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Volkswagen is reportedly working on an affordable mid-engine sports car along the lines of the Lotus Elise and Toyota MR2, which it plans to release sometime early next decade. A concept of the car is slated for debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show next month, and now Audi is also reported to be...

Building a vehicle that can react to the most minute changes in grip and stability, compensate for them and alert the driver of the situation has become almost the standard of the industry. Carmakers are now looking for ways to push beyond the simple traction control/stability control paradigm and...

The Audi Q7 V12 TDI was first revealed in production trim at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year but withheld key information, such as when the vehicle would eventually go on sale and what its specifications would look like, until last month. Now Audi has reportedly revealed that the Q7 V12 TDI...

The Fiat Group has set a goal of achieving profitability for Alfa Romeo, and to do that, says Alfa CEO Luca de Meo, the marque will need to increase its sales volume. With a goal of 300,000 vehicles per year by 2010, there are several steps being taken to help ensure it is met. Around the same...

Lexus has used this week’s Sydney Motor Show to present a new sports concept car based on its IS250 sedan fitted with the full gamut of F-Sport performance accessories unveiled last year, plus several new items. Aptly named the IS250 Sports Concept, the show car features everything from a new...

Audi is in the process of developing two new R8 variants to join the current V8 model, but according to one of the carmaker’s top execs the addition of these extra models will only make waiting lists longer. This will especially be the case in the United States where customers are already...

With AMG no longer focused on chasing big horsepower numbers, efficiency could quickly become the new performance benchmark for the Affalterbach-based tuner. Currently in development is a range of new diesels, advanced lightweight materials and construction methods, as well as a hybrid system for...

Australia’s Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with the unveiling of the 505hp (375kW) W427 LS7-powered saloon at February’s Melbourne Motor Show. At this week’s Sydney Motor Show, its closest rival, Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV), marked its...

Vehicle customizer Force Performance based in Miami is currently working on a highly modified Dodge Charger, which the tuner has designed to replicate the classic B-Body Chargers from the 1960s and ‘70s. Listening to requests from customers saddened that Dodge brought back the Charger as a...

Mercedes Benz has offered a diesel model under its AMG label (in Europe at least) as well as a SUV, and BMW’s usually stringent M Division is currently working on a pair of new SUV models and has even hinted at installing a hybrid energy-recovery system in its future models, but the guys at...

New York City may have to backpedal on its recently introduced legislation that mandates all new taxis to be either hybrids or have fuel economy of at least 25mpg (9.4L/100km). The reasoning is that by state law taxis are also required to have partitions installed between the driver and the...

Teenagers are one of the highest-risk segments of the driving public due to inexperience behind the wheel. Now a new study in the UK has shown that getting several teenagers together in a car can make the problem even greater, as much as tripling the risk of a fatal accident. According to the...

GM announced late last year that its OnStar system would be getting a new feature that could remotely bring a car to a rolling stop in emergency situations. Now that technology has begun to arrive, with the launch of the Stolen Vehicle Slowdown feature across its 2009 model lineup in the U.S. and...

Earlier this year we reported that General Motors could possibly delay the launch of the next-generation Saturn Aura, or possibly drop the model altogether, but according to GM vice chairman Bob Lutz the new car is on track albeit with some major changes. Lutz confirmed at the time that the Opel...

Three years after the introduction of the second-generation IS sedan Lexus introduced a new convertible model at the Paris Motor Show last week. The convertible version of the IS is denoted by the letter C and is available initially in IS250C and IS350C trim, going on sale in the first half of...

Widely regarded as the quickest Mustang to come out of the muscle car era, the 1968 Cobra Jet Mustang will always hold a special place in the heart of any Blue Oval enthusiast. After all, a car capable of accelerating from 0-100km/h in less than 5.5 seconds back in 1968 was no common sight. Now...

Elfin sports cars has unveiled its Type 5 Clubman roadster at today’s Sydney Motor Show, using the event to confirm that the final production version will be almost identical to the show car. The Type 5 replaces the Type 3, the last four-cylinder car by Elfin, which ceased production in 2006...

Mini’s lineup is soon to expand with the launch of a new soft-roader model based on the recent crossover concept unveiled at the Paris Motor Show, but there will be one more model to come in addition to the current Cooper, Cabrio and Clubman line of cars. Since the launch of the Mark II model...

Already known as the luxury segment’s “greenest” brand, Lexus is reportedly looking to build upon this reputation by moving to a completely hybrid lineup in the medium to long term. The statements were made by Toyota managing officer Toshio Furutani to Japan’s Nikkei...

With no new models in the pipeline and a paltry 146 units sold in all of 2007, there has been plenty of speculation that Maybach could be running at a loss and eventually dropped from Daimler’s portfolio. Considering rival brands Rolls Royce and Bentley are experiencing record sales and...