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Porsche uses phone-formatted bar codes to connect with customers

Porsche is harnessing the power of smartphones, using Microsoft Tag bar codes to provide dealership customers with unique information about the cars they're looking at. Buyers can scan the square stickers with a properly equipped phone, and the application will take them to dedicated microsites where they can see stats, videos and pictures of the car, along with audio clips of a flat-six engine revving up. Through the microsite, buyers can provide contact info for a follow-up call from Porsche salespeople.

Porsche 911 GT3 R (2010) first pictures

This is the Porsche 911 GT3 R, a hardcore racer powered by a 4.0-litre flat six and designed to compete in international FIA GT3 race series come 2010. Yes. First there was the GT3, then the more powerful and wider-bodied GT3 RS, and then a Cup race version of that car.

Peugeot Citroen to buy Mitsubishi

It's being reported that PSA (Peugeot Citroen) are to take control of Mitsubishi Car makers have been fighting hard to survive in the last year or so as the landscape for their products goes through the biggest sea change ever. Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne was quoted as saying that if car makers didn’t rationalise and merge then they would go under. He sees a car making landscape with a handful of huge car makers and a plethora of very small ones – nothing in between.