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  Lotus Exige S Type 72 launched – are they celebrating a return to Formula 1?

  24 December 2009 / 33 comments

  Is Lotus finally accepting the Litespeed run/Malaysian backed Lotus F1 Team as their own? It would seem so because Hethel has chose now to launch the Exige S Type 72, named after the Lotus Type […]

  
  

   

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  GM sends CFO to help unprofitable Daewoo arm

  24 December 2009 / 3 comments

  General Motors Chief Financial Officer Ray Young has been elected to the GM Daewoo Auto & Technology (GMDAT) board of directors with the main aim of steering GM’s Korean outpost to profitability, according to a […]

  
  

   

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  Mahindra to launch pick-ups in US next year

  24 December 2009 / 23 comments

  Indian company Mahindra & Mahindra is set to export its 4X4s to the US, but the brand launch is delayed once again after an earlier postponement in August by Global Vehicles USA, its distributor. With […]

  
  

   

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  Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team official renderings

  23 December 2009 / 92 comments

  We picked up these renderings of the Mercedes GP Formula 1 car complete with Petronas livery from the Brawn GP official website (Brawn GP is the 2009 Constructors Champion, bought by Daimler and renamed as […]

  
  

   

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  Honda reveals new Super GT racecar – the HSV-010

  23 December 2009 / 25 comments

  As reported before, Honda’s “new NSX” will see the light of day not as a production road car, but as replacement to the long serving NSX-GT in the Japanese Super GT series. Honda Racing has […]

  
  

   

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  Peugeot appoints new design director – brand’s “new identity” to be launched next month

  23 December 2009 / 14 comments

  Peugeot has appointed Gilles Vidal as its new Design Director, reporting to Jean-Pierre Ploué, Design Director for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group. Vidal, 37, is a graduate of the Art Centre College of Design in […]

  
  

   

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  CONFIRMED: Michael Schumacher signs for Mercedes GP!

  23 December 2009 / 91 comments

  Word that seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher will make his Formula 1 comeback via Mercedes GP has been circulating for quite some time, but he has finally signed for the Silver Arrows, according to an […]

  
  

   

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  Aston Martin One-77 breaks 350 km/h in testing

  23 December 2009 / 25 comments

  The One-77 supercar is set to be Aston Martin’s fastest road car ever after surpassing its maker’s predictions and comfortably breaking the 320 km/h mark. The ultra exclusive £1.2 million car (only 77 will be […]

  
  

   

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  Walter Röhrl to race stock standard Porsche 911 GT3 RS in Nürburgring 24 hours

  23 December 2009 / 6 comments

  Porsche test driver Walter Röhrl is set to compete in the Nürburgring 24 hour race in May 2010 with a stock standard Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The double world rally champion, now 62, returns to […]

  
  

   

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  BMW Malaysia launch limited edition 50th anniversary MINI variants

  22 December 2009 / 22 comments

  MINI is British. And to cement that rich heritage, there’s a trio of limited edition MINI variants that sport names such as Mayfair, Camden and Earl Grey. These cars are to commemorate MINI’s 50th birthday, […]

  
  

   

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