And Bourdais, a four-time winner of the US-based Champ Car series, admitted his relief at finally securing the drive.
Following their decision to withdraw from Formula 1, BMW will now focus on the touring car series, Formula BMW and the American Le Mans series.
Apart from his cinematic fame, Dempsey has earned attention for his driving performances in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series in a Mazda GT car and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).
Now, Duno is determined to become the first Latin woman to compete in NASCAR, the major U.S. stock car racing series.
According to CNW Marketing Research, an Oregon-based firm that analyzes the auto industry, it is a positive sign for the economy when BMW dealers notice that a lot of their shoppers start out looking for a 3 series car, but end up buying the more luxurious 5-series.
Daytona, the season's kickoff extravaganza, marks the race-day debut of Nascar's "Gen-6" Sprint Cup car, the series's most innovative overhaul since 2007.
But GM recently announced that because of slow sales it will stop production this month of the L-Series car, which was meant to be Saturn's bread and butter, earlier than planned.
The track at Sonoma will also host the first U.S. FIA World Touring Car Championship, AutoGP World Series and the United States Touring Car Championship in a busy motor sports weekend.
This week it unveiled a prototype version of its 7-Series saloon car that has a hydrogen-powered engine.
At a meeting in May 2011, Mr Coats allegedly took the BMW Series 3 car Mr Burns was driving, which belonged to his brother.
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As a result, the Japanese car maker has sought a series of financial bailouts.
The 3-Series is the top-selling luxury car in the U.S. BMW sold almost 99, 000 3-Series sedans, coupes, and wagons last year, up more than 6 percent from 2011.
It's the fastest, most expensive, most powerful series-production road car ever built and, believe me, if the VW guys wanted to turn up the wick, we could see a 300-mph Veyron.
People would still buy the BMW 3 series today even if the car came out of the gate with a name like Utopian Turtletop.
In later years, Winner also directed and starred in a series of commercials for a car insurance company featuring the catchphrase: "Calm down dear!"
"The Great American Race" also proved an impressive debut for Nascar's new "Gen 6" Sprint Cup car, the most innovative overhaul the series has seen since 2007.
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It said the city council was considering an application "to make a series of significant improvements to car parking and access arrangements" at the site and there was a public consultation period until 21 March.
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He is trying the same re-branding technique with the open-wheel racing series, which reunified with Champ Car in 2008.
And that they'll be free to make a series of decisions as a new car company in a new auto world.
The man who appears in an irritating series of adverts for a Japanese car manufacturer will delight his sponsors if he gets through.
Significantly, the LS 430--like the Infiniti Q45 and BMW 7 Series--is a luxury car intended to be driven by its owner, not as an executive limousine.
The multi-car crash occurred near the end of the Nationwide Series Drive4COPD 300 race at the same Florida track where Sunday's Daytona 500 will be held.
He will be highly vulnerable: Mr Kadyrov's assassination was only the latest in a series of attacks, among them a car-bomb in December 2002 that destroyed the Chechen government headquarters in Grozny.
And Cadillac injected its athletic car lineage into the fold by sponsoring the V-Series Challenge presented by Metro Detroit Cadillac Dealers.
Lucas Oil also sponsors some car races, including the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, and has a track in Missouri.
He was sent a lap down by Kyle on lap 279 and was part of a three-car dustup about 20 laps later that also involved defending series champion Brad Keselowski and Casey Mears.
After racing the full 2007 Champ Car schedule, he was looking for work when the series merged with IndyCar in 2008 and ended up competing in the American Le Mans Series and was 14 seconds short of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011.
Using a series of sensors, cameras and servos the car is able to turn the steering wheel plus activate the throttle and the shifter to navigate across this stretch of road, relying on the road markings painted on the floor to both keep it driving in a straight line and to have it stop, respectfully, at the crosswalk.
The recall affects various versions of its 1-Series and 3-Series cars, as well as the Z4 sports car.
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