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What's a dog-and-pony show without some kind of award? At this year's LA Auto Show they'll be awarding Green Car Journal 's fourth Green Car of the Year Award to one of five finalists. The competitors this year are the yet-to-be-unveiled 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, the BMW 335d , Saturn Vue 2-Mode Hybrid , Smart Fortwo and Volkswagen Jetta TDI . The winner will be announced at a November 20th press conference, and we know which one we'll be pulling for - the 2010 Ford Mustang . Complete details, if you're into that kind of thing, below. GREEN CAR JOURNAL'S TOP 5 FOR 2009™ ANNOUNCED – ONE TO BE NAMED 2009 GREEN CAR OF THE YEAR® AT LOS ANGELES AUTO SHOW Winner to be Unveiled at a Nov. 20 Press Conference LOS ANGELES – Oct. 30, 2008 — Green Car Journal's Top 5 for 2009™ – the year's best-of-the-best 'green' vehicles - have been identified by the magazine's editors. These vehicles are the five finalists competing for the Green Car Journal's 2009...
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As big fans of the Alfa Romeo Alfetta , this New York Times profile of one abandoned Alfa in Brooklyn has touched us. Owned by a Romanian immigrant who passed away, the worn 1975 Alfetta should have been towed away after a few parking tickets because alternate side of the street parking in NYC is strictly enforced. Miraculously, an angel of Italian metal let the owner expire just days before those rules were temporarily suspended, allowing the car to live on just a bit longer. The rules were reinstated and parking tickets have accrued on the lone Alfa but, for reasons only explainable by priests or mystics (or negligent city services), the rusted Alfetta still lives on Plaza Street West. (Thanks to Tony for the tip) [ NYTimes , Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times]
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Hey, remember that rumor from Automotive News about the 2010 Nissan Maxima Diesel getting a stick and nothing else? According to Motive , Nissan engineers have told them that, for now, the Maxima will likely only come in automatic form... but that they could throw in a manual. It looks like the answer to our question about carmakers building cars Jalopnik wants is a little more definitive. Still, we're excited about the prospect of an affordable diesel sedan from Japan available here in the US. [ Motive ]
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Any list of great WWII films is going to include Casablanca , From Here To Eternity or The Longest Day . All great films and deserving of placement on such a list. But there's one film that sticks out in our mind today. Written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, The Third Man explores the tenuous environment in post-war Vienna, which was split into zones managed by the French, Russians British and Americans. In addition to an exciting mystery and noirish love story, the film is also an exploration of the nature of morality and allegiance in a vacuum. This is best typified by Orson Welles' famous soliloquy which includes this passage: "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." I think you see where we're...
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