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 Each
year a host of thrill-seeking motorists descend upon the Baja desert to
take part in a 1,000 mile sprint from Southern California to Mexico,
and they do it in all kinds of rugged off-road extreme machines. This
year VW has built a beast to cope with the toughest of challenges and
it's pretty clean too. Taking part in the highest ranked Trophy Truck
class the heavily refined Touareg off-roader is powered by a massive
5.5-liter V12 TDI Twin Turbo diesel engine with 550 horsepower and
850Nm of torque. LA fans were lucky enough to see the tuned Touareg in the metal before it took to the sand. |
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 Last Saturday started with the construction of barricades at Kingshighway. In such way MoDot (Missouri Department of Transportation) carried out the second phase of the shutdown program of Highway 40. The process began at 7 a. m. and everyone who was passing nearby could watch the following: the workers situated from downtown to Kingshighway. The crews posted new warnings over exit signs, put up orange tapers and casks, shifted obsolete lane markings and painted the new ones instead of them ...
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 The Plenio VXA-2100 GPS becomes more popular thanks to its 7-inch wide and very convenient touch-screen the navigation by means of which proposes the possibility of a broader and clearer view to lead exactly to the place of your desirable destination without any problems connected to navigation. Just imagine you can operate with all the main functions of this device only with one touch! Fascinating, isn’t it? But it is not all the options that Plenio VXA-2100 offers to you. You may use its wide screen for watching your favorite movies and playing games you like by means of attached DVD and ... |
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 UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said today that only a compromise on aid could prevent a collapse of the auto industry and deeper recession. |
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 For better or worse, the fate of Detroit's automobile industry rests heavily on the leadership skills of Rick Wagoner, GM's chairman and chief executive officer. |
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 Congress kicked the auto industrys request for a $25-billion loan back to Detroit today, demanding more information by Dec. 2 about how the companies would use the money to survive before considering any bill. |
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 Ford Motor Co.'s debt rating was lowered by Standard & Poor's further into junk status as the cash burn accelerates at the second-largest U.S. automaker. |
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 With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush is about to ensure that millions of laid-off workers won't see their unemployment checks disappear as the year-end holidays approach. |
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 American Axle & Manufacturing Inc. CEO Dick Dauch said he expects that Congress ultimately will come through on loans to the Detroit automakers. But he seemed to agree with congressional leaders that the industry must offer realistic ways to change itself to win that aid. |
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 The conventional wisdom that ultra-environmental vehicles must be tiny and impractical or festooned with expensive hybrid technology got a kick in the teeth as the diesel-powered Volkswagen Jetta TDI won the Green Car of the Year award at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Thursday. |
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Each year a host of thrill-seeking motorists descend upon the Baja desert to take part in a 1,000 mile sprint from Southern California to Mexico, and they do it in all kinds of rugged off-road extreme machines. This year VW has built a beast to cope with the toughest of challenges and it's pretty clean too.
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