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From the monthly archives:

July 2006

Memorobilia week in The Garage

July 31, 2006

Over the next few days, we are on vacation here in The Garage. We’ll be out and about, hiking and paddling around different parts of Ontario and visiting Mosport for a bit of kart racing. To keep our readers somewhat entertained, Jaime is going to help out a bit by posting some memorobilia for [...]

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Why you SHOULD use Original Equipment replacement parts

July 30, 2006

Over at AskPatty.com Amy Mattinat has a great post explaining why you don’t have to service at your dealer. While I’ve built my career working in dealerships, I’ll be the first to tell you that there are some great independants out there. Amy is correct in pointing out that often a top dealership tech will [...]

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Tesla Roadster to be built by Lotus

July 30, 2006

Think the Tesla looks like a massaged Lotus Elise? Well, there is a good reason for it. The car was designed by Lotus staff for Tesla, based on the Elise. Teslas developed the advanced Lithium Ion batteries that allow the car to travel up to 250 miles without a charge. A newspaper in Norfolk UK [...]

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Vintage Racer Hubley Bluenose Special

July 29, 2006

At this year’s VARAC festival, The Garage had a chance to speak with Dave Boone about his wonderful vintage dirt track racer, the Hubley Bluenose Special. The car was built in 1930, from an assortment of parts, many from the Chevrolet Brothers Speed Equipment Catalogue from the 20’s. The car is powered by a 1925 [...]

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2008 Nissan Armada spy pics

July 28, 2006

Way down south in Death Valley, those guys from Edmunds Straightline blog have snapped some pics of the 2008 Nissan Armada. With more power and flex fuel options, most of the upgrades shown seem to be of the interior variety.

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More crazy boat people: Rinspeed sets new Channel crossing record

July 27, 2006

The Swiss have smoked the Italians and looked a damn site cooler doing it! Rinspeed boss Frank M. Rinderknecht piloted the Rinspeed Splash across the English Channel, setting a new world record of just over 193 minutes to surf from Dover to Sangatte. This record puts the high tech hydrofoil car into the Guiness Book [...]

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Splish Splash, a bunch of Mazda’s are takin’ a bath!

July 27, 2006

They say that the Cougar Ace is as water tight as a ziploc baggie and that 4,700 Mazdas aren’t headed to Davy Jones locker. It seems that a ballast adjustment gone awry is what caused the ship to tip. While the extent of the damage isn’t known, it would seem likely that there is little [...]

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No more Cossie for Williams

July 27, 2006

It’s been close to 40 years since Cosworth started building engines for Grand Prix cars, specifically for Matra and Lotus. Now, British Formula 1 team Williams has confirmed that their cars will no longer be using Cosworth power. Williams have entered a 3 year contract with Toyota to run the same engine as powers the [...]

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Nissan Z finishes 2nd & 3rd in round 5 of SUPER GT

July 27, 2006

Nissan press release
Round 5 of SUPER GT was held at Sportsland SUGO. The XANAVI NISMO Z (#23) with Satoshi Motoyama and Tsugio Matsuda took a 2nd place finish after an exciting and fierce battle. The MOTUL AUTECH Z (#22) with Michael Krumm and Richard Lyons started from 5th, finishing on the 3rd step of the [...]

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2006 BMW Z4 M Coupe pics

July 26, 2006

I must be pretty oblivious. Somehow I’ve completely missed the release of this beautiful machine, which was really surpising given the amount of reading I do while researching for The Garage. When we were over at BMW Canada taking pics of Kenzie’s Mini, there were actually 3 of these things sitting there. Just a sweet [...]

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