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Afzal Kahn, head of the Kahn Design and Project Kahn aftermarket tuning house, placed the winning bid of 375k pounds, which comes to more than 440k pounds with tax (the equivalent of about $873,000). Kahn will reportedly (and fittingly) put the F1 plate on his custom Mercedes SLR McLaren. How does he feel about blowing [...]

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The Moscow Ford Focus fans decided to make the longest wedding cortege of their favourite Focus cars - at one of their Focus Club members wedding. They gathered more than two hundred Ford Focus cars. The road police officers also brought police Ford Focus to the head of the procession. They claim it would be [...]

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BMW has unveiled the 2007 BMW 1-Series hatchback. The new three-door car goes on sale this spring, and will be offered with five engine in Europe. It’s not known if the three-door model will be offered in the United States, but coupe and convertible variants are expected in America in the coming years.
Model choices [...]

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Forbes has posted a very interesting list of unknown automotive brands. For example, how many people have heard of Koenigsegg? Or of Leblanc?
Sweden’s Koenigsegg builds the $550,000 CCR supercar. Switzerland’s Leblanc makes the $650,000 Mirabeau. Both companies are little known because they produce their modified race cars in very low quantities.
Hongqi, for example, is the [...]

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Above snapshot of the new toy for danger boys, called Panhard A4 Fast. It look like a Hummer, but the Panhard A4 Fast is really strong vehicle. The 2.8-liter Iveco diesel inline four pushing out a meager 146 horsepower and 236 ft.-lbs of torque. Panhard A4 Fast is equipped with anti-mine flooring, ABS brakes [...]

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Mazda has anounced that prices for the new Mazda MX-5 Roadster Coupe range will start from £18,210 (for the residents of the U.K.). This represents a modest premium of £1,200 over the soft top model, as both climate control air conditioning and the Option Pack are standardised on the 1.8i and 2.0i Roadster Coupe models. [...]

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The exclusive cars of Volkswagen Individual GmbH can be marked by its own new logo. The ???i??? for the product brand ???Individual???. It is worked into an emblem which bears resemblance to the Volkswagen emblem of the 50ies. The product brand logo reflects what the competence center for striking low volume productions and innovative [...]

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Russian carmaker GAZ will buy British car maker LDV Holding. It may buy American Ford??™s Jaguar division.
Ford bought Jaguar for 1.6 billion pounds sterling in 1989 and has been trying to make their production profitable through conversion and dismissal of over 1,000 workers. The management of the U.S. company has repeatedly stated its determination [...]

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The Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra is trying to set up a dealer network in U.S. About 200 dealers will sell an unspecified utility vehicle.
The SUV could go on U.S. market as early as 2007.
Mahindra makes a range of SUVs and pickups. The SUV, called Scorpio, is the company??™s flagship vehicle.
Mahindra currently sells tractors [...]

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Its a spy photo of new Hyundai Equus, should arrive at dealerships in 2008 model year. The Hyundai Equus sports a 116-inch wheelbase. The Equus will slot in the lineup of Infiniti, BMW and Mercedes. Hyundai could use its 3.8-liter V6 to power the Equus, but also may opt for a V8 to [...]

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