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August 27, 2009. Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it is launching a recall of roughly 95,700 Toyota and Scion-brand vehicles in the U.S. due to a possible brake malfunction.

August 26, 2009. I know we are all about cars, but you have to check out these yachts.

August 25, 2009. General Motors Co. is dropping the GM logo on its cars and trucks.

August 25, 2009. Volkswagen has issued a recall for 16,000 Volkswagen and Audi vehicles manufactured between September 2008 and August 2009.

August 25, 2009. Two Chinese joint-ventures set up by Japanese auto giant Toyota Tuesday began a recall of 688,314 vehicles due to malfunctioning windows caused by auto part defects.

August 22, 2009. Mercedes Benz has reportedly dropped plans to market natural gas-fuelled vehicles in India because it feels its high-status owners would not want to rub shoulders with auto-rickshaws and taxis at petrol stations.

August 22, 2009. The departure of Jim Press as deputy chief executive at Chrysler Group LLC marks the end of the old guard from the old Chrysler.

August 21, 2009. The vehicles most often ticketed by law enforcement here in the United States are more run-of-the-mill than race car.

August 21, 2009. Germany has said it would be prepared to give a 4.5bn euros ($6.4bn: £3.9bn) loan to carmaker Opel if its favoured suitor is chosen to take over the firm.

August 21, 2009. Volkswagen of America is recalling 13,500 vehicles to fix problems with a dual-clutch transmission that could lead to a warning on the dashboard.

August 21, 2009. German prosecutors, armed with judicial search warrants, raided the administrative headquarters of luxury carmaker Porsche in Stuttgart, Germany, yesterday, on suspicion of market manipulation of Volkswagen (VW) shares in 2008.

August 20, 2009. This exercise in graphic information by Chris Yates is partially applying subway map style semiotics to the Interstate System, and partially illustrating the central arteries of the country. It is also neat-o to look at.

16"x20" lovely, high-resolution archival prints on 35lb. coated matte paper, Edition of 1000, signed and numbered.

August 17, 2009. Five misconceptions about charging infrastructure for electric cars from the folks at the Plug-In 2009 conference.

August 17, 2009. Chrysler Group LLC is planning to build the Fiat 500 small car at a plant in Mexico, according to a report published Monday.

August 16, 2009. RHJ International says its still in the race, despite Magna's suggestion on Thursday that it had struck a deal.

August 16, 2009. Volvo engineers have launched a bid to buy the loss-making Swedish automaker from US giant Ford to stop it from falling into Chinese hands.

August 16, 2009. Qatar Holding has announced it will acquire a 17 per cent stake in Volkswagen AG, which is merging with Porsche, in a $11.88 billion deal.

August 13, 2009. Under new Chairman Ed Whitacre, GM's board is demanding real results and growth from CEO Fritz Henderson.

August 10, 2009. A cool set of 94 dingbats Designed by Cadson Demak Pi and available at T26.

August 9, 2009. Edmunds renders the concept rumored for months to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show.

August 9, 2009. Jay Leno uses 3D gadgets to replace obsolete parts in his car collection.

August 7, 2009. Magna International Inc., the Canadian auto parts giant that is bidding for General Motors' European Opel business, said Friday it lost US$205 million in the second quarter.

August 6, 2009. GM finished reshuffling its senior management Thursday.

August 6, 2009. SsangYong managment has decided to go ahead and liquidate some assets and fire 37% of the company.

August 5, 2009. Dealers get what they ask for, but are running out of money.

August 1, 2009. The U.S. House beefed up the wildly popular "Cash for Clunkers" initiative on Friday, adding $2 billion to the program.

August 1, 2009. Japan's domestic vehicle production in the first half of 2009 plunged 45.2 percent from a year earlier due to the global financial crisis.

July 31, 2009. ATX is currently demonstrating its innovative, speech-enabled texting service.

July 31, 2009. German luxury automaker Audi AG said Friday its earnings for the first six months of the year fell 25 percent as sales slipped nearly 10 percent but, unlike most of its peers, it remained profitable.

July 30, 2009. These rust and scratch stickers are designed to make your beautiful bike/car look rusted and scratched so that passing thieves assume it's not worth stealing.