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Fiat Announces Range-Topping Freemont Park Avenue for Paris
Fiat Announces Range-Topping Freemont Park Avenue for Paris

19 Sep 2012, 09:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat Freemont has been surprisingly successful, despite being based on an American car, it has sold in consistent numbers in Europe, as well. Now, Fiat have announced that they will be revealing...

 
Volkswagen Reveals Amarok Canyon Special Edition
Volkswagen Reveals Amarok Canyon Special Edition

19 Sep 2012, 08:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / At last year’s Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen showed off a special concept version of their Amarok pick-up, called the ‘Canyon’. Now, they have translated that concept into a specia...

 
Volvo Shows Off New V40 Cross Country Ahead of Paris
Volvo Shows Off New V40 Cross Country Ahead of Paris

19 Sep 2012, 07:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the XC60 and XC90 being so successful, Volvo was bound to want to enter the compact crossover market, as well. They have thus jacked up the all-new V40 hatchback, to create the V40 Cross Countr...

 
Alfa Romeo May Give Giulia and 4C V6 Power
Alfa Romeo May Give Giulia and 4C V6 Power

18 Sep 2012, 13:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While most manufacturers are downsizing their engine lineups, most eloquent among them is Volvo, which will be offering the all-new XC90 only with 2.0-liter and sub-2.0-liter engines. However, Fiat ...

 
Luxury Automakers - Stop Trying to Copy the Germans
Luxury Automakers - Stop Trying to Copy the Germans

18 Sep 2012, 12:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The two best and most appreciated (and mainstream) luxury automakers are Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and everybody else is trying to a certain extent to steal the formula for what makes them so successfu...

 
Skoda Announces Best August Sales Ever
Skoda Announces Best August Sales Ever

17 Sep 2012, 13:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With 67,700 units delivered in one month and an increase of 12.1 percent over the previous year. there’s little surprise that Czech carmaker Skoda is reporting its best August sales in the com...

 
Hyundai i30 Three-Door Revealed ahead of Paris
Hyundai i30 Three-Door Revealed ahead of Paris

15 Sep 2012, 15:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You can never have too many Korean three-door hatchbacks! Just a couple of days after the Kia Pro_Cee’d was revealed, the sister brand came out with the three-door version of the i30 hatchback...

 
Luc Donckerwolke Now in Charge of Bentley Design Division
Luc Donckerwolke Now in Charge of Bentley Design Division

13 Sep 2012, 12:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Belgian designer Luc Donckerwolke has been appointed as the new Director of Design, at Bentley, where he replaced Dirk van Braeckel who moved to a similar position for VW. Donckerwolke, 47, leaves h...

 
GM Cutting 1,000 Administrative Jobs at Opel
GM Cutting 1,000 Administrative Jobs at Opel

13 Sep 2012, 08:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Opel isn’t doing very well, and GM knows it. The American giant is planning on reducing the number of administrative jobs by as much as 30%, in their Russelsheim headquarters, in Germany. This...

 
Caterham Releases Teaser Upcoming Supercharged Offering
Caterham Releases Teaser Upcoming Supercharged Offering

12 Sep 2012, 15:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Caterham have just released a teaser for an upcoming car, regarding which, they say that “Britain’s most exciting racing series just became supercharged.” It is expected to be the ...

 
Akrapovic Exhaust Makes Porsche 997 GT3 Sound So Much Better!
Akrapovic Exhaust Makes Porsche 997 GT3 Sound So Much Better!

12 Sep 2012, 14:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Porsche 911 (997) GT3 is one of the most track-focused road cars available from a mainstream manufacturer. It features a 3.8-liter flat-six engine which is not aided by any sort of forced induct...

 
Owner Takes Ferrari F40 to the Car Wash in Monaco
Owner Takes Ferrari F40 to the Car Wash in Monaco

12 Sep 2012, 14:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / A great-looking Ferrari F40 with Russian plates was recently spotted in Monaco by Worldsupercars, and it was shot just as the owner was starting it up, in order to take it to the car wash - it was r...

 
Renault 5 GT Turbo - The original Pocket Rocket
Renault 5 GT Turbo - The original Pocket Rocket

12 Sep 2012, 14:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Renault 5 (R5) is one of Renault’s true success stories, managing to sell a whopping 5.5-million units in its 24-year life cycle, from 1972 to 1996. However, it wasn’t the regular ve...

 
Peugeot Shows Off Facelifted RCZ in New Official Photos
Peugeot Shows Off Facelifted RCZ in New Official Photos

12 Sep 2012, 07:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The RCZ is one of Peugeot’s best design efforts ever. Despite not having any real experience in the field of sleek and good looking coupes, we say they nailed it with the RCZ. Now, it’s ...

 
Spyshots: Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell Spotted in Silver
Spyshots: Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell Spotted in Silver

11 Sep 2012, 15:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With its launch right around the corner, which should take place in ‘late 2012’, the Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell was recently spotted in what looks to be production form undergoing testing ...

 
Porsche Announces New Model for Paris Along With 20.8% August Sales Increase
Porsche Announces New Model for Paris Along With 20.8% August Sales Increase

11 Sep 2012, 12:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With a record 10,912 cars sold in August (20.8% over numbers from August of 2011), and a total of 92,474 units sold so far in 2012 (15% increase over the same period of 2011), Porsche sales are goin...

 
The Very Popular Front-Wheel Driven Renault 12
The Very Popular Front-Wheel Driven Renault 12

10 Sep 2012, 16:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back in 1965, Renault began looking into building a new model to better bridge the niche left wide open between the small ‘8’, and the larger, more luxurious ‘16’. The plan w...

 
Triumph Announces UK Pricing for Trophy 1200
Triumph Announces UK Pricing for Trophy 1200

10 Sep 2012, 14:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Triumph recently unveiled the new Trophy 1200, a bike which aims to take the fight to BMW, in a market sector dominated by the German brand. It features a 1,251 cc three-pot motor which pumps out an...

 
Kia Cee’d Sportswagon Goes on Sale in UK
Kia Cee’d Sportswagon Goes on Sale in UK

10 Sep 2012, 13:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The first generation of Kia’s oddly-named Cee’d was a very big hit in Europe, where people appreciated its honest build quality, excellent diesel engines, great warranty, good practicali...

 
Mercedes-Benz Details B200 Natural Gas Drive Ahead of Paris Debut
Mercedes-Benz Details B200 Natural Gas Drive Ahead of Paris Debut

10 Sep 2012, 12:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mercedes-Benz have just released new information on their B200 Natural Gas Drive, which is basically a petrol-powered B200 which will be factory-converted to run on natural gas. It has a 156 hp engi...