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• Don’t Worry About Your Prius Batteries
  on Dec 31, 2008 in Car News Toyota Hybrid
  So late last night, I get an email from the Big Boss Man, Chris, about the batteries on the Toyota Prius. The conversation goes something like this: Chris: “Want to do a factual/opinion piece on this? It’s a question I’ve hea
• Daimler Trucks Acquires 10% of Russian Truck Manufacturer Kamaz
  on Dec 30, 2008 in Car News Mercedes-Benz
  Ah yeah, this could be fun. Fun? About one truck biz buying a chunk of another truck biz? How the Hell could that be fun? Look at the picture above. That is one of the Kamaz trucks racing in the Paris-Dakar race. For the uninitiated, Paris-Dakar is a...
• American Designer Jason Castriota Moves From Pininfarina To Bertone
  on Dec 29, 2008 in Car News Car Design
  This is a rarity: an American car designer working, and working successfully, for an Italian auto design company. And then building on that success by moving from noted design house, to another. The American in question is Jason Castriota, and his fi...
• Video of Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Hamann Volcano
  on Dec 28, 2008 in Car News Mercedes-Benz Modified cars Hamann Video McLaren
  Merc’s (oh fine, and McLaren’s, I suppose) SLR supercar is going to be phased out to pave the way for the next uber Merc car (supposedly called SLC, by the way, and it’s gonna have those gullwing doors), but being the classy
• Mario Kart, For Real
  on Dec 27, 2008 in Car News Funny Video
  MARIO KART (REMI GAILLARD)by nqtv And you thought it was just a video game. From: Neatorama © Gearhead [...]...
• WRC: Subaru Cancels World Rally Program
  on Dec 26, 2008 in Car News Racing Subaru Prodrive
  That’s a right nice Merry Christmas for Petter Solbereg & Chris Atkinson, Subaru just fired them … OK, not fired them, but it just recently came out that Subaru has decided to not compete in the WRC (the World Rally Championsh
• Aston Martin Offers Upgrade Packages for 4.3-liter V8 Vantage Owners
  on Dec 25, 2008 in Car News Aston Martin
  When Aston Martin released the hugely popular V8 Vantage in 2006, they fitted it with a 4.3-liter V8 and 380 horsepower. This wasn’t enough for many people, since the Vantage’s competitors such as the Porsche 911 Turbo and Audi R8 were
• Merry Christmas from Automoblog
  on Dec 25, 2008 in Misc
  The team here at Automoblog.net wishes everyone a Merry Christmas today! We hope everyone is enjoying time with their friends and family. [...]...
• Fiat & Peugeot-Citroen Merging?
  on Dec 24, 2008 in Car News Peugeot Citroen Fiat
  Whoa, what? Are they serious? The news out of Europe is that Fiat and Peugeot/Citroen are thinking about merging? Most of the merger talk has been all in the US, mainly about who is going to marry Chrysler, but this one has come out of nowhere. Fiat&.
• Porsche Out of ALMS
  on Dec 23, 2008 in Car News Porsche Racing
  And there goes another one: Porsche has decided to suspend the efforts of its factory team in the ALMS series. As a quick update, the ALMS (American Le Mans series) was started and run by Danny Panoz (of Panoz cars and the trans-dermal patch fame). I...

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