After several years of slumping sales and a reduction in models on offer, Isuzu has finally decided to pack it in and leave the U.S. market. Support will continue for existing vehicles, and those sold through the January 31, 2009 cut-off date.Currently Isuzu’s model line consists of Ascender SUVs and its i-series pickup trucks. In 1999, Isuzu sales peaked at 103,629 vehicles. Since then, sales have dropped precipitously - just 7,098 vehicles were sold in 2007, a 93% decline, reports Bloomberg. Isuzu is the first Asian car maker to leave the U.S. market since Daewoo’s bankruptcy in 2002.

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Corporate Express has announced that it will be one of the first U.S. companies to test an Isuzu hybrid delivery truck for its operations. The model will be a current Isuzu truck in which Enova Systems will retrofit their HybridPower drive system. The truck is expected to be completed in April 2008 and will be used in Los Angeles, CA.

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For Vietnam veteran Marlin Newburn, a simple rule will apply when he votes in Michigan's Republican presidential primary: No weak-on-defense moderates need apply.

"There are people in this world who are evil, always have been," said Newburn, 59, an Auburn Hills psychologist. "And there are appeasers in this country who want to pretend it's not so."

For Newburn and many other voters, even in economy-conscious Michigan, Iraq and terrorism are major concerns.

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NEW YORK Audi will be an advertiser on Fox's broadcast of Super Bowl XLII. Toyota, which advertised during this year's game in February, will also return.

Audi will feature the sporty R8 roadster in a 60-second spot that will air during the first quarter.

"We are going to keep our cards close to the vest until Super Bowl day actually arrives, because I think we have a dramatic message," Scott Keogh, CMO of Audi of America, said. "I don't see any benefit to let this concept out of the bottle at this stage.

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Exotic Soviet military snow vehicles, and some civilian and scientific applications of these machines.

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