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One Lap of the Web: Catch Dodge Fever, Zagato and Joe Isuzu: a retrospective

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- Robert Tate takes a look at the Dodge “Fever” campaign at motorcities.org and gives us a bit of background on the “Fever Girl” Joan Parker.

McLaren & Lewis Hamilton Merry Christmas Video

A Merry Christmas form McLaren, Vodafone and Lewis Hamilton Much past today – Boxing Day in the UK – and we’ll be hard pushed to run anything that has a real Christmas theme. Mind you, that won’t stop us if the story’s interesting or fun. Yesterday we did the usual roundup of Car Christmas Cards, but we didn’t give you a Christmas video.

Stop-Start Freelander on the way

Land Rover has announced that it will be introducing stop-start technology on its Freelander range from May 2009, thus saving around 8% on the Co2 emissions, and taking the Freelander down a group on VED, which should help move a few more Freelanders off forecourts next year. The technology for the stop-start was developed in-house, with a new engine management system coming from Bosch and an uprated starter from Denso. The stop-start option will be available on the 2.2 TD4, which accounts for nearly half of UK sales.