In the wake of the superb victory of Marc Gene and Nicolas Minassian’s Peugeot 908 HDi FAP at the high-speed circuit of Monza at an average speed of more than 200kph, Team Peugeot Total is now looking to pursue the car’s development at a very different type of track as the 2007 Le Mans Series [...]
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04/30/07, 12:40pm, EDT
A leading auto industry analyst said today that Magna is viewed as the leading contender for buying the Chrysler portion of DCX, the Detroit Free Press reported today.
Brett Hoselton of KeyBanc Capital Markets,
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04/30/07, 11:38am, EDT
General Motors has announced pricing for its 2008 Saturn Vue crossover, with a base price nearly $3,300 higher than the old model. Priced at $21,395, the Vue is priced directly against the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4.
Its
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Adam Opel GmbH breaks new ground by introducing its newest vehicles using special marketing initiatives. With the latest communication project, Opel is the exclusive partner of Internet TV provider “Joostâ€. The Opel GT, Antara and Corsa models, as well as the Astra family, will be presented to Joost TV viewers in various advertising formats during [...]
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Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, Germany, submitted its mandatory offer to acquire shares of Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany, on this Monday after the offer documentation was officially approved by the Federal Agency for Financial Services Supervision (BaFin) for publication. The acceptance period is limited to approximately four weeks and ends on May 29, [...]
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04/30/07, 08:34am, EDT
A sketch of a mystery Chevrolet model appeared in the backdrop of a recent press photo taken inside the Rear Wheel Drive Performance Studio at GM's Warren, Michigan, Design Center.
The image shows GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner
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There were 522,000 black cars sold in 2006, which makes it Britain’s second favourite colour - in 2005 it was placed third. Silver is still number one, but the volume of models registered in this colour fell by 55,000 over the previous year to 671,000.
Spanish giant SEAT has responded to the trend by releasing [...]
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Take a look at the Audi Cross Coupй quattro, which was unveiled at last week’s Shanghai Motor Show in China. It’s officially billed as a design study, but the car closely previews the new Q5, a Land Rover Freelander-sized rival.
With a retractable fabric roof, permanent quattro four-wheel drive and an economical diesel engine, there’s plenty [...]
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First up is a nationwide clasÂsifieds service with a difference. Launched last week, www.motors.co.uk takes the hassle out of used car buying by carrying out free Experian data checks on vehicles sold via its site.
The company already lists more than 200,000 models from private sellers and trade vendors, and buyers also get a vehicle [...]
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The vehicle recovery firm found Paul Freeman’s X5 after he was duped into handing over its keys by a thief. Paul, of Telford, Shropshire, realised he’d been conned and called Tracker - which found the car 1,144 miles from where it was taken.
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