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| A 21-year-old Nacogdoches man will spend at least 25 years in prison in connection with a street racing accident that killed three people, including his cousin. | ||
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| A proposal to raise the speed limit to 80 mph on Interstates 10 and 20 in West Texas, which appears on its way to approval, has met with mixed reactions. The item is on the Texas Transportation Commission's agenda for May 26, and could go into effect immediately after that, said Ted Houghton, an El Paso businessman who is on the commission. | ||
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| Honda Motor unveiled yesterday plans for a big expansion with new factories in Japan and North America to meet record sales as Asian vehicle makers step up the pressure on embattled US rivals. | ||
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| In what is believed to be the largest damages award concerning a defective car in the history of the state's lemon law, a judge has ordered DaimlerChrysler Corp. to pay two business partners and their attorneys more than $385,000. | ||
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| Toyota is offering about 1,000 current and former paint shop employees $4.5 million in back pay in an attempt to settle a dispute over whether the workers at its Georgetown plant should be paid for the time it takes to put on protective suits and walk to their assembly-line jobs. | ||
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| One of Ford Motor Co.'s hottest cars, the Ford Fusion, debuted on NASCAR's biggest stage Sunday and the Dearborn-based automaker is hoping that the old motor sports marketing adage -- win on Sunday, sell on Monday -- pays off after eight Fusions debuted in the Daytona 500. | ||
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| As the vehicle — a white Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT — makes its way off the line and onto the loading dock, it will close the book on 27 years of automobile manufacturing history in Oklahoma. | ||
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| FLINT, Mich. -- All day, Judy Rowe sits in a room at a large, old Delphi Corp. auto parts plant here, reading, sewing or staring into space.
For this she earns $31.80 an hour. |
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| The Chrysler Group hopes its Dodge brand has global appeal as the company outlined plans on Monday to roll out a steady stream of new vehicles for the European market. | ||
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| The launch of the Hitachi SJ200 series is believed to have Elquip Solutions, a Hitachi drives and automation company, setting a new benchmark standard for microdrives. | ||
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| Hot Import Nights 2006 Schedule
www.hotimportnights.com www.hotimportdaze.com Click on more to see the dates schedule. |
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| It starts with the rev of an engine, a nod, or a glare. Two cars bolt forward, engines screaming, drivers focused on the finish line. Racers describe it as "an adrenaline rush" and those who do it can't seem to get enough. | ||
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| Next thing you know, the SEMA show will be billed as a "family destination." The trade show - it began in the 60's as a bazaar for makers of high-performance auto parts and grew into a spectacle of no-holds-barred customizing and adult-rated showmanship - now seems to be in danger of maturing from underground to buttoned-down. | ||
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| Call it a rebellion against Henry Ford, who famously said of his Model T that you can have it "any color, so long as it's black." From the first lowriders in the 1930s to the MTV show Pimp My Ride, customizing cars is an American art form. | ||
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| With the current wealth of games hogging the racing market such as Burnout, Need for Speed and Gran Turismo there is much need for a game to rise above them all and set a new standard. LA Rush combines popular features from several racing games to try and form an ‘ultimate’ racing sim. Also thrown in is the edition of the West Coast Customs Crew from the unrivalled MTV hit show ‘Pimp My Ride’. | ||
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| Rob Cohen has made several moderately successful films, such as Dragon:The Bruce Lee Story, Dragonheart and The Skulls that all found their respective audience but didn't quite break into the blockbuster territory. The $40 million opening makes his latest, The Fast and the Furious, an instant hit. | ||
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| Hot Import Nights 2005 Schedule
www.hotimportnights.com www.hotimportdaze.com Click on more to see the dates schedule. |
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| To get an idea of how far video games have come, check out the April edition of Popular Science magazine. In the cover story, "Virtual vs. Reality," a professional driver and a video game fan compare notes after rocketing around the Road Atlanta racetrack in real life and in the upcoming game "Forza Motorsport." | ||
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| With gasoline prices rising, Americans have shown an increasing interest in hybrid cars, according to some estimates.
With too many variables at work in the automotive and gasoline markets, however, it is impossible to say for sure whether gas prices caused this trend, experts said. Still, demand for hybrid cars has surpassed supply even while more of the cars enter the market. Hybrid cars run using an electric motor and a gasoline engine working in concert. |
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| His e-mail moniker is Thrill Doctor. So it's hardly a surprise that Dr. Frank Farley, a renowned Temple University psychologist, knows a little something about speed and why so many people are infatuated with cars that zoom by in the blink of an eye.
In fact, Farley has made a career studying behavior and how it relates to extreme, adventurous pursuits - such as the folks who squeeze behind the wheel of an Indy car and careen around ovals or city streets with mind-boggling quickness and precision. |
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| SRS: Street Racing Syndicate, Namco's pretender to the street racing, car modding throne, is currently gunning its engines in anticipation of roaring off the start grid in Europe. News emerging from a plume of exhaust fumes today reveals that Codemasters has secured co-publishing and distribution rights for the Xbox and PS2 versions of the game on these shores, with a release of Q2 this year currently pencilled in. | ||
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The Ultimate Rally is the world championship of street racing. |
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