Euro Cars to Drink and Drive
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Plans are afoot for excess wine to be turned into ethanol for the European alternative fuel market -- but not in Italy where the fruit of the vine is sacred. By Bernhard Warner from Wired magazine.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Behold, with a microscope if necessary, the Smart car. The Mercedes-built European two-seater turns on half a dime, loves to park where even MINIs fear to fit, and is counterintuitively comfortable.
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Searching for G.P.S. models that fulfill three requirements that may keep a driver from grunting, panting and swearing.
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Before any law has been passed, carmakers are putting on stability control systems. They like their buyers alive. Rollovers are the safety curse of sport utility vehicles.
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By Nash, Steve  Biofuel's the thing, the new universal solvent, the energy elixir, the great wet hope. Your next car-or maybe the one after- could run on corn, or soybeans, or old pizza boxes.
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Bench the lawyers and bean-counters and bring in the engineers, says the UCS clean-vehicles research director on how Detroit could revamp the car industry. Plus: Renault's French Connection in Iran. In Autopia.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 6 (IPS) - Carmakers in Europe are missing their targets for  reducing the amount of greenhouse gases their vehicles release,  new data indicates.
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Business & money: Ethanol, methane or LPG? Too many fuels will put the brakes on EU emission cuts.
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Sebastian Vettel (Bmw), Rubens Barrichello (Honda), Takuma Sato (Super Aguri), Adrian Sutil (Spyker)...
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"The European Commission has let car makers drive away with a proposal that sets a weak, short-term standard ... and offers an open road to heavy, gas-guzzling vehicles"  Automobile manufacturers will have to limit car emissions in Europe by 2012 or face big fines, under proposals released Wednesday by the European Union. via MLive.com
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Europe's roads are long, dark and sleep-inducing. Mercedes-Benz wants to keep you awake and alive. In Gear Factor.
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Blog: Add carbon dioxide, water, heat. Serves cars.
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The company may be ready for EU CO2 emissions-cap regulations, but says its customers prefer upscale models with bigger engines. Those V-8s will be a challenge to cap. In Autopia.
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European carmakers bet America is ready for a radical new vehicle.
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Presenti Bertolaso, Cattaneo, Pescante, Petrucci, Tesauro
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Convicted drink drivers could get breathalysers in their cars in a range of new road laws to be brought in.
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Â· Crackdown on alcohol-related road deaths  Â· European safety figures show UK falling behind