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Volkswagen acquires Italdesign-Giugiaro

The Volkswagen Group and Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A. today announced the next step in their successful cooperation. The Volkswagen Group will take a 90.1 percent stake in Italdesign, including the brand name rights and patents.

Ford Focus RS confirmed

By First Official Pictures 17 December 2007 12:46 The on-again, off-again Ford Focus RS is now definitely on again. During a press event at the Race of Champions last night, Ford officially announced that a ‘no-compromise RS model’ would go on sale in 2009. And if you can’t wait that long then Ford has released this teaser picture of what the car could look like.

SoCal Speed shop wins AMBR award as hod-rodding returns to its roots

In a competition that "took hot-rodding back to its SoCal roots," the SoCal Speed Shop--the entity founded by original hot-rod hero Alex Xydias and now helmed by Pete Chapouris--finally won the AMBR. That's AMBR, as in, America's Most Beautiful Roadster, the most sought-after title in all of hot-rodding and the crowning glory of the Grand National Roadster Show. There is that competition at the Detroit Autorama that hands out the Ridler Award, but that is open to all manner of kustom kars.