Posted on 31st October, 2009 by admin
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17 years after winning the World Championship in 1983, BMW returned to Formula One as an engine supplier. The BMW Williams F1 Team celebrated ten victories, 17 pole positions and 45 podium finishes between 2000 and 2005. In 2005 BMW acquired the majority share in the Swiss Sauber AG and sent its own team into battle for the first time the following year. To date the BMW Sauber F1 Team has 304 World Championship points to its name. In 2008 Robert Kubica claimed the teams maiden pole position in Bahrain, while the 24-year-old and his team-mate Nick Heidfeld achieved a magnificent one-two at the Canadian Grand Prix in the same year.
Posted on 31st October, 2009 by admin
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McLaren Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton has secured pole for this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ahead of Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. The British driver set a time of one minute 40.948 seconds – 0.667secs clear of Vettel’s best.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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Both the SEAT Ibiza 5-door and SC models will soon be available with the 105 hp 1.6 TDI CR engine as part of the company’s efforts to keep adding common rail technology to the Ibiza range for better engine performance and considerably lower noise levels, fuel consumption and emissions.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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Artur Mas, leader of the Catalan political – and main opposition – party Convergència i Unió (CiU) has today visited SEAT’s facilities at Martorell so as to get ‘hot-off-the-press’ information concerning the latest investments in the car manufacturer’s pipeline projects as well as its importance for Catalan industry. Artur Mas was accompanied by fellow party members of the Spanish Congress of Deputies, the Parliament of Catalonia and the European Parliament.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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GRAZ, AUSTRIA/MELBOURNE – October 30, 2009: German auto-maker Mercedes-Benz has delivered the first of 1200 specially made G-Wagon off-road vehicles to the Australian Army.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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MILTON KEYNES, UNITED KINGDOM – October 30, 2009: The Mercedes-Benz C-Class Executive SE special edition brings added value for the customer with an exterior styling pack and interior upgrades. Available from November 2009 and powered by the manual C180 KOMPRESSOR BlueEFFICIENCY engine, it is offered in both the Saloon and Estate bodystyle.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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MILTON KEYNES, UNITED KINGDOM – October 30, 2009: Volkswagen has today confirmed pricing and specification for the most powerful and fastest accelerating derivatives of the Scirocco and Golf ever produced. Developed by Volkswagen’s special projects wing, Volkswagen Individual, prices for Scirocco R start at £26,945 on-the-road and £28,930 for the Golf R.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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Interesting footage showing the development of Mercedes-Benz’s pornographic SLS AMG model. The videos cover power train testing, time in the wind tunnel, handling and crash testing. Enjoy.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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In winter 2009/ 2010 the Mercedes-Benz Museum will be presenting two special exhibitions focusing on innovations and pioneering technologies at Mercedes-Benz. These are A Journey of Innovations, which runs from November 2009 until March 2010, and Concept BlueZERO, from mid December 2009 to the end of January 2010.
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Posted on 30th October, 2009 by admin
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Nurburgring Queen, Sabine Schmitz, pits the 650 hp Mercedes-Benz SLR “722 Edition” against a SIAI Marchetti SF.260 aerobatics plane for the German motoring show, D Motor. Not everyone will be able to view the second video – due to copyright restrictions – not our fault. Sorry!
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Posted on 29th October, 2009 by admin
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HERNDON, Va., Oct 29, 2009 – “AFI FEST 2009 presented by Audi,” the longest running Los Angeles-based film festival, opens Friday with Audi as its presenting sponsor for the sixth consecutive year. The nine-day event kicks off award season with assorted world and U.S. film premieres, red carpet galas, and special events.
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Posted on 29th October, 2009 by admin
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Wolfsburg, 29 October 2009 – Despite the ongoing difficult macroeconomic environment, the Volkswagen Group generated a clearly positive operating profit of €1.5 billion in the first nine months (January – September 2008: €4.9 billion). This figure does not include the profit attributable to Volkswagen of more than €500 million recorded by the Chinese joint ventures in China, the Group’s largest sales market.
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Posted on 29th October, 2009 by admin
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What do Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Franck Ribéry have in common? All three are exceptional international soccer players and, like their teammates, travel to their daily practice sessions in Audi vehicles. Today, the players of Spanish record champion Real Madrid received their new models. The cars ranking at the top of Christoph Metzelder, Xavi Alonso, Kaká & company’s list of favorites: the Audi Q7, Audi A5 Cabrio and Audi RS 6.
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Posted on 29th October, 2009 by admin
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BOTANY, AUSTRALIA – October 29, 2009: Wheels Magazine has awarded its 2009 ‘Gold Star Cars’ and Škoda has taken out the award in two categories with the Octavia and Superb.
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MULGRAVE, AUSTRALIA – October 29, 2009: For the third consecutive year BMW Group has dominated the 2009 Wheels Gold Star Car Awards. Published in the November issue of the ‘new look’ Wheels magazine, the Gold Star Car Awards lay testament to the best ownership proposition for new car buyers.
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