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Rumours have recently surfaced suggesting Lamborghini is releasing an exclusive new model worth 1 million euros (US$1.6 million). Details are sketchy, but it is believed that only 20 cars will be built, of which only 10 are possibly heading to the US. Last week a 25% scale model of the car was...

Audi’s cheapest A3 comes with a 1.6L engine but this is soon to be replaced by an even smaller 1.4L model fitted with a turbocharger. Despite the smaller capacity, the 1.4L TFSI delivers 125hp and 200Nm of torque (respectively 10hp and 45Nm more than the outgoing engine). With the updated...

German tuning house Abt Sportsline has released its take on the Audi S3. Dubbed simply the Abt S3, this latest member to the Abt family has received various modifications to its 2.0 TFSI engine lifting peak power up to 228kW, 33kW more than standard. Torque has also shot up from an already high...

Spyker’s interim CEO Michiel Mol has stepped down from the role and will be replaced in the meantime by vice-chairman of Spyker’s supervisory board, Hans Hugenholtz. Mol replaced former CEO and the founder of the Dutch sports car company Victor Muller back in May but his decision to...

Following last week’s controversial post about Porsche’s new 997 GT2 lapping the Nurburgring’s Nordschleife in an amazingly low 7 minutes and 32 seconds, comes the latest track time for Lamborghini’s Gallardo Superleggera. At the hands of Lambo test-driver and 2002 Ferrari...

Following its success in the US and more recently in Russia, Nissan’s premium label Infiniti is now ready to establish a base across the rest of Europe and is going after market share held mostly by German luxury brands Mercedes, BMW and Audi. Infiniti is planning to launch in several Western...

Volkswagen will be using next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show to debut the first BlueMotion version of its popular Golf hatch, which will star alongside five other BlueMotion cars planned for the show. BlueMotion is VW’s title for its ultra-efficient diesel range, which combines not only a...

To keep the price of the upcoming Chevrolet Volt electric car low, GM execs are contemplating a rental scheme for the car’s batteries so that it costs no more to buy than an equivalent petrol car. GM is planning to introduce the Volt by 2010 and has more than 150 engineers working on it to...

Tesla founder and CEO Martin Eberhard will step down from the top position, remaining at the electric car company as its new President of Technology. Eberhard, who has led Tesla since 2003, was planning the move since the start of the year and has the full backing of the company’s board...

Ousted Toro Rosso racer Scott Speed is not pursuing a new job in formula one. It is reported in the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten that the 24-year-old Californian, who fell out badly with his team bosses this year before losing his seat, is only pursuing a job for 2008 and beyond in his...

New reports have emerged from Japan confirming that Toyota is working on a new low cost sports car scheduled to go on sale before the end of the decade and priced around two million yen (US$16,780). Toyota will build the car with help from Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru’s parent company), who...

Suzuki will unveil a new middle level sedan concept car at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, previewing a production model that's set to hit showrooms in 2010. Labeled the Kizashi, the new concept will be a design oriented sedan aimed at global markets and is previewed in the sketch above...

Ford is testing a new engine that injects small amounts of ethanol into the cylinder during high loads that’s said to develop up to three times the torque of a conventional petrol engine. The technology was pioneered by a start-up company at MIT and is just one avenue that Ford is...

Eighty years ago the first Volvo car, the ÖV4 ‘Jakob’, left the factory in Gothenburg, and to celebrate the anniversary Volvo in the UK will be hosting an event showcasing more than 120 classic models. Founded in 1927 in the city of Gothenburg, Volvo started off as a subsidiary of a...

The 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid has officially been revealed at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. Click here for all the details and images. Toyota will be delaying the introduction of its next-gen hybrids models because of fears that the new lithium-ion technology is unsafe. There were plans to launch more...

The E-class has been officially revealed by Mercedes-Benz. Click here for pictures and information. Mercedes’ next E-class has again been spotted in testing but as always the car was masked in heavy camouflage. Despite the covers, these close-up shots reveal many new details about the car and...

Southern California-based Fisker Coachbuild has released a new image of its updated Latigo CS coupe, set to go on sale by the end of the year. The original Latigo was only produced in a limited run of 150 cars, with the first customer car delivered as recently as June. That hasn’t stopped...

Artega has announced that the first customer deliveries of its new GT coupe will commence by the middle of next year, which is just over 12 months from when the car was first displayed in concept form back at March’s Geneva Motor Show. The car displayed in Geneva was merely an empty shell...

Execs at Opel are reportedly planning to launch a new version of the Omega large sedan based on GM’s new RWD Zeta platform. The new Opel flagship will be jointly developed by fellow GM subsidiary Holden at its Australian design center, where it joins several other global projects including...

The owner of Russian carmaker GAZ, billionaire tycoon Oleg Deripaska, has bought a five percent stake in General Motors according to latest reports from Russian newspaper Vedomosti. Deripaska is the second richest man in Russia, commanding an estimated fortune of approximately $16.8 billion, and...