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2008 Moscow Motor Show: Skoda Stages Two Premieres

 
Skoda Auto is going to take part in the Moscow Motor Show (28 August – 7 September, 2008). The Company will stage two premieres on this occasion, its flagship model Skoda Superb and vehicles produced in Kaluga, Russia.

US Launch Mahindra Delays In 2009

 
It looks like folks in the US will have to wait a little longer before getting their hands on the Mahindra range of vehicles. Mahindra’s global managing director, Anand Mahindra, reportedly has plans to run a fleet of vehicles over 5 million kilometres of US roads, before he’ll allow sales to proceed.

American-made Formula Nippon car debuts at Fuji

 
Just under a year since the concept was announced, two brand new 2009 Formula Nippon chassis, designed and built by California’s Swift Engineering, have gone through shakedown trials at Fuji Speedway. Autoblog spoke to Team Toyota TOM’S Andre Lotterer, one of the first two F’pon pilots to take the radically designed machine out for a […]

U.S.-spec Ford Fiesta snapped at Burger King

 
Autoblog reader Chris stopped for a Whopper with cheese at just the right moment the other day, as he happened upon a U.S.-spec Ford Fiesta five-door hatchback in his local Burger King’s parking lot.

Stillborn: 1989 BMW M5 convertible

These days BMW’s M division is pretty busy, cranking out all manner of sport-tuned models in every form. You can get an M3 as a coupe, convertible or sedan, the M5 in sedan or wagon form, and the M6 as either a coupe or a convertible, in addition to M versions of the Z4.

Lies, damn lies and HP ratings: C&D dynos five Nissan GT-Rs

From the beginning, the Nissan GT-R’s performance figures seemed too good to be true. Weighing in at over 3,800 pounds and packing a claimed 480 hp, the 3.5-second sprint to 60 and 11.8-second quarter-mile time just didn’t add up. And then the tests began…