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Archive for July 7th, 2009
Guangzhou Automobile Group which already has partnerships with Honda and Toyota has agreed to a joint venture with Fiat of Italy. The two manufacturers will invest more than 400 million euros in the venture, which is due to start …
- In: Automobile
- Tags: Automobile, car, joint-venture, only-had, the-original, the-venture, will-invest
First Drive: 2010 BMW X6 M
7, Jul 2009I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone ask for a 555-hp SUV-or, an M version of their truck. We can get into endless discussions about whether M should be building such a vehicle (which, of course, I had with the…
- In: Automobile
- Tags: Automobile, bailout-money, brand-targets, engine, horacio-pagani, last-time, suv, the-super, truck
Magellan Maestro 3250 Car Navigation Gps + Map ~sealed. GPS Gear Galore! Skip to content. « Garmin Nuvi 755t 755-t Gps Navigation Used 1 Trip Mint · Magellan Roadmate 6000t North America – Mgll 980874-01 » …
Military Transport Plane Should Be Dumped
7, Jul 2009Time and money are running out, and the Airbus A400M, designed to ferry troops and equipment, still hasn’t even had a test flight.
- In: Aircraft
- Tags: boeing, even-had, ferry-troops, galactic, military-personnel, muos, oshkosh, still-hasn
Men rescued as motor boat runs aground
7, Jul 2009TWO men were dramatically rescued from the sea after their boat run aground on a sandbank, ten miles off shore.
- In: Boat
- Tags: after-their, coming-out, following-heavy, friends, from-the-sea, keen, miles-off-shore, once-the-individual, personal, port, run-aground, technical, ten-miles, the-sea, yachting
Newport H2’s reviewed in Motor Boat & Yachting
7, Jul 2009We’ve just got a sneak peak from our friends at Motor Boat and Yachting about a review they have done on the Keen Newport H2’s. It’s coming out in next month’s magazine but Dave Marsh their technical editor has kindly sent us across an …
- In: Boat
- Tags: coming-out, following-heavy, friends, keen, once-the-individual, personal, port, technical, yachting
Editorial: In Praise of . . . Tom McCahill
7, Jul 2009There are many great reasons to be happy to be a Baby Boomer. We may be getting old but we misspent our youth in some great decades. We had the iconic cars and lots of drive-ins for a custom fit with an increasingly relaxed moral code. We only had AM radio, but it played some of the best music ever heard in a car. But mostly we (or at least I) had Tom McCahill.