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Daimler AG terminated its contract with nearly 350 Dodge dealers last year to sell the Sprinter van, which has been sold by selected Freightliner dealers since 2001. Daimler Vans USA is now expanding the Sprinter model with the addition of a passenger van that seats up to 16 individuals, hoping to target hotel shuttle service, paratransit and other applications (a very big road-trip for your friends and family).

The vehicle will go on sale later this summer and can be ordered from Mercedes-Benz or Freightliner. Mercedes-Benz spokesman Dan Barile says that the company will offer four different interior configurations including a model with a wheelchair lift.

Power for the van will come from a 188-hp 3.0L turbocharged diesel V6.

Pricing will be announced closer to launch date.

– By: Kap Shah

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We just wanted to let you know that our videos site, egmCarTech Videos, looks pretty awesome on the new Apple iPad… so awesome that we recommend you make it a bookmark and keep it as your one-stop location for car related videos.

You can browse through hundreds of car videos and use your fingers to make them full-screen. You can also rate your favorite videos and all that good stuff.

If you have an iPad, make sure you visit http://videos.egmcartech.com and check it out.

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S-a lansat un nou concurs pe CeRecomand.ro !
Puteti castiga un sejur de 3 nopti pentru doua persoane, pe litoralul bulgaresc, la un hotel de 4 stele, cu all-inclusive si un telefon Dual-Sim Wind 3200 Glow !
Pentru a participa, trebuie doar sa uploadati sau sa trimiteti pe mail cea mai haioasa poza de vacanta pe care o aveti.

Regulile si informatiile de participare le gasiti aici : Concurs CeRecomand.ro.

Succes !

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The folks at AutoTrader announced today that the Chevrolet Camaro once again became the most-viewed new vehicle on the site. The site also reported that Hyundai’s new 2011 Sonata midsize sedan was the most-viewed new vehicle in its class for the first time ever, surpassing competitors that include Honda Accord, Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro.

“As the Camaro, Equinox, Sorento and Sonata all prove, hot new designs still are capable of drawing shopper attention on-line and in showrooms,” said AutoTrader.com President and CEO Chip Perry. “With most major automakers planning lots of new product to roll out during the course of 2010, consumers will have a lot to be excited about at their local dealership this year.”

Click here to get prices on the 2011 Hyundai Sonata.

Other big gains in vehicles came from a pair of crossovers – also from Chevrolet and the Hyundai/Kia group. Views of the Chevrolet Equinox were up 186 percent in views year-over-year, making it the most-viewed new vehicle in its class and the 8th most-viewed new vehicle overall. Views of the new Kia Sorent were up 268 percent year-over-year, making it the 2nd most-viewed compact crossover, and 20th overall among all vehicles.

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Evenimentul Zilei lanseaza o provocare : alegerea Orasului de Vis din Romania !
Orasele participante sunt urmatoarele : Arad, Bacau, Braila, Brasov, Bucuresti, Cluj Napoca, Constanta, Craiova, Galati, Iasi, Oradea, Pitesti, Ploiesti, Sibiu si Timisoara .

Criteriile de evaluare pentru alegerea orasului de vis sunt urmatoarele :
1. Vot popular – pondere finala din nota 50%
2. Evaluarea oraselor din partea vizitatorilor – pondere finala din nota 25%
3. Evaluarea oraselor evz.ro – fiecare oras a primit, din partea evz.ro, note pentru cele sapte categorii principale – pondere finala din nota 25%

Nota finala va fi calculata astfel : vor fi calculate pe baza votului de popularitate (50%), notele cititorului (25%) si nota evz.ro (25%).

Eu personal am fost in majoritatea oraselor. Brasovul, Clujul si Sibiul mi se par cele mai frumoase. Inca nu inteleg ce cauta Bucurestiul printre nominalizari. Poate are cineva o explicatie …
Eu l-as nominaliza la Orasul de Gunoi !

Mai multe detalii gasiti aici : Orasul de vis si desigur pagina despre Brasov.
Votati Brasovul !

Calendarul competitiei:

6.04-11.04 Arad
12.04-18.04 Bacau
19.04-25.04 Brasov
26.04-2.05 Braila
3.05-9.05 Cluj-Napoca
10.05-16.05 Constanta
17.05-23.05 Craiova
24.05-30.05 Galati
31.05-6.06 Iasi
7.06-13.06 Oradea
14.06-20.06 Piteşti
21.06-27.06 Ploieşti
28.06-4.07 Sibiu
5.07-11.07 Timisoara
12.07-25.07 Bucuresti
26.07-1.08 Anuntul castigatorului

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When will they learn? Apparently, one of the hot book series out there is the “Millennium Trilogy” by author Stieg Larsson. Apparently, the first couple of books have become incredibly popular in the US, but the third in the series has been released elsewhere, but not in the US yet. So, not surprisingly, many fans are ordering it from abroad. Most of the article is about the fans’ excitement for the book, and their demand for it:

“Once you know you can have it, once you know it exists in English and you can buy it, it would be crazy not to.”

But, the US publisher is quoted towards the end threatening those doing so, claiming it’s illegal:

“What I would say to readers is, I would encourage them to shop at their local bookseller here in the United States or their online bookseller in the United States, where no laws are being broken and you are supporting the continuing discovery of world literature.”

As the anonymous reader who submitted this story notes, rather than just reading this statement, you really should hear the audio version of what Paul Bogaards from publisher Knoph says, because it’s not fully conveyed in the written article. First, what he says in the audio version:

“Because it’s against the law. It’s a violation of copyright law.”

But you have to hear the sheer condescension in the tone. He says it as if he’s speaking to pre-schoolers, not huge fans of these books.

The problem here isn’t people violating copyright law, it’s Knopf not realizing that we live in a global world, and then failing to satisfy the needs of consumers, who are seeking alternative providers. It was a business model mistake on the part of Knopf, and insulting the biggest fans of the books doesn’t seem like the best way to handle the situation.

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Round three of the 2010 IndyCar season had the teams visiting Barber Motosports Park in Birmingham, Alabama for the first time. Well, technically the IZOD IndyCar Series was already here, as the track hosted the pre-season test sessions for the series. The 2010 Grand Prix of Alabama presented by Legacy Credit Union, however, was to be the first Indycar race held at the track.

Seeking to pick up where he left off in St. Petersburg, championship points leader, Will Power, was also aiming to set IndyCar history with the first ever three-for-three start to the season. If he managed to grab the checkered flag at the end of the race, Power would be the first to accomplish such a feat and would tie three other drivers for the most wins in a row in series history as well.

Power had already shown he could hold his own at Barber, claiming the fastest overall laps in testing and practice leading up to the race, so it didn’t look good for the competition. But would Power be able to claim the pole? Would he capture that third win in three races and set IndyCar history? Follow the jump to see how the race unfolded in Birmingham.

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General Motors announced earlier this month that it has decided to auction the first of the limited 500 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition models at Barrett-Jackson in Palm Beach. It turned out to be one of the best decisions ever.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Chevrolet Corvette.

The winning-bid came in at $297,000 and the winner will have the opportunity to watch the car going down the assembly line at the famed Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Ky.

What’s so special about the Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition? It’s basically a Z06 turned into a ZR1 without the sweet supercharged engine. So is it worth $297,000? Not in our books.

Click here for our original post on the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition.

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Article link Equilibrium Prevents Humans from Heating the Atmosphere by Gary Novak

It’s refreshing to see Gary Novak challenging climatology’s cherished assumptions (as usual), but I believe that more scrutiny should be cast on that minus 19° temperature in the first place. The premise of this widely-accepted estimate is flawed because, due to the 4th power relationship between irradiance and temperature, the average of one cannot agree with the average of the other. Consider, for instance, merely two spots on earth exposed to two different solar irradiances.

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The expanding family of Sony’s XDCAM EX video products now includes two shoulder-mount camcorders that deliver new levels of creativity and flexibility for solid-state digital production. The previously announced Sony PMW-350 2/3-inch CMOS memory camcorder is now available in a ½-inch version, the PMW-320.

“Since it was first introduced, Sony designed the XDCAM EX series to be flexible enough to grow and expand as our customers’ production needs change,” said Bob Ott, vice president, Sony Electronics’ broadcast and professional audio/video products business. “These new products redefine solid-state production, with improvements achieved in features, performance, and ergonomics.”

Both camcorders have three Exmor full HD 1920×1080 CMOS imagers, and are studio-configurable, with timecode in/out, genlock in, and HD-SDI and HDMI out. The PMW-350 camcorder features a DVCAM recording and playback as an option; with both features offered as standard on the PMW-320. Users can choose between the lens-packaged models, PMW-350K and PMW- 320K ($14,800), or versions without lenses, PMW-350L or PMW-320L ($12,800). To enhance editing interoperability with Sony’s XDCAM HD 422 camcorders, both the PMW-350 and PMW-320 camcorders feature 1440×1080 recording mode at 35Mbps.

General Motors is the largest foreign automaker in China and its local venture partners are on track to sell more than 2 million vehicles in the region this year, four years a head of schedule.

To keep the lead going, GM plans on introducing 25 new or updates models in China by the end of 2011. The new models will include the Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric-vehicle in 2011, the company said. GM also said that it plans on adding more hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric-vehicles within the next five years. It will also increase the use of turbochargers, direct-injection systems and improved aerodynamics to increase fuel efficiency of its products.

