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Maserati Wins Another World Championship

Maserati continues to add to its roster of victories with the capture of the FIA GT World Championship with its fifth drivers’ title and sixth team’s title in six seasons of racing for the Maserati MC12.

Honda CR-Z Will Offer Turbo Engine

The Honda CR-Z, a hybrid that attempted to be sporty, but didn’t get great fuel economy and wasn’t all that zippy, is slated to receive an all-new, turbocharged four-cylinder engine to make it both sporty and fuel efficient.

Fiat Looks Best When Artists Paint It

Two art students and a professor actually managed to turn the Fiat 500 into a work of art by skillfully applying their paint brushes to the exterior at this past weekend’s Exhibitalia event at Art Basel, Miami Beach, Fla.

Honda Losing Its Way at a Bad Time

Honda should be having a better year with Toyota down but appears to be losing its way in spite of claims from the company that everything is going just fine.

Chevrolet Equinox Sells Fast But Loses Money

The Chevrolet Equinox is the fastest selling compact crossover but they are being sold, on average, for hundreds below invoice.

Former Saturn employees meet for 9th annual reunion

Indeed Saturn was a different kind of car and a different kind of company, because of the mission and philosophy ingrained in its workforce.

GM may be challenged to find 1000 design engineers

Unemployment may be high in Detroit, but so is the need for proficient CAD designers to complement its automotive engineering expertise.

Imports join Ford to lead auto-sales recovery

While U.S. vehicle sales improve across the industry during 2010, four companies enjoy year-over-year growth that is far greater than the industry-wide average. They are Ford Motor Co., Hyundai Motor America, Subaru of America, and Volkswagen Group of America. Another four companies – Chrysler Group, Daimler, Kia Motors America and Nissan North America – also beat the overall U.S. growth average, but by a smaller margin.

Strong Audi sales outrun the market

Running very strong as it enters the final month of the year, Audi of America will likely become the first major automobile brand to top it sales performance from before the big market crash of 2008. Audi is on track to finish 2010 with its highest U.S. sales in history. The luxury brand's gains in 2010 far outstrip the pace of recovery for the overall American car market.

Russian Teens Drop Ice From Roofs on Passing Cars

In St. Petersburg teenagers have their own ways of making fun targeting cars. They seem to enjoy throwing things at passing cars while endangering drivers and passengers.

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