Auto News Roundup 9-08-09: Obama names new auto czar, Tata Motors first electric car set to launch

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-- Obama names Ron Bloom, a former United Steelworkers official, the new auto manufacturing czar. Edmunds

-- Officials set Sept. 30 as goal to pay dealers on clunkers. USA Today

-- First electric car from India’s Tata Motors reportedly nearing launch - in Norway. Edmunds/Green Car Advisor

-- Mazda captures Laguna Seca racetrack on Google Street View. Autoblog

-- Ferdinand Porsche or an unknown Jew? New book documents the father of the Volkswagen Beetle. Autoblog

-- Joni Gray