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Mar
LONG BEACH, Calif. (Feb. 19, 2008) — The first step toward turning Shoreline Drive in downtown Long Beach into a 200-mph front straightaway took place this morning as construction began for the 34th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.The first of more than 14 million pounds of concrete blocks that line the 1.97-mile circuit […]
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Mar
SEBRING, Fla. (February 5, 2008) - The first day of open testing for the 2008 Cooper Tires Presents The Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda at Sebring International Raceway featured a time sheet that was topped by three drivers representing the three countries which will host Champ Car Atlantic races this year.Leading the way […]
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Mar
Cadillac had a pair of eye-catching concepts at the Detroit auto show in January–the head-turning CTS Coupe and a small SUV named Provoq.
Earlier we showed you that the CTS Coupe is headed for showrooms, possibly named the CTC. Now, here’s signs that the Provoq was a preview of a new small SUV for Cadillac that […]
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Mar
The UAW strike at American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. that has halted light-truck production at General Motors will push the automaker to close its first car assembly plant and possibly another.
GM confirmed on Friday, March 28, that it will shut its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, which builds the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne sedans.
GM informed […]
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Mar
SEBRING, Florida (February 2, 2008) - The 2008 Champ Car World Series season “unofficially” got under way today in Sebring when Champ Car teams and drivers took to the track at Sebring International Raceway for the first of three pre-season open tests. The first day saw Frenchman Franck Montagny top the time charts aboard the […]
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Mar
Peugeot revealed it will develop a diesel-hybrid version of its existing 908 HDi turbodiesel LMP1 prototype. But the race team distanced itself from comments by company boss Jean-Philippe Collin at the Geneva motor show that a hybrid 908 will race at Le Mans next year and that it even could race before the end of […]
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Mar
Spy photographer Brenda Priddy is organizing an online auction to help pay for the medical bills of veteran journalist Frank Washington, who was severely beaten and stabbed this winter near his Detroit home.
Among the items on eBay: five Dodge Challenger prototype pistol-grip shifters, two rare, framed sketches of mid-engine Corvettes from around 1973 and a […]
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Mar
SEBRING, Fla. (Feb. 6, 2008)–Despite an abbreviated final day of Cooper Tires Presents The Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda testing at Sebring International Raceway for their team, teammates James Hinchcliffe (#3 Forsythe Championship Racing) and David Garza (#7 Forsythe Championship Racing) found themselves standing atop the time charts at the end of the […]
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Mar
SEBRING, Florida (Feb. 2, 2008)–The 2008 open test season officially gets under way today with various Champ Car World Series teams and drivers turning in their first laps of the year at Sebring International Raceway.Over the next three days, teams will run on the 1.7-mile “short course” at the famed Sebring track that has been […]
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Mar
This could be the most significant MG TD in the country. Its original owner, John von Neumann, is credited with having helped launch organized sports-car racing on the West Coast in the late 1950s, which eventually gave way to professional road racing as we now know it.
Today, Don Martine is the caretaker of this incredible […]