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)
13 Apr 2010, 07:34 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / McLaren Automotive CEO, Ron Dennis, had some interesting words about the Bugatti Veyron when interviewed by the Arabian Business magazine. The legendary F1 supercar maker's boss let the world know his opinion about the most expensive car on sa...
13 Apr 2010, 07:03 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Russian artist Denis Simachev and a team of engineers from Russian tuning company Topcar have tackled the MINI Cooper S and have created two different spicy versions of the car. The two vehicles are equipped with a new "Bully" aerokit fro...
12 Apr 2010, 14:49 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Audi's sales in the United States are affected by shortage of cars in stock after the company recorded a strong first quarter, says the president of Audi of America, Johan de Nysschen. "We are short of everything," said the Audi ...
12 Apr 2010, 13:36 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / After five years of production, the smallest BMW on offer, the 1 Series, has reached its first million units mark. Available in four body variants, the 1 Series has achieved the production milestone in its first model generation. The anniversary...
12 Apr 2010, 13:04 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Opel is working hard to finalize the sporty variant of the Astra, the GSI, which will be available with both gasoline and diesel engines. While the gasoline GSI will fight the Volkswagen Golf GTI, the diesel Astra GSI will take on the Golf GTD. ...
12 Apr 2010, 12:06 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Shares in Geely Automobile Holdings, the listed arm of China's largest private carmaker Geely, fell over 5 percent after the company posted an 8 percent fall in earnings in the second half of 2009. Geely's parent company signed last month...
12 Apr 2010, 10:36 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / The world's most important motor shows take place in Europe (Geneva, Frankfurt, Paris), but when the New York International Auto Shows opens each year in April, European manufacturers make a logistic effort and send their new additions over th...
12 Apr 2010, 09:35 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Tesla Roadster will tour southeastern Europe this week in what will be the most significant leg of the 37,000-kilometer world tour that the electric car is currently undertaking. On April 13, the car will arrive in Budapest, the place where Nikola ...
12 Apr 2010, 08:03 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / The popular compact sedan made by Chevrolet has received an Irmscher treatment, meaning that the European tuning partner of the bow tie brand made a few cosmetic and performance upgrades to the budget car. The modifications were showcased at th...
12 Apr 2010, 07:07 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / The most powerful diesel BMW X5, the xDrive40d, was shown off at the Leipzig Auto Show for the first time. The facelifted X5 xDrive40d comes with BMW TwinPower Turbo Technology following the Variable Twin Turbo principle, where the small turbocharg...
9 Apr 2010, 14:53 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Renault and Nissan have signed an agreement to develop electric vehicle mobility with energy giants Enel and Endesa. The deal has been put in place yesterday in Paris in the presence of Fulvio Conti, CEO Enel, Patrick Pelata, Chief Operating Office...
9 Apr 2010, 13:43 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / China's passenger car sales rose 63 percent in March 2010, a growth fueled by strong demand as a consequence of tax cuts and government subsidies, reports the Associated Press. 1.26 million automobiles were sold on the Chinese market last mont...
9 Apr 2010, 12:58 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / German tuning company Carlsson, specialized in Mercedes-Benz, has surprised the aftermarket community by announcing it will premiere a French model at the Auto Mobil International Auto Show in Leipzig. The car chosen for the upgrade is the family s...
9 Apr 2010, 10:57 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Peugeot started strong this year in the United Kingdom, the French automaker reporting sales up 22.3 percent in March as compared to the same month last year and a 31.5 percent rise year-to-date. Peugeot's results came in a market that went up...
9 Apr 2010, 09:30 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / More than 6 million pickup trucks and SUVs produced by General Motors are under federal scrutiny for possible failures in the braking department caused by corrosion, reports the Automotive News. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
9 Apr 2010, 08:34 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Infiniti G series will receive a Mercedes-Benz engine following the agreement between Daimler AG and Renault-Nissan. The Automotive News reported the CEO of Renault-Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, said the Infiniti G will use a Mercedes-Benz inline four-cyli...
9 Apr 2010, 07:33 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Introduced last year, the MINI WC50, short for World Championship 50, is a limited edition model built by the official MINI powerhouse, John Cooper Works. The car features a unique Connaught green paint job and is fitted with exclusive equipment. ...
9 Apr 2010, 06:46 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / BMW announced the introduction of all-wheel drive system xDrive on its 7-Series based crossover, the 5 Series GranTurismo. The premiere of this new version will take place at the Beijing Auto Show, which will open its doors in a few days. The BM...
9 Apr 2010, 05:52 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Less than a month's time after a Tata Nano caught fire in Mumbai, another model was caught up in flames today. The car was part of 11 Tata Nanos being driven to a dealer in Makarpura, making it this year's second incident of this kind inv...
8 Apr 2010, 14:01 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Hyundai announced today that it had broken a commercial record in March 2010, selling 15,241 cars in the UK and setting the company's best monthly result ever. The previous best month was September 2009, when the Korean carmaker sold 11,031 un...