=== News - 8 new results for [cars] ===
In Iraq, car perk overrides promises to public
The Associated Press
By LARA JAKES, AP – 5 hours ago BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's lawmakers have
hightailed it out of town for a six-week vacation without following through
on promises to cancel a pricey perk for free armored cars that they
approved for themselves in the annual ...
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Carroll Shelby, driver and designer of high-speed sports cars, dies at 89
Washington Post
Carroll Shelby, a failed chicken farmer who roared out of the hills of East
Texas to become a champion race car driver and the father of the muscle
car, building some of the fastest and sleekest sports cars ever to hit the
highway, died May 10 at age ...
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Car buying in China limited by lotteries, fitness tests
USA TODAY
By Alisa Priddle, Detroit Free Press BEIJING -- Juan Lu and her husband,
Jun Gao, can't suppress their new-car grins. By Trevor Hale, Ford Motor
Company Juan Lu and husband Jun Gao pick up their first new car, a Ford
Mondeo, from a dealership in ...
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Our cars are our status symbols
MiamiHerald.com
By GEORGE F. WILL Prius, which is Latin for "to go before" or "lead
the way," is the perfect name for the car whose owners are confident they
are leading the way for the benighted. "Prius preening," an almost
erotic pleasure, is, however, a perishable ...
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Jay Penske still needs engines for 2 cars at Indy
Fox News
Bourdais, a four-time Champ Car points winner, has finished 21st, ninth,
17th and 18th in this season's first four races. Legge, a rookie from
England, has a season-best finish of 19th. The sub-par performances are at
least partly because Jay Penske's ...
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Car buying in China limited by lotteries
Tucson Citizen
BEIJING — Juan Lu and her husband, Jun Gao, can't suppress their new-car
grins. The young Chinese couple have taken delivery of their first car, a
Ford Mondeo midsize sedan, from a dealership in western Beijing. They are
part of a burgeoning middle ...
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"Muscle Car" Creator Carroll Shelby Dies
allvoices
Although he eventually overcame the disease to race cars, Shelby had a
heart transplant in 1990. In 1996 Shelby had a second transplant – this
time a kidney. A flying instructor during World War II with the Army Air
Force at Lackland Air Force base, ...
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Luhr, Graf win overall title in ALMS Monterey
San Jose Mercury News
As is often the case in ALMS, the GT class produced the best action of the
six-hour race with numerous position changes among six cars in the final 50
minutes. Finally, Corvette Racing's Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner came away
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=== Blogs - 5 new results for [cars] ===
Muscle Cars are not fast. | Daily Pundit
By razorbacker
A fast car, you ask? Well, a fast car looks just like what Momma drives the
little chillens to school in. It has four doors, is any muted earth tone in
color (not red, good Lord not red), is clean-but-not-detailed-clean, and
has no bumper stickers ...
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Why Cars In Horror Movies Never Start The First Time
By Miss Cellania
Have you ever wondered why cars in horror movies never start the first time
the ignition is cranked? Jason Torchinsky solved the mystery when he "was
able to find this revealing diagram in the underpants of an unconscious key
grip on my ...
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Neatorama
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Top Secret: Mater Sheds Some Light on Cars Land at Disney ...
By Larry Fire
If you missed the premiere of our first Cars Land spot on ABC, check it out
below! Mater and Lightning McQueen are looking forward to welcoming the
first guests to Cars Land when it opens June 15 at Disney California
Adventure park!
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THE FIRE WIRE
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Discount Porsche Canceled. Again | The Truth About Cars
By Bertel Schmitt
Good news for armchair brand strategists: Porsche's race to the bottom (of
the price range) has been cancelled. There will be no entry-level roadster
below.
<http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/05/discount-porsche-canceled-again/>
The Truth About Cars
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Witnesses tell police that driver hit five cars in Radnor - Main Line ...
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