France's Sébastien Loeb claimed his sixth World Rally Championship title and 54th career victory with a win on the Rally Great Britain, the final round of the 2009 WRC season. While Loeb led from start to finish, he had to fight every inch of the way. Coming into the rally one point behind his only title rival, Ford's Mikko Hirvonen, the Citroën driver knew he had to finish ahead of the Finn to stand any chance of taking the title again.

Germany's Vitaphone Maserati team completed a perfect weekend in the FIA GT Championship finale at Zolder in Belgium, claiming the overall race win and the GT1-class drivers' crown.

NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) – South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co has had talks with Chrysler LLC owner Cerberus Capital Management about a potential acquisition of the U.S. automaker's Jeep brand and possibly other assets, people with knowledge of the talks said on Friday.

4BangN writes "Honda’s replacement for the NSX is still more than two years away but a number of key details about the car have been revealed by an inside source at Honda. According to the insider, the styling of the new car will be very similar to the Advanced Sports Car Concept from last year’s Detroit Auto Show and its future price tag will be around the $160,000 mark.

The car’s lines will favor efficiency over style, with much of the design derived from Honda’s F1 program. According to Edmunds, a prototype set a blistering Nurburgring lap time of 7m 37s on its first attempt and the final number should easily slip below 7m 30s and into Corvette ZR1 and Nissan GT-R territory."

kaioken writes "Mitsubishi Motors Corporation submitted to the Federation Internationale de L'automobile (FIA) papers on the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X (chassis type CZ4A) for Group N Official homologation, receiving that recognition on August 1st 2008.
The FIA Group N Official homologation number is "N-5718."

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