http://auto.blogs.jajar.com New and Used Car Reviews Sat, 10 May 2008 16:24:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By ADAM COOPER Felipe Massa wheeled his Ferrari to the pole position for Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix. The race will be broadcast on the SpeedTV network, starting at 7:30 a.m. Eastern. Felipe Massa earned the pole position for the Turkish Grand Prix for the third year in a row with a strong ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/f1-massa-captures-pole-for-turkish-grand-prix/ Tony Stewart celebrates his Nationwide victory in Darlington on Friday night. Before this year Tony Stewart hadn't won on NASCAR's longest track at Talladega, Alabama, or on its oldest superspeedway at Darlington, South Carolina. In the span of three weeks, though, he's accomplished two of his long-time stock car goals. Stewart led ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/stewart-wins-crash-filled-nationwide-race/ By AL PEARCE Greg Biffle starts on the pole for Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Darlington, South Carolina. If the radio and TV commentators said it once, they said it oh, how about 42 times during Dodge Challenger Sprint Cup 500 qualifying on Friday afternoon at Darlington Raceway. That’s how ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/darlington-track-record-shattered-repeatedly/ Danica Patrick's car sends up spark during practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. News of the day Friday: Veteran crew member and former team co-owner Chuck Buckman appeared to have escaped serious injury Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway after being hit by Danica Patrick’s car on pit road during a caution ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/at-the-brickyard-crewman-injuried-by-patricks-car/ By GREG MIGLIORE The Cadillac CTS-V on its hot lap around the Nürburgring. Cadillac aims for the 2009 CTS-V to be the fastest production sedan in the world--and the goal is in sight after a prototype fitted with production components posted a sub-eight-minute lap time at Germany's famed Nürburgring track. The CTS-V lapped ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/cadillac-cts-v-blitzes-the-ring-in-75932/ By GREG MIGLIORE AND BOB GRITZINGER The Prancing Horse is doing a slow striptease of its new GT, the F149. Ferrari is revealing the much-anticipated sports car on a website that launched Friday, leading up to its introduction at the Paris motor show in October. The 2+2 coupe features a folding hardtop, ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/auto-erotic-ferrari-to-reveal-f149-a-little-bit-at-a-time-on-the-web/ By GREG MIGLIORE An MG TF from the 2002 model year. Plans to resurrect production of the MG TF appear to have new life--again. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., the Chinese owners of the storied British marque MG, said on Thursday, May 8, that production of the TF LE500 sports car would begin in ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/chinese-company-to-restart-mg-tf-production-2/ I have to give Henrik Fisker credit: The man ventured from the cosseting arms of Ford and its associated benefits to start a firm designing cars using the old-school, carrozzeria methods. Never mind that design houses such as Zagato had their heyday a generation ago. His move is the stuff ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/dutch-mandel-spy-vs-spy-designer-henrik-fisker-creates-some-karma-that-might-come-to-bite-him-in-the-backside/ By LUCA CIFERRI Fiat is currently eyeing Mexico as the location for a plant that would supply both North and South America, people familiar to the matter told Automotive News Europe this week. To cope with the weak dollar, Fiat needs production in North America after its Alfa Romeo brand returns in ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/fiat-eyes-mexico-to-serve-north-and-south-america/ By JAN TEGLER This Triumph 2000 Mk 2's original owner, a U.S. State Department worker, purchased it in the Bahamas. By the late 1970s, the 2000 was in Boston. But the left-hand-drive car's career came to an abrupt halt when the owner hit a pine tree. It sat for years until ... http://auto.blogs.jajar.com/2008/05/10/escape-roads-1970-triumph-2000-mk-2/