Smooth and fast (The Athens News) Smooth and fast...more...MIKE BRUDENELL: In any language, it's great to have fast cars back on track at Belle Isle (Detroit Free Press) Racing returns to the Motor City over Labor Day weekend. Thank goodness. The summer has seen too many lows: toothless Tigers, city politics dominating the headlines for all the wrong reasons and housing foreclosures in record numbers....more... Oh no, it's the bulldog breed on bicycles (Times Online) Is a bicycle as near as Tories can get to a horse in the city? Is it just me or is the sight of an Englishman on a bike faintly absurd? Across the country, sports fans cheered Scot Chris Hoy as he went round and round very fast without getting so dizzy that he fell off....more... Moscow car show goes upmarket as Russians get rich (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News) MOSCOW, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Car makers descend on Moscow this week to show off their models for the Russian public, whose soaring incomes are fast making Russia the largest car market in Europe....more... Bosch Announces 'Drive a Clean Diesel' Contest Winners (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Robert Bosch LLC announced the six winners of its Drive a Clean Diesel for One Week contest. Selected from entries submitted to AutoWeek.com, the winners secured the opportunity to test drive a vehicle with a clean-diesel engine from the Bosch fleet of diesel cars for one week....more... Mosport: Acura qualifying report (Motorsport.com) BOWMANVILLE, Ont., Canada -- David Brabham took his best crack at another pole position Saturday for Sunday's Grand Prix of Mosport on the lightning-fast, 2.54-mile Mosport International Raceway road course....more... Grand Prix of Sonoma County arrives at Infineon (Sonoma Index-Tribune) RYAN HUNTER-REAY, currently eighth in points, leads a pack of IRL cars through Infineon Raceway's turn 10 (the Bus Stop) at last year's IndyCar race. Patrick Coleman/Special to the Index-Tribune...more... Twingo Renault Sport Entry Level Access to the Renault Sport Thrill, With Complete Control (The Auto Channel) PARIS - August 25, 2008: With cars like the R8 Gordini, 5 GT Turbo and Clio Williams, the Renault range has always featured affordable sporty cars based on mainstream production models. Twingo Renault Sport is latest car to enjoy that distinction....more... HOME PAGE (The Hindu) Mobile growth hits new peak; 9.22 m wireless users in July New Delhi, Aug 25 Mobile subscriber base in the country is growing at such a fast pace that operators are breaking the record for net additions almost every second month. ......more... |