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To save cash, Fisker lays off workers during DOE loan negotiations

The 2012 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid. (Credit: Fisker Automotive) Fisker Automotive has laid off workers as it tries to unlock more money from the $529 million Department of Energy loan it's using to produce its vehicles. So far, Fisker has received $193 million to build its plug-in hybrid sports car and retool a former GM plant in Wilmington, Del. scheduled to open this year. But Uncle Same has ...

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Fisker lays off workers during DOE loan negotiations

The 2012 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid (Credit: Fisker Automotive) Fisker Automotive has laid off workers as it tries to unlock more of the $529 million Department of Energy loan it's using to produce its vehicles. So far, Fisker has received $193 million to build its plug-in hybrid sports car and retool a former GM plant in Wilmington, Del., scheduled to open this year. But Uncle Sam has put away ...

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BMW Family Activity Sports Tourer

There are plenty of spy shots of new BMWs around, but this set are of the firm's first front-wheel-drive model in over 50 years. This is the BMW FAST, which stands for Family Activity Sports Tourer. The name is BMW's code for the first car in a range of front-drive models it's planning.

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Oklahoma sports milestones: Videos or dirt car racing at Taft Stadium and State Fair Speedway posted on YouTube

Film was converted to DVD and posted to the web. It includes five decades of videos, beginning in the 1950s.

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Porsche Introduces a Brawnier Boxster for 2013

The long-running two-seat sports car receives a more heavily muscled body and slightly more powerful engines.

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