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Small is beautiful: Japan's hand-made electric cars (AFP via Yahoo! News)
While auto manufacturing giants spend millions to develop environmentally-friendly electric cars, one Japanese company has taken a more low-key approach, crafting hand-made "green" cars.

Seven cars worth £150,000 stolen (BBC News)
Seven cars worth about £150,000 are stolen overnight from an Arnold Clark dealership in Aberdeen.

Lada will be branded on Renault's F1 cars (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Lada will have its branding on Renault's Formula One cars this season. The deal was announced Thursday as the French team heads into the new season with F1's first-ever Russian driver, Vitaly Petrov, partnering Polish driver Robert Kubica.

Parked cars hit in chain-reaction crash (Orange County Register)
YORBA LINDA – A man driving a Saab caused a chain-reaction crash involving three parked cars on Lakeview Avenue and Laurel View Drive this morning, police said. Orange County Fire Authority firefighters were dispatched to the crash, reported at...

More new cars driving away with five-star safety rating (Brisbane Times)
The number of new cars achieving maximum safety ratings is increasing, according to a list of all vehicles crash-tested in Australia and Europe last year.

Senator on Toyota: Should U.S. consider ban on Japanese cars? (USA Today)
A U.S. Senator said Tuesday that the U.S. should consider banning Japanese-made cars until Japan's government guarantees the vehicles have no defects.

Ghosn Predicts Imminent Demand Surge for Electric Cars, FT Says (Bloomberg)
March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Demand for both electric cars and lithium ion batteries to power them is likely to be such that manufacturers will be installing capacity as a matter of urgency within two years, according to Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive officer of Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co., the Financial Times reported.

Thefts from unlocked cars reported in Tatamy (The Express-Times)
So far, police have taken a dozen reports of cars that were entered, police said.