Monthly Archives: June 2014

Megane RenaultSport Snatches Back Nurburgring Record

While the official Nürburgring lap record for road legal cars belongs to Porsche 918 Spyder with a time under 7 minutes, there is another hot category for front-wheel drive cars that for a while belonged to Renault Megane Trophy with a time of 8:07.9.

US Lawmakers to ask Mary Barra can she fix GM

FILE - In this file combination made from file photos, General Motors CEO Mary Barra testifies before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, left, and former U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on April 20, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barra and Valukas will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight subcommittee on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Charles Dharapak, File)

That’s likely to be the underlying theme of many of the questions thrown at the automaker’s CEO when she’s in front of Congress for a second time Wednesday. A House subcommittee is investigating GM’s mishandled recall of millions of small cars for a deadly defect in ignition switches.

Theophilus Chin renders Fiat 128 Sport Coupe successor

Theophilus Chin renders Fiat 128 Sport Coupe successor

Do you remember the classic Fiat 128 Sport Coupe, manufactured between 1971-1975?

Opel reaches severance deal with workers at Bochum, Germany, plant

Opel reaches severance deal with workers at Bochum, Germany, plant

Opel has reached a severance deal with workers at its Bochum factory in Germany, a crucial step in the General Motors unit’s restructuring to return to profitability.

Pancontinental says first oil discovered offshore Kenya

Pancontinental says first oil discovered offshore Kenya

Australia-based Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL says it has verified that its recently completed Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has intersected an oil column—the first such discovered off the East African coast.