Mas Des Dames, Rose, Coteaux Du Languedoc 2009

Outside here in Minnesota it’s in the mid 20′s Fahrenheit with a thick snowpack. It is far from springtime here but a bit of spring can be had here inside a bottle of dry rosé. Every spring and summer I resolve to drink more rosé but for one reason or another rarely do. So I [...]

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Busch Wins Nationwide Race, Trails Martin by One on All-Time List

Kyle Busch celebrates winning the Royal Purple 200 with the No.18 team in Victory Lane at Darlington Raceway - Photo Credit: Geoff Burke/Getty Images for NASCARDARLINGTON, S.C. (May 6, 2011) ? One to go. With a convincing victory in Friday night’s Royal Purple 200 at Darlington Raceway, Kyle Busch scored his fifth Nationwide Series win...more»

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Ford encouraged by Fiesta?s pace

Ford team principal Malcolm Wilson has praised his team for what has been the Fiesta RS WRC's most competitive day in the World Rally Championship so far. A returning Jari-Matti Latvala posted fastest times on five of the day's six stages, only missing out on the clean sweep when he suffered a puncture on SS12.

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Car and Driver details ten years of Alfa Romeo delays

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Alfa Romeo U.S. launch delayed... again

Fiat has been talking seriously about bringing Alfa Romeo back to these shores since early 2000, making a decade of delays in the brand's relaunch. Most recently, the company's debut has been pushed back to sometime in 2013. To commemorate the anniversary of Fiat's colossal history of setbacks, Car and Driver put together a time table of the promised Alfa Romeo launch.

The story begins on March 27, 2000, when Fiat announced it had partnered with General Motors to bring Alfas to the States by 2003. The first delay came less than a year later, when Fiat and GM announced that Alfas would move through Cadillac and Saab dealers starting in 2005.

Obviously, none of that came even remotely true. In 2002, the relaunch got pushed back to 2007. In 2004, it was killed altogether. The Italians changed their minds again in 2005, going back to 2007 as the year of the Alfa. Need we go on? The promises, cancellations and delays have carried on this way through two wars, two presidents, an economic nosedive and the odd oil crisis thrown in for good measure.

At this point, we'd really like to believe that we'll see an attainable Alfa in the USA by 2013, but history makes the time table hard to believe. Head over to Car and Driver to see a full infographic of Fiat's waffling.

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