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Sebastian Vettel names his Red Bull, plus other gossip and rumours

Lorenzo aims to make final test

Jorge Lorenzo hopes to have recovered from his hand injury in time for the final MotoGP pre-season test.

Raikkonen buoyed by rally debut

Former Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen says he is encouraged by his World Rally Championship debut for Citroen after finishing 30th in Sweden.

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Spectacular! That's the forecast for F1 2010

The most competitive, exciting and quite possibly the most spectacular Formula 1 season for 20 years will start in Bahrain on Sunday, says top motorsport writer ALAN BALDWIN.

Crash mayhem in KZN as National rally season opens

The South African Rally championship started last weekend with the annual Tour Natal and the old guard established themselves as firm title favourites.

Production Cars bringing new format to Killarney

South Africa's premier circuit racing category is ready to delight Cape Town motorsport fans on Saturday with a new race-day format and an entry list of 24 of the country's best drivers in Production Cars.

Racing great Moss in hospital after three-floor fall

British motor racing great Stirling Moss is recovering in hospital after plunging three stories down a lift shaft at his home and breaking both ankles.

R115m needed to dump motorsport deals

Gauteng has finally put mechanisms in place to get rid of its hugely expensive motorsport contracts and the company that ran them - and which has a director sought in Burundi on fraud charges.

Oldest Known Flying ‘Car’ Up for Auction

It doesn’t look like a car, and it doesn’t look like it would fly, but what is believed to be the world’s oldest “roadable aircraft” is for sale. The antique was built in 1934 by Frank Skroback and at the very minimum provides proof that people have long dreamed of cars that can be flown like [...]

Electric Car Race Slated For Barcelona

We won’t see electric cars racing through the streets of Paris in June. They’ll be racing through the streets of Barcelona in October instead. The EMXGP pulled the plug, if you’ll pardon the pun, on racing in the City of Light and pushed back the race date to give teams more time to develop their cars. [...]

Journalist Uses Rum To Expose Airport Security Loophole

A Dutch journalist has exposed a loophole in airport security after carrying several liters of liquid on a transcontinental flight to Washington, D.C. Alberto Stegeman and two colleagues carried six Bacardi rum bottles filled with water aboard flights from Amsterdam to London and then on to Dulles International Airport. The ruse was pretty straightforward, too. They [...]

‘Electric Peugeot’ Is French for ‘Electric Mitsubishi’

French automaker Peugeot-Citroen is going nuts for electric vehicles, but rather than building them it will slap its logo on boatloads of Mitsubishis. The Japanese company has agreed to build 100,000 i-MiEV electric cars for the French company under a contract that runs through 2015, according to Automotive News Europe. It’s a smart move for everyone [...]

Pilots Say ‘Adios’ To Support Suspended Controller

Pilots are rallying behind Glenn Duffy, the air traffic controller suspended after allowing his kids to issue instructions to airliners at JFK airport, by ending their transmissions the same way Duffy’s son did — by saying “adios.” The Federal Aviation Administration has come down hard after the incident was made public last week, launching an investigation [...]

Postal Service Gets a Bright Idea for EVs

The postal service likes the Bright Idea and wonders if it would make a good delivery truck. The U.S. Postal Service has invited Bright Automotive to put an electric drivetrain in a standard-issue mail truck. Once the truck is ready to roll, the postal service will add it to its fleet for real-world testing in the [...]

VW Bus Celebrates 60 Years. Again.

Today is the 60th anniversary, again, of one of the most recognizable and beloved vehicles to ever clatter down the road. The exact anniversary of the Volkswagen Type 2, known affectionately as the Microbus or just the Bus, is open to interpretation. Volkswagen says it’s 1947, when Dutch VW importer Ben Pon first sketched the design. [...]

10 Perfect ‘Snowicane’ Cars, Picked by You

> The masses of Autopia readers have spoken. After enduring a pummeling at your hands over our choices of the best snowicane cars, we invited you to tell us what you’d drive when the drifts are taller than you are. And damned if you didn’t come up with an impressive [...]

Hydrogen ‘Clipper In the Clouds’ Is A Diamond In the Sky

When product designers at Seymourpowell sought to design a new luxury aircraft, they didn’t have a need for speed in mind. In fact, the Aircruise concept takes design cues from a high-end hotel, inviting guests to stay awhile. It’s hard to believe less than a decade ago, travelers routinely crossed the Atlantic in under three hours [...]

Ford’s First EV Isn’t Sexy, But It’s Smart

Ford’s first mass-market electric vehicle isn’t a sexy sports car. It isn’t a sleek sedan. And it isn’t cool compact. It’s a van. A delivery van, to be exact, designed specifically for fleet use. It isn’t the sexiest way to break into the electric arena, but it’s a smart move for Ford and a logical [...]

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