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Fiat and Chery are likely to sign-off on a new joint-venture next week to start assembly of several Alfa Romeo models in China. The first cars to be assembled will likely be the Alfa Romeo 159 sedan, followed closely by the 147 hatch. Under the deal, Chery will be assembling the cars from imported...

The first of a total of 25 Porsche Cayenne S Transsyberias have departed from Moscow on an epic journey that will take them on a 6,200km trek across the roughs of Siberia. The drivers will be crossing numerous public roads, gravel tracks, icy rivers and the Gobi desert, before finishing up at...

Ferrari’s F430 Scuderia isn’t set to be officially unveiled in the metal until the Frankfurt Motor Show next month, but, if you happen live near Ferrari’s factory in Maranello seeing the new supercar is almost a daily occurrence. Like the older 360 Modena Challenge Stradale before...

Audi’s R8 already delivers stunning performance in standard guise, coming close to rivaling the cars from Ferrari and Lamborghini, but with a little help from Germany’s Kicherer there would be no stopping it. Kicherer engineers have taken the R8 to a wind tunnel and developed new body...

Modified Porsches are a dime a dozen but when we came across this video of the 996 GT3 lovingly crafted by the Hephaiss tuning company we couldn’t resist posting it. J.N. Hephaiss markets itself as a “designer” tuning house providing hand-developed parts for cars from Porsche...

Saab’s union with GM has often been critisised but there’s no denying it does give them access to some mighty big engines. For the 2008 model year, Saab will introduce a new performance Aero variant of the 9-7X SUV fitted with a 6.0L V8 churning out 390hp (295kW) and 395 lb.-ft. (542...

As a last hurrah before the all-new 149 arrives, Alfa Romeo is offering several special editions of its current 147 with the new Sportiva, Blackline and Collezione lines for the 2008 model year. Based on the standard 147, the new Sportiva gets 17in alloys, a sports tuned chassis, leather steering...

Shelby SuperCars will be attempted to topple the Bugatti Veyron by beating its unofficial top speed of 253mph and take the title as builder of the ‘World’s Fastest Production Car.’ SSC has announced today that high-speed tests of its 1183 hp Ultimate Aero TT supercar will be...

Fiat has added the T-Jet 120 Sporting to the Grande Punto range to satisfy performance buffs until the sporty Abarth version arrives on the market early next year. The biggest change for the new model is the adoption of the new turbocharged T-Jet petrol engine that debuted in the larger Bravo hatch...

The CEO of GM's Daewoo Automotive Technology has speculated that a minicar similar to one of the three concepts shown at the New York Motor show earlier this year could be heading to the US and arriving as a 2011 model. This comes despite GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz telling the Wall Street Journal...

The 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid has officially been revealed at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. Click here for all the details and images. Students at Italy’s Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Turin have created a series of quarter-scale models representing their own impression of what the...

Fiat has already announced its plans to launch performance Abarth prepped versions of its new 500 minicar and the Punto hatch, which were spied testing at the Nurburgring, but they may not be the only Abarth models we’ll be seeing in the near future. Latest reports suggest that the Abarth...

For the first time in the US auto industry’s 102 year history American carmakers in July commanded less than 50% of the market. Import brands accounted for 51.9% of sales in July, with GM, Chrysler and Ford making up the remaining 48.1%. Only a year ago, the statistics were reversed. Actual...

We’ve all seen how pretty the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione looks parked at car shows or more recently at the Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance in the US, now, see its supercar performance out on the Nurburgring in this latest video. Via: Winding Road

Toyota has released a hotted up version of the Japanese domestic market Blade hatch featuring a 3.5L V6 engine with 280hp (206kW) and 345Nm (254lb-ft) of torque. The Blade is sold in Europe as the Auris and in other markets as the Corolla, and it’s expected that these markets will also get...

GM has appointed a new director of exterior design for its European division, whose job it’ll be to spearhead design work for the Opel, Vauxhall and Saab brands. Filling the role is Phillip A. Zak, the man behind models such as the Chevrolet Cobalt, Pontiac G6 and GXP sport model. Though Zak...

BMW’s Z4 M Coupé has been out of the spotlight as of late but that hasn’t stopped Germany’s AC Schnitzer from developing a new tuning kit for the car. Labelled the Profile, the new kit comes with a 350hp version of the venerable 3.2L straight six, which has gone in for some...

At next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show Volkswagen will be presenting more than fifty different models, eight of which will be making their world debuts. The newcomers on VW’s stands will be the new Tiguan SUV, six new economical BlueMotion models and a rear-engined minicar concept. CEO...

Ford has already released its own official drawing of the new Kuga crossover as a concept, and, we now have a new image that reveals what a closer-to-final production version may look like. The new Kuga is scheduled to enter production at Ford’s Saarlouis plant in Germany early next year and...

In 1975 Aston Martin was sold to a pair of North American businessmen named Peter Sprague and George Minden. One year later the iconic Lagonda was introduced to the world, a futuristic car designed by stylist William Towns. However, that same year, Towns sketched up an even more radical version of...