(Reuters) – Jose Fernandez made a triumphant return after more than a year out with injury when he hit a solo home run and pitched a winning game for the Miami Marlins on Thursday. “I was kind of joking around today, saying, ‘I’m going to try to hit it out’,” Fernandez told reporters.
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– The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has cleared the final legal hurdle to its imposition of Nissan’s NV200 as the city’s predominant yellow cab, ending a journey that began in 2011, when Nissan won the $1 billion contract to supply the vehicles. – A group of taxi owners had challenged the Commission’s authority to mandate the NV200 for use as a NYC taxi. Currently, 47 different models
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– Very few nameplates have been around as long as this magazine. The Camaro wasn’t there at the very beginning, but, having made its debut in 1967, it’s still one of the oldest model names on sale today. And when it celebrates its own milestone of 50 years in 2017, the Camaro will have a useful emblem with which to mark the occasion: this all-new sixth-generation car. READ MORE ››
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– From the July 2015 issue – Our Gearbox section was formalized in 2008, but we’ve been doing reviews of automotive accessories and upgrades since the Sports Cars Illustrated days. The progress that’s taken place over our 60-year history hasn’t spared the gadget, and we’ve occasionally been there to chronicle in-car technology’s relentless march forward (or backward). Here are some of the automotive breakthroughs we’ve held in our hot little
– We’ve been hearing about Ferrari films for years, and now it seems there is another one vying to get made. – Back in April, Robert De Niro confirmed he was set to portray Enzo Ferrari in a forthcoming biopic about Il Commendatore. Shortly afterward, Michael Mann announced a competing and as-yet untitled Ferrari film reportedly based on Brock Yates’s book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races. – Now
– BMW’s hydrogen strategy is starting to take shape. The company has been working on hydrogen-powered cars since 1984, but for a long time the focus remained on the internal combustion engine. The efforts, first shown in a 7-series in the mid 1980s, culminated in 2006 in the V-12-powered Hydrogen 7. Now the company has switched to a different tack. – – While those early vehicles were fun to drive,