcoming event at Kyalami, South Africa. The Frenchman was asked by team principal Olivier Panis to replace regular seat holder Loic Duval, as the latter has a prior commitment this weekend.
Prost will ...
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Following the major strategic alliance signed with Chrysler, Fiat aims to take full advantage of the agreement and prepares to launch a series of fuel-efficient models in the United States that would mark its return into this side of the market. Obviously, the ...
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Brazilian oil giant Petrobras have denied allegations that they are considering to be part of a rescue plan for Honda's F1 team. According to autosport.com, Petrobras' Head of Sponsorship Claudio Thompson insisted the company he represents will not even continue to ...
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While Mr Bond is satisfied to drive an Audi S6 in reality, the Spanish professional tennis player Rafael Nadal enjoys driving an Aston Martin just like the one of the 007 agent.
Although the well-known tennis player is Kia's ambassador until 2011, this wasn't an ...
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... nothing! I've always hated Chris Bangle. I've hated him to death without even knowing why. Maybe because everybody did? Because it was the trend? Every Bayerische Motoren Werke fan on the Internet was saying that he's just destroying the BMW image. So I jumped ...
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Green cars are the future of the auto industry, that's for sure. But some engineers go even beyond that and, starting with the same idea of developing a green car that produces zero emissions, they design, let's say, appealing models that may look like the best way ...
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Ferrari, Toyota and BMW Sauber have finally enjoyed a decent testing session in Bahrain during the course of today, succeeding in putting their 2009 challengers to work for the entire duration of the Monday meeting. Although still a bit cloudy in the first part of ...
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It seems like the upcoming Geneva Motor Show is going to be a fairly special event for Czech manufacturer Skoda as the company will debut several new models expected to hit the streets this year. While Skoda has already confirmed that Geneva will showcase the ...
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The current financial crisis seems to be the perfect cover for those who want to take advantage of the assumed naivety of the drivers. But things don't always work according to the plan...
Thus, British oil firms have been recently accused that they try to get ...
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The Hyundai frenzy continues even after the company unveiled the Genesis Coupe at the Chicago Auto Show with a brand new model, this time launched in Germany. The South Korean released the Hyundai i30 Sport in Germany, a new special edition of the i30 that comes in ...
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The organizers of the 2009 ING Australian Grand Prix have decided to change the motto of the Formula 1 season opener due to the catastrophic bush fires near Melbourne the past month. The promoters of the event scheduled in late March will no longer use the verb ...
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Children who wanted to ask their parents to give them a motorcycle for their birthday should change their wish list as starting with last week, the sale of such devices is illegal.
February 10 was the last day when producers of motorcycles for the 12-year-old ...
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The largest car maker in the Middle East, Iran Khodro, has just unveiled what they claim to be the world's most powerful car engine to run on natural gas. Except it isn't. The Samand Soren ELX has a turbocharged 1.7 liter four-cylinder engine capable of offering 150 hp ...
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Motorcycles had almost the same fate as cars in 2008 which, under the strong pressure of the economic recession, recorded very poor sales no matter what market we are talking about. And things can get even worse, Yamaha warned in a statement for the press, with ...
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Renault's Flavio Briatore insisted his team has a solid future inside Formula 1, despite the loss of title sponsor ING Group after the 2009 season. The Italian argued that the new cost cutting measures introduced by the International Automobile Federation for the ...
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While several European car manufacturers have already received funds from their domestic governments, suppliers are still in a desperate situation and ask the European Investment Bank to provide no less than 10 billion euros in loans. Representatives of several ...
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The incident that recently happened at some Russian winter car racing competition seems as if depicted from the Group B Rally championships of the '80s, when in the Portuguese Rally, Joaquim Santo's Ford RS2 plunged into a crowd of spectators, killing three people ...
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The owners of USF1 team – to be officially unveiled on February 24 – have confirmed they are considering IndyCar Series' Danica Patrick for their F1 driver lineup. In an interview for the Associated Press news agency, part-owner Ken Anderson admitted ...
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