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  Rover production restart doubtful

  4 February 2006 / 3 comments

  Six months after Nanjing Automobile bought MG Rover, Rover’s future is looking bleak as Nanjing doesn’t seem to be doing anything about restarting Rover’s production. Nanjing rescued Rover from bankruptcy from USD2.44 billion worth of […]

   

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  Proton Mitsubishi partnership outline

  3 February 2006 / 28 comments

  The Edge Daily carries a story with the main points of the new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation signed between Proton and Mitsubishi. Product development of new Proton vehicles Supply of components between Proton […]

   

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  Top Gear Video: Ford F150 Lightning

  3 February 2006 / 7 comments

  A pick-up truck sporting a 5.4 litre supercharged V8 that makes 380bhp and does the 0-100kmh sprint in 5.8 seconds. You’d think Jeremy Clarkson would like it. Watch this video. He does make a bit […]

   

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  What has Proton been up to?

  3 February 2006 / 9 comments

  A few interesting things have been happening in the Proton stables. Let’s have a look at them one by one shall we. On the 26th of January, Proton’s new chief executive Syed Zainal Abidin Syed […]

   

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  Top Gear Mitsubishi Evolution VIII Review

  2 February 2006 / 11 comments

  Top Gear reviews the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR FQ400. A ferocious “family saloon”. Then they proceed to pitch it against something that looks much more like a traditional sports car – a Lamborghini Murcielago.

   

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  Lotus APX to be unveiled at Geneva 2006

  1 February 2006 / 20 comments

  Lotus will be unveiling this concept car called the Lotus APX Concept at the 2006 Geneva Auto Salon. The APX is built using Lotus’s Versatile Vehicle Architecture (VVA) and is powered by a 3.0 litre […]

   

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  Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1

  1 February 2006 / 8 comments

  After exactly a month after it’s release and another version later, I finally upgraded to WordPress 2. The blog is currently running on WordPress 2.0.1, which has a truck load of fixes over WordPress 2.0. […]

   

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