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Drop in diesel fuel prices brings sharp rise in U.S. sales

The dramatic decline in diesel fuel prices is driving up U.S. sales of diesel-powered vehicles from European carmakers. Volkswagen dealers across the country say they can't get enough of the Jetta TDI sedan or station wagon.

Honda readies its jet airplane -- for real this time

Honda would like to remind you that while journalists have spent the last few years fretting whether the Big H has "lost its way," the company has quietly launched, shelved, resurrected, and all but waited out its plan to dominate the business-jet skies, which we are to assume are less friendly than United's. The HA-420 HondaJet has been kicking around for more than 10 years now, but the very first production-ready plane just rolled off the assembly line in Greensboro, N.C., this week -- and, Honda promises, the $4.5 million business jet should be delivered in the second quarter of next year. Honda began taking orders for the jet in 2006, but the long recession squashed the market for private jets.

Ferrari 458 Italia Grand Am hits Fiorano

Ferrari 458 Italia Grand Am It takes a bit of a leap of imagination to think of Ferrari competing in a more basic form of Motor Sport. But it is. No, Maranello hasn’t decided to go stock car racing, but it has decided it needs to enter the Ferrari 458 Italia in to the North American Grand Am Series.