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Daimler's largest single investor Aabar is selling off a third of its holdings in the company. Aabar is Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund. It purchased about 9% of Daimler in March 2009 to make it the company's largest single inve...

Sign agreement with mass market vehicle as soon as 2017

As we reported on Friday, Mercedes is delaying its fuel cell B-Class that was originally meant to be on sale by 2015 because current fuel cell technology is too expensive. There was speculation that Daimler and its technological partner Renault-Ni...

Carlos Sainz has started in best form his title defense at the Dakar 2011 after winning the first stage of the mythical rally, being held fro the third year in a row in South America. The Spaniard driving for Volksvagen in a Touareg was the quickest...

A Chinese Great Wall truck led the first stage

The 2014 Dakar Rally kicked off on January 5 with a 180km (111.8 miles) special stage running from Rosario, Argentina, to San Luis, Argentina. Portuguese driver Carlos Sousa led the first day in his Great Wall Haval truck and beat three driver...

Taking place for the fourth time in South America, the 2012 edition of the Dakar Rally will be traveling for the first time to Peru, besides the familiar terrain of Argentina and Chile. The unveiling of the 2012 route confirms that South America wil...

This might be a second year without a Bahrain GP. Protests for democratic reform in Bahrain are now including protests against the Formula 1 grand prix there that is scheduled for April 20-22. Police have attacked protesters and killed at least on...

New teams bring new responsibilities

Damon Hill predicts that Lewis Hamilton will have to become a leader among the team at Mercedes to be world champion. The 1996 Formula 1 Drivers' World Champion believes that his career is similar to Hamilton. He raced and won for Williams...

They beat the previous record set last year

A group of 16 dancers from New Zealand have broken the previous Guinness World Record for number of people in a Smart Fortwo. The previous record was set in 2012 in Vienna, Austria, when 15 crammed themselves into a Fortwo.  The latest re...

MINI WRC Team has confirmed Dani Sordo as the second pilot that will be driving the team’s car in the 2011 FIA World Rally Championship. The Spaniard will be joining Kris Meeke (GB) in the return of MINI to the rallies. “There has been a...

Dani Sordo has signed with the Citroën WRC team for the 2013 season to bring him back to the team for the first time since 2010. For the last two seasons Sordo has been driving for the MinI WRC team, which will not participate as a factory ef...