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MARK PHELAN: Detroit 3 race to build fun, fuel-frugal cars (Detroit Free Press) In secure conference rooms, engineering centers and design studios across metro Detroit, Chrysler, Ford and General Motors are working to create a new generation of fuel-efficient vehicles without repeating the mistakes that crippled them when oil prices and emissions regulations shook their world in the 1970s and '80s.
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-04 17:14 Bulgaria to buy 2 French corvettes, halving order (Interactive Investor) PARIS July 4 (Reuters) - Bulgaria has provisionally agreed with France to buy two Gowind corvettes, halving an earlier commitment for four vessels that was hit by funding problems, an aide to French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.
Summerfair underway with ice cream, parade (The Sentinel) A few light raindrops fell and it looked like the opening ceremonies and parade of Carlisle?s annual Summerfair Thursday evening would fall victim to the weather.
Lakeville parade features horses, candy and firetrucks (South Bend Tribune) LAKEVILLE -- It finally came, the moment everyone was waiting for, sitting on their blankets and chairs along Mangus Drive south of Newton Park -- the start of the Fourth of July parade.
Wheels, peels, speed: Detroit buffs among hundreds at Milan Dragway (Detroit Free Press) Freeman Hardaway of Detroit sheepishly recalls the one speeding ticket he got street racing in the '80s. Hardaway was nailed on a service drive near I-75. "I was doing 100 over," said Hardaway, 50. "The cop thought I was James Bond."
2008 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class (The Car Connection) 2008 MERCEDES-BENZ SLK-CLASS STYLING | [8 out of 10] Edmunds: "Redesigned dashboard with its cleaner layout and higher-quality interior" Car and Driver: "Arguably one of the best-looking two-seaters on the road" ForbesAutos: "Goes from a small and sleek coupe to an open-topped roadster in seconds" In 2005, Mercedes-Benz set out to ...
Corvette fans celebrate the classic auto (The Pantagraph) ST. CHARLES -- El Paso native David Burroughs still remembers the night he saw his first Corvette. It was love at first sight. Never mind the fact he was way too young to drive.
Cool cars draw a crowd in St. Charles (Kane County Chronicle) ST. CHARLES ? Bob Davis, his face aglow with devotion, sat in the shade Saturday and gazed at his prize: A 1966 Corvette painted sunset Daytona orange.
Roy Exum: Warner?s Lost His Zip (The Chattanoogan) John Warner, a Virginia senator who at age 81 has obviously outlived his ?need for speed,? has suggested the nation?s Congress might consider another ?national speed limit? in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline and it is equally obvious he is not running for re-election.
FIAGT: Wendlinger leads home Aston one-two (autosport.com) Karl Wendlinger led home a perfect one-two for the JetAlliance Aston Martin team, as team owner/driver Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer took his first ever podium finish at Oschersleben.
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