| Mercedes-Benz’s Silver Arrow car fetches $31M |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
British auction house Bonhams conducted an auction last July 12 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and all eyes were glued to the car under lot number 320--a 1954 Mercedes-Benz type W 196 R Grand Prix single-seat racing car, the original Juan Manuel Fangio winning Grand Prix car. It is the only postwar Silver Arrow race car in private ownership. As the hammer fell at 17.5 million, it set a ...
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| Mitsubishi Motors breaks ground in Ilocos Norte |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corp. (MMPC) and Northpoint Alliance Motors Corp. (NAMC) recently broke ground at the future site of another world-class showroom and service center in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte. The ground breaking ceremony was headed by MMPC's vice president for marketing division Marco Medina, NAMC chair John Chua Jr. and president Johanson Chua together with lawyer Windell ...
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| Thieves target cars parked at Muny |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
o Thieves broke into nine vehicles on the lower parking lot at the Muny early Tuesday morning, police say.The thefts were reported just after 1 a.m. Tuesday. Police say a witness saw three men break into the cars on the parking lot and leave in a red Chrysler PT Cruiser. Police have made no arrests.The PT Cruiser might have Illinois license plates, police say. Items stolen from the vehicles ...
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| Diamond Electric Mfg. Co. Ltd. and an Autoliv Inc. Executive Agree to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing on Automobile Parts Installed in U.S. Cars |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
WASHINGTON-Osaka, Japan-based Diamond Electric Mfg. Co. Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $19 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of ignition coils installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. This is the first case in the department’s antitrust investigation involving parts sold directly to an ...
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| Chrysler recalls over 4400 Grand Cherokee SUVs to fix headlights |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
DETROIT, July 16 | Tue Jul 16, 2013 2:55pm EDT DETROIT, July 16 (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC, the U.S. automaker majority controlled by Fiat SpA, is recalling 4,458 Jeep Grand Cherokee sport-utility vehicles to fix an electrical problem that is turning off the headlights. The action covers 2014 Grand Cherokee SUVs equipped with premium headlamps and built between Jan. 14 and March 20, ...
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| Redesigned Chrysler 200 sedan to begin production in early 2014 |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC's redesigned 2015 Chrysler 200 sedan will begin production in early 2014 at the automaker's Sterling Heights plant here, Chrysler said on ...
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| Surrey looks to crack down on auto crime |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
7/16/2013 As the summer heat sets in, the City of Surrey is looking to take a bite out of auto crime. Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts says the number of bait cars will increase in Surrey city streets. "They will be at several additional locations and so again its using our crime analysts and looking at individuals that are prolific offenders because alot of times there's a very few ...
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| Spied! Lexus IS-F Coupe Prototype |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
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We caught a Lexus prototype testing on German roads.
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| 2013 BMW 135i Road Test: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
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Our 42nd president, Bill Clinton, had the stones to argue the meaning of “is” at his impeachment proceeding. BMW performs no such hedging as to its definition of “is”: it denotes a higher level of performance, to its customers and the latest car to wear that suffix, the 135is, is just as suave as Slick [...]
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| 2013 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S review notes: Not feeling the all-wheel-drive 911 |
Jul 16th, 2013 |
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ROAD TEST EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: I've often wondered why someone would want to get an all-wheel drive 911. Obviously, in cars like the
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