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Penske Auto Group backs out of Saturn deal, brand begins to swirl down the bowl

September 30, 2009

This just in: Car brands swirl clockwise just like any other turd.
I vaguely recall reading somewhere last Spring that Saturn turned a profit exactly once during it’s existence. It was a surprise then (to me at least) that Biz Whiz Roger Penske had offered to buy the whole kit and kaboodle. The story was that [...]

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Penske Auto Group to Buy Saturn

June 5, 2009

GM has been busy ridding itself of what many call the “Bad GM”-namely, Pontiac, Hummer, Saturn, and Saab, brands that won’t be a part of the “new” GM. Pontiac is being phased out, earlier this week Tengzhong announced plans to purchase Hummer, and today, Penske Auto Group announced that it will buy the Saturn brand [...]

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The Garage on Flickr: Mark Donohue at Daytona

January 7, 2009

I’m suffering a brain cramp this evening, so I thought I’d peruse The Garage on Flickr to see what fun stuff has been submitted recently. As so often happens, I’m drawn to the history offered up by friend of The Garage, Lou Galanos.
The shot above shows Mark Donohue in the Kirk F White/Roger Penske Ferrari [...]

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SCCA Announces Trans Am is back on the schedule for 2009

December 13, 2008

When the Trans Am series vanished a couple of years ago, some of us with long memories wished the SCCA had tried harder to save the series. Sadly, it had been in a decline for years and had become a bit of a joke. The marketing was non existent (at least here in Ontario) as [...]

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Cheating? Tell me it ain’t so!

January 11, 2008

Any seasoned racer worth his salt will tell you rules are written to be broken or should I say tested. Half the challenge of racing is figuring out what the other team is doing. In the days of Trans-Am and Can-Am series the rule book was still in the process of being written and as [...]

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1963 Player’s 200

May 27, 2006

The 1963 Player’s 200 at Mosport featured theheadlining sports racing cars, production sports cars, touring cars and Formula Junior. Feature race entrants included such racing legends as Graham Hill, Parnelli Jones, Roger Penske and the list goes on. There are several Grand Prix drivers in the field. Eventual winner, Chuck Daigh was driving a Lotus [...]

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