Posts Tagged ‘misunderstanding’
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
At a press conference in Japan today, Toyota CEO Katsuaki Watanabe finally confirmed that his company is jointly developing a pair of rear-wheel-drive sports cars with Subaru. Each brand will get its own version of the car, which will be powered by one of Subaru's boxer engines, though the engine's ......
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Hang around internet fora dedicated to increasing internal combustion performance long enough and you'll eventually run across this type of perpetual-motion misunderstanding. Seems a Vette 'boarder over at the GMModernMuscle Forum needs to study up on several principles before heading out half-cooke......
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
You can start the presses again. It was all a big misunderstanding. Autocar said that even though Audi hadn't admitted it, the RS4 sedan had ceased production. Don't know where their source came from, but Winding Road's source, from Audi Communications in the US, calms all of our nerves with a heart......
Tags: 2008, audi, bahn, fear, hadn, haggis, misunderstanding, models, nerves, RS4, RS6, winding road
Posted in Sedans/Saloons, audi | No Comments »
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
The independant review set up to study what went wrong in a controversial Consumer Reports test that found 10 out of 12 rear-facing child safety seats to be unsafe has concluded that a misunderstanding between the magazine and the lab caused the error.The misunderstanding apparently revolves around ......
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
We have pulled the story on the Porsche Carrera GT crash that was published on Tuesday, as we had received communications questioning its accuracy. We picked up the story after it had been featured on several internet outlets, including the EliseTalk forums, where our source, Mark Starr, had posted ......
Tags: accuracy, carrera gt, carrera gt crash, circumstances, crash site, element, internet outlets, mark starr, miscommunication, misunderstanding, photos, porsche, porsche carrera gt, third party, translation, veracity
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
UPDATE 1 - Commenter Jon (#23) weighs in with the following: " I work at a dealer. The info on the MKS Ford sent us online is all dated March/April 2006. I assumed it was old info, and wondered why it was sent out..." So now the question is this: Was there really a change of heart, where the V8 will......
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Thursday, former secretary of labor and current NPR Marketplace contributor Robert Reich claimed in an American Prospect Online article that he had been approached by a General Motors' public relations representative with a monetary offering, in exchange for the financial pundit's endorsement of GM'......
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