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Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Takes on Hong Kong Press

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Top Gear continues it’s march around the pacific, this time turning up this weekend for the Top Gear Live show in Hong Kong.
According to Hong Kong’s The Standard:
Well, not for long. Soon, the engagingly verbose presenter was cracking jokes about copresenter Richard Hammond’s height (or lack of it) and Hong Kong’s taxi drivers. “Why are [...]

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Saturn Car Company Could Be In Chinese Hands By End of Year

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In a cruel twist of fate, Saturn could be in the hands of the Chinese by the end of the year. Saturn is one of the victims of the restructuring of General Motors to satisfy the requirements of the US Government’s TARP Loan program.
General Motors as penned a letter to the existing Saturn Dealers suggesting [...]

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Top Gear Live – arrives in New Zealand (Video)

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The top car show in the world, Top Gear,  has brought it’s live action production to Auckland, Jeremy Clarkson and his crew has enlisted top Kiwi driver Greg Murphy as the 3rd Wheel.

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Tags: Automobiles · Autos · Kiwi Films · Kiwi News · New Zealand · Top Gear

Car Exec Rips Car Industry A New One

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John Krafcik, acting president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America today made it very clear he is disappointed with the auto industry in the United States and did not pull his punches:
There was palpable discomfort in the room as Krafcik criticized his own industry for earning a perception of being “slow, dim-witted” and “typically unresponsive [...]

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Rationalization of Car Washers Underway

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I am a big consumer of car washes. I am constantly working to keep our cars clean and fresh and it is a never ending battle. What frustrates me most about using car washes how poorly they are run. The level of service is hit and miss. You essentially need to find a good one [...]

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Hummer Owners Get Nailed Faster

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Hummer owners, according to Quality Planning of San Francisco, are 463% more likely to get nailed by the Police than the average driver.  Also high on the list are three separate versions of Scion, Toyota’s youth brand.

The reasoning behind why Hummer and Scion drivers get ticketed more often than other drivers is not clear but:
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Tags: Automobiles