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0Official: GM pumping $450M into Argentine plant for new model 1351353720
General Motors has announced that it will invest $450 million in its Rosario Automotive Complex in Argentina between 2013 and 2015. The cash will go toward tooling up for an all-new Chevrolet product to be exported globally. Details concerning what that new vehicle could be or where exactly it ...
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Video: Argentine driver Guido Falaschi killed in final lap crash 1321316940
Motorsports fans are mourning the passing of Guido Falaschi. The 22-year-old Argentine driver was killed Sunday during the last lap of Turismo Carretera when he lost control of his Ford Falcon touring car in an attempt to avoid a collision with a lapped racer. Falaschi's race car slid across a ...
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Report: Argentina forcing carmakers to export wine, peanuts and chicken feed 1320441300
Want to sell cars in Argentina? Be prepared to get into the wine business. Or the rice, peanut, chicken feed, biodiesel or bottled water businesses. Or anything else of value, really. Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (pictured above) has enacted a program to increase the ...
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Report: Stock car racing comes to.... Antarctica?! 1316813460
Argentina has apparently brought stock car racing to Antarctica for the very first time. The Asociacion Corredores Turismo Carretera recently teamed up with the Argentina Air Force and the interior ministry to bring one racer to the frozen continent. Hugo Mazzacane, vice president of the racing ...
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Official: Chevrolet Cobalt lives... in South America 1308343560
The Cobalt lives. Well, not here in the United States, where the Chevrolet Cruze has thankfully banished all memories of GM's last uncompetitive compact, but at least in Argentina. Alongside the Colorado Rally Concept, Chevrolet is displaying the Cobalt Concept you see here at the Buenos Aires ...
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Donto Motors P1 to take on Ariel Atom, KTM X-Bow 1283297160
Donto Motors P1 – Click above for high-res image galleryIf you've never heard of Argentina-based Donto Motors before, you're not alone. However, just because this company has remained out of the spotlight doesn't mean they don't have big things in the works – how about a hardcore ... -
Report: Dakar imposters busted with 800+ kilos of cocaine in faux rally truck 1271338260
Smugglers are, by nature, a crafty bunch. Slaves to the market forces of supply and demand, drug runners risk liberty and limb to pedal their life-ruining wares around the world. Doing so requires a healthy helping of creativity, so it should come as no surprise that an Ibiza-based drug ring ...
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Video: Standing water + train = car wash! 1267930800
Luckily, no one on the overpass appears to be driving a convertible - Click above to watch the video after the jumpWhat happens when you combine a flooded underpass, a traffic-jammed overpass, and a passenger train in Buenos Aires, Argentina? You get a real-life Six Flags water attraction. Those ... -
Volkswagen continues inscrutable naming practice with new Amarok pickup 1244127420
2008 Volkswagen Concept Pickup - Click above for a high-res galleryRemember when Volkswagen just named their cars for different winds? Scirocco, Jetta, Corrado, Santana – they all had a certain clean, sweeping quality about them, even if it wasn't immediately clear where the names came ... -
VIDEO: Sebastien Loeb does the Gymkhana dance 1240664460
Follow the jump to watch Sebastien Loeb demonstrate his talentsSebastien Loeb went to Argentina and did some dancing that wasn't the tango. The WRC champion performed a demonstration with his Citroen rally car that was reminiscent of gymkhana. Although it's a little repetitive and nowhere near as ...

