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Chris' column

 

Yesterday, the bush telegraph was twitching about the possibility of GM killing its non-core brands –Saab, Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer. As a seasoned Yoooropean, those last three mean little to me: Pontiac used to be cool, then sold-out, Saturn began with good intentions, then slid into the murky world of re-badged Vauxhalls and apart from

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Mercedes potential purchase of Aston Martin

 

DR isn’t especially interested in the more salacious areas of Automotive News – largely because we don’t pay our art director Neil to create stuff on Photoshop and then slap words like ‘Scoop’ and ‘Completely fictional, but we hope it’ll flog a few more copies’ all over the place. But now and again the rumour-mill

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GT-R v GT2 Nurburgring Lap Comparison

 

After reading 'The Truth' many of you wanted to know more about how the GT2 and GT-R achieved their lap times around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Here Chris Harris provides commentary to accompany a new video edit, which provides simultaneous in-car views from both cars on their fastest laps. See the FULL VIDEO in DR TV Then

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BMW's teaser video hints at New Z4 launch

 

A cryptic new video from BMW counts down to a December launch. We've seen the many spy shots of the new Z4, showing it's new folding hard-top roof, as already seen in the current 3-series convertible range. Read the FULL ARTICLE in First Look Then let us know your

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BMW’s teaser video hints at New Z4 launch

 

A cryptic new video from BMW counts down to a December launch. We've seen the many spy shots of the new Z4, showing it's new folding hard-top roof, as already seen in the current 3-series convertible range. Read the FULL ARTICLE in First Look Then let us know your

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Porsche reveal the Panamera

 

General office consensus has it that the new Panamera is better looking than most of us expected. What do you think? As ever, Porsche has employed the least talented automotive photographer in Northern Europe for these unflattering shots, but there’s more than a hint of Ferrari 456 in the front door scallop and the thing

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Nissan GT-R v Porsche 997 GT2 – The Truth

 

Nissan says the GT-R laps the Nürburgring in 7:29.03. Porsche says ‘impossible’. DR tries to get to the bottom of it - with a GT2 to put things into perspective. Read the 23 page feature magazine Click the picture below Watch the video laps.. The then tell

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Chris' column

 

I don’t know what the first rule of corporate governance is, but might suggest that that it should be total avoidance of the word ‘never’ in any public statement. I won’t bother providing evidence of when Wendelin Wiedeking, Porsche’s CEO, said that the company would never produce a diesel production car, because I heard him

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Lamborghini's new LP560-4 Spyder

 

Lamborghini has chosen the LA show to launch the new LP560-4 Spyder. The US accounted for 39-percent of all Lamborghini sales in ’07, making it by far the biggest market for the supercar manufacturer. Read the FULL ARTICLE in First Look Then let us know your

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Lamborghini’s new LP560-4 Spyder

 

Lamborghini has chosen the LA show to launch the new LP560-4 Spyder. The US accounted for 39-percent of all Lamborghini sales in ’07, making it by far the biggest market for the supercar manufacturer. Read the FULL ARTICLE in First Look Then let us know your

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