Two adjacent Southern California cities have been competing for the factory where Tesla Motors will build its all-electric 2012 Model S luxury sports sedan. Now, a pair of local papers have scooped the automotive press and broken the news: Downey beats Long Beach. Downey Mayor Mario Guerra told the Downey Patriot that the deal is "99.9 percent...
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2008 Mazda MX-5 Miata: What’s New
Mazda’s quintessential roadster, the MX-5 Miata, adds new audio and comfort features to its soft-top and hardtop models for the 2008 model year. Both Miatas are powered by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder with 170 ...
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Skoda Fabia: It’s A Piece of Cake
The puns have been landing thick and fast from Skoda as part of a marketing campaign for the all-new Fabia supermini, which went on sale this week. The TV ad features a full-sized mockup of the car make ...
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VW Still On Top in Europe
Volkswagen is still Europe's bestselling car brand, the Peugeot 207 is the most popular car and Germany is the biggest market — those are the headline results from the latest market analysis by ...
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CO2 Gulf Separates America, Europe
It’s not exactly news Americans and Europeans don’t agree on a lot of things. But the widening gulf between Americans and Europeans portends some serious difficulties for global automakers that depend on ...
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Old Wells Could Pump New Oil
The New York Times reports that new technology is dramatically increasing the lifespan of some oil wells — and that is turning “peak oil” theories on end, the paper says. The last ten years have brought ...
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TVR Owned Again by Russian
In what can only be called a bizarre business situation, the man who was being blamed for killing off TVR has bought the firm back again. As previously reported on ...
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Ford–and 007–Present New Mondeo
Usually James Bond drives an Aston Martin , but may be you have seen the latest James Bond movie with 007 driving the new Ford Mondeo – the sedan version of which will bow at the Geneva show in March. ...
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Learn to Ice Drive – In Your Lambo?
Okay, so maybe the first place you plan on driving your new Gallardo isn’t the snowy peaks of New Hampshire . That matters not to Lamborghini , which offers a driver-training course unique among the ...

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