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  • 2020 Seres SF5

    Electric car startup up Seres laid off 90 workers and put its planned U.S. launch on hold due to economic conditions in China and the ongoing U.S.-China trade war.

  • 2017 Peugeot 3008
    Peugeot will focus on compact, mid-size segments for its US return

    We already knew that the French brand Peugeot will once again be sold on U.S. shores after exiting the market in 1991. Now we know more about how the French company plans to tackle operations on these shores thanks to a Tuesday report from Automotive News Europe (subscription required). The Peugeot...

  • Circuit of the Americas first lap ceremony. Photo via COTA.
    Could The U.S. Get Even More Formula One Races?

    Bernie Ecclestone has had a love - hate relationship with U.S. Formula One fans in recent years. After the collapse of the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2007, Bernie declared something along the lines of “Formula One doesn't need the United States.”...

  • 2000 GMC Yukon
    House and Senate agree on Cash for Clunkers bill, mileage requirements revealed

    The Cash for Clunkers bill is just one of the incentives the government is trying to implement to bring the U.S. auto industry back to its pre-recession levels. Now, the Cash for Clunkers scheme has garnered the approval of both House and Senate negotiation teams, with the two sides reaching an...

  • Aston Martin's LMP1 racer wears classic Gulf Oil colors
    U.S. satellite listeners to get live broadcast of entire 24 Hours of Le Mans

    The battle for the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans is already heating up with Peugeot protesting Audi's R15 race car, and things will only get hotter as the weekend approaches. If you don't want to miss a minute, then you'd better have satellite radio, because Sirius XM will be covering the event from...

  • 2000 GMC Yukon
    House approves revised Cash for Clunkers bill

    Earlier this year the original ‘Cash for Clunkers’ bill was rejected by the Senate because of research that showed the program wouldn't have made much impact on auto sales or emissions. A revised version of that bill has since been presented to Congress and was approved by the House in...

  • 2009 Audi A4

    Volkswagen and its subsidiaries, including Audi, have been in hot pursuit of an industry-topping sales rank for the past several years, but the widespread economic downturn is shaping up to put those plans on hold. It may take Audi a full year longer than expected to reach its sales goal of 1.5 million cars annually, Audi's sales chief Peter Schwarzenbauer told Bloomberg. The 1.5 million-vehicle target is currently penciled in for 2015, but with sales not continuing the upward trend seen in recent years, it will take at least a year, and possibly two, longer than hoped. “Whether it will...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
    U.S. raises fuel economy floor to 27.3mpg for 2011

    You might disagree with his methods, but you can't deny President Obama's determination to improve the U.S. car industry's situation and to remedy the nation's current energy policy. Part of both plans is a rise in the fuel economy requirements to 27.3mpg fleet-wide by 2011. It's actually a step...

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    Number of cars on U.S. roads set to fall for the first time since WWII

    As a sign of how bad things are really getting for the U.S. auto industry, the number of cars on the roads are expected to drop for the first time in more than fifty years. We're not just talking several thousand cars either - the fall is expected to top several million vehicles. Last year, the...

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    Mini considering U.S.-market diesel by 2011

    Diesel engines are still failing to gain much traction in the U.S., in part because of a national memory of the diesels of three decades ago, and in part because diesel fuel and engines are still too expensive to make good business sense. But Mini is thinking a small, sporty and efficient diesel...

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    China outpaces U.S. in January cars sales

    The phenomenally weak market in the U.S. is setting record lows on a regular basis, and today is no exception: China has surpassed the U.S. in total car sales for the month of January. Conservative estimates for 2009 have the U.S. market selling 10.5 million or more vehicles, but so far this year...

  • BYD F3DM plug-in hybrid
    BYD confirms 2011 U.S. launch for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles

    Chinese manufacturer BYD is planning to have vehicles on sale in the U.S. within two years, with similar ambitions for the European market. The company took a step closer to reaching those goals by launching the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid vehicle in China last month, and at...

  • BYD F3DM plug-in hybrid vehicle

    Chinese manufacturer BYD is planning to have plug-in hybrid vehicles on sale in the U.S. within two years, with similar ambitions for the European market. The company took a step closer to reaching those goals by launching the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid vehicle in China last month, and now it has confirmed that the car will be on display at next week’s Detroit Auto Show. The car is the F3DM and it can drive up to 62 miles on electrical power alone before a small internal combustion engine takes over driving duties. Its battery can fully charge in nine hours from a...

  • China's BYD to sell plug-in hybrid in U.S. by 2010
    BYD plug-in hybrids delayed in non-Chinese markets until 2011

    Chinese carmaker BYD has pushed back the expected release date for its plug-in hybrid vehicles destined for non-Chinese markets. The company’s chairman, Wang Chuanfu, stated that the original target of 2010 was being pushed back by a full year to 2011. The new date puts the release for the...

  • China's BYD to sell plug-in hybrid in U.S. by 2010
    China’s BYD first to market with mass-produced plug-in hybrid

    Chinese manufacturer BYD is planning to have plug-in hybrid vehicles on sale in the U.S. within two years, with similar ambitions for the European market. The company took a step closer to reaching those goals by launching the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid vehicle in China this...

  • Pontiac G3 hatchback
    Pontiac confirms G3 compact for U.S. market

    General Motors has always been reluctant to bring the Pontiac G3 compact to the United States despite the car selling well in Canada and Mexico, but that has all changed as the car is due U.S. showrooms in the first half of next year. The decision to bring the Pontiac G3 was influenced by the...

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