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		<title>Brawn&#8217;s Barrichello wins 2009 Italian F1 GP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button took Brawn GP a significant step closer to both world championship titles at the 2009 Italian F1 Grand Prix in Monza on Sunday afternoon, in a race rendered dramatic by a last lap shunt for McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, as he was pushing hard in third place after Button. 
As expected, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash for Clunkers allows reservation of out-of-stock models</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Car buyers wanting to use the cash-for-clunkers program but can&#8217;t find the vehicles they want due to stock shortages will be able to reserve models under a change in the program, as announced by the Obama administration today. 
The move comes after Michigan lawmakers raised concerns that automakers were running short of popular models, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford Edge hit by lightning, needs medical attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Theoretically, the safest place to be during a thunderstorm is inside a car. A woman in Georgia found that out in real life, when her Ford Edge got hit by a divine lightning bolt while she was driving, and she walked away without a scratch. 
According to the Rochester paper, a lightning storm at six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of &#8220;Cash For Clunkers&#8221; scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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As of July 31, the initial $1 billion allocated to the &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; program had been nearly depleted and the House passed a bill to provide an additional $2 billion to the program. In the meantime, the program remains in limbo with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency that administers the program, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suzuki: Celebrating 100 years of small automobiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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Small automaker Suzuki celebrates its centenary this October. Back in 1909, Michio Suzuki founded the Suzuki Loom Company in Hamamatsu, Southern Japan and it was while manufacturing looms for production of plain white fabric he learned that weavers wanted looms that could produce cloth with vertical and horizontal stripes. So he developed a unique loom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1975 Lorinser Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9 up for sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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By 1975 the USA had long mothballed its moon vehicles, as with the Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9, W116 series the Germans unveiled a road rocket, whose thrust felt like it could easily rival a Saturn V rocket. 
The constructors borrowed the engine from the basis of the powerful State limousine 600, which was equal to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report says giving up SUVs will power the poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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According to the World Bank&#8217;s yet-to-be-released World Development Report 2009, there are between 25 million to 40 million gas-guzzling SUVs in the United States today. The report says that if the entire U.S. were to shift to more fuel-efficient cars en masse, more than 1.6 billion people in the world currently living in the dark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Toyota Camry tops American-Made Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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Cars.com has come up with an American-Made Index that rates vehicles built and bought in the United States. Factors include sales, where the car&#8217;s parts are made and whether the car is assembled in America. Models that have been discontinued are disqualified, as are those with a domestic-parts content rating below 75%. And the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinness world record attempt for largest Subaru gathering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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Subaru of America will attempt to set a Guinness world record for the &#8220;Largest Parade of Subaru Cars.&#8221; The attempt will take place on July 11, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. The parade will start at 500 Park Boulevard in Itasca, Illinois. 
Starting June 22 through July 8, interested participants can register their Subaru in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schumacher the Stig drives Ferrari FXX on Top Gear track</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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Top Gear recently caused a lot of hype by revealing &#8220;The Stig&#8221; to be Michael Schumacher. Real or staged, he did apparently drive the Ferrari FXX on the Top Gear test track in the same episode, and the results are astounding. 

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