GM's Chinese Year Kicks Off in Style
10 Feb 2011, 06:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not exactly the Chinese year (which started on February 3 and is called the Year of the Rabbit, by the way), but the fact did remains: GM's operations in China are off to a flying start in 2011...
Mercedes Starts the Year with 23 Percent Increase
3 Feb 2011, 13:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The good months of 2010 continue to make their presence felt this year as well, for the automotive industry in general and for German manufacturers in particular. For Mercedes-Benz too, the first mo...
Porsche Sales Explode in China in 2010
26 Jan 2011, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The awful year German sport car manufacturer had in 2009 is now behind it. Building on the newly found love it shares with the company it once tried to take over, Volkswagen, Porsche enjoyed enough ...
Audi to Boost Production
19 Jan 2011, 09:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Encouraged by the good results achieved last year, German car maker Audi now says it plans to boost production in the new year, mostly by adding new models to the production queue. In all, Audi will...
VW Tops 7 Million Units in 2010
12 Jan 2011, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As was the case with most of the world's manufacturers, 2010 proved to be a very friendly year. Most of them already posted record numbers for the year we left behind, announcing previously uni...
BMW Reports 2nd Best Year in History
10 Jan 2011, 12:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 2010 has been for the automotive industry, undoubtedly, a great year. Not only did the manufacturers recover from the fall registered a year earlier, but they also managed to climb to new heights, w...
Audi's Best Year Ever
8 Jan 2011, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At least one of the brands which are part of the Volkswagen Group is doing its best to fulfill the targets established for it by the mother company. Audi, because it is the topic of our discussion h...
19 Girls Cram into a smart for Guinness Record
20 Dec 2010, 11:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you are like us and can't let a single second go by without asking yourself how many girls can fit inside a smart fortwo, then we can put your mind at ease: the answer is 19. We have a sneak...
5 World Champions Grid to Break F1 Record in 2011
13 Dec 2010, 09:25 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / If the 2010 season of Formula One was truly breathtaking, with no less than 4 world champions battling for the F1 crown and the fight for the championship going to the wire until the last chequered ...
Audi Outsells 2008 by End of November
8 Dec 2010, 14:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The record sales figure registered by German manufacturer Audi in the entire 2008 has been surpassed this year with still one month to go, according to the sales figures released by the German car m...
Subaru US Sales, Another All-Time High
2 Dec 2010, 09:51 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Subaru has released monthly sales results and has broken its US record for annual sales, set last year. The company was the only brand to boost its sales on the US market for three years in a row, s...
China to Sell 18 Million Vehicles in 2010
30 Nov 2010, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The momentum gained by the Chinese automotive market last year is expected to have continued in 2010, with the country expected to post total auto sales at the end of the year of about 18 million ve...
Bajaj Builds 100,000 Bikes in a Month
27 Nov 2010, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Talk about a record... Indian bike manufacturer Bajaj broke all records at its Pantnagar plant in India this month by producing no less than 100,000 bikes. And it targets even more, as it already pl...
Honda Sets Asian Production Record
26 Nov 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The appetite the Asian continent has developed these past two years for automobiles is still causing a lot of excitement for foreign carmakers. Whereas, overall, the spoiled manufacturers in Asia (a...
UK Electric Car Land Speed Record Challenged
12 Nov 2010, 10:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As electric vehicles are getting a tighter and tighter grip on the automotive world, people willing to take these new machines to new levels of performance keep appearing. And what better way to dem...
EICMA 2010 Motorcycle Show Sets Attendance Record
9 Nov 2010, 18:07 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The 68th edition of the Milan Fair managed to achieve a impressive attendance figures this year, and autoevolution was there to witness it all. Despite the rainy weather, and a critical period for t...
Ford F-250 Reaches 1M Miles in Four Years
27 Oct 2010, 05:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Talk about a guy with a huge love for the open road... We've seen incredible numbers on the odometers before, but we are used to associate those big numbers with several years of travel. That&#...
Human-Powered Ornithopter Takes to the Sky
24 Sep 2010, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / How many of you, our readers, know what an ornithopter is? No, it's not a trick question and we don't want to offend anyone, but we thought of asking because, we must admit, not may of us ...
Bad Habit Breaks Monster Truck Jump Record
9 Sep 2010, 14:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's official, Big Foot has been outclassed. The iconic truck which for about eight years was synonymous with the longest jump ever performed by a monster truck has been sent to the history boo...
The Fastest Piece of Furniture in the World
7 Sep 2010, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Perry Watkins is a guy with a taste for humor and a lot of spare time on his hands. The 47-year old from Wingrave managed to put all that spare time and humor to good use and broke the speed record ...