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India Posted:Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:10:12 GMTMercedes Benz, which was overthrown by BMW last year from its numero uno position, sold a total of 2,921 units in the January-July period.
Posted:Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:28:58 GMTMahindra & Mahindra (M&M), India?s largest tractor maker, plans to scale up its production capacity by over 60% in two years to cash in on the growing rural demand, according to a senior official.
Posted:Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:24:16 GMTLuxury carmaker Mercedes Benz has beaten BMW in the race for the top spot in the Indian luxury car segment in the first seven months of the year with a massive 79.31% jump in sales. |
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US Posted:Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:23:27 GMT![Dan Akerson, a former CEO at Nextel, will take over from GM CEO Ed Whitacre in September.]() General Motors Co. has delayed its IPO filing until early next week as it updates its prospectus with the recent CEO change, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.
Posted:Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:45:00 GMT![General Motors Corp. Chairman Edward Whitacre says he will be replaced by GM board member Daniel Akerson, the managing director and head of global buyout of The Carlyle Group.]() On the same day that General Motors reported a profit of $1.33 billion in the second quarter, the U.S. automaker announced that CEO Ed Whitacre will step down from his position.
Posted:Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:06:52 GMT![General Motors Co. CEO Ed Whitacre, seen here with workers at an event in April, hopes to be celebrating the company's initial public stock offering later this year.]() GM's second-quarter earnings are due this week, and the automaker is hinting at blowout results that could propel it toward a giant stock offering in the fall.
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Europe Posted:Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:56:00 ESTFiled under: Motorsports, Classics, Racing ![2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion]()
2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion - Click above for high-res image gallery
This year's Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion was actually the first one ever run, as there was a name change to go along with last year's change in management. The former Historics are now the Reunion, but name change aside, the event was still the same old week of wheel-to-wheel racing action. Now we know that you can see that kind of action on any given Saturday or Sunday, but the players are usually much, much newer.
Classic and vintage race cars from every era of motorsports are what make this such a wonderful event. There are literally hundreds of your favorite old race cars running in the nearly twenty classes of racing action. Legendary race cars like Ferrari SWBs and Lotus 23s, Porsche 962s and Trans Am Mustangs, Cobras and Vettes as well as F1 cars, Can-Am racers, NASCAR, Indy cars, and so on and so on. The classes take you from the under 1500 cc Minis up to the 1,000-horsepower 917Ks, with almost everything imaginable in between.
We were out there for hours and hours watching, listening to, feeling, smelling and enjoying these vintage racers, and we've assembled a sizable gallery to help convey what that was like. Click any image below to see our massive high-res gallery.
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Posted:Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:57:00 ESTFiled under: Concept Cars, Hybrid, Performance, Videos, Porsche ![Porsche 918 Spyder Concept]()
Porsche 918 Spyder Concept at Pebble Beach - Click above for high-res image gallery
While we've heard rumblings that Porsche was going to show its hot new 918 Spyder Hybrid Concept here at Pebble Beach, it appeared that the car was only going to be shown to a select few at private events scattered around the Monterey Peninsula during the week.
Well, today at the Pebble Beach Lodge, site of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the company surprised us by driving the hybrid supercar up to the concept lawn for all to see - and hear. They did a quick turn around after sitting still for a second and as the V8 rumble died away, the car started moving forward again. A couple of people were taken by surprise as they thought the driver may have forgotten to engage the parking brake, but no, the car had switched over to battery power.
We shot a little video and took a few pics as we pushed through the massive scrum surrounding the car when it finally came to rest. Follow the jump to see the video and click below to see our high-res images.
UPDATE: Porsche has revealed that the 918 Spyder actually made its driving debut a couple days earlier on a closed road in Monterey. The company kept the drive a secret, though produced a nice video of their own that really shows off how the car sounds under its own power. Added after the jump.
