It’s the automaker’s second sale this year of antique and show cars as the company aims to cut its specialty fleet in half. ‘It costs a lot to house that many vehicles,’ says an official.
With the very survival of the nation’s largest carmaker in question, General Motors Corp. is selling pieces of its history.
This week, GM will auction about 100 of its prized antique and show cars to raise cash and trim warehousing costs. The company seeks to cut its specialty fleet by nearly half. It once numbered 1,000…Â Details
If you think the Ferrari Formula One car lining up for today’s Malaysian Grand Prix is the most technologically advanced machine to wear a prancing horse on its flanks, think again. This new 599XX, in some respects at least, makes even the most modern of racing cars seem backward.
What’s more, at £1.2m it’s worth not much less than an F1 car, and with 700bhp it’s not a lot less powerful. Its clever design is possible because, unlike an F1 car, the 599XX has been designed… Details
Jenson Button scorched to a second consecutive pole position yesterday, his impressive new Brawn consistently the fastest throughout the sessions, while Lewis Hamilton’s troubled weekend wasn’t eased by his failure to get his McLaren into the top-10 run-off.
For both men it was a first. Button has four previous poles but never scored two on the bounce. Likewise Hamilton has failed to graduate from Q2 before, but never twice in succession…Â Details
Helio Castroneves has a Team Penske IndyCar waiting for him whenever he puts his legal problems behind him.
The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and last year’s IndyCar Series runner-up is on trial in Miami on federal tax evasion charges that carry a potential of more than six years behind bars.
But team owner Roger Penske…Â Details