With a starting price of €80,183 (VAT included) and with the launching date set for August this year, the new Porsche Panamera Diesel promises remarkable performance with optimized fuel consumption and great driving range figures. Under the bonnet, the Germans prepared a 3.0-liter unit producing 247 horsepower and 550 Nm of torque. Until now, there are not many reasons to...
Originally unveiled in preparation for the Milan Motorcycle Show it seemed like the BMW Scooter Concept would disappear into the pages of history pretty fast. As it happens, that's not the case, especially since the Bavarians are have much bigger plans for this electric two wheeler. A previous conceptual creation of BMW's Motorrad division, we're now getting to the point...
After a recent announcement about how Ford just as GM and Chrysler aren't going to be coming to the Tokyo Motor Show, we just got word of a special gift the Blue Oval's luxury division is cooking up. Lincoln is rumored to be pondering a Los Angeles Auto Show stand that will be filled by one of their concepts, a...
Remember that time about a couple of years ago when most of Detroit was on fire and everybody in America was out of money? Well actually, Detroit has been on fire for the last couple of decades and the focus back then was on how this town's car makers were all bankrupt. Since then, Ford's sales and profit went through...
The French people from Peugeot proudly announced that the EX1 concept revealed last year at Paris managed to get the fastest lap time on Nurburgring. Of course, the French electric model got the first place in the electric cars battle with a time of 9:01.338 which is about 50 seconds faster than the previous electric model with the fastest lap...
The new Carte Blanche book written by Jeffery Deaver will benefit from a special edition developed by the British from Bentley. The novel starring James Bond is well-known by the fans of the series and this edition can't be missed as will be available in just 500 examples. The most important component is the aluminum case with the shape of...
Starting today, the senior vice president office within Mazda U.S. Operations Group will have a new name written on the door, Robert Davis' one. Mazda North America appointed Robert Davis to this position in order to have somebody more competent oversee the "Group" and all the actions the Japanese will need to see it have done. At his new position,...
Even though Ford has been pretty much keeping a lid on actual sales figures they've been managing lately, it's clear these aren't small. We got our first hints from the Ford F-150 EcoBoost sales rushing up and from the Fiesta being top seller in Europe but somehow that didn't seem substantiated enough. With the Americans still not being too clear...
Here's another of those very few occurrences when we all get to feel like the automotive industry is nothing more than a manufacturing political party. After previously ending a press conference at the New York Auto Show that focused on the BMW ActiveE on a negative tone, Jim O'Donnel came forward with a public apology on the matter. Having originally...
For some time now we knew that the Koreans were doing pretty well financially but the latest of sales figures proof just how much we might be underestimating Kia. Hard figures suggest that Kia's accountants drew the line at a total profit of $890 million for the first three months of 2011. Given the 465.9 million USD they managed in...
