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Ford has been slow to act on the environmental front and with the styling advancement of its sedan range, a mistake senior management, including former CEO Bill Ford, regrets. You only have to look at the boring designs that have gone into its passenger cars to understand how stale Ford’s...

BMW has launched a new M sport package for its X5, the first time the performance kit has been offered on the SUV model. The kit includes both visual upgrades to the interior and body, as well as performance tuning of its chassis. The exterior features new color-coded bumpers with integrated fog...

US based auto-parts supplier BorgWarner has teamed up with Porsche once again to develop a new AWD clutch and control system, which will be adopted across several Porsche sports cars. You may remember that BorgWarner also supplies the Variable Turbine Geometry (VTG) blowers for the potent 911...

Production of the W203 series Mercedes-Benz C-class wagon, referred to as the T-Modell, has finally come to an end after a six year run. Mercedes has built more than 360,000 C-class wagons since 2001, with the last vehicle being a right-hand-drive model to be delivered to a customer in the UK. In...

Buick is desperate to add new products to its lineup but an exec has revealed that any new model won’t arrive until the end of the decade at the earliest. GM’s president of North America Troy Clarke, who spoke recently with Car and Driver, explained that Buick could either add a model...

The 30th of May marks the 40th anniversary of the sale of the first Mazda powered by a rotary engine. The Cosmo Sport, which debuted in the Japanese market in 1967, was the world’s first dual-rotar, rotary powered vehicle and one of the first mass produced cars of its type. The motor put out...

Nissan may add a new model to lineup, a convertible version of its recently launched Altima coupe, pending on whether or not the project is given the green light. When the Altima’s development team originally looked at expanding the model range, they first turned to the idea of a wagon-based...

Here’s a very detailed video showcasing the steps that go into designing the BMW-Sauber F1 car, complete with interviews with team principal Mario Theissen and technical director Willy Rampf.

Despite the US easily rating as the number one market for Lexus vehicles, and most other luxury makes for that matter, Toyota’s premium label is expecting to sell more of its LS600h and the long-wheelbase flagship saloons in Japan than it does in the States, with Europe close behind in second...

Max Mosley in Monaco played down speculation that Volkswagen and Ford could be considering entering F1 in the near future. The rumours were sparked when the FIA's proposals for new regulations in 2011 and beyond were also sent to the aforementioned carmakers, but not seasoned private teams like...

FIA president Max Mosley insisted in Monaco that F1's governing body has not yet sanctioned Bernie Ecclestone's plans for night racing. Ecclestone, the F1 supremo, has busily been organising floodlit events in Singapore and possibly Malaysia and Australia for as soon as next year, but Mosley said...

We previously reported that it would take BMW 6 months to add fuel saving technologies to the Mini MK2, but today the company announced that all Mini models would get the changes by August, only three months away. With the changes, the MINI Cooper D will be capable of returning an astonishing...

Pictured here is Peugeot’s latest compact hatch, the 308, which replaces the 307 and is rumored to include a two-door variant for the first time. Official details haven’t been released as yet but word on the street is that the new model has grown by about an inch in length, while height...

Audi’s current A6 has been on sale for almost two years now, but we’re still at least a year away from the release of the potent RS 6 super-sedan and Avant wagon. Originally thought to debut at September’s 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show, latest reports suggest that its release date has...

Updated: Porsche has released a statement denying that the mid-sized Roxster SUV is in development. Original: News is circulating about the development of a new Porsche SUV to be slotted below the full-size Cayenne and which will be based off a similar Audi model. Like the Cayenne, which shares a...

Now that Daimler is on its own and no longer suffering the financial setback of the loss-making Chrysler brand, the luxury German carmaker will be very tempting as a possible takeover target in the eyes of cash-rich private equity investors. Until recently, most takeovers in the auto industry were...

Porsche has produced a small production run of 26 Cayenne S Transsyberias at its Leipzig plant, two months ahead of the long-distance rally in which they'll compete. Scheduled to start the journey on August the 2nd, the drivers were given the chance to get acquainted with the 385hp SUVs during a...

The sale of four modern formula one Ferraris contributed a further $6m to the Italian team's budget at the weekend. The famous marque held a Sotheby's auction at its Maranello headquarters on Sunday, where the more expensive of the red race cars - the last single seater raced by Michael Schumacher...

After the disastrous turn of events surrounding the troubled merger between Daimler and Chrysler and the subsequent split last week, the German division won’t be attempting any more tie-ups in the future and will reportedly go-it-alone from now on. Following the strategy of BMW, which learned...

The Seat Leon Cupra is already a top contender for the car with the most bang for your buck, but to tuning house JE Design, the standard car’s 240hp (177kw) just didn’t cut it. Following from its previous Leon FR hatch, the developers turned to the Cupra to get that extra power fix...