PickupTrucks.com Preview: Duel in the Desert, Part 1

Source: PickupTrucks.com

For its next Shootout, PickupTrucks.com gathered two decorated off-road racers – the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor and the Ram Runner by Mopar — to compete head to head over a five-mile course in the Southern California desert. The folks at MadMedia helped cover ...
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TrueCar.com Identifies 10 Most Popular Cars for People Who Enjoy Racing/NASCAR

Source: Freshnews.com

-- Ford has five vehicles in the top 10 most popular cars for racing enthusiasts, including the F-150, Mustang, Fusion, Escape, and Edge. -- Chevrolet has two vehicles in the top 10 most popular cars for racing enthusiasts, the Silve ...
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New York Times: ‘Wichita,’ a Novel by Thad Ziolkowski

Source: Eastern Owyhee County District

The novel begins with Lewis’s return to his mother’s home in Wichita, Kan., from New York, where he has just graduated from Columbia. His pompous professor father, Virgil, expects him to attend graduate school, though Lewis is unsure of his next step. Hi ...
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TrueCar.com Identifies 10 Most Popular Cars for People Who Enjoy Racing/NASCAR

Source: Street Insider

SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Â Just in time for the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600, TrueCar.com, the authoritative voice in new car pricing and industry trend information, has identified the 10 Most Popular ...
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Looking For The Best Way To Get To The Track?

Source: WRTV Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS -- Race fans headed to the track Sunday are urged to follow signs and be patient as they make their way into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Indiana Department of Transportation, Indiana State Police and IMS have ...
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Canada's best-selling vehicles: Cruze stumbles, Chrysler 200 soars

Source: Globe and Mail

The compact Chevrolet Cruze has stumbled, and it’s a baffling development for more than a few wizened observers of the auto industry. Cruze sales were down nearly 17 per cent through the end of April, and th ...
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Twinning delays frustrate those who want their lifeline back (video)

Source: Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON - It has been called a death highway, a raceway and a lifeline to the oilsands. Alberta Provincial Highway No. 63, as it is more formally known, is all of those things. The mostly two-lane ribbon of asphalt skirts villages and h ...
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Farmers hit the jackpot in Kansas oil boom

Source: WTAE Pittsburgh

But instead of holding the winning lottery numbers, it's all about owning the right piece of land. In Harper County, Kan., and the surrounding areas along the south central border of the state, oil companies are pinpointing plots of land they think wil ...
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Long walk to honor fallen soldiers

Source: Omaha.com

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Gravel crunched beneath Michelle Benavidez's running shoes as she walked beside Railroad Highway outside Council Bluffs, more than 600 miles from where she started walking in Fort Carson, Colo., and more than ...
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