GermanyâÂÂs big three premium manufacturers are readying their new executive saloons and CAR Online has spied the 2010 BMW 5-series on its first exploratory laps of the Nurburgring. Last week we had a world exclusive scoop on the next A6 and caught the AMG version of the new Mercedes E-class out testing.
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Tony Stewart’s misfortune Sunday night was oh so sweet for Kasey Kahne, left. Stewart was leading the Coca-Cola 600 with three laps remaining when a flat tire forced him to pit road, handing the lead to Kahne. The win snapped a 52-race winless streak in points events for Kahne. He became the sixth driver â joining Davey Allison, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Darrell Waltrip â to win both the All-Star race and the 600 in the eight days of racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Greg Biffle finished second, followed by Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Full results can be found here. Read more about NASCAR’s longest race of the year here.
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While my boss is all gaga over the Audi R8 in âÂÂIron Manâ (and, really, who wouldnâÂÂt be?), I happen to be equally gaga over the A6 Avant in âÂÂBaby Mama.â The movie is funny and so clever, and the car is pretty and, um, clever, too. The product placement isnâÂÂt overly blatant, which I appreciate, but it doesnâÂÂt need to be â the A6âÂÂs grille is so distinctive I couldnâÂÂt help but notice it.
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More teaser vids-
Here are two teasers of some the things I have been doing for the site-
Just a couple days away now!
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So the Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans has just forked out ÂŁ5.5 million for a Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. Obviously what the world and its mother wants to know right now is: how can a car, any car, possibly be worth that amount of dough?
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Just looked in my diary and it would appear that I am getting out of the office yet again next week - a Chevrolet event in Poland. There will be an opportunity to drive the new Aveo and there should be some execs to talk to. It will be a flight out of Luton to Wroclaw on Wednesday, a test drive from the airport, a presentation at the former stock exchange, dinner, another test drive the following morning, lunch at Wieza Cisnien (a ‘historic water tower’) and then flight back.
Chevrolet is emerging as a strong global value brand for GM and I’m looking forward to an update. And some traditional Polish cuisine (though I could probably find that at the local Tesco’s).
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Via
NY Times
By PAUL B. BROWN
ItâÂÂs a tautology, of course. If you insist on doing everything yourself, your business will never grow beyond what you can personally handle.
People who run small businesses know this, but as Beth Schneider, president of Process Prodigy, which âÂÂhelps business owners leverage the best business practices,â points out on Entrepreneur.com thereâÂÂs âÂÂsomething in us that fights against asking for help.â She added: âÂÂItâÂÂs almost like thereâÂÂs some rite of passage in being able to do it all ourselves. But the reality is, you canâÂÂt do it all and focus on your strengths without stretching yourself in too many directions.âÂÂ
And that means small-business owners need to delegate, if they wish to grow, a concept, she concedes, that can be difficult to accept.
âÂÂDelegation is about handing over authority, and for many small business owners, thatâÂÂs a scary concept because you donâÂÂt know what will happen when you give up control,â she writes.
WHY NOT? Michele Hanson-OâÂÂReggio, writing on solo-e.com, a Web site for business owners with no employees, agrees that fear is a major reason that entrepreneurs do not delegate.
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It may not have much name recognition on this side of the pond, but the Noble M12 GTO-3R is one of the all-time great performance cars the world has ever seen. Like the Ariel Atom, the Noble is available in the United States under kit-car regulations if assembled here. But don’t let the kit car designation fool you; this is no VW Bug that looks like a mashed Lamborghini, or a Pontiac Fiero made to look like a lumpy Ferrari.
No, the Noble is a thoroughbred. The light, intricately designed mid-engined chassis and aggressively voluptuous body were designed specifically for the Noble, without intrinsic family car-based compromises. The Ford Duratec V-6 started off as a family car plant with Ford Contour–not typically a great foundation for exotic performance. But, with the addition of two big turbochargers, and an output of 352 horsepower and 350 lb. ft. of torque, with less than 2,400 pounds to haul around, it holds its own.
The result is a car so exotic and with such a broad performance envelope that it makes a Corvette look like a grocery-getter. The Noble rips to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds and handles with such a blend of stability and agility that, across the pond, it is held up as the gold standard of roadholding.
The combination is a car that can easily outduel any Ferrari or Porsche with the exception of the hugely expensive and exotic Enzo or Carrera GT–and even then the Noble keeps things respectable. What’s even more remarkable is the fact that the Noble costs less than $100,000. That doesn’t sound like a bargain until you consider that it can run with cars that cost twice as expensive or more. It’s not quite the bang-for-the-buck howitzer the Atom is, but it’s a unique lightweight English approach to high performance. I think of the Noble as sort of a 21st century Lotus Esprit.
These two photos are courtesy of Flickr user rikusrautenbach, who also has some nice pictures of of the M12’s replacement, the slightly cushier but still lethal M15.
Below, the typically fantastic Top Gear review. As reference, the Ford Mondeo they refer to is the UK name for the US Contour.
–Chris H.
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FREWSBURG, New York â Lloyd Moore, one of the original competitors in what is now the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, died Sunday at age 95.
Moore won a race in what was then called Grand National at Winchester, Indiana, in the second season for the series, 1950. He drove a1950 Mercury owned by Julian Buesink, who also fielded the cars driven by Bill Rexford, the 1950 Grand National champion.
Moore’s victory came on Oct. 15 in the nineteenth race of the 21-event season. He started on the outside of the front row in the 200-lap chase around the high-banked, half-mile Winchester oval.
He competed from the inaugural season through 1955, making his first start in the seventh race in the history of the series at Heidelberg Raceway near Pittsburgh. He finished sixth. His 49th and final start came in the sixth running of the Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
Moore, who had been designated as NASCAR’s oldest living driver by the sanctioning body, had been featured by The Buffalo (N.Y.) News in an article last year and earlier this month in a New York Times story.
“I had been on the road long enough,” the Times quoted Moore in explaining why he quit competing at age 43. “I never wanted to go back to racing. I haven’t been to a track since. It seems that when you give it up, you give it up. But there’s nothing like sliding into a car and competing. I like speed. I like the competition. I miss it.”
Moore is survived by his wife, Virginia, six children, 14 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren
What it means to you: In addition to the armed forces veterans who will be honored on Memorial Day weekend, race fans will remember one of NASCAR’s pioneers. â David Green, Correspondent
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