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Last year London Mayor Ken Livingstone announced an increase in London’s daily congestion fee for vehicles entering the UK’s capital city. Along with the fee hike came a new fee of £25 (US$50) per day - this time aimed at high CO2-emitting vehicles including trucks, buses, SUVs, luxury...

A new set of rules could have an immediate impact on the 2008 formula one championship, according to BMW-Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld. The German driver told his website that he is “anxious” to see the effect that the ban on driver aids including traction and launch control will have...

For a car maker that prides itself on being the ‘Ultimate Driving Machine’ BMW spends quite a lot of time making sure passengers also have an excellent experience. Some of BMW’s customers think they’ve gone to far, complaining that even the sport-package equipped version of...

Ford’s ‘other’ brands had a hard time in 2007 - Jaguar and Land Rover were sold, Volvo was in the dumps, Mercury was rumoured to be on the chopping block and Lincoln was forced to apply approximately 20lb of chrome to every vehicle it sold. It seems Mazda was the only Ford-owned...

Team principal Tadashi Yamashina says he has been given two more years to deliver the goods for Toyota in formula one. The Japanese took the reigns of the struggling Cologne based team earlier this year, following a half decade of underperformance despite Toyota’s top annual budget...

The first pics of Mercedes’ newest GLK leaked onto the web two weeks ago courtesy of spy-photo mistress Brenda Priddy’s team, who caught the SUV on the set of the upcoming Sex and the City movie. Now we have video footage of the same scenes captured in the photos, featuring the...

Lamborghini celebrated a sales milestone recently, with total sales for all Murcielagos (including LP640’s) reaching 3000. The 3000th Murcielago was a pale Telesto grey Murcielago LP640 headed to a lucky owner living in the United States. Just a few weeks ago Lamborghini also celebrated the...

Dutch supercar company Spyker has had quite a year. After buying a F1 team and joining the backmarkers on the grid, it ran into financial trouble and was forced to refinance the company. The Spyker F1 team was sold to an Indian businessman and Spyker admitted it was unable to build production...

Global warming has become quite an issue of late with carmakers constantly looking at new ways to reduce emissions. Toyota has shown hybrid technology to be of great use in this area and has achieved plenty of success with their Prius. Honda is hoping to share in this success with the addition of...

MSNBC has released a list of the best and worst selling cars of 2007. There weren’t many surprises with the Ford F-Series topping the list once again, and the Camry making an appearance at third. The bottom of the list was dominated by luxury cars such as the Porsche Boxster, Jaguar S-Type...

Motorsport has always been the driving force in automotive innovation, although it has also proven to be paradoxically resistant to new forms of propulsion. By jump-starting a one-make electric vehicle (EV) race series, U.K.-based Westfield Sportscars, Ltd. hopes to push EV racing into the...

Blind zones in large vehicles such as SUVs and vans have been the cause of around four child deaths a week in the US according to safety experts. To combat this problem the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington has passed a bill that requires federal authorities to reduce blind zones in...

The rumored merger between Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Nanjing Automobile Group is expected to be finalized within the next two weeks, according to a report in the Beijing Times. The report claims that Nanjing would own 5-15% of SAIC and would be absorbed by SAIC. This ties in with...

The Dodge Challenger dealer mark-up fiasco is still fresh in everyone’s mind, and our story on Nissan’s dealer certification procedure to prevent similar price gouging on the GT-R is only a few hours old, but the hits just keep on coming. Nissan announced this morning that its legal...

Modern automotive technology is getting so advanced, and the timeline for development so short that an item exclusive to the sacred province of the upper echelon of motorsport a few years ago can be found in economical hatchbacks today - quite literally. Volkswagen’s seven-speed Direct Shift...

The U.S. is the luckiest nation on earth when it comes to cars. Aside from a few models here and there (the Euro-spec Focus RS being a real sticking point) Americans can buy pretty much every car worth having within their borders. Today America gets a whole lot luckier - Mercedes’ SLR McLaren...

Independent new car assessment organisation Euro NCAP released the results for six more cars today: the Daihatsu Materia, Mazda 2, Honda Civic, Mercedes Benz C Class, Renault Laguna and the Volvo V70. The Mazda and the Volvo had been previously tested, but had experienced issues with airbag...

Poised to purchase Jaguar and Land Rover, the Indian conglomerate Tata Motors is also eyeing a very different segment of the car market. Previous reports had placed the price of Tata’s ‘1 lakh car‘ around $2,200, but reports today indicate the price will be closer to $2,500. The...

Honda has recently confirmed speculation that its next-gen Acura NSX will arrive over a year later than the expected 2008-2009 timeframe earlier suggested by CEO Takeo Fukui. The news comes after president of Honda America Tetsuo Iwamura let slip that the car will arrive in 2010 and said “we...

Elegance, discreet sportiness and understatement have always been characteristics of British cars. However German tuning house Arden hasn’t quite taken these into consideration while tuning Land Rover’s Range Rover LM. Not only does this SUV look aggressive and intimidating, it also...