Filed under: Etc., Hyundai, Earnings/Financials

With National Childhood person Awareness period underway, Hyundai Motor USA has declared plans to donate $100,000 to 68 hospitals and non-profit organizations ($6.8 meg total) in the modify of “Hope Grants.” The magnitude of the money module be upraised by Hyundai’s U.S. income network, today more than 800 dealers strong, who module advance $200 from the understanding of apiece container in September.

“While we’ve prefabricated advancement over the terminal some decades and today hit an 85 proportionality aid rate, cancer ease takes more lives than some another immatureness disease,” said Evangelist Krafcik, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor America. “This September, in hold of Childhood person Awareness Month, Hyundai module happen a broad prominence on this drive and wage more than $6 meg in grants for medicine cancer investigate and hold programs. We fuck attractive on bounteous challenges at Hyundai, and we crapper conceive of no more commendable contest than uncovering a aid for every forms of medicine cancer.”

Hyundai’s Hope on Wheels information has based the fisticuffs against immatureness cancer for the time dozen years. By the modify of this year, the information module hit awarded more than $23 meg to hospitals and non-profit organizations crossways the country. To wager more most the program, or donate directly, meet Hyundai Hope on Wheels.

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Hyundai gift $200 a automobile to children’s cancer benevolence this month originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Honda, Racing

For the IRL IndyCar Series, the 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 was every most the sort “200.” It was the 200th vie in IRL history. The drivers would be streaming 200 laps around the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway. And the speeds would be substantially above 200 indication as the earth of 27 cars ran inches absent from apiece another low the lights of Kentucky. Among those 27 drivers was terminal year’s runner-up, Ed Carpenter, who ease hasn’t scored a full-time ride, and Apostle Tracy, the follower selection who seems to never intend rusty. Maybe we’ll hit to move occupation him Platinum Paul.

Last week’s succeeder Dario Franchitti was making things engrossing in the vie for the title by approaching the notch to points cheater Will Power who hasn’t finished as substantially as whatever of the others – including Franchitti – on ovals. Kentucky is an oval, of course, and so are Motegi and Miami, the test digit races of the season. Would Power be healthy to intend that monkey soured his back? Would Franchitti verify the get and near the notch modify further? Would the precocious and hornlike phenomenon Ed Carpenter eventually nous to Victory Lane? Follow the jump to wager how the 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 went down.

[Images: Chris Graythen, Streeter Lecka/Getty Images | Ed Reinke, saint Crisp/AP]

Continue datum IndyCar: 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 comes downbound to fuelish decisions [SPOILERS]

IndyCar: 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 comes downbound to fuelish decisions [SPOILERS] originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:25:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports

Less than a hebdomad after 13-year-old saint Lenz was killed in a break at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, added motorcyclist’s chronicle has been claimed at the track.

Shoya Tomizawa was on his 15th travel at the Misano journeying during the San Marino Grand Prix when he ostensibly forfeited curb of his Moto2 cycle at flooded speed, was tangled soured the cycle and then impact by digit another riders before sliding 130 feet to a halt.

Tomizawa was condemned to a topical infirmary directly after the break and succumbed to his injuries presently thereafter.

The Moto2 traveller had touched up the ranks since first in pocketbike racing when he was exclusive threesome eld old, yet graduating to the 125 class. This year, he took a get at peninsula and sat ordinal coverall in the standings.

We modify our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to Tomizawa’s family, friends and fans.

[Source: Daily Mail | Image: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty]

Moto2 traveller Shoya Tomizawa killed in San Marino Grand Prix crash originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Motorsports, Etc., Technology, UK

Nitrous pollutant – the desirable go-fast pedal of some pace freaks – delivers its material noesis increase by chilling the near air, which in invoke becomes denser. The denser air’s higher pedal intensity feeds the famished engine, which crapper today display more power. Nitrous pollutant is also widely utilised in the aid business as an drug and analgesic. You crapper encounter nitrous canisters in hospitals, dentists’ offices, Apostle Walker’s topical pace shop, and ambulance stations. nation street racers hit ostensibly been stipendiary near tending to the terminal one.

A sort of UK ambulance stations hit reportable absent laugh pedal canisters, and they’re pointing the digit at topical “boy racers.” The Daily Mail highlights the structure nitrous pollutant is utilised by the protagonist crowd, but fails to name some limited grounds that these past crimes were sworn by folks chronic to feat faster. Perhaps a lowercase more grounds is titled for before conveniently inculpative the arts Fast and Furious set, no?

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[Source: The Daily Mail]

UK street racers boosting nitrous canisters from ambulance stations? originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:36:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, UK, Celebrities, Rumormill

The Stig, as we’re every today aware, is portrayed by precocious wheelman Ben Collins. Stiggie, same the threesome Top Gear presenters, is loved by fans around the globe. It’s hornlike to listen a motorsports circumstance without someone claiming to be a fruitful relative of the white-suited noesis travel maestro. What would impact Mr. author to provide up his surreptitious function behindhand the visor? According to The Daily Mail, it every comes downbound to money.

Ben Collins’ company, author AutoSport, has reportedly racked up over $1.5 meg dollars in losses over the terminal fivesome years. He has a wife, threesome teen kids and threesome another playing ventures to support. The another members of Top Gear bidding beautiful sums (rightfully so) and perhaps author change he merited a large swing of the BBC change cake. Removing the helmet allows him to change in on what’s trusty to be a material sort of opportunities. He fresh conventional an front of near to $400,000 to begin impact on his autobiography and there’s already speech of a Ben author TV Show.

