302 ARTICLES
"When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting." (Steve McQueen's character from the Le Mans movie, 1971)
22 Apr 2010, 07:49 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Chrysler Group will play a decisive role in Fiat’s plans to revive the Alfa Romeo brand, Automotive News announces. Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne made a strong commitment to the group’s troubled sporty brand during a presentation of Fiat...
22 Apr 2010, 07:06 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Volkswagen has taken the wraps of its facelifted Phaeton luxury sedan, which will be unveiled next week at the Beijing Auto Show (27th April to 2nd May). Volkswagen relies on the Chinese market to sell most of the production, since the largest auto...
21 Apr 2010, 14:34 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Ferrari has revealed it will produce six new models before 2013 as part of Fiat's restructuring plans that were announced today. The six new models include a successor for the Ferrari Enzo hypercar and a hardcore version of the 458, like the 4...
21 Apr 2010, 13:56 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Like the 911 GT3, which received a facelift last year, its "crazier" sister, the GT2, is about to be redesigned too. The car that Jeremy Clarkson described as “terrifying” will be officially introduced at the Paris Motor Show ...
21 Apr 2010, 12:57 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Aston Martin is preparing the facelift of its smallest model, the V8 Vantage, and we now have some spy photos showing the new model during testing - thankfully, the car wore very little disguise. The car photographed is the roadster version and ...
21 Apr 2010, 11:02 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Mazda Motor Europe ended a challenging fiscal year last month (April 2009 through March 2010), 14 countries achieving year-on-year growth in difficult market conditions. The company published the sales results for March 2010 and the prospects are p...
21 Apr 2010, 10:22 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Audi has decided to bring the RS5 coupe to the United States as well, according to Inside Line. A product marketing contact from Quattro GmbH, the high performance division that builds the RS models, confirmed the decision. "We have voted o...
21 Apr 2010, 09:13 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Launched at this year’s New York International Auto Show, the Magentis mid-size saloon will spawn wagon and coupe versions as well, Autocar reveals. The Korean automaker plans to bring the car to Europe, where it would compete with establishe...
21 Apr 2010, 08:19 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / German tuning specialist Hamann Motorsport has released its new design and performance kit for the BMW Z4. Internally known as “E89”, the complete treatment for the German roadster touches both aesthetics and performance. The aerodyn...
21 Apr 2010, 07:14 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Auto supplier Magna International Inc. plans to invest nearly $50 million in four projects in Michigan, which will create approximately 508 jobs within five years, according to Automotive News. The Canadian company, the largest automotive supplier ...
20 Apr 2010, 15:06 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Fortune Magazine released its annual Fortune 500 list of top-grossing companies in the U.S., and Wal-Mart reigns supreme after coming in second place last year. But what interests auto enthusiasts is to see how the U.S. most important carmakers ran...
20 Apr 2010, 14:19 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Fiat issued a press release today announcing that Luca Cordero di Montezemolo will resign from his position of Fiat group chairman. He will announce the resignation personally, during a press conference that will be held later this afternoon. The p...
20 Apr 2010, 13:09 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Fiat chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo is expected to quit the Italian automaker’s top management position to go into politics, three sources close to the company disclosed to the Automotive News Europe. Montezemolo is allegedly quitting t...
20 Apr 2010, 10:51 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Subaru plans to boost production capacity at its Indiana-based assembly plant by 40 percent this year, due to booming demand for the Outback wagon and the Legacy sedan. Fuji Heavy Industries, owner of the Subaru brand, targets U.S. sales of 230,...
20 Apr 2010, 09:55 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / GM’s Opel/Vauxhall unit has agreed a deal with unions to shut down the company’s plant from Antwerp, Belgium, according to the Automotive News. GM had announced since January that it would close the factory as part of a restructuring pl...
20 Apr 2010, 09:12 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Volkswagen Golf has been dethroned from the top spot of Europe’s best sold car by the Ford Fiesta in the first three months of this year, according to JATO Dynamics, world leader in automotive industry data. In March 2010, Ford sold 68,630...
20 Apr 2010, 08:00 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / The upcoming Beijing Auto Show will host the world premiere of the Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Break Concept, as the German company has revealed. Although it is labelled as a concept car, the CLS Shooting Break previews in many ways the second-ge...
20 Apr 2010, 07:06 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / BMW has slowed production at its U.S. plant in South Carolina because of the flight restrictions in Europe due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland. The ash spread over Europe's skies interrupted BMW's air deliveries of transmissions, anno...
19 Apr 2010, 15:28 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / After three years of production, Honda has announced it would stop selling the third-generation Civic Type R sedan at the end of August 2010. The car was being manufactured at the company’s Suzuka factory in Japan, exclusively for the local m...
19 Apr 2010, 14:17 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Volkswagen has announced it will launch its first production electric vehicles in 2013. Until then, the German automaker showed today, at the debut of the Hannover Trade Show (April 19-23), its idea of an emissions-free taxi. The world premiere ...