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    Video: Are these the most epic diesel-powered burnouts ever?
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    Here in the States, we generally think of diesel-powered vehicles in one of two ways. First, there are the gigantor pickups with their loud and burly turbodiesel engines. Second, there are the diesel fuel misers, such as Volkswagen's stable of TDI mobiles. In Europe, though, nearly every car is ...

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    Subaru Legacy that spent 3 months at bottom of Finnish lake starts on first try
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    "Ja, that ice'll hold ya." Until it didn't, and suddenly a man's 1996 Legacy wagon was at the bottom of a shallow lake in Finland. Three months later, the Subaru wagon was dragged from its freshwater slumber, and while most people would just write the car off or at most turn it into a parts ...

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    Report: Lotus-Renault won't let Kimi Raikkonen contest Rally Finland
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    The Formula One team formerly known as Renault and currently racing under the Lotus banner is still feeling the absence of its star driver Robert Kubica. The Polish driver, as you may recall, was severely injured when he crashed his Skoda Fabia S2000 in a rally in Italy two years ago. And now the ...

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    Video: World's fastest slot car race is oddly mesmerizing
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    The Finnish aren't known for their high-energy personas, and we thought it might be because they save their adrenaline dumps for rally cars and snowmobiles. Turns out they also like to let their slot cars showcase hidden Type A personalities. At a place called Autorataharrastajat ry, some very ...

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    Report: JJ Lehto sentenced to jail for speedboat crash
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    You'd think that a professional driver's skills would be universal. You'd also think that the rules regarding drinking and driving would apply the same to the water as they would to the road. But as it turns out neither is necessarily the case. The point is driven home by the conviction in ...

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    Bentley sets new land ice speed record
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    Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible shatters ice speed record – Click above for high-res image gallery
    The Baltic Sea, sitting off the coast of Finland, is a white wasteland of ice and snow during the winter portion of the calendar. Local hero Juha Kankkunen, a four-time World ...

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    VIDEO: Ten minutes of rally crashes devoid of butt-rock soundtrack
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    Finns crashing with pure engine sounds - Click above to watch the video
    It's often said that the Finns are drunk and walk around carrying axes the best rally drivers in the world. There's been lots of speculation as to why. Some say it's their relative isolation -- large distances between places ...

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    VIDEO: Finnish Him: Nordic authorities' harpoon chase-ender amazingly never approved
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    Finnish police car chase harpoon -- Click above to watch video
    The place is Finland. The car is a Mercedes 300 wagon. The place is Finland. The protrusion, like the figurehead adorning Ahab's Pequod, is a harpoon. Instead of catching whales, however, this harpoon was reportedly to be used to ...

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    VIDEO: Russian WRC driver nearly flips Citroen C4 in Finland
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    Evgeny Novikov's Citroen C4 in action - click above to watch video
    Oh, my. Talk about a moment filled with more chutzpah than skill. In this short but nonetheless heart-pounding video, Russian rally driver Evgeny Novikov takes a jump at full tilt and nearly backflips his Citroën C4. The ...

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    Porsche to move Cayman & Boxster production from Finland to Austria
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    Click for a hi-res gallery of Porsche production in Finland Porsche has announced that production of its Boxster and Cayman models is to shift to component supplier Magna Steyr's facility in Austria beginning in 2012. Last year the contract with Finland's Valmet to assemble the two associated ...

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