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On this day March 11

1885 — Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver and multiple land and water speed record holder, is born.

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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.

—Ernest Hemingway

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The Mitsubishi i (三菱・i, Mitsubishi i^?) is a kei car from Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors, first released on January 24, 2006. It debuted twenty eight months after its introduction as a concept car at the 60th Frankfurt Motor Show in 2003, and its innovative "rear midship" layout proved an immediate critical and commercial success, exceeding Mitsubishi's initial sales targets by 20 percent and winning four major awards in its first year.

Explaining the choice of name, the company claimed that "i" could represent the owner (I, the nominative personal pronoun) as an encouragement to personal expression, or innovation, intelligence and imagination, keywords in the car's development. It is also a play on the Japanese word for love, pronounced /aɪ/. (more...)

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1969 Plymouth Barracuda

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200S will come to Detroit

2012-1-4 , The new Chrysler 200s will make its official debut at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. The 200S is a Chrysler 200 that MOPAR has given a new body kit to. The kit includes a large chin spoiler, some new trim for the fog lights and grill, some black chrome 200 badges, 18 inch alloys, a new trunk lid spoiler and coil-over suspension that helps lower the cars center of gravity.

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On this day March 11

March 11: Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)

1879 – Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, abdicated when the kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.
1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops.
1966 – Indonesian President Sukarno (pictured) was forced to sign the Presidential Order Supersemar, giving Suharto the authority to take whatever measures he deemed necessary to restore order during the Indonesian killings.
1993 – Janet Reno was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first female Attorney General of the United States.
2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.

More anniversaries: March 10 – March 11 – March 12

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For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
originated by Pedia-I
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I hereby award Sfoskett this Workingman's Barnstar for his work in adding images and info to exotic car articles. Nrbelex ^(talk) 05:18, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hereby I award you the Chair HKDRT in lieu of the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar, as I find it more relevant :D
- Bravada

I'm known as sfoskett or pedxing almost everywhere. The former is my real name, the latter is a standard login taken from Max Headroom. I was made a Wikipedia admin in 2005.

Disclosure:

I work for myself at Foskett Services, and help organize the community at Gestalt IT
I also write for IT industry publications and speak at industry conferences

My Wikipedia articles tend to stick to the following topics: