Topic: - on February 24, 2003 at 12:01:50 PM CET
KOENIGSEGG FACTORY BURNED OUT
Fifteen cars saved as Swedish Supercar maker suffers major blaze. There was panic in Sweden on Saturday as the Koenigsegg supercar factory went up in flames.
Fire crews were called to the factory Margerethetorp 2:20 in the afternoon after reports of flames coming from one of the buildings.
Fire spread to other buildings and staff and local villages frantically moved partly built cars our of the path of the fire, while fire crews from five cities doused the flames.
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Topic: - on February 21, 2003 at 7:12:27 AM CET
How to make your car invisible to radar and laser!
Rocky Mountain Radar introduces a device designed to make your car electronically unreadable—if you get a ticket while using the product, the manufacturer will pay your fine!*
Today, Rocky Mountain Radar offers drivers a perfect solution to speed traps—the Phazer II. It uses a passive radar scrambler to make your automobile electronically “invisible” to police speed-detecting equipment. The radar component works by mixing an X, K or Ka radar signal with an FM “chirp” and bouncing it back at the squad car by way of a waveguide antenna, effectively confusing the computer inside the radar gun.
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Topic: - on February 5, 2003 at 11:21:08 AM CET
VW, Audi recall 530,000 cars
Higher than normal failures of ignition coils in 2001 and 2002 model cars prompted Volkswagen of American Inc. and Audi of America Inc. to recall about 530,000 vehicles, VW said Tuesday.
All 2001 and 2002 models and some 2003 models are affected by a lingering problem that has stranded many Volkswagen and Audi owners on roadsides seeking a tow or emergency road service.
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Topic: - on February 3, 2003 at 9:37:27 PM CET
Cheech & Chong in a car ?
N O its the new VGS (Vehicle Glycol Smoke) MK11
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Topic: - on January 30, 2003 at 7:46:28 AM CET
Yugoslavia to sell Tito's limos
For sale: 13 luxurious limousines and other vehicles that once formed the motorcade of Yugoslavia's late dictator Josip Broz Tito.
The government said Wednesday it will auction the vehicles Feb. 27. Among the top attractions are two custom-made, Mercedes limousines with removable hard tops, produced in 1967 and 1978. The limousines are bulletproof and seat six. The cars, which Tito used for touring the country and parading with visiting statesmen until his death in 1980, start at $508,000 each.
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Topic: - on January 27, 2003 at 7:53:09 PM CET
GM'S INNOVATIVE XV16 CONCEPT ENGINE LOOKS TO PAST AND FUTURE
The new GM XV16 concept engine, unveiled in the Cadillac Sixteen show car, builds on GM's leadership in advanced overhead-valve engine design and showcases a number of novel fuel-saving technologies in a surprisingly compact package.
Configuration: 13.6L V-16 Installation: longitudinal RWD Displacement: 13,600cc Valvetrain: OHV 2 valves-per-cylinder Bore x Stroke: 105 mm x 98 mm Horsepower: 1000 (746 kW) @ 6000 rpm Torque: 1000 lbs.-ft. (1356 Nm) @ 4300 rpm Compression ratio: 10.6:1 Firing order: 1-12-8-11-7-14-5-16-4-15-3-10-6-9-2-13 Fuel system: sequential multipoint fuel injection Recommended fuel: unleaded regular
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Topic: - on January 20, 2003 at 3:17:31 PM CET
Sauna SAAB 900
On this page you will find a little story about some (crazy?) nordic people, an old SAAB 900 Classic 5-door and a common desire to have a sauna. This is not the first sauna in a SAAB, I know of at least one SAAB 96 made into a sauna in Finland. However, this is probably the only sauna built into a Classic 900...
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Topic: - on January 16, 2003 at 2:25:25 PM CET
Are Hummer Owners Idiots?
ust in time for America's latest murderous war for oil, just in time to be reminded of exactly why our foreign policy is so horribly mangled and debilitating and Saudi enslaved and terrorist ready ...
Just in time to crush a few thousand smaller cars and kill a bunch of pedestrians and poison the environment and still be able to traverse six feet of standing floodwater in order to make it in time for Timmy's soccer game, it's the rollout of the new Hummer H2, the biggest joke of the entire SUV world, representing, well, just exactly everything that's wrong with America's view of the world.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:37:07 AM CET
BMW unveils first German Rolls
BMW, the world's second-largest luxury-car maker, has unveiled the first German-built Rolls-Royce.
The car went on sale on Friday. Surprisingly, BMW has not been allowed to promote the car in any way, but that has not stopped buyers trying to snap up some of the 1,000 cars being made each year.
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Topic: - on January 3, 2003 at 11:45:36 AM CET
2 million miles later, '66 Volvo still going strong
But few take it to the extremes of Irv Gordon of Long Island, N.Y., America's uncontested auto longevity champion. His 1966 Volvo P1800, the same model Roger Moore drove in the old TV series, "The Saint," has been driven 2,059,000 miles -- plus change.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 8:26:23 PM CET
Automaker To Change Slogan
# At Chrysler '=' Becomes '&'
A simple slogan change is in the works at DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group, as the automaker tries to refresh itself after watching sales drop in 2002.
The "Drive = Love" equation is giving way to "Drive & Love", which will be the new official slogan, Chrysler's marketing department announced Tuesday.
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Topic: - on December 29, 2002 at 1:02:51 PM CET
Down with the ship: Retailers try to keep buyers whose vehicles were lost in shipwreck
he Dec. 14 sinking of the ship Tricolor -- in a thick, English Channel fog -- hit Volvo Cars of North America just as it began sales of its first sport-utility, the XC90.
The ship was carrying nearly 3,000 U.S-bound Saabs, BMWs and Volvos - including 358 XC90s. U.S. dealers have accepted deposits for about 9,000 XC90s but so far have delivered only 290 in October and 881 in November.
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