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Lexus Announces Pricing for LFA Supercar

March 1, 2010

Twenty years ago, Acura challenged the notion that only Europeans could produce an exotic sports car with the NSX. In 2010, Lexus ratchets that challenge up a few notches by producing Japan’s first supercar, the LFA. Apart from being groundbreaking cars for Japan, the similarities end there. The LFA will employ a 4.8L V-10, rated [...]

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Porsche reveals 918 Spyder at Geneva

March 1, 2010
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Normally one to go with the flow and embrace new technologies, I have been one of the few who isn’t drooling as every manufacturer under the sun creates hybrid cars. I’m just convinced that they aren’t the right solution for most North American drivers. To make matters worse, most hybrids suck the life out of [...]

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Ken Block wins 100 Acre Wood rally for the 5th year in a row!

March 1, 2010
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Depending on what your daily reading sources are, you may already know this. Yes, I know I should have posted this story yesterday, but like most of North America I was caught up in Olympic hockey madness.
That Monster Energy madman, Ken Block piloted his Ford Fiesta to an overall win at the 2010 100 [...]

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Ken Block leads 100 Acre Wood with 2 stages to go

February 27, 2010
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On Board with Travis Pastrana at 100 Acre Wood

February 27, 2010
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A bunch of sporting organizations could learn a lot about how to promote their brand with social media by watching the efforts of Rally America. Not only do they update their Twitter feed constantly before, during and after each event but they also shoot, edit and publish videos constantly during each rally. They do a [...]

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Bacon & Watt in 4th after Friday evening stages

February 27, 2010
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Bill Bacon and Peter Watt are sitting in 4th place on the road after the Friday evening stages at the Rally America 100 Acre Wood event. As the teams are about to line up for the start at the Missouri event this morning, Bacon is 1:46 behind leader Travis Pastrana. Not that far considering that [...]

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Ashley Motors ad

February 27, 2010

Allan De La Plante’s recent Shutter Speed tale brought out some memories of Ashley Motors, a car dealership in Toronto back in the Sixties and Seventies. I was pretty sure I had seen an ad or two for the store in the archives, so I went digging. I found the program for the Mac’s Continental [...]

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Review: 2010 Cadillac SRX

February 26, 2010

The year 2010 marks a pivotal year for Cadillac and its luxurious people movers. On the one hand, you have the new CTS Sport Wagon, a “traditional” station wagon. On the other, you have our subject here, the all new SRX crossover. This second generation SRX is quite a departure from the original, which debuted [...]

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100 Acre Wood: ACP is out before he begins

February 26, 2010

“Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug…”

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Bacon Motorsport gets ready for 100 Acre Wood

February 26, 2010

Yesterday we saw video of Ken Block prepping for this weekends 100 Acre Wood rally. The Monster folks aren’t the only team in the rally though! As we’ve mentioned before, old friend of The Garage, Peter Watt, is in the right seat of Bill Bacon’s Evo. The team spent yesterday going through tech inspection and [...]

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