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Tragic day for Tesla Motors as three employees die in small plane crash

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Tesla Motors is a company that’s quite close to our hearts. Not least because they’re leading the way in ensuring that electric cars are fun, fast, and quite attractive, but mostly because the founder is a South African: Elon Musk. Anyway, he would have been woken up with pretty awful news this morning, as three of his mid level engineers were killed in a small aircraft accident yesterday. As Musk says: “Tesla is a small, tightly-knit company, and this is a tragic day for us.”

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Saab dies a sad and lonely death. Thanks, GM

Friday, December 18th, 2009
Another crest we'll miss.

Another crest we'll miss.

We’re getting a bit tired of the fact that American car companies and their shit management have stuffed things up for the rest of us. The latest casualty in the absolute carcopalypse that was set off by Lehman and his brother is Swedish car company Saab. After failing to sell the entire brand to Koenigsegg, GM went knocking on Spyker’s door. After some due diligence, Spyker told them to get lost.

I was never going to buy a Saab, probably. But the motoring landcape is a bit less interesting now that they’re gone. And we find that a bit sad.

Hit the jump for the full (and brief) press release.

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