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Jimmie Johnson celebrates winning the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship on Nov. 16. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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Preview: L.A. Auto Show's Design Challenge
--By Colin Ryan, Special to the Los Angeles Times
A highlight of the L.A. Auto Show, happening November 21 through November 30, is the L.A. Design Challenge, in which competing car companies artistically render their most futuristic visions of what vehicles may be like 20 years hence. This year's contest theme is Motorsport in the Year 2025, which has given applicants plenty of scope to let their imaginations run wild.
Check out the full complement of nine contenders.
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The President-elect learned to drive in his grandfather's Ford Granada, which would have looked like this one. It may not have been his ideal learning tool. He told an Indianapolis radio station that "it may be the worst car that Detroit ever built. This thing was a tin can." (Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images and Courtesy of Ford Motor Company)
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WOKING, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 05: Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mclaren drives his car around the factory in celebration of his World Championship win at the Mclaren Technical Centre on November 5, 2008 in Woking, England. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)
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SEMA kicks off the auto show season with far-out ideas and things to come
Toyota Tundra CrewMax SR5 is quite a brute to begin with, but that doesn't mean it can't bulk up. Ask Two Brothers Custom Trucks in Springfield. It gave the beast a six-inch Stage 2 lift, 20-inch BMF S.O.T.A wheels, 37-inch Toyo Open Country M/T tires and graphics from Eye Kandy Designs in Baton Rouge, La. Steroid city.
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