British racing legend’s Audi for sale
Mar 4, 2010 Uncategorized
An Audi A4 previously owned by British Touring Car Champion Andy Rouse is for sale on Auto Trader.
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Japanese Wages Rise Along with Toyota Shares, Chinese Wind Companies Gain
Mar 3, 2010 Uncategorized
Major markets in Asia were mixed Wednesday. In China the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.8%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index slipped 0.1%. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 Index inched up 0.3%, with Toyota advancing 3.2% in today’s trading. The Japanese Labor Ministry announced that wages have increased for the first time in 20 months and payrolls were also up.
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Toyota Adds 666,000 Cars to Oil Hose Fix List
Mar 2, 2010 Uncategorized
On Tuesday, Toyota announced it had expanded a service campaign to replace leaking engine oil hoses to 1.6 million vehicles. The defective hoses could lead to engine damage, but the leaks aren’t considered a safety problem, so no recall has been issued.
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Toyota Adds 666,000 Cars to Oil Hose Fix List originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:38:00.
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Home Depot Returns to Profit, but 2010 Growth Still Looks Iffy
Feb 23, 2010 Uncategorized
Home Depot showed its first quarterly profit growth in more than three years and announced it will hike dividends. But executives also issued a conservative outlook for the year, saying housing is not out of the woods yet.
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Obama Praises the Stimulus for Preventing "a Second Depression"
Feb 17, 2010 Uncategorized
President Barack Obama vigorously defended his administration’s $787 billion stimulus package on its one-year anniversary Wednesday. He said it has saved or created at least 2 million jobs and blunted the impact of the worst recession since at least World War II.
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Acer does 3D with the S5200 video projector
Feb 12, 2010 Uncategorized
Acer just introduced their latest projector and called it the S5200 3D video projector. This 3D projector is one of the first to offer 3D viewing that would still require 3D glasses. Features include a 120Hz refresh rate, native XGA resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio, 2,500:1 contrast ratio, 3,000 ANSI …
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Ferrari F1 veterans Fisichella and Alesi team up to contest LMS GT2
Feb 9, 2010 Uncategorized
Filed under: Motorsports, Europe, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Ferrari
Jean Alesi at Fiorano testing an AF Corse Ferrari F430 GTC - Click above for high-res image gallery
There are plenty of racing series around the world that attract big names from Formula One. Le Mans endurance sportscar racing ranks high among them, but the former F1 pilots usually go to the top-tier LMP1 class. Sometimes the GT1 class draws some big names, but this year it’s the GT2 category that’s drawing two drivers familiar to F1 fans: Giancarlo Fisichella and Jean Alesi.
After 14 years on the grid with six different teams, Fisichella was called up to Ferrari to fill in for Felipe Massa last season. He’s been kept on as a test and reserve driver for the Scuderia this year, and though had hoped to secure a race seat (with Ferrari’s blessing) for another F1 team this season, none proved anxious to sign an aging driver who could be called back to Maranello at a moment’s notice. Instead, he’ll be contesting the full Le Mans Series calendar in Europe behind the wheel of a Ferrari F430 GTC for AF Corse, a team which shares close relations with both Ferrari and Maserati. After a career devoted to formula racing (with a couple of seasons in touring cars), the foray into sportscar racing will be a novelty for Fisico.
Joining him in the cockpit will be none other than Jean Alesi, who tested for AF Corse back in October. The former grand prix winner was always a favorite among the tifosi, and since retiring from Formula One has tried his hand at stock cars in Asia and touring cars in Germany.
Alesi and Fisichella will be supported by Toni Vilander, the Finnish driver who took the FIA GT2 titles in 2007 and 2008. AF Corse will field two additional F430 GTCs in the Le Mans Series, one driven by Gianmaria Bruni (another former F1 driver, GP2 race winner and Le Mans class winner) and FIA GT2 class winner Jaime Melo, and another by the returning race-winning Argentine pairing of Luis Perez Companc and Matias Russo. Details in the press release after the jump.
[Source: Ferrari]
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Today’s Video - Untamed and Uncut: Bull Jumps Into Crowd
Feb 9, 2010 Uncategorized
A bull gets up close and personal with the audience when he jumps over a barricade at a bullfight in Mexico City, Mexico. Watch this clip from Animal Planet’s “Untamed and Uncut” to see what happens next.
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Why Apple’s iPad Won’t Rescue Big Publishing
Jan 28, 2010 Object, Uncategorized, news
The Digital Book World conference in New York didn’t exactly grind to a halt at 1 o’clock yesterday, but it was definitely hot and bothered. Several dozen attendees gathered around their screens, squinting at buffering feeds and cursing intermittent Web connections, as they watched Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs unveil the iPad, the object of desire formerly known as The Tablet That’s Going to Save Us.
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Fed launches national auto database to curb theft, fraud. Only took 17 years
Jan 27, 2010 Object, Uncategorized, news
Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal
You may or may not know this, but that used vehicle on sale at your local dealership with a “clean” title could have been wrecked, stolen or involved in a flood. So much for the pristine title that you looked at before purchasing the vehicle. Congress and the Justice Department have known about this problem for decades and in 1992 the nation’s governing body ordered the creation of a national database to show which vehicles were involved in thefts or other incidents.
That’s a step in the right direction for sure, one that took a full 17 years to come to fruition. The feds have finally released the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System, a comprehensive list of 300 million vehicles. The national database will reportedly save Americans $4 billion to $11 billion per year in fraudulent claims. That’s a lot of money because there are a lot of fraudulent transactions every year. Experian claims there were 185,000 damaged vehicles that were retitled in another state, providing a fraudulent clean bill of health. The Detroit News says over one million vehicles are stolen each year and retitled in another state.
Now that the federal database is online, customers and dealers will be able to find out whether the vehicle was salvaged, scrapped or reported stolen almost anywhere in the U.S. Unfortunately, only 77 percent of vehicles are covered under the new database because five states opted not to participate. The five states not participating are Oregon, Illinois, Mississippi, Kansas and the District of Columbia. All four states reportedly cited budget problems as the reason for not being included in the registry.
Customers and dealers can go to vehiclehistory.gov for more information. There are even links to a pair of government-approved sites where you can run a Vehicle Identification Number for $4.95. It may be a bit annoying to pay for a service that was provided largely by federal tax dollars, but it beats the heck out of purchasing a vehicle that was in a serious accident or was found in six feet of water.
[Source: vehiclehistory.gov via The Detroit News]
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