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SEMA Pasadena: Public show in SoCal raises money for charity

Though we weren't at the very first SEMA show 42 years ago at the National Guard Armory in Los Angeles, the inaugural SEMA Cares Show and Shine last weekend must have been a lot like that first show four decades ago. SEMA Cares was held in the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California. Organizers sold out all 155 spots for cool cars and all 25 booth spaces for vendors.

New Honda CEO to focus on R&D

Takanobu Ito, newly named as the next president and CEO of Honda Motor Co., will redouble the company's focus on research as it grapples with a global market meltdown. Honda presidents traditionally cut their teeth at the automaker's cherished development subsidiary, Honda R&D Co. Ltd.

Top Gear in Lucca with Citroen DS3 Racing, Fiat 500C Abarth and Renault Clio RS

The TG boys in the Piazza in Lucca Lucca is considered by those who know it to be Tuscany’s best kept secret. With its 16th century walls all round the town, delightful piazzas and medieval centre it is all a picture-book Tuscan town should be. In fact, even though few know it well Henry James said of Lucca that it is “overflowing with everything that makes for ease, for plenty, for beauty, for interest and good example”.