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HWA and Mercedes Benz readying a second sports car

HWA is the racing operation set up by AMG founder Hans-Werner Aufrecht to build and campaign many of the Mercedes Benz competition vehicles including the current C-Class DTM cars. HWA has also built some very limited production road going machines…

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French small car sales improve in wake of new CO2 taxes

While sales in other countries have mostly fallen in recent months, French car dealers are happy right now. With an overall first half of the year increase of 4.5 percent, small and mini cars have led the way with a 15 percent jump in France. Small…

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A123 Systems files for initial public offering

Many of you who have been pestering us in the comments for the past couple of years about wanting to invest in A123 Systems and you may now have your chance. A123 is the Massachusetts based company that has developed a lithium ion battery chemistry…

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eBay Find of the Day: 1997 Lotus Elise FIA GT-1

Click on the photo for a gallery of the Elise GT1
For an all too brief period in the mid-90s, racing fans were treated to the sight of the fastest road-going exotic cars in the world competeting against each other on the world's stage. It began in…

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Another Tesla spotted on its way to its new home

Over at the Tesla Motors Club, one of the posters put a couple of photos of a silver Tesla Roadster on the back of a flatbed truck in the Windy City. I checked with Tesla and they confirmed that this car is in fact P4, the fourth production model.…

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1998 Panoz Q9: A hybrid race car ahead of its time

At next month's 12 Hours of Sebring, Corsa Motorsports will be debuting it's new Zytek hybrid drive LMP1 car, but this is far from the first hybrid race car in the American Le Mans Series. Back in 1998, the Panoz GTR-1 was nearing the end of its…