Audi: Award for innovative TT body concept
Audi is the winner of the EuroCarBody AWARD from the Automotive Circle International for the innovative body concept of the Audi TT. The sports coupé beat off 13 competitors from around the world to take the award. The Ingolstadt brand developed its groundbreaking Audi Space Frame (ASF) technology in the early 1990s for the Audi A8. The body of the new TT represents the first application of the ASF with a hybrid construction, featuring an elaborate composition of aluminium and steel.
Je Suis Simca Aronde!
Yes kids, it's the car that turned Simca, for a brief, shining moment into the second-brightest sales star in the nighttime skies over Bordeaux: the Simca Aronde. It debuted in 1951, and eventually made a whopping 70hp via its Rush Super engine, which is possibly the third greatest engine name in history, behind Toyota's Twin Squish and Mopar's Super Commando. Then Chrysler took over and we ended up with the Dodge Omni. Which in turn gave us one of the rarest Shelbys of them all: The Rampage. – Davey G. Johnson
Simca Aronde (P60 Models) [Simca Club, UK]
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Black Knight - BMW Dinan S3-R M3
When we last visited Dinan to test its supercharged M5, we noticed a black M3 sitting in one of the workshop bays with an experimental supercharger installation attached to its motor. It was not until nearly a year later that Dinan declared the S3-M3 engine project officially 49-state emissions legal and ready to roll, with California emissions certification just around the corner. The complete car with engine, chassis, and wheel and tire modifications is known as the Dinan S3-R M3.
From past experience, we can attest to the fact that Steve Dinan does not do things by half. He has built up his company slowly and steadily over the years, and today this organization has visibly more research, development, and testing resources than just about any other American tuner of European cars. Dinan makes a lot of its components in-house, where it can keep a very close eye on quality control.
49 Cars Vandalized in Collierville in 5 Days
Collierville Police are working hard to catch up with vandals who are accused of smashing the windows of 49 cars and the window of one home.
The vandalism rampage started Sunday, December 3, 2006. Eight people reported the crimes that day, and one homeowner reported his or her window was shot. Then last night, December 6, 2006, 41 people reported their windows were shot mostly at a strip mall along Poplar Avenue, between Byhalia Road and Bray Station.
Collierville Police are offering a $500 reward for any information leading to the capture of the vandals.
Police also tell Eyewitness News the vandals are driving a dark gray or black, 4-door sedan. Possibly a Dodge Neon or Saturn with Tennessee tags.
Call Collierville Crime Stoppers at 457-CASH.
Ramming ATM nets prison sentence
CASSOPOLIS -- When business owner Lynne Laubach saw crime video of three men ramming a stolen truck into her store to reach an ATM, she equated it to a strike by a "suicide bomber."
On Friday during sentencing of two of the three men charged in the crime, Laubach told a Cass County judge the destruction devastated the 14-year-old business that she and her husband, James, built.
She said their lives will never be the same.
Audi to run on bio-diesel at Le Mans
Automotive enthusiasts (racing fans in particular) and environmental lobbyists don't always see eye-to-eye. Make that seldom, if ever. But greener motorsports is something over which we can definitely sit down with our compatriots at sister site AutoblogGreen. In fact, we'd go as far to say that it's the one thing that could stand to keep automobile racing relevant in the modern era, and we'll applaud any series, team or supplier that moves the cause forward.
Audi, then, is a particular favorite, for their milestone achievement of fielding the diesel-powered R10 in endurance racing series and events – and winning, sweeping the field, in fact, despite the self-imposed oil-burning handicap. But the boys at Ingolstadt aren't about the rest on their proverbial laurels, they're pushing forward, together with their sponsors over at Shell.
Fort Dodge Inmates Bake Up Some Holiday Cheer
Instead of sitting in dreary cells, some inmates at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility have prepared about 4,000 cookies this past month.
The treats are served at gatherings at the Iowa Statehouse and the governor's mansion. It's a Christmas tradition that inmates have enjoyed for the last five years.
MOTORNET: Free-Revving Six - BMW 130i
It's a Friday night. Things are quiet at this end of town, and few people are about save a couple of commuters who perhaps stayed for one beer two many and now make haste to catch a train to the suburbs. The night is unusually still for Wellington, and yet the still air of the carpark is punctuated by a noise petrolheads everywhere would recognize – the revving of a BMW straight six singing sonorously. Like giddy schoolboys, we simply can't get enough of its gloriously mechanical noise. See... MOTORNET: Free-Revving Six - BMW 130i
Iraq: President Bush “ Mission Not Accomplished - President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against terrorists.
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