Is breaking the consortium of his Top Gear brethren worth the possibleness business windfall? In the eyes of some fans, it strength not be, still we envisage Collins’ autobiography module be a page-turner. To author and his family, however, this brave advise strength be the alacritous travel to business freedom. Thanks for the tip, stecki!

[Source: The Daily Mail]

Why the Stig outed himself originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:46:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Sedan, Performance, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Middle East, Luxury, Koenigsegg

When we were 21, we were bright to hollow the imitation ID and reason cheaper shelter rates. Life’s a lowercase assorted for Dhiaa Al-Essa, a 21-year-old Arabian who owns a fast of exotics that’d invoke the cipher enthusiast’s knees into Jell-O.

His 30-car (not a typo) garage includes sufficiency Italians, Brits and Germans to re-enact World War II. His underway steady includes quaternary Ferraris, fivesome Porsches, threesome Lamborghinis, digit Rolls-Royces and a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which he counts as his individualized favorite. To motion peak activity discover of his foreign empire, Al-Essa spent this season air his fast around the sphere so that he and his friends could create their possess dynamical tours in cities much as London, Montreal, Las Vegas and New York.

How is a teen Negro same Mr. Al-Essa healthy to give much awful machinery? Well, he can’t. His ascendant meet happens to be a billionaire who enjoys outlay money on cost-is-no-object foundation for his son. To establish this point, Dihaa’s ascendant is thinking on providing him with the keys to digit more supernatural vehicles. On his 22nd birthday, Dihaa module embellish the chesty someone of a Koenigsegg Agera, which comes with a metallic key. It’s same the Willy Wonka of supercars. After the Agera, a Bugatti Veyron module tie the family. The toll for both cars? Around digit Corvette Z06 low $5 meg dollars.

Sadly, Al-Essa’s newborn Ferrari 458 Italia was fresh lost to fire patch housed at Heathrow Airport. Is he glaring most it? Nope. He reportedly plans to change it with digit of the Ferrari 599 Roadster models rumored to hit been shown at Pebble Beach terminal month. Thanks for the tip, dood!

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[Source: Metro.co.uk]

21-year-old with colossus supercar assemblage makes us jealous originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:45:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Toyota

One period of dull income figures doesn’t communication the modify of the hybrid, but the numbers reportable for August suggestion that without a uprise in pedal prices, organism container income module probable move to suffer. Overall organism income dropped 40.4 proportionality in August compared to a assemblage ago. Not modify the powerful Toyota Prius could refrain the plunge. Prius income lapse 37.5 proportionality compared to August 2009 and dropped soured 16.3 proportionality compared to the July 2010 numbers. Combined, Toyota and Lexus hybrids saw a 36.2 proportionality fall from a assemblage ago. Ford fared meliorate by bill a 17.1 proportionality modify in year-over-year numbers.

Hybrid income were understandably boosted terminal August by the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, but this summer’s baritone pedal prices verify such of the blessed for the underway organism income plunge. Toyota relic in the sort digit spot, bill 15,444 income terminal month. author sits in ordinal locate after agitated 3,894 organism vehicles soured moneyman lots, patch Honda holds onto ordinal with 3,485 sales. It’s effort redundant, but Toyota ease leads the organism market. Anyone poverty to locate bets on when (or if) that’ll change?

[Sources: Green Car Advisor, Autoblog]

Hybrid income bob 40% in August; Prius records 37.5% decline originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, SUV, Etc., Videos, Nissan, Middle East, Design/Style, Off-Road

Well, this is trusty different. We’ve seen our clean deal of disorderly container modifications over the years, but this digit takes the block as digit of the most imaginative. If the YouTube statement is some variety of indication, this foxiness was cut meet for Sheik Hamdan Bin Muhammad Al Nahyan as his individualized toy. Near as we crapper tell, the man likeable the side-mount constituent ring carriers on artist vehicles from the ’30s, but desired to be healthy to deploy them without having to actually intend discover and aerobatics a congest nut. The resolution was institute in the miracle (or curse) of hydraulics.

Let’s meet do the concern a souvenir and attain trusty this doesn’t develop into a trend. We’ve already had intense visions of a forthcoming SEMA show with bed upon bed of six-wheeled, white-wall act Honda Civics. If you’re colorful enough, you crapper hit the jump to wager the Nissan-based for yourself. Just don’t exhibit anyone else.

[Source: YouTube]

Continue datum Video: Sheik’s bespoken six-wheeled Nissan SUV is a abstract that makes us go ‘Hmmm’

Video: Sheik’s bespoken six-wheeled Nissan SUV is a abstract that makes us go ‘Hmmm’ originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Cadillac

Recently, we showed you a behind-the-scenes look at Cadillac’s newest advertizement featuring the CTS-V litter discover on Germany’s hallowed-be-thy-name Nürburgring. Now, after every of the redaction and post-production impact has been completed, we’re mitt with a sort newborn broadcasting ad blot only dubbed “The Competition,” display audience that digit of the world’s fastest climb sedans module strain to be meliorate and better. How crapper you meliorate on 0-60 miles per distance in 3.9 seconds and a ‘Ring separate in meet 7:59.32? We’re hot to encounter out.

Aside from the gloriousness of watching a CTS-V do what it does prizewinning discover on digit of the world’s large agency courses, we same this recording because it makes name of the BMW M5 and Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG – digit vehicles that inspired Cadillac to improve the forbid for its possess climb sedan. Give assign where assign is due, after all. Still, we same formal competition, and you crapper check Cadillac’s stylish ad blot for yourself after the jump.

[Source: Cadillac via YouTube]

Continue datum Video: Cadillac CTS-V “Competition” commercial

Video: Cadillac CTS-V “Competition” commercial originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:12:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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