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527 - Rear Wheel Horsepower

post from Car of the Day on 30 October 2009 09:10:00 PM. © Car of the Day

This fall I took the plunge and supercharged my GTO. It is incredible!Here’s the video of[...]

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Whats Wrong With This Picture: The Company You
Keep Edition

post from The Truth About Cars on 30 October 2009 06:06:35 PM. © The Truth About Cars

Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska meets with Fritz Henderson, German Gref of Russia’s Sberbank and Siegfried Wolf of Magna. The state department had previously denied Deripaska a US visa for undisclosed reasons, but according to the WSJ, the FBI arranged for Deripaska to visit the US because “they were getting interesting information from him.” Deripaska denies [...]

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Quote Of The Day: Dont Hate The Playa, Hate The
Game Edition

post from The Truth About Cars on 30 October 2009 06:06:35 PM. © The Truth About Cars

I’m not going to tell you incentives are going away. They’re part of the game, but they can be better managed than they have been in the pastGM Sales maven Susan Docherty in the WSJ.

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Roger Albert Clark Rally and Boucles de Spa link
up

post from Classic cars, Vintage Racing, Classic Rally on 30 October 2009 05:08:00 PM. © Classic cars, Vintage Racing, Classic Rally

Two of the most popular and demanding historic rallies in Europe have formed a unique partnership, which will result in the winner of the Roger Albert Clark Rally having the chance to compete in the Boucles de Spa on 20 February 2010. In a reciprocal arrangement, the winner of the Boucles de Spa will be able to contest the 2010 Roger Albert Clark Rally.

The organisers of the two events, both rightly recognised as their country's top historic event, have formed an alliance to cross-promote their events to competitors across Europe.

The winner of next month's Roger Albert Clark Rally will earn a free entry into the famous Belgian event. In return, the Boucles de Spa winner will get a free entry into next year's Roger Albert Clark.

"We're delighted to form this partnership with one of the most successful historic rallies in Europe," said Colin Heppenstall, rally manager of the Roger Albert Clark. "I visited Spa last February and was hugely impressed with the quality and quantity of entry. We've been working for some time to increase the foreign entry in the Roger Albert Clark and this partnership will be a major boost for those plans."

Now firmly established as a must-do event on the British rallying calendar, the Roger Albert Clark Rally re-creates the classic RAC Rallies of the 1960s and 1970s, covering four days in November and taking in classic gravel stages in Yorkshire, Kielder, Scotland and Cumbria.

Meanwhile, the Boucles de Spa is the biggest historic event on the Belgian calendar and attracts a superb field of over 200 cars, including many famous names from rallying's recent history. In 2009, it ran in very snowy conditions as it took in challenging sections around the town of Spa-Francorchamps.

For more details about the Roger Albert Clark Rally, please visit www.rogeralbertclarkrally.org

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Le Mans winner enters Roger Albert Clark Rally

post from Classic cars, Vintage Racing, Classic Rally on 30 October 2009 05:01:00 PM. © Classic cars, Vintage Racing, Classic Rally

Guy Smith, winner at Le Mans in 2003 for Bentley, will tackle the 2009 Roger Albert Clark Rally alongside his father Peter in what will be Guy's third-ever rally.

The world-renowned sports car racer will contest the four-day rally in a historic specification Ford Escort RS2000, while Peter will be in his regular Porsche 911 for his first attempt at the 13-16 November rally.

"It's in at the deep end," said Guy. "I'm just doing it for fun and the aim is to try and get round without crashing. It will be like doing four or five rallies in one go. It's a bit of a busman's holiday and it is something we can do together for fun."

Guy made his rallying debut in June, having been encouraged to try the sport by Peter. After a long break from rallying, Peter returned to historic events in April 2008 and contested a full BHRC season this year in the Porsche. XS Racing will look after both cars, with Howard Pridmore alongside Guy and Russ Langthorne, as usual, on the maps for Peter.

"I've not done this event before," said Peter. "I did the Clubmans RAC in 1978. It will be an adventure and it is perfect for me that it starts in Yorkshire!"

Guy recently took his family for a day out to Scarborough and took the opportunity to have a look at Oliver's Mount, which features prominently on the opening day of the Roger Albert Clark. "That's tarmac, so we should be OK on that bit!"

For more details about the Roger Albert Clark Rally, please visit www.rogeralbertclarkrally.org

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Under Congressional Pressure, GM Hints At Dealer
Restoration

post from The Truth About Cars on 30 October 2009 04:06:32 PM. © The Truth About Cars

The recent revelation that congresspeople have been successful in coercing GM to rescind dealer closures in their districts, has the rest of our elected representatives (not to mention GM itself) sitting up and taking notice. In a conference call with Michigan’s congressional delegation, Fritz Henderson said GM was close to a deal which would restore [...]

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The final chapter in the tale of the Maltese
Falcon

post from James Spotting on 30 October 2009 04:00:29 PM. © James Spotting

News is out on who the mysterious buyer of the Maltese Falcon is. The sale of the 289ft hybrid beast of a superyacht has been quite a serial in the luxury world, being closely followed by blogs and newspapers alike. Much like we chronicled the events, beginning with the Falcon showing up on JamesList to [...]

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White House To Edmunds: Dont Knock Cash For
Clunkers

It is unfortunate that Edmunds.com has had nothing but negative things to say about a wildly successful program that sold nearly 250,000 cars in its first four days alone. There can be no doubt that CARS drummed up more business for car dealers at a time when they needed help the most.The Department of Transportation’s [...]

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Scion Takes Over For Saturn As Canadas Struggling
Niche Brand Of Choice

Ever since GM announced that Saturn would be winding down, there’s been a niche-brand-like hole in the Canadian car market. And rather than learning from GM’s struggles, Toyota’s jumping right in to repeat them. The Star reports that ToMoCo have announced that Scion is going to Canada. Toyota will start off with 45 dealerships in [...]

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Volt Birth Watch 171: Weber Bails

Frank Weber, the man in charge of GM’s electric vehicle line, will be leaving GM for a senior leadership at the soon-to-be-sold (or not?) Opel. Weber previously worked on Opel’s development of GM’s global mid-size (Epsilon II) vehicle line, before becoming the head of GM’s electric vehicle development program in March 2007. Weber is the [...]

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