SEAT REVEALS PRICES FOR ALL-NEW EXEO SALOON

Pricing and full specification details for SEAT’s all-new Exeo saloon, released today, confirm that the Spanish upper medium segment contender will be a class leader when it arrives in showrooms next spring.

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IRITRACK MAKES IT POSSIBLE: ON THE TRAIL OF THE RACE TOUAREG

Fighting uncertainty with satellites and Internet: When the four Volkswagen Race Touareg start the Dakar Rally through Argentina and Chile on Saturday and cover more than 9,500 kilometres through desert, Pampa and mountainous terrain the fans can nevertheless follow the action from the comfort of their own homes.

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PORSCHE LAUNCHES PRODUCTION OF THE CAYENNE DIESEL

Stuttgart/Leipzig. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart has started production of the new Cayenne Diesel at its Leipzig works. The sports utility vehicle is equipped with a three liter V6 turbo diesel engine with 240 HP (176 kW) supplied by Audi AG.

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VIDEO: THE NEW BMW Z4 ROADSTER – PROTOTYPING

Here’s the latest promo from BMW featuring the company’s new Z4 Roadster model. The video goes back a few years taking a close look at the car in its development stages.

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FOUR VOLKSWAGEN, ONE GOAL: THE FIRST DAKAR RALLY VICTORY

Volkswagen starts the Dakar Rally premiere in South America with four Race Touareg. Their declared target: The first victory in the desert rally for the Wolfsburg based automobile manufacturer.

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NIGHTSHIFT FOR THE DAKAR CO-DRIVERS: ROAD BOOK IS KEY TO SUCCESS

As the Volkswagen drivers relax and recharge their batteries in the bivouac after one of the Dakar Rally’s 14 stages, their co-drivers already start preparing for the following day.

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AC SCHNITZER WINS TÜV AND AUTOHAUS AWARD

The renowned trade magazine AUTOHAUS and the test organisation TÜV Nord asked over 400 car dealers how satisfied they were with their tuning partner. The BMW tuner AC Schnitzer from Aachen defeated all competition in the category of independent tuners to scoop the coveted Tuning Award 2008.

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BMW ‘ULTIMATE INVESTMENT’ COMMERCIAL

We’re not sure how old this is, but it’s certainly new to us. In today’s economic climate, it really made us smile, and, as much as we’d love to own a 2002tii, the Stuttgart machine is the one we’d want to be taking on a winter run today.

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THE DAKAR NUMBERS GAME: WITH 182 LITRES OF WATER 9,578 KM THROUGH

530 teams from 49 nations set off for new pastures on 3 January. This is not just figuratively but quite literally as the first Dakar Rally in South America runs not only to the Atlantic but also to the Pacific Ocean.

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VIDEO: BMW Z4 ROADSTER – EXTERIOR DESIGN

Following on from the first ‘Design Detail‘ video, here we see Juliane Blasi, exterior designer for the new BMW Z4 Roadster, explaining her desires when it came to creating the car’s appearance.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This is as festive as we get…

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MINI SCORES WELL IN IIHS CRASH TESTS

ARLINGTON, VA — Most new small cars now earn good ratings in frontal crash tests but not when it comes to side and rear crashes.

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WEB SITE FOR ‘TRUTH IN 24′ EARNS A CREATIVE WEB SITE AWARD

Creative Website Awards, a showcase for the world’s leading-edge online destinations, selected Truthin24.com as one of the best sites for December.

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FORMULA BMW AMERICAS APPOINTS NEW MANAGEMENT PARTNER

Munich, December 23, 2008. Beginning on January 1st, 2009, Rahal Letterman Racing will assume the management of Formula BMW Americas. The move means that a single team will both partner with BMW of North America in the American Le Mans Series – with its two BMW M3 racers – and oversee the Formula BMW series in America. Most of the management functions and key individuals in the 2008 organizational structure shall remain in place.

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AVOID THE LAST-MINUTE RUSH: VOTE IN AUDI’S RECORD THE RUSH CHALLENGE

HERNDON, Va., December 23, 2008: It began with three simple questions posed to some of the most dedicated Audi sports car enthusiasts in America. It has become an opportunity for one of those fans to win two years behind the wheel of an Audi RS 4 and an all-expense paid California trip to accept the prize. Now everybody has a week left to help decide who wins.

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