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GM’s financial results for 2007 have finally been revealed and as predicted its net loss for the period amounted to a whopping $38.7 billion, a new record for the General. Of course, most of this figure is the result of a tax write down undertaken in the second half of last year but GM's...

The president of the Dakar Rally organizing body Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), Patrice Clerc, has confirmed that next year’s race will take place in South America and there’s no date set as to when it may return to Africa. The African event was canceled last month because of direct...

Update: As most were predicting, London Mayor Ken Livingstone has given the green light to the £25 ($50) daily charge on high emissions sports cars and SUVs that drive though central parts of the UK capital. The new scheme will come into effect on October 27, forcing vehicles with the highest...

To most, hybrid vehicles like the Prius are a step in the right direction towards a future of ‘greener’ motoring but a new study has found that such cars are actually holding back other alternative powertrain technologies like hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and all-electric cars. French...

Ford original planned to release the next-generation model of its Ka minicar one year after the launch of the Fiat 500, with which it shares the same platform, meaning we should see the next-generation model by the middle of the year. Though both cars are based on the same platform, much of the...

The Phaeton limo may have been a major flop for Volkswagen but officials are keen to see the launch of a successor, especially in the U.S. where it could pose as a technical and environmental flagship for the carmaker. The original model was priced similarly to BMWs and Audis but it wore a humble...

General Motors is one of the most diverse carmakers in the business, commanding up to eight brands in the U.S. alone. Officials now hope to harmonize all of these brands into smaller groups and in the process make marketing and buying the vehicles simpler. Last month GM sales Chief Mark LaNeve told...

GM product planners will heed calls to make the Camaro affordable and will offer a comparable lineup to Ford’s Mustang range by starting with a low cost entry-level V6 model. Execs at GM know the reason the Mustang is so successful is because it stayed true to its roots as a very affordable...

Earlier today we were treated with the reveal of the Acura TSX sedan and now Honda has released details about its Accord Euro stablemate. As the images reveal the new Accord Euro's styling is an evolution of the current model, although it's significantly wider and slightly lower than its...

Last month a study found that on average seat widths and the thickness of their padding in cars hadn’t changed much over the past ten years despite increases in the size of the average driver’s waistline over the same period. This is also the case with seatbelts. In fact, federal...

At a gala event in India today, F1’s newest team, Force India, took the covers off its 2008 VJM01 race car revealing for the first time the team’s new livery of gold, tungsten and white. Attending the event was team owner Vijay Mallya and main drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian...

Leading figures of the British formula one team McLaren have been summoned for questioning by Italian prosecutors, as the criminal espionage investigation involving Ferrari continues. Even though F1's governing body has drawn a line under the affair from a sporting point of view, the Italian...

Honda has promised its hundreds of formula one staff a $2000 bonus should Jenson Button or Rubens Barrichello win a race in 2008. The move, which would cost the Brackley based team in excess of $1.5m per victory, would apply not only to mechanics and engineers but also to the cleaners of the...

Although it's still in pure conceptual form, the idea is so innovative that it's worth a look. Based on the need for a vehicle that handles passengers like a sedan and yet parks like a subcompact, the City [Zen] is designed to do just that. With three modes, the [Zen] can adapt to almost any...

Volkswagen’s new Beetle has been on the market now for just on ten years and has enjoyed relatively strong sales despite the lack of significant changes during its life. More than one million new Beetles have been built at VW’s Puebla plant in Mexico and it looks like developers have...

Audi’s monster RS6 Avant has just been launched to the motoring press so we're bringing you some images before our "First Drive" review to whet your appetites. Fitted with a twin-turbo V10 engine that churns out 580hp and 650Nm of torque, the new model has more than enough grunt to keep up...

Updated: An official spokesman for Mercedes-Benz has confirmed that production of the CLS will remain at the current plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. This is in contrast to earlier comments from Mercedes COO Rainer Schmueckle, who said outsourcing of the CLS was in fact being considered. Original...

The current base version of the Jaguar XF is the 2.7L V6 diesel model but there could be an even cheaper XF in the lineup if demand for such a car rises. Jaguar, like all carmakers, is facing pressures from stricter emissions standards as well as rising fuel costs but unlike its rivals it doesn't...

After the successful launch of the Audi Q7, the luxury carmaker from Ingolstadt is preparing the launch of its second ‘Q’ car, which according to a leaked product schedule should arrive by the middle of this year. The new car is the Q5 soft-roader and it’s set to go head-to-head with the...

Porsche only unveiled its GT3 Cup club car last December but it looks like a new ‘S’ variant has just arrived. Like the standard GT3 Cup car, the new S version is based on the regular 911 GT3 RS but gets a slight power upgrade, a fully stripped out interior and a special sequential...