GM China sales were up 68 percent in March to 230,048 units, compared with U.S. sales of 188,546.

Last year, China overtook the U.S. as the world’s largest automaker driven by government incentives.

– By: Kap Shah

Source: BusinesWeek

Activision has expressed no surprise at the recently-announced deal between former Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West and publisher Electronic Arts. Not only that, they’ve also branded it as a result of the pair’s “improper

Some have wondered whether the forthcoming release of Wall Street II movie by Oliver Stone portends a market crash, considering that the last Wall Street was released right before the crash of 1987.

Actually, this line of reasoning understates the case.

There was actually another movie called Wall Street that came out in 1929. Of course, the market collapsed that year, too.

The release of the movie got pushed back to September, so we got a reprieve. But if history is any guide, we’re heading for trouble later this year.

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Before the Audi A1 made its world debut, the automaker named Justin Timberlake as its official ambassador for the upcoming compact luxury hatchback.

Well, it seems like Timberlake will be doing much more than just posing with the A1 in commercials. Audi today released a trailer of what it calls “The Next Big Thing,” a series of short films that also co-star Dania Ramirez.

lick here for more news on the Audi A1.

Refresher: The 2011 Audi A1 will go on sale in Europe later this year with prices starting around 16,000 euros ($22,062 USD). Power will come from a lineup of 4-cylinder engines, which consists of two TDI diesels and two TFSI gasoline units with output ranging from 84-hp to 122-hp. Mated to a 7-speed S tronic transmission, fuel-economy will range from 44 mpg and 62 mpg.

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It’s every driver’s nightmare: flashing blue and red lights in your rearview mirror. Speeding tickets can strike a blow to anyone’s day. While you pull away from the officer with your ticket in hand, you wonder, “Is going 10 or 15 miles per hour over the speed limit that big a deal?” or “How is much is my insurance going to go up now?” Thanks to our friends at autoinsurance.org, we have answers to those questions and many more in the infographic after the jump.

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We find ourselves very much attracted to the BMW M3 Sedan, however, many of you aren’t on the same page as us. So much so, that sluggish sales of the new BMW M3 Sedan has forced the German automaker to drop the variant when it comes time to develop the next-generation of the M3.

Apparently it doesn’t make sense for BMW to do an M3 Sedan seeing as sales have been somewhat disappointing and the cost involved with developing the variant to bring it to the market.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 BMW M3.

Nonetheless, all of you high-performance sedan lovers can hold out for a performance version of the next-generation four-door 3-Series – we hear it’s going to be something similar to the new 335is seen at the 2010 New York Auto Show. At least that will give the Audi S4 sedan a true competitor.

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Source: BimmerFile

It’s probably not the car you expect to tout a Nurburgring-Nordschleife circuit lap time but the Mini E today completed a lap of the “Green Hell” in 09:51.45. Known as the Mini E Race, a modified version of the electric-Cooper ran the famous German circuit and hit a top speed of 187 km/h (116 mph).

“The length and profile of the Nordschleife place extreme demands on the technology of our electric car. But the MINI E Race met this considerable challenge with great authority,” said the BMW Group’s Peter Krams, who headed up the project. “The aim of this unique undertaking was to provide an impressive showcase of the great potential of the MINI E and its environment-friendly drive concept.”

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Mini Cooper.

The Mini E Race was piloted by former DTM racing driver Thomas Jäger from Munich. “I’ve driven this circuit many times, but never in such an extraordinary car,” said Jäger, the MINI Challenge champion in 2006. “The power of the electric motor has an incredible effect, as you can access its full reserves of torque at all times. Another element of this fascinating experience is the lack of noise from the drivetrain. All in all, that was certainly the cleanest and quietest race lap I’ve ever driven.”

Click through for a video of the Mini E Race’s Nurburgring lap.

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Formula DRIFT is recognized as the North American professional drifting championship series. Autoblog has been invited behind-the-scenes with GSR Autosport, and their driver Michael Essa, as the team builds, tests and campaigns an all-new V10-powered BMW 350R during the 2010 racing season. This is the fourth installment in our series (see Part I, Part II and Part III) as we follow the team throughout the development, testing and race season.

The wail of BMW’s V10 bouncing off the limiter at redline is deafening – especially coming out of two straight pipes – so it’s unlikely that anyone heard the steel lower control arm on the front right of the 350R shatter. Michael Essa, manning the M5-powered 3 Series, certainly didn’t. The run had been going well, just like the ones before it, when all of a sudden the BMW unexpectedly snapped off its line and careened directly into the tire barrier at speed. The incident would wreak havoc on our debut weekend at Formula Drift.

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