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In announcing that he will leave General Motors at the end of this year, product czar Bob Lutz bows out gracefully and elegantly and does it in the style that forged his legend. It’s also a move made none too soon and if not hastened by Beltway functionaries, then punctuated by it.

But make no mistake: Bob Lutz is not running from the fight engulfing Detroit and the rest of the automaking world. Lutz would as soon scrap with the Southern Read more…

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Alain Raymond always dreamed of owning a Fiat Abarth. He had owned its lowly cousin, a Fiat 600, while he was a student in Lebanon.

“It was a basket case. But anyway, it was my car,” he recalls.

Many years later, Raymond, an auto writer for La Presse, a French-language newspaper in Quebec, realized his Italian dream in Denver: a former racer driven by Umberto Toscano. “You can’t get any more Italian than that,” Read more…

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