Photos and video copyright (C)2010 Frank Filipponio/AOLContinue reading Porsche 918 Spyder moves under its own power in Monterey [w/videos] Porsche 918 Spyder moves under its own power in Monterey [w/videos] originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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2010 Concours d'Lemons - Click above for high-res image gallery
Monterey's main event - the Concours d'Elegance - is underway on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach, but before the winner takes to the podium, here's what the rest of us poor, oil-soaked wretches can related to.
The second annual Concours d'LeMons played host to the tired, huddled masses at the Toro Regional Park, with a random assortment of French, German, Japanese and American iron that will never grace the surgically manicured lawn behind The Lodge.
We started off watching a shortened VW van doing wheelies and stoppies in the parking lot, then took in the sights and smells of a rotary-powered Beetle, an Opel GT coated in Compuware 'Vette livery, a 1948 Davis Divan, a few Pacers, a 2CV, a Gulfed Datsun 1600 and, yes, an Aztek, complete with full camping gear.
Get an eyeful in the gallery below and stay tuned for the real winner of Monterey... soon.
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Australia Posted:Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:26:00 EST Surprising nobody, Italian motorcycle racing champion Valentino Rossi has announced he will ride for Ducati in the 2011 MotoGP season. Acknowledging the work undertaken at Yamaha since his switch from Honda in 2004, Rossi thanked the Japanese manufacturer for building a bike that took him to four championship wins. "It is very difficult to explain in just a few words what my relationship with Yamaha has been in these past seven years. Many things have changed sin...
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Posted:Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:00:00 ESTHONDA CR-V REVIEW There is no mystery behind the boom in sales in the compact SUV sector. Spend ten or so minutes behind the wheel of Honda’s all-wheel-drive CR-V wagon, and it all becomes clear. Economical, easy to drive, spacious, and equally at home on city streets as on the farm, Honda’s CR-V has a lot of appeal. It is also smartly styled, well put-together and comfortable. For a young family or couples looking for a versatile and roomy little wagon, the CR-V makes...
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Posted:Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:20:00 ESTFollowing Thursday's limited reveal of the 2011 Kluger update, Toyota has today revealed the European update for the 2011 Prado. Key among the new model's tweaks is a more powerful version of the 3.0 litre diesel engine and a new trim package. The Prado's existing 3.0 litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine has been upgraded for 2011, power getting a significant bump from 127kW to 141kW, while torque is up slightly from 410Nm to 420Nm between 1600-2800rpm.
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Japan Posted:Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:11:10 +0000Morgan unleashes ââ¬Ëfamily friendly’ coupe New Eva GT presents Morgan styling in a 2+2 packageIT’S the Morgan for the family man – and the star of the show at Pebble Beach. The four-seater Eva GT debuted at last weekend’s Concours d’Elegance in California, and is aimed at ‘young families’. The production-ready model features a bonded [...]
Posted:Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:30:11 +0000PlastiColor Diamond Plate Grip Style Ford Steering Wheel Covers are the highest quality covers from PlastiColor. They are specially formulated to eliminate the strong rubber odor that is often associated with steering wheel covers. They are also stronger, and feature molded-in colors that will not discolor or fade. These covers provide a snug fit that [...]
Posted:Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:58:32 +0000Review Until the printing of this book, information on how to build a high-performance Mitsubishi 4G63t engine was only on the web. Offline sources of 4G63t information were very hard to find. Enjoy this book as it is very well presented. —Engine Professional, reviewed by Mike Caruso, Apr-June 2009 Mitsubishi’s 4G63t engine is among the [...] |
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UK Posted:Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:43:59 EDTFord brings back the Mustang Boss 302 in a limited edition package for the 2012 model year.
Posted:Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:13:13 EDTGeneral Motors is getting its fourth CEO in just under 18 months, as the company announced that Ed Whitacre will leave the post Sept. 1, to be succeeded by another auto industry outsider, former Nextel Communications CEO Dan Akerson.
Posted:Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:05:27 EDTGeneral Motors was winding up a regular quarterly earnings call with securities analysts and reporters Thursday morning when Chairman Ed Whitacre unexpectedly got on the line to announce that he was stepping down as chairman and CEO. |
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