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Click here for all the official information and pictures for the 2009 Volkswagen Golf Mark VI Following last month’s spotting of the next-gen Volkswagen Golf testing in California’s Death Valley, new, more accurate renderings of the car have been created that includes new details taken...

UK motoring bodies are planning to raise London's congestion charge to £25 (US$50) a day for high polluting vehicles in an effort to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. The new charge is targeted towards vehicles that make the biggest contribution to global warming, such as large SUVs and luxury...

Renault will unveil five new production cars and two concepts at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show including the debut of the first-ever estate version of the Clio hatch. Picking up the Clio Sport Tourer moniker, the new wagon measures 4.2m in length and offers a total of 439L of storage...

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...

The newly independent Chrysler is pulling all stops to turn around its ailing car business. One of the plans involves an alliance with Hyundai or Mitsubishi that could involve the companies building engines for each other or share platforms. Frank Klegon, Chrysler executive vice president of...

Saab will be showing a new “Turbo X” model of the 9-3 at the Frankfurt Motor Show designed to evoke the iconic Saab 99 and 900 ‘Black Turbos’ with visual tweaks and performance upgrades. Saab originally showed its first turbo model at the Frankfurt show in 1977, so this show...

Audi has gone one up on Lexus by offering the world’s first all-LED headlights for its new R8 sports car. Unlike the units in Lexus’ flagship LS 600h saloon, which use LED lights for the low-beam projectors, the new Audi lights use the efficient diodes for the low and high beams as well...

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...

Fiat is joining utility companies Cemig and Itaipu to develop new electric vehicles for Brazil, with an initial batch of 30 electric Palio cars scheduled to start testing later this year. The utility companies have been developing electric cars for the past five years, but they were in need of...

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...

Subaru will be displaying several concepts and new models at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, including the WRC Concept based on the all-new Impreza. On hand at the show will be Masatsugu Nagato, Subaru’s Chief in Europe, as well as Subaru World Rally Team driver Petter Solberg. The...

In 1967, brothers Ju-Yung and Se-Yung Chung established the Hyundai Motor Company. The next year they entered into a contract with Ford to produce the Cortina and Granada for the Korean market. With the knowledge gained from this venture, Hyundai's dream of creating its first independently designed...

GM is expecting to sell more than a million cars in China for the first time this year on the back of strong demand for new cars in the country. Combined vehicle sales are up by 21% on last year’s figure, and should top out at 8.4 million by the end of the year. Despite the positive result...

Ford CEO Alan Mulally has told reporters at the Management Briefing Seminars today that higher fuel taxes would be a better alternative to raising Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) to reduce fuel usage and emissions. The CAFE proposal being voted by the US government would see carmakers forced...

Several prototypes of BMW’s 1-series cabriolet have been spotted undergoing testing across Germany ahead of the car’s likely unveiling at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. As the images reveal, the new car will stick with a traditional fabric roof and will feature a revised tail-end...

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...

BMW has lost a court battle in Canada to prevent Nissan from using the letter ‘M’ for what BMW describes as its rival's "inferior and more modestly priced" models. The latest announcement comes several months after BMW originally won an injunction to stop Nissan from using the letter...

Peugeot will unveil a concept version of a new diesel-hybrid powered 308 hatchback at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Until now, most carmakers relied on petrol engines for their hybrid cars but it makes sense to use a diesel as the oil-burners are already more efficient than petrol...

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...