Pope Benedict XVI receives Volkswagen T5 ambulancesPope Benedict XVI received Prof. Dr. h.c. Ferdinand K. Piëch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG, and Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, in the Vatican City on Wednesday. The Volkswagen representatives presented the head of the Catholic Church with two specially equipped Volkswagen T5 to be deployed as ambulance vehicles in Africa.
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This weekend, the SEAT Sport team is travelling to the fourth season event with high spirits after successfully participating at the gruelling Cheste circuit, where they confirmed their leadership in the World Championship, and is ready to challenge the difficult urban track in Pau, France, where the SEAT León TDI has yet to be proven. The objective is the same as in Valencia – stay well in the lead in both the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles. Continue reading ‘SEAT León TDI will race for the first time in Pau’
Thank you Porsche for all the great years, great cars and childhood dreams!
Ferry Porsche (centre), his father Ferdinand Porsche (right) and Erwin Komenda (left), 1948, in front of the 356 No. 1 in Gmünd60 years of the sports car – a small company becomes the most profitable automobile manufacturer
Porsche celebrates its anniversary. Exactly 60 years ago the cornerstone was laid for the family-operated industrial company, whose rise from modest beginnings to become one of the most important sports car manufacturers in the world no one back then would have ever foreseen.
On June 8, 1948 a new chapter in automobile history began. For on this day, the first Porsche prototype with the vehicle identification number 356-001 received its official approval and homologation for road service. ‘It all started when I began looking around and just could not find my dream car. So I decided to build it myself’, said Ferry Porsche – and to this day, this genius and pioneering spirit has shaped the philosophy of the company. Continue reading ‘Porsche celebrates its 60 year anniversary’
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Peter Wyhinny in his New Caddy 2.0T TDI
Very interesting. Could this be a combination of the Golf TDI Hybrid, which is said not to make production, and the 1-litre we talked about making its debut in 2010?
Volkswagen Golf TDI Hybrid concept carDynamic partnership between the Volkswagen Group and Sanyo
Agreement has been reached on a co-operation which sees Volkswagen joining forces with Sanyo, one of the world’s leading developers of rechargeable batteries, to work on new and extremely efficient high-performance storage systems based on lithium-ion technology. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen Working on High-Performance Energy Storage’
The Lizards have closed up their home shop at Infineon Raceway for the month of June: the Flying Lizard No. 80 Porsche and its complement of crew and drivers are off to France for the team’s fourth consecutive 24 Heures du Mans. The team arrives this week in the historic town of Le Mans, near the Loire Valley, to prepare for the renowned 24-hour race on a 8.5-mile road course. The official test day is June 1; the race starts on June 14 at 3 pm CET and ends 24 hours later on June 15.
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We are an auto focused site. We drive. You drive. You may race. They race. We watch racing. With all that said and the news today surrounding oil and gas prices, here is a nice article on the history of oil.
For seven years, William D’Arcy drilled well after well in Persia, now known as Iran, looking for oil. With his funding running low, and his employers getting quite impatient, D’Arcy drilled one last well and hit a gusher on May 26, 1908. The rest is history.
Six years after the discovery of the vast Middle Eastern oilfields, D’Arcy and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. almost went out of business. They literally had oceans of precious oil and, by then, a pipeline to remove it from its remote resting place. What they did not have, ironically, were customers. Cars were the toys of the wealthy, ships mostly ran on coal and so did electrical plants. Winston Churchill, however, saw the benefits of running his navy on oil and soon had World War I to fight. Black gold quickly became one of the world’s most coveted resources.
Years later, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. bought the government-seized assets of a German firm that sold oil in Britain before the war. That company was called British Petroleum, a name adopted later by Anglo-Persian and shortened to BP in 2000
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- Autoblog via BP via Wired
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Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced today that the Eos has been named to kbb.com’s 2008 Top 10 Best New Road Trip Vehicles. Kelley Blue Book, the leading provider of new- and used-vehicle information, recognized that even with gas prices reaching $4 per gallon, many Americans will still hit the road for summer road trips.
‘The coupe-sunroof-convertible makes the Eos a great vehicle for road trips no matter what the weather brings,’ said Mark Barnes, Chief Operating Officer, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. ‘And with the highly acclaimed 2.0T engine, drivers can have fun with 200 horsepower, while still saving money at the pump with 30 mpg in highway driving.’
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911 GT3 RSR, Manthey Racing: Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas, Marc Lieb, Marcel TiemannThe 24 hour race on the Nürburgring has ended with a triple victory for Porsche. In a Porsche GT3 RSR fielded by the Manthey Racing team, works drivers Timo Bernhard (Germany), Romain Dumas (France), Marc Lieb (Germany) as well as Manthey pilot Marcel Tiemann (Monaco) turned one faultless lap after the other in front of 220,000 fans and left 215 opponents behind them. At the flag, they held a one lap advantage over the second-placed GT3-MR run by Manthey Racing piloted by Armin Hahne (Monaco), Christian Haarmann (Germany), Jochen Krumbach (Germany) and Pierre Kaffer (Germany). On third was the Porsche 911 GT3 of Klaus Abbelen, Sabine Schmitz, Dr. Edgar Althoff and Kenneth Heyer (all Germany).
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