March 28, 2024
Chevrolet Muscle Cars

Corvette becomes a Chevrolet once again

Yes, I am aware of the peculiar factor to be found within the title but the fact remains true. No recent Corvette bears the name anywhere on it. If you look at the Corvette badge you will still be able to spot the traditional bowtie does appear on the twin-flag badge, but that’s about all.

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Audi BMW Fiat Mercedes Toyota VW

Engine of the year results

The 2010 International Engine of the Year awards seen an end to proceedings and in that end there were ten different engines being honored in 11 categories, plus an overall winner chosen. The engines were rated by a jury of automotive journalists from around the world had the difficult task of rating the engines and

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Ford

5 special edition Ford Focus RS

The already tasty Ford Focus RS just got a bit of extra spice added to the recipe as Ford of France has just released five 5 special edition Focus RS Le Mans editions. These variants of the Ford Focus RS are called Le Mans edition because they pay tribute to the Blue Oval’s heritage at

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BMW Mini

Life Ball event sees the Mini get a makeover from the fashion world

The biggest HIV/AIDS charity event in Europe isn’t very far away as it is scheduled to take place in Vienna on 17th July 2010 and within the program there will be a raffle with profits being sent of to funds for the cause at hand. The winners of this raffle will be getting a pretty

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McLaren

50% of the MP4-12C buyers will be European

Well, at least that’s what McLaren is telling us about their expectations from their latest supecar, the MP4-12C’s clientele. The statement according to which 50% of the demand for the McLaren MP4-12C is going to come from Europe belongs to Antony Sheriff McLaren Automotive Managing Director.

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Cadillac General Motors

General Motors will be ending Northstar V8 production this summer

The official stamp has gone on this much discussed, rumored and speculated issue of the fate of GM’s Northstar V8 engine. That stamp reads “terminated!”, well, not quite, but it’s almost there as when this summer is gone so will the engine.

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Acura Honda

Honda introduces new engine for 2011 LMP2 race cars

The Automobile Club de l’Ouest announced revised technical regulations that will go into effect for the 2011 season and the current LMP1 and LMP2 classes will be combined into a single class based on the current P2 regulations but with smaller racing engines. The new rules also imply the creation of a new P2 class

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Mini

A seven seater version of the Mini Countryman?

Some reports say that this is not just a random thought but a fact on one of the next projects BMW have undertaken at Mini. With a seven seat layout in mind i’m expecting the car to grow quite a lot but officials have found a way to say it will be slightly bigger.

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Lexus Toyota

The Lexus LFA is sold out

Skeptics, among who I count myself, looked at the Lexus LFA and said Toyota have definitely lost its mind to do such a thing as the car is definitely not worth the asking price. We were wrong, we were badly wrong, Toyota have just announced that it has already booked orders and taken down payments

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Lotus

Lotus is killing off the Europa

The Lotus Europa has been marketed as a bigger softer Elise but it never really picked up sales. Maybe perhaps because people who want a Lotus aren’t big fans of practicality. And then the Norfolk based company launched the Evora which is a truly practical car the Europa pretty much bombed when it came to

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McLaren

McLaren announces dealers for the new supercar

2011 will be the year when the new McLaren Supercar, the MP4-12C, goes on sale worldwide and while there isn’t much more to be known about it, the company has just announced it’s initial network of dealers. The launch will see 35 retailers the new 2011 McLaren MP4-12C but, according to McLaren the network is

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Ford

2011 Ford Fiesta EPA rating best in class

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed testing the 2011 Ford Fiesta and has officially announced that the new compact Ford Motor Company will be selling in the U.S. after amazing success in Europe will hit 40 mpg highway, making it the most fuel-efficient car in its class. With this in mind, and with the

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Lancia

Lancia Delta Special Edition going on sale in Europe

Lancia is a brand of great tradition that is slowly dying on a small shelve in the back of the great big Fiat cupboard. In order to prevent this slow elimination the father company keeps releasing new versions of these cars to remind us it there is still some life in it. The new version

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Geely

Geely IG may cost less than Tata Nano

Chinese car maker Geely Automobile came to the Beijing Motor Show with a concept car entitled IG. Now they claim that the eventual production version of the IG is a contender for the title of world’s cheapest car.

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VW

Volkswagen Eos Exclusive

Volkswagen have just announced that a new trim level will be available for the Eos hardtop convertible in Europe. The new package is called Exclusive and it gives you just that as it’s solely purposed in making your Eos more different from the others.

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Chrysler Lancia

Lancia comes together with Chrysler

Yesterday, Fiat has had a presentation of it’s five year business plan has been full of surprises, one of which was Montezemolo resigning from his position as Fiat SpA chairman. Another unexpected piece of news from this presentation was in publishing the decision that would solve how the group will handle the selling and marketing

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Kia

Kia Optima Coupe and Station Wagon

You may remember the 2011 Kia Optima release that happened just a few weeks ago. It’s the sort of car that people talk about. Well for the Korean car maker it’s not enough. They have recently announced there will be a Optima Coupe version and of course, a more traditional, Optima Station Wagon one. Quite

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Ford

Ford becomes Europe’s top seller in March

The European division of Ford has just announced that, following a sales volume of 192.500 has taken the lead of sales on the old continent. Comparing to the same month 2009 the increase in sales is 16.1 percent and when speaking in quarterly terms Ford is Europe’s second best seller.

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Fiat

Fiat Grande Punto Recall

Fiat will recall 500,000 Grande Punto units in the factory, because of some problems to the steering. The recall targets are the units sold in 2008 and 2009, half of them were sold in Italy and the rest of the models that are recalled were sold in Europe. It seems that the problem was detected

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VW

VW Amarok coming to Europe

Amarok, the utility model that Volkswagen wants to give the hit on the pick-ups medium market, will arrive on European land in the first quarter of 2010. The production of the car will start at the new VW plant in Argentina, shortly before this year ends. It proceeds being exported, especially on the markets of

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