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Ford Sells 20% Of Its Stake In Mazda
In an effort to raise cash and prop up its faltering balance sheets, Ford Motor Company has sold 20% of its stake in Mazda, netting the blue oval boys $540 Million. This follows on the heals of GM selling of 3% of their stake in Suzuki (netting the General $230 Million). According to statements from […]
Read More »New Vantage GT4 Racer From Aston Martin
Looks like Aston Martin really wants to beat the bow-tie boy’s Corvette, doesn’t it? Just to get you up to speed, for a while now, Aston Martin, under the guise of a ProDrive propped & managed Vantage GT4 have been duking it out with Chevy’s Corvette in the FIA’s GT series, most notably at the […]
Read More »AMG Will Launch High-Performance Diesel By 2011
Wa-HOOOO! That’s what you’ll be saying (either literally or to yourself) when you step on the gas peddle of the AMG-massaged diesel that’ll be rolling out by 2011. That is, if Volker Mornhinweg, the boss of Mercedes’ tuning division, has his way. Herr Mornhinweg described the upcoming model as an updated version of the legendary […]
Read More »Lotus Sport 2-Eleven GT4 Supersport Racer
Can I license one of these things for road use? Seriously? … OK, I’m just kidding, but it makes you think doesn’t it. What we have here is an uprated version of Lotus’ latest track car the 2-Eleven. This one is called the GT4 Supersport. The bodywork is tweaked here & there, there’s a full […]
Read More »Nissan GT-R Is Motor Trend Car of The Year
Well this is odd, not that Motor Trend picked the GT-R, that makes a lot of sense, it’s just that for once, MT picked a half-way decent car for once. How long has Motor Trend had the rep of giving away “Car of The Year” or “Truck of The Year” to something half-assed or, even […]
Read More »SURPRISE! 2009 Nissan 370Z Bows Early
Well, seems like Nissan couldn’t wait for the official debut of the upcoming, and highly anticipated, 370 Z The Z series has always seemed to run in cycles. First the 240, small, nimble, light. Then the 260, followed by the 280, which was bigger and more luxo and more gadget-ridden. Then the 300, which was […]
Read More »Audi's Mid-Engined R4 Not Dead?
Well color me happily surprised, if this turns out to be true, but the R4, Audis baby-R8 might actually see the light of day. Back in March, der boys from Ingolstadt said their Boxster/Cayman competitor was dead-dead0dead, but now … seems like that initial diagnosis was a bit off. The new mid-engined R4 is on […]
Read More »Toyota to Make $5K Car
Whoa! Toyota just fired off a serious shot across the bow of it’s competitors everywhere when they announced they intend to produce a car that will sell for less than five thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars. That’s not the cost of a car, that’s the down payment on a car. Jeez, can you even buy […]
Read More »Centerlock Porsche Wheels Now Available To Mere Mortals
Porsche has decided to bring a little more racing tech to the street, this time in the form of centerlock wheels. You know, those are the kind of wheels you see on race cars, the type that are held on by one big nut right in the middle of the wheel, rather than four or […]
Read More »300 Layoffs Coming to Bentley
Uh-oh, this can’t be a good sign. For those of you that have been living in a snow cave for the past however-long, there’s been this whole, world-wide financial shake up. And it looks to be pretty bad. How bad? Bad enough for Bentley to lay off upwards of 300 people. Yes, it would be […]
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