| VIDEO UPDATE Old auto repair shop total loss in Sunday blaze |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
A man was sent to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries trying to recover items from an old auto repair shop that caught fire Sunday evening.Smith County Fire Marshal Jim Seaton said the fire sparked at the former Belcher's Auto Ranch, on the 8500 block of Farm-to-Market Road 850, just after 5 p.m.He said the fire was called in by a neighbor, who then went to the property ...
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| “No apologies” for buying foreign cars QLD Premier |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman says the state government must find the best value for money when buying cars and he makes "no apologies" for buying foreign-made ...
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| Former Georgetown chief St. Angelo exploring frontier market for Toyota |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
Steve St. Angelo, who once led Toyota's flagship North American plant in Georgetown, is soon heading to South America. The executive has been tapped by Toyota leader Akio Toyoda to oversee operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. St. Angelo, 57, who will be based in São Paulo, Brazil, joined Toyota in 2005 after more than 30 years with rival General Motors. He was the second ...
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| Chinese auto buyers grow hungry for larger cars |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
Shangai: The models wore traditional cheongsam dresses and medieval Chinese armor as well as the usual rainbow of shiny miniskirts at the Shanghai auto show this weekend, but the many midsize cars and sport utility vehicles on display made it look almost like an American auto show.Gone are the days when buyers in China, the world's largest car market since 2009, mostly purchased fuel-sipping ...
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| Hot Cars From the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
From hybrids and mind-blogging concept cars to compact sedans, automakers from around the world are pulling out all the stops this week to attract the world's biggest car market.The battle to boost sales in China, where auto sales are set to hit 21 million this year compared to 15 million in the U.S., is heating up as automakers compete for market share.Here are the some of the show stoppers ...
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| IRL-Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Results |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
SundayAt Long Beach Street CircuitLong Beach, CaliforniaLap length: 1.968 miles(Starting position in parentheses)1. (4) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 80, Running.2. (11) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 80, Running.3. (24) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 80, Running.4. (1) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 80, Running.5. (12) J.R. Hildebrand, Dallara-Chevrolet, 80, Running.6. (18) Oriol Servia, ...
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| Chinese Auto Buyers Go Gas-Guzzler |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
The models wore traditional cheongsam dresses and medieval Chinese armor as well as the usual rainbow of shiny miniskirts at the Shanghai auto show this weekend, but the many midsize cars and sport utility vehicles on display made it look almost like an American auto show.Gone are the days when buyers ...
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| Growing India skips micro cars Alto Nano for sedans and crossovers |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
Popular models such as Nano, Spark and Santro fell out of the top selling list and this was largely responsible for the 7% decline in car sales, the worst in the past 12 ...
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| Sudan KSC Introduces Biofuel for Cars in Sudan for the First Time |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
Khartoum - Kenana Sugar Company (KSC) will launch the first Sudanese project which uses ethanol as a gasoline additive to increase octane and improve vehicle emissions. The Managing Director of KSC, Mohamed El Mardi El-Tijani, said in a press statement that biofuels do not require adjustments for car engines, adding that their cost is much lower than gasoline. The project which will mix ...
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| Driver Fatigue Causes 20 of Auto Crashes Study |
Apr 22nd, 2013 |
A 100-car ';naturalistic'; driving study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute says that fatigue is a cause of 20 percent of car crashes, rather than the two or three percent previously estimated based on surveys, simulator studies and test tracks. Also, the study found, 18- to 20-year-olds account for significantly more fatigue-related crashes than any other age ...
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