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Tanner Foust joins Cobb Tuning for Foust Edition Ford Focus ST

Professional wheelman Tanner Foust is teaming up with Cobb Tuning to create the Tanner Foust Edition Ford Focus ST. The car will go on sale later this year. Loosely based on the concept unveiled at the SEMA show in November, the car will be upgraded with a custom ECU calibration -- by Cobb, of course -- and an intercooler, intake, exhaust and suspension components.

Lamborghini LP550-2 – the Balboni Video

Video of the Lamborghini LP550-2 Valention Balboni The LP550-2 features a unique colour scheme, with a big stripe right up the middle of the car – echoed on the interior trim – but more importantly the Lp550-2 is set up to be a real driver’s car, with rear wheel drive replacing the LP560-4′s four wheel drive. The LP550-2 Balboni has now been launched at dealerships throughout the world – including here in the UK – and Lamborghini has seen fit to produce an ‘Advertorial’ for the LP550. It features almost five minutes of the LP550 and Valentino Balboni, and is worth the watch.

GM Europe weeks from running out of cash

By Phil McNamara Motor Industry 03 March 2009 19:03 GM Europe will run out of cash ‘early in the second quarter’ of 2009, unless the divison secures $3.3bn in funding from European governments. Speaking today (Tuesday 3 March), GM chief operating officer Fritz Henderson revealed that insolvency loomed, due to the plunge in European car sales and GM’s liquidity crisis in North America. He ruled out a swift cash injection from private investors, saying that no talks had taken place and that lengthy negotiations and due diligence would take too long.