December 23 2009

Schumacher returns to F1!!!!!!

http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2009/12/10303.html
See this link to read the interview where Michael Schumacher answers questions about his return to Formula 1 competing for the newly-formed Mercedes GP team.

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December 22 2009

Slot MiniAuto 63

SLOT MINIAUTO 63 JANUARY

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December 21 2009

GM taps Microsoft’s Liddell as CFO as the C-suite turns over

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December 21 2009

Radio Shack Motors for 1/43 and small 1/32


These three Radio Shack motors are the same size as the SCX 1/43 motor (a Scalextric standard FC-130 motor is shown for size comparison). The small Radio Shack motors will fit in 1/43 cars, and may be used in very small 1/32 cars, including narrow F1 racers from the mid 1960’s with full drivers. The FF-030 size is the same in cross section as the familiar F-050 “slim can” motors made for BWA, Scalextric, etc. Shaft is 1.5mm diameter. An oilite bearing is fitted on the metal can end, while the other end of the shaft appears to run in a plastic bearing molded in the end bell.

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December 19 2009

Mustang Unleashed Spell Binder The Final Showdown

@digg@ Ford has released the final video in the Mustang Unleashed campaign’ The 6th most viewed auto video on YouTube, Mustang Spellbinder is a step up: a death defying stunt pitting drift driver Vaughn Gittin Jr’ against magician superstar Steve Wyrick’ Unleashed on the streets of Las Vegas, the event embodies the excitement and innovation coming in the 2010 Mustang’ Check out the video below’

December 19 2009

Saab dies–again.

saab.jpgNot far form my childhood home in Syracuse, N.Y. lives a family I have always called the Saab people. I never knew them but for as long as I can remember, they had nothing but Saabs in the driveway. The last time I drove by, they still had an old Saab 9000 alongside a 9-3 and a 9-5. Im sure those Swedish-engineering die-hards are lamenting the news from General Motors today that Saab will follow Pontiac, Saturn and Oldsmobile to the auto industrys scrap heap.

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December 18 2009

2010 Mustang Performs The Impossible On The Las Vegas Strip

World champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr’ kicked off Ford Mustangs 10 Unleashed campaign by taking the American muscle car to drift the streets of Japan’ For the 10th and final installment of Unleashed, Vaughn finds himself playing a different role’

December 17 2009

New Slot It chassis design-EVO6

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December 17 2009

Camaro receives a Popular Mechanics Automotive Excellence Award

Tom Peters, executive director, GM performance cars and full-size trucks, today accepted a Popular Mechanics Automotive Excellence Award for the design of the all-new Camaro’ Its truly an honor to receive an Automotive Excellence Award from such a trusted and well-known publication like Popular Mechanics, Peters said’ This award is a tribute to the passion of many individuals who worked so hard to make the dream of the new Camaro come to life’

December 17 2009

Plug-in Prius on sale in 2011

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