NEW YORK, (AFP)
American automaker Chrysler plans to sell 50,000 Fiat 500 minicars in the United States in 2011, a source told AFP on Monday, as the Italian brand returns to the US market.
Fiat, Italy’s biggest car maker which controls 20 percent of Chrysler, aims at unveiling the minicar at the Los Angeles auto [...]
GAZA CITY, (AFP)
Gaza’s ubiquitous donkey carts are facing stiff competition after an influx of South Asia’s iconic tuk-tuks, powered by ultra-cheap smuggled fuel, have hit the roads of the besieged coastal strip.
The auto-rickshaws, in which the front half of a motorcycle is welded onto a two-wheel trailer, are well-adapted to the four-year blockade [...]
HOCKENHEIM, (AFP)
Sebastian Vettel insists he’ll be under no extra pressure as he heads into his home German Grand Prix with the controversy of his relationship with teammate Mark Webber still raging.
Red Bull held a second round of clear-the-air talks after Webber made it clear that he felt [...]
Schumacher sure to drive in 2011
HOCKENHEIM, (AFP)
Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher said on Thursday that he will definitely be racing in Formula One next season and still has his sights set on an eighth world title. The 41-year-old’s best result since returning to the grid this season has been finishing fourth on two occasions.
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