You may remember the reports of a possible buying of Italdesign Giugiaro by Volkswagen AG and I am pleased to see some confirmation on the situation as the German group announced the future purchase a controlling stake today. The official figure desired by VW is a whopping 90.1% of the Italian design and engineering company.
Audi has been hard at work trying to push forward the launch of the A1 as soon as possible so it can have a competitor to the BMW Megacity vehicle, which will go on sale in 2013 so to this respect they have pushed the launch of the A2 forward by two years. Since it
This new Porsche design study/concept/styling exercise thing doesn’t really seem to be featuring any of the German company’s trademarks and that’s because it’s not done by Porsche. What this actually is, is another brainchild of designer Nouphone J. Bansasine who you may remember from the latest article on the Volvo SC90 4-door coupe.
It is not uncommon for automotive manufacturers to get some advertising throughout the film industry and this time two big names of both worlds have come together. I’m talking about the Germans from Mercedes-Benz providing transportation for the four dames (and the main male character) of the iconic Sex and the City sequel.
Irmscher is a German tuning company that specializes in Opel products and their latest project focuses on the new Astra. The Irmscher Opel Astra i1600 differs from the original in the sense that it gets 200 horsepower and some cosmetic changes.
Remember the Maybach? Well it’s the sort of car that fades out of the public eye as let’s face it, it’s a car that’s not destined to make a great poster but the sort of car that makes the owners feel like they’re in the poster themselves. Well that’s about to change as Daimler gave
Reifen Koch is another German tuning company that has set out to update the already very powerful and slightly insane Audi RS6. Difference between the madness here and the madness of the MTM Audi RS6 Clubsport is that this car seems to have a better way of hiding its power.
Have you ever considered Audi’s RS6 as being a bit slow? Neither did I but German tuning company MTM think it they can do better. Enter MTM Clubsport package to make it more of everything and give it a properly loud paint job that features three colors and some decals. There’s more, of course…
As electricity has proven itself as the alternative to internal combustion engines and most major manufacturers have taken a leap towards this technology, most of it’s available applications imply batteries. Volkswagen, a company that is a bit behind in this field has announced that it will soon produce such a vehicle, most likely we’re talking
Maybach have just unveiled some updates to its line of exclusive products. While the products themselves don’t vary they are now a bit more distinctive. The 2011 models of the extremely luxurious Daimler brand feature that the 57, 57s, 62, 62s will all get a few slight modifications.
Techart and Porsche have always been a couple of names that went well together and it seems that with the most recent release between them they still are. The Panamera Black Edition offered by the German tuning company is not the usual hotted up version of a 911 as the fast sedan has got a
Rumors may generally not be something to get excited about but since Volkswagen and Suzuki have actually come to an agreement last December after years of speculation. The motorcycling community was the first to take notice, obviously, and what they’re now speculating on is what Ferdinand Piech will choose to do with some added expertise
Germen tuner JE Design has always found VW Group cars a bit wet and the most recent car they’ve hotted up from them is the Seat Leon Cupra R. The 250 horsepower and 260 lbs-ft of torque provided by the stock 2 liter turbocharged engine is about enough for most people but it’s not the
MTM is a German tuning company that specializes in products of the VW Group and the latest thing they got round to doing is giving the Audi R8 supercar a few changes here and there. Actually quite a few changes everywhere as the engine now features forced induction so the supercharged 4.2 liter FSI V8
Here we got some really cool news which is about the 2010 AMI Leipzig Auto Show as you can see in the title. As I wrote in the title, there are going to be two German Premieres or better said to make you understand, there are going to be two premieres from two German Auto
