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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Ellis Goes To Quarters, Treble Out Early

Ellis Goes To Quarters, Treble Out Early

DON SCHUMACHER RACING 2008 NHRA POWERade DRAG RACING SERIES Round 16 of 17 for Pro Stock Motorcycle Round 4 of five in Countdown to 1 playoffs Eighth annual Las Vegas NHRA Nationals The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bill Walters, 561-964-2195; cell 561-632-5713; p ... Continue reading

New TireStatT No-Nonsense Commercial-Grade TPMS is Released by Mobile Awareness, LLC

New TireStatT No-Nonsense Commercial-Grade TPMS is Released by Mobile Awareness, LLC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joan Cochran, VP Operations Phone: 866-653-5036 pr@mobileawareness.com <http://us.mc460.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pr@mobileawareness.com > New TireStatT No-Nonsense Commercial-Grade TPMS is Released by Mobile Awareness, LLC [CLEVELAND, OH - November 3, 2008] - Mobile Awareness, LLC, a ... Continue reading

HONDA RACING F1 - 2008 BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX INTERLAGOS - NOVEMBER 2, 2008

HONDA RACING F1 - 2008 BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX INTERLAGOS - NOVEMBER 2, 2008

RACE The 2008 Formula One World Championship reached its conclusion this afternoon in Brazil, where the Honda Racing F1 Team's RA108s came home in 13th and 15th positions. Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button both improved on their 15th and 17th grid positions to give the team its 10th two-car finish of the year. A thr ... Continue reading

Point Leader Has Quickest Car Heading Into Race Day In Vegas

Point Leader Has Quickest Car Heading Into Race Day In Vegas

LAS VEGAS Nov. 1, 2008: Defending world champion and current Pro Stock point leader Jeg Coughlin Jr. will enter Sunday's elimination rounds of the eighth annual ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals as the prohibitive favorite to win the event. The 38-year-old from Delaware, Ohio, wrapped up his third low qualifier award of the ... Continue reading

Hernandez Clinches Second Consecutive JEGS ProMod Championship

Hernandez Clinches Second Consecutive JEGS ProMod Championship

LAS VEGAS Nov. 1, 2008: Josh Hernandez added a second consecutive JEGS ProMod Challenge world championship to his resume Saturday evening by successfully qualifying for the season-ending eighth annual ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Hernandez's No. 2 qualifying effort of 6.015 seco ... Continue reading

2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Review

2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Review

2009 VW JETTA CLEAN DIESEL TDI The 50-State Contender By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Why don’t we embrace diesel automobiles here in the US? After all, in Europe more than half of all automobiles, big ones and small ones, cheap ones and pricy ones, are diesels. They get close to 30% better mileag ... Continue reading

2009 LEXUS RX 350 REVIEW -TOURING NORTHERN ARIZONA

2009 LEXUS RX 350 REVIEW -TOURING NORTHERN ARIZONA

From a Shunpiker’s Journal -We Introduce Our Friends to Some Favorite Places By Steve Purdy The Auto Channel Detroit Bureau [Front] It is great fun to introduce friends to a place we’ve visited often, a place for which we feel a special affinity - in this case Northern Arizona. Sedona, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon ... Continue reading

HEELS ON WHEELS: 2009 KIA BORREGO REVIEW

HEELS ON WHEELS: 2009 KIA BORREGO REVIEW

By Katrina Ramser San Francisco Bureau The Auto Channel INTRO TO THE BORREGO The roomy 7-passenger Kia Borrego is new to the market and ready to elevate the ordinary by claiming it’s a "new kind of luxury SUV." However, the Borrego doesn't necessarily stand out from other mid-size SUVs in its class – and that ... Continue reading

2008 Mini Cooper Clubman

2008 Mini Cooper Clubman

Tiny machinery is almost universally satisfying. A friend of mine once dismantled a perfectly healthy 350-cc four-cylinder engine from an early-1970s Honda motorcycle just because he wanted to see what its pint-size pistons looked like. ... Continue reading

VOTE YES ON CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 10: TACH Official Endorsement

VOTE YES ON CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 10: TACH Official Endorsement

Why Californians Should Vote YES on Proposition 10 By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL Electing someone for public office is rather easy; you simply vote for the best looking or the best dressed or the one with the nicest voice, or the one with the best looking daughter/son/wife/husband. ... Continue reading

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