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Aston Martin Rapide storms the desert

If you asked last month what the greatest invention in the history of the world was, we would not have said fire or the wheel or the Wright brothers' airplane. We'd have told you it was air conditioning. Because last month, we were in Kuwait, a place so hot that even the Kuwaitis--who probably have the best air conditioners on the planet--get the hell out of Kuwait in the summertime.

Video paints fantasy picture for Nissan Juke

WITH VIDEO -- Nissan Canada is reaching out to the video-gamer crowd to tout its Juke small crossover. The company is running a series of video episodes on YouTube with the common theme of "Urban Legend." We know this after getting an e-mail--which may or may not be part of a cloaked marketing effort--that points us to the latest video. The Juke, which uses Nissan's global small-car platform and has a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, is arriving in showrooms now.

Mazda sells 10 millionth car in America

The first car Mazda ever sold in America was the R100, a cute lil' two-door fastback that was, unsurprisingly, rotary-powered. The year was 1970. Iggy Pop had made that much explicitly clear with "1970." Just imagine how weird it must have been for Americans to wrap their minds around some tiny Japanese upstart, selling a car approximately the size of a 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham's wheelwell, powered by -- what's this, German technology?