Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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Wednesday, July 07, 2010                 
2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport...
What is it? The Outlander is now an SUV class name within Mitsubishi, the way Lancer denotes sedans and wagons. Sporty cars equals Lancer, crossovers equals Outlander, goes the new Mitsu think. To make the Sport, Mitsubishi downsized, lightened up and restlyed the Outlander GT to offer this smaller, lighter, four-cylinder version of its leading sport-utility vehicle. The Outlander...

  The phone rings. Longtime Barrett-Jackson chief executive Craig Jackson is on the other end of the line. He's at his SoCal estate a week after a wildly successful sale nearby in Orange County. He sounds happy and content, perhaps a bit gravely and rough around the edges, but he'd be the first one...

  While Honda and Toyota have been bragging about their new minivans over the past few months, Nissan would like you to remember that there's a new Quest on the way. So the company has released a few photos of the 2011 Quest, which is based on the Elgrand van sold in Japan. The full reveal for...

  Dodge and Mopar are teaming to create a limited-edition Challenger for 2010 that wears triple black with popping blue stripes and has a goosed Hemi under the hood. The Mopar Challenger will be revealed later this month at the Chrysler museum near Detroit and at the NHRA’s Mile-High...

  SENIOR WEB REPORTER GREG MIGLIORE: If Americans ever get turned on to wagons, this is as nice an option as you can find in the luxury segment. It’s really loaded with sporty trim, inside and out; it presents very sharp and athletic. The interior is one of the most well-appointed...

  While Formula One's free-agent market is nothing compared with the ongoing NBA madness in the United States, another piece in the F1 jigsaw puzzle fell into place on Wednesday when Renault confirmed that Robert Kubica will stay with the team until 2012. Earlier this year, speculation was that...


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  Peugeot has revealed that connecting-rod failures caused the three engine blowups that thwarted the manufacturer in last month's 24 Hours of Le Mans.The latest version of Peugeot's V12 turbodiesel used a new con-rod design, and each of the three cars that survived into the second half of the race...

  SENIOR WEB REPORTER GREG MIGLIORE: It's always enjoyable to have a big truck for the night, especially one as well-appointed and powerful as this Ram.The Hemi is a hoot. As we all know, 390 ponies is a lot, and it makes the truck downright brisk in its acceleration. I pretty much nuked a column of...

  Longtime Formula One team boss Peter Sauber will be allowed to change his F1 team's name after this season, after the Formula One Commission approved the change.Sauber repurchased his team from BMW when the manufacturer quit F1 prior to this year, but had already filed an entry with the FIA under...

  Can you imagine a professional sports hall of fame that didn't include a coach or manager among its first 10 inductees? No Red Auerbach or Phil Jackson? No Vince Lombardi, George Halas or Don Shula? No Casey Stengel, Tom Lasorda or Sparky Anderson?Ridiculous, you say--and you'd be right. It would...


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