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These are the first photos of the new convertible that Rolls-Royce will show at the upcoming 2007 Detroit auto show. The new car is essentially a production version of the 100EX concept shown two years ago and retains many of the same features such as LED headlights and a teak roof cover...

Honda will shift development of minicars to a new subsidiary to help free up engineers to develop more profitable cars. Honda’s bought Yachiyo Industry Co. and will use it to handle development, production, and purchasing for high-volume low-margin minicars. Honda’s own engineers will...

Top executives from Toyota and Ford met last week to discuss a potential partnership. Both Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Toyota Chairman Fujio Cho were present at the meeting and discussed Ford’s use of hybrid and fuel-cell technologies, as well as combining their vast purchasing power to further...

Peugeot recently ran a design competition asking entrants to submit their sketches of future concepts that had the following attributes: Pleasurable (to drive), lively, efficient, accessible, simple and ecological. Over 4000 entries were received, and surprisingly the largest number came from China...

Having just invested billions in buying a size-able share of VW, Porsche will be sending in its consultants to help streamline the carmaker’s Wolfsburg facility. The goal will be to improve materials handling and the general work flow, making the plant more efficient overall. One insider told...

The trend towards smaller and more fuel efficient cars has caused DaimlerChrysler to consider importing Mercedes’ small A and B-class small cars to the US. Mercedes doesn’t sell these cars in the US because of fears it would damage the luxury brand’s exclusivity. Currently, the...

In this classic clip from Top Gear, "The Queen of the Nurburgring" Sabine Schmitz takes a Ford diesel transit van around the 'ring, challenging Jeremy Clarkson's time in a Jaguar S-type.

These are the first images of the new XF concept, to be shown at the Detroit Motor Show. The car is a make or break proposition for Jaguar, who has struggled against the likes of BMW and Mercedes. Jaguar’s goal has been to drop the old and tardy image of the current S-type and replace it with...

Despite the funny name, Dutch company Donkervoort has been building some pretty serious sports cars, and their latest model is just about to be revealed. They’ve been working on a fixed-roof version of the D8 roadster by adding a carbon fiber roof and wing mirrors. The D8 also has a...

It seems that almost every month some rich playboy/plutocrat/sheikh crashes his million dollar Ferrari Enzo. In this case, a yellow Enzo was crashed in Abu Dhabi, presumably by a rich sheikh that couldn’t handle the 660hp on tap. We just hope the driver wasn't hurt in the crash. This follows...

Toyota may overtake Ford’s position as the number two carmaker in America as early as January. A report from the New York Times states that internal Ford projections show that Toyota’s rapidly increasing marketshare will be higher than Ford’s shrinking sales next year. Ford is...

The brakes used in high-end sports cars made by the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini may soon make their way in to less exotic offerings. A report from AutoWeek says that Audi is working together with a German company, SGL Carbon, to streamline the production process for carbon brakes and therefore...

Toyota is known for its bland and economical offerings, but the Blade is at least one indication it’s trying to improve its image. Compared with other hatchbacks, it gets a stylish exterior, improved interior, and a 2.4L engine with 7-speed Sports Sequential Shiftmatic CVT transmission. Also...

We reported a while ago that GM would be displaying a soft-topped Camaro at the Detroit Motor Show. A concept of the soft-top Camaro was shown last year at Detroit and was approved for production using the Zeta rear-wheel-drive platform, the same platform that is used in the latest Holden VE...

The convertibles of today are generally known as little two-seat roadsters like the MX-5 and S2000. But it wasn’t long ago that a different kind of beast cruised the ocean promenades - the four door luxury convertible. Now, with barely any signs of life in this sector, Mercedes has designed a...

Could 2007 be the year that Toyota finally surpasses GM as the world’s largest car maker, a title it’s held on to for more than 75 years? A report from Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun seems to think so, citing unnamed sources. While GM is busy cutting back on production and...

Update: Click here to view our story with the latest Junior renderings and information. Now that Fiat has confirmed it’s working on a small Alfa Romeo internally called the “Junior,” the international motoring press can begin speculation on what it’ll look like. The new car...

The Acura 'Advanced Sports Car Concept' will make its debut at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the division announced today. The concept provides a glimpse at the "next generation Acura exotic sports car", which we’re pretty sure means the next-generation NSX...

Despite previous reports that Chrysler was seriously looking at a production version of the Firepower concept it showed at the 2005 Detroit show, it won’t be building the Hemi-powered GT sports car. In an interview with trade publication Ward’s Auto, Trevor Creed, senior vice...

Well, that didn't take long. Just a couple of hours after GM released a teaser image for the new Malibu front-end, an low-resolution image of the whole car was accidentally posted on Detroit Motor Show website. There's not much more to see, except for a very clean design that looks slightly...