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On this day April 8

2005 — MG Rover Group is placed in receivership

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Bentley makes the world's fastest lorries.

-Ettore Bugatti

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The Holden VE Commodore is the fourteenth and current model of the Holden Commodore, a full-size car produced by the Australian subsidiary of General Motors, Holden.

The car was officially presented at a media launch in Melbourne on July 16, 2006, which was viewable live on the internet. With a sales debut on August 14, 2006, it is the first Commodore to be entirely designed and engineered in Australia. All previous generations from the original VB Commodore had been based on European sourced platforms from Opel that had been enlarged and adapted for the local market. With Opel deciding to discontinue the Opel Omega in 2003, Holden had no choice but to go with a clean-sheet approach. (more...)

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1975 Chevrolet Corvette convertible

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Aston Martin sold

March 12, 2007
Ford Motor Company confirmed today its sale of Aston Martin to a group led by David Richards. The sale, valued at £475 millon (US$925 million), will be completed in the second quarter and Ford will retain a £40 million (US$77 million) stake in the company. (more)

On this day April 8

April 8: Easter in Christianity (2007); Hanamatsuri in Japan.

217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla (bust pictured) was assassinated at a roadside near Harran.
1904 - France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale.
1904 - Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema.
1904 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York was renamed Times Square.
1929 - Indian independence movement: In response to the British Empire's Defence of India Act which gave more power to the police, Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh with the help of Batukeshwar Dutt bombed the Central Assembly in Delhi.
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I hereby award Sfoskett this Workingman's Barnstar for his work in adding images and info to exotic car articles. Nrbelex ^(talk) 05:18, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hereby I award you the Chair HKDRT in lieu of the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar, as I find it more relevant :D
- Bravada

I'm known as sfoskett or pedxing almost everywhere. The former is my real name, the latter is a standard login taken from Max Headroom. I was made a Wikipedia admin in 2005.

My Wikipedia articles tend to stick to the following topics: