Monday, August 30, 2010

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Monday, August 30, 2010                 
The Mazda Shinari concept shows the automaker's future design language, which is called Kodo, for soul of...
Mazda unveiled the Shinari sports coupe on Monday, a four-door concept car that indicates the future design direction for the Japanese brand. The concept will be on Mazda's stand at the Paris auto show in early October. The coupe shows the future face of Mazda's family of vehicles--an aluminum signature wing, the line that runs through the headlights and under the grille--as well as the...

  The TSX kept a big, goofy grin plastered across my face the whole time I had it, whether ducking through traffic on the way home from the office or running around later in the evening, the surprisingly smooth four-banger eagerly responding to anything I asked so long as I kept the revs piled really ...

  Mercedes-Benz is set to launch a wave of small luxury vehicles in the United States. An all-new C-class coupe will debut next year, followed by three derivatives of the front-wheel-drive B class in 2012 and 2013. "Everyone wants to be Mercedes-Benz," said Ernst Lieb, CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA....

  Mazda's next-generation of powertrains, called Sky, will feature a variety of new technologies that company engineers say improve fuel efficiency by 20 percent. The Sky engines--Sky-G for the gasoline version, Sky-D for diesel--coupled with a Sky-Drive automatic transmission or a six-speed manual,...

  Ivan “Ironman” Stewart’s high-speed lifestyle of flying through the desert, leaving a rooster tail of dust, is taking a turn down a calmer, gentler road. Stewart, 64, is ready to slow things down and create more time for himself and his family. “I’m not retiring,...

  Suzuki has delayed the relaunch of its Swift small car in the United States until next year while it works on a global product strategy with Volkswagen AG and ponders the growing strength of the yen against the dollar. The rise of Japan's currency already has forced Suzuki to slash its overall...


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  Lewis Hamilton took the lead of the Formula One World Championship with a superb win in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday, while three of his title rivals failed to score any points.However, second place for Mark Webber ensured that the Red Bull Racing driver is still in the...

  Lewis Hamilton has taken the lead in the world championship after his superb Belgian GP win, but he's not taking anything for granted. Hamilton is now three points ahead of Mark Webber, with six races still to come. Three other title contenders failed to score on Sunday.“You've seen in the...

  Renault's Robert Kubica says he was distracted by adjustments he had to make to settings on his steering wheel when he messed up his pit stop in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.Kubica was off line when he arrived at his pit box, brushed a couple of his mechanics and the air bottles. In the confusion,...

  Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber and Robert Kubica met with the media after Sunday's Grand Prix. Here is the FIA's transcript. Q: Lewis, brilliant win but not without its nervy moments.Lewis HAMILTON: No. It was a great weekend. Very, very tough race for me. I think same for everyone but praying just...

  Klaus Graf and Romain Dumas won the American Le Mans Series' Grand Prix of Mosport on Sunday, taking Muscle Milk Team CytoSport's Porsche RS Spyder to victory lane in a race that was stopped after two hours and 19 minutes of running. The race was scheduled to last for two hours, 45 minutes, but a...

  Boris Said and Max Papis swapped the lead twice within sight of the checkered flag before Said finally won Sunday afternoon's NAPA Nationwide Series 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Said, in getting his first career Nationwide win, lost the lead in the next-to-last corner, promptly...

  Ken Block says he was able to take plenty of positives away from Rallye Deutschland, despite his late retirement for an alternator-belt failure.Block started the final five stages of the asphalt event in ninth place overall but stopped on the road section heading to Sunday's first test when his